The true Democrat., 1854-11-29
Thomas +. Measher7s Account Of the Re-
 cent Wholesale Railroad Murder ill Cana-

Thomas F. Meagher7s Account Of the Re-
 cent Wholesale Railroad Murder in Cana-
 da.
 The editor of the Detroit Tribune called on Mir. T. F. Meagher, who was passenger on the train that met with the deplorable accident on the Great Western Railway, and received from him the following thrilling and awful details of the calamity, which equal, in graphic horrors, any thing that we have read for some time, not excepting the sinking of the Arctic or the bat tie of the Alma:
 He had been asleep about twenty minutes, when he was startled by deep, rumbing noise, like the sound of heavy, spent wave after it subslles. On coming to clearer consciousness he distinctly heard the crashing and ripping of tmbers all round him. mingled with the most fearful shrieks and groans, and the noise of es- capng steam. The floor under him was vibra- ting. while he was crushed in the seat. the roof lalln9 down immediately before him, striking him in the face with large, torn fragment He made instant effort to get clear from the ruins but found his right foot caught beneath the seat and the broken tioor Upon making second trial he succeeded n drawing out his leg leaving Ch. succeeded in reaching the rear door, where he stumbled over the body of John Martin, the brakeman, at the end of the car He had been evidently at the brake at the time of the collision, and was flung back into the doorway of the car. On procuring a lamp little after, h. found that Martin had both thighs and both arms brokcn- the latter above the elbows. His head too, al1- peared to have been dreadfully bruised, though no wound could be perceived This noble fellow deserves especial mention. Upon going to him when the morning broke, and offering to remove him to a comfortable situation, he answered, Never mind me-hel p those who are living, for 1 am done for" Somewhat latter, upon bringing him drink of water, he asked Meagher to turn him on his side a little more, so that he might die quietly.
 Fires were immediately kindled by the pas sengers, which afforded light by which, at glance the awful wreck and havoc which had been made could be seen.
 The passenger engine and tender were laying at the foot of the mbankment-some twenty feet high-bottom side upwards, smashed into fragments, with the smoke stack and iron posi- 5ons embedded in the marsh, which at this point (Baptist Creek) stretches away on both sides of the road. The fire had been thrown completely out, and the hot cinders were smok- ing ill the wet grass. The first baggage car was perfectly unhurt; but the second one was dash ed into the first second-clas car, and with the latter formed an immense mass of splinters wood work, iron work, bones, brains, mangled flesh, torn clothes, proven rifles, loaves of bread and other eatabes, jumbled together as if a mine of gunpowder had blown them into this enormous heap of rubbish. The last second class car had been driven right upon the roof of the forward tirst-class car more than half way in length. The weight of 1t had crushed in the fore part of the car beneath it leaving the rest of it uninjured, though considerably shattered.
 On both sides of the embankment, below these cars, were the wounded and dying-some of them flung out violently from the wreck, oth- CTS having crawled down with broken legs, while yet others had been carried to the fires by the passengers. It is shocking even 10 think of the scene. as it would be utterly sickening to describe the various wounds and hideous mutilliations inflicted upon the poor sufferers. Lying immediately under the rear platform of the forward frst-class car, he saw the first corpSe-that of child about three years of age The head was frightfully swollen and disclosed He lifted 1t up and found that a splinter about seven inches long and shaped and sharply pointed like an arrowhead, had entered behind the right ear, and passed through the right cheeck, and came out by the side of the nose. He endeavored to pull out the frag- ment, but was unable to do so. The child was stone dead.
 An old lady with grey hair whom he assist ed to place on cushions at the foot ot the ehl- bankment, had both legs below the knee torn open with gashes seven or eight inches m length and an inch and a half in breadth. The bone was completely exposed, and the wounds had all of being given 6y some aelh heavs blunted fragment The protrudlng nesh was jagged and torn. .oue,, 1,,;, frame was lying little below the first bag oace car with both legs broken, the bones being thrust through his pantaloons as though cut of | ...;4h . cIoaver His mouth was filled and his