The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-01-07
THE DAILY DISPATCH
Monday Nor wing, January =. 1855.
Dreadful Railroad Accident.

Dreadful Ra ilroad Accident
The fact of a collision between iregh. anu
passenger train on the Pennsylvania ha''roao
having taken place on the evening OF tne oiS',
near Darlington, Pa, Professor s. H. Williams, oi
Louisville KY, who was passenger on INC A""'
gives the following account of the collision.
On Monday evening, the lst ult, as tife s,st
Express Train from Pittsburgh TO Cincinnap was
turning a curve near Darlingto n, Pa frlghtful
collision took place between this and the freight
train going East The collision was so sudden that
no time was allowed TO apply the brakes. The
huge locomotives rushed upon e.tch other as in
deadly conflict and having spent their giant
power in onset, san.S together upon the track
a complete mass of ruins The freight train re
cciyed comparatively little injury-not so the
other. The baggage ear passed entirely through
the first passenger car-the bottom of the former
passing iusi shove the floor of the latter. sweep
ing, i'll the fTinkiing of an eye, every seat from
its place and crOwdipg passengers, baggage stoves
and broken pieces of timber in a space not large
enough for one car.
and all was still except the fierce kissing of the es
Gaping steam. Almost in stantly the shrieks of dy-
ing men were heard far above the noise of the
crushed engines Three o. four men lay of TO one
side in the snow-some wi, h broken arms, others
with shattered legs and brui sed bodies, crying in
piercing tones ofIsony for elp. Just above the
front end Of the second pa ssenger car where
great mass Of fragments had b, washed up, three
men were seen two of them h, Id up their legs the
third showing out of the mass On ruins but his head
and hand crushed, and black from congestive
blood. Poorfelow, death gave him no time for
agony.
Near TO these but on the other side of the cars
stood brave man-Matthew Kolt one leg broken
and his right arm held firmly beneath the heavy
timbers of the bottom of the bagg lge car, resting
upon the front of the second pass enger car. he
uttered no complaint, though his Ii g was broken
and his arm literally ground TO pie ces; nearly an
hour elapsed before he could be re leased, yet he
showed no impatience and letno gro an escape ms
lips. The other two men We're sdlnost equaiiy
brave, enduring their long CONNER dehI WIN re-
markable fortitude.
The officers of the train, assisted by some OF
the passengers exerted almost super human eHor
to extricate the wounded and to place them In .hs
nbrokeI cars but so firmly were the ruins p'.ess
ed together that it probably ot less tnAn ar
hour before all were taken out. inli cries OF the
wounded for physicians, for water, Tor warmth
and for wiz es and sisters, suff eent to read
the stoutest heart.
One poor man. whose throat had b. Na cut either
by splinter or by broken glass, W 'ho laid upon
the floor of the car, and afterwards xopped upor
two or three seats, but his sufferings did not last
long-he breathed through the cut in his throat fol
an hour or so and then lay still in deaf h. From pa
pers in his possession his name was found to be
samuel Johnston" from New Middl .eton, Ohio
The killed are A Stokes, agent of he New Cas-
tie and Erie Stage Company David Wait, of Can.
ton, Ohio; Samuel Johnston, New Mi ddleton, Ohio
and young Irishman, name unknow n
The wounded are Brown Sutton, TRAIN boy, resi-.
| dence in Allegheny city. One of his shoulders
was put out of place, and he was severely bruised
Danieli Carly, laborer, residence in Cincinna
IT, One arm broken, side and leg badly injured
John Churchield, of New Bedford, Pa. Severe
| " hurt OH hand arm and leg
Thos. Hays, Allegheny city. Face, head and leg
badly hurt.
Matthew Robb, of Union, Trumbull CO., O. One
arm and one leg broken.
John Veacb of Hubert Trumbun CO., O. Has
bad cut in the head and his legs are badly bruis
ed.
Henry Mansfield, of st. Louis, both legs bro.
ken
broken.
John McGinle,-, of Cincinnati, head cut and arm
bruised.
Robert Moore, of Logan CO., ohio-both hips out
out of place.
body badly bruised.
John Yeatman Postmaster at Hartford. Trlm-
bull co., Oho-right leg broken and head bruised
severely
Hugh Moore, OF Youngstown, Ohio-leg broken
and badly bruised
Geo W Lee, Aleghany city. Both legs broken
and back bruised
w H. Tyler, of New Bedford, Pa One leg and
arm broken
L. S. Way an aged gentleman from Grant Co.,
Wisconsin. Post Office address, Charlotte. One
leg broken and the hip out of place
Two others were slightly injured
The accident occurred from the watch of the
freight train conductor being So minutes out of
time.