The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-11-28

sorrow on my heart, write and yet as
/ look around Oh the faces of my home,
and on this glad light of life thank my
God-oh how fcrvautly-that still live
As You may infer from the above, |
was day before yesterday in the fright
ful catastrophe on tho Pacific Railroad
at the Gasconade River. Invitations
had been extended to our citizens by
those Of Jefferson City, to meet with
them on November LIST and celebrate
the opening of the Pacific Railway to
that place-to which the cars were to
run that day for the first time.
Between six and eight hundred per
sons, comprising to great extent the
elite, of our city. started from this place
on the morning appointed, with mutual
gratulations on the opening Of such an
important section of the Pacific Rail
road, whose name indicates that, in the
idea Of its builders, it was to be only the
beginning Of that mighty trans-continen.
tai route which has for years been the
dream and aspiration Of our city, With
words ana thoughts more or less grave
but all jubilant. and region in sympa-
thy of juJilation, we passed about one
hundred miles to the Gasconadc River,
which this railroad crosses As we ap-
preached the river | was sitting in the
car, the fourth | think from the engine;
all around me men most eminent in pro-
tcssional aud mercantile life, aud in the
political history of the region, variously
o. al in ,-.txr NJ
trade, stocks, politics morals. remiuis-
ccnces amusing or adhopes and schemes
for the future, the jest and pleasant
laugh, or reflections grave, philosophic
or religious, engaging us, as We looked
around on each Others faces in an in
tense consciousness Of life and a sense of
perfect security. when 10 in moment
that multitude in horrid mbroglio were
struggling in the jaws Of Death.
As we were thus in the fulncss of life
and enjoyment borne on all at once there
comes or the car, an awful crash instant
ly the car pitches forward we feel the
grasp Of tie Ruin-Dcmon tearing it with
horrid clangor downward One fash Of
thought. Here it is, the last moment
Eternity Sweet home, wife, children
finding the universe gone God on
y Ieii Ii thy VIII 1t be- y, nod' go!
20 to Thee OHe such Hush oi thought
like lightning through the mmd'ahd with
it sense of falling, and Of things tumb-
ling with us and around Us, and upon uS,
and then the stunning hIdeouS ash
with blows iruumcrshln all over our rer-
sons, as we strike the earth ana the
crash, crash crash M seven or c'@ht
cars, with Their hving ire'sh'' nave taken
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Gods hand warded from US the dread
cd stroke. The hldoous eiahgor was
over, and II was fora moment SIM as the
grave l found myself under mass OF.
| knew not what, crushed prlsonedhelp lp'
less, and almost sliHed. heard voice
near lie cry out, Thank God we are
yet alive )" but there was 20 response
save gratstis. trstah'iE 1T flashed upon
ne We are in the river aud | must
drown and momenily ! expected to feel
itie cold deathtouch Of the waters but
it came not. Then came moving IN
the mass above me, mingled with the
cries of the mutilated and the dying |
waited in awful anxiety until by the
tightening of the pressure, ! could grad
ually stir my limbs. With difficulties
! extricated my person and rose to my
feet. had suffered severe confusion