Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-01-08

4AltCl0ty -hSSOCAIOQ.
A number of bills heretofore reported were
! read first and second time aAd committed.
On motion of Mr.. Mallory, the House adjourn
ed
THE Accident on me ONO AND PKSssY1vAN1A
RAnRoAp.-T Cincinnati Commercial Of Wed.
nesday furnishes the particulars of the terrible
disaster that occurred on Mondap, on the Ohio
and Pennsylvania Railroad near Darlington, Bea-
yer countyf Penn This fearful collision was
caused by the gross and inaccessible negligence
/ of the freight train conductor, who had allowed
his watch to run y-tlfree minutes ont of timei
! Fird Dsscripk io1le the Terrible Scene byoae
iof the Passengers Monday evening, the
3lst. ult. as the First Express Train from Pitts
burg TO Cincinnati was turning a curve near Darl-
lington, Pa, frightful collision took place be-
tween this freight train going East The coils
ion was SO sudden that no time was allowed to
apply the brakes The huge locomotives rush
led upon each other as deadly conflict, and haV-
ing spenttheir giant power in one onset, sank to-
| gether upon the track, a common mass of ruins
| The freight train received comparatively little
injury--not so the other. The baggage car pass
cd entirely through the first passenger car-the
bottom OF the former passing just above tue floor
of the latter, sweeping, in the twinEling of an
eye, every seat from its place, and Crowting pas
aengers, baggage, stoves and broken peices of
timber, IN space not large enough for one car
| The conclusion was felt but for few seconds
and all was still, except the fierce Kissing of the
tescaping steam. Almost instantly the shrieks of
dying men were heard far above the noise of the
EcruShed engines. Three or four men lay off to
one side, in the snow-soIne with broken arms
others with shattered legs and bruised bodies
lcrying in piercing tones Of agony for help. just
above the front end of the car of the Secoud pas
tsenger chr, wherea great mass of fragments had
been washed up, three men were seen, two of
them held up by their legs, the third showing
out of the mass of ruins but his head and hand,
crushed, and black from cengestive blood Poor
fellow, death gave him no time for agony.
Near to these, but on the other side of the
cars, stood brave man-Matthcw Kolt-one
leg broken, and his right arm held firmly be-
meath the heavy timbers at the bottom of the
baggage car, resting upon the front of the sec
iond baggage car. He uttered no complaint,
though his leg was broken and his arm literally
ground to pieces-nearly an hour elapsed before
he could be released, yet he showed no impati-
epce and let no groan escape his lips The 9TH
er two men were almost equally brave, enduring
their long confinement with remarkable forti-
tude. The officers of the trains, assisted by
some other passengers, eXerted almost Superhu-
man efforts to extricatc the wounded and to
tplace them in the unbroken cars, but so firmly
were the ruins pressed together that it probably
was notices. than an hour before all were taken
out. The cries of the wounded for MUSICIANS, for
water, for warmth, and for wives and sisters
were sufficient to rend the stoutest heart
One poor man. whose throat had been cut
either by splinter or by broken glass, was laid
upon the floor of the car, and afterwards proped
upon two or three seats, but his sutferings did
mot last Iong-he breathcd through the cut in
his throat for an hour or so, and then lay still in
death. From papers in his possession, his name
was found to be Samuel Johnston, from New
Middleton, Ohio