Eaton Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1843-1856, 1856-07-24
rhe late rerrIbls Rsllroaa Accident.

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We take the following from the New York
Tribune of the 18Th!
PmLADELPnI,, Thursday, July II, 1856.
The city is CONFUSED with the siupendous
horrible account Of msssscte Of innocenls-
one of the greatest since Herod's i'me-the
machinery Of wrath being that of the North
Pennsylvania Ra abroad. The Sunday-school
scholars OF 81. MichaePS Church, all OF the
Roman Catholic persuasion, and belonging 10
the Seventh Ward, who were making O pleas
uTe excdGsion 10 Fon Washington, fifteen mics
noTlh of the city, with their teachers aud
friends, this morning, are the victims. have
Just converSed with o gentleman who was in
lie down express train which ran into The
pleasure liainstbe conductor OF the former, it
Is reported, I'D not wait OF 4 certain point 10
allow the latter train 10 p~aSs-ihe road being
a new one, aud there beng but a single track.
The rules OF the company, | am told, ale ex-
plicit. That body is composed of Respectable
and phllanihropic citizens. Bal, as II IS re-
ported, the conductor concluded here was no
train 10 encounter, dashed on OF lullspeed and
ran INTO the pleasure train, the conc uSsion
beng like the c~logglnc Of a telescope, each
train running into lhe other and being fully in.
lerlocked; the result, was a contamination Of
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cTushings OF The children, whose entire num-
Der was six hundred, but the g~enicus Of horror,
was crowned by some Of The cars taking fire
and deliverance a, The time being impossible,
nineteen Of the inmates, men, women aud
children, were roasted ulivr-char.ed 10 ashes.
Cert inly The details OF lhis accident which |
have received from an eyewitness, are the
most terrible oil any which mas ever taken
place in TITS Country, for in cases Of The burn
lng OF steamboats, The sufferers can end their
~agonie4 by jumping overheard and being speed
lily drowned; but here were PERSONS, chiefly
chill rem, locked in The prison OF despair, and
innGmed 10 death, besides being hUnlbly mu.
til0ted. My informant escaped unhuri, and
rushing with others 10 the nearest house pro-
cured axes to cul the cars so aS 10 iIberate
those mol yet roasted alive. My informant
says that five Of The cars were destrOye d utter
y. From out the runs were dragged bodies
Of The dead, the dying, the crushed. mniilated,
buInt-ln every lorm Of misery and horror
fouming, ShtIeklng, curslng, waiting, lmplor'
ing, aud beyond misery. The killed, So lar as
aScerIained, amount 10 thirty nine, and the
wounded 10 Sixty nine; but these figures will
doubtless be swollen, for The wounded will
some Of them die, and fresh sufferers will be
! discovered.
lHt plCdSuIG lIulH WIS CbIHpDoCu VI CdlSp
which left TIE maSter-Slreet station Ut five
%o'ciocH this morning. The same Train lett
Gwynedd al SIX O'clock.
They ale now fetching the bodies into the
city, ana The depot is q scene OF unsurpassed
excitement. Crowds Of Of ogonized people,
chiefly women, ale on the look out Tor VIC
Tins, in pain or deall, aud with some excep-
tons the names OF The wounded, burnt or kill
ed, are known. But when nothing but lew
bones remain, clothes and oil means OF ilenll-
l~icallon being destroyed, The names thus lar
are wanting. WHAT Satanic irony is the i,rmi-
nation u such a so. called pleasure eXcurSioni
Six hundred little ones and their friends, IN AL
the innocence aud jolily Ul a holiday iruiic,
and in the flash Of all eye hurled into oil the
horrors that fact could Accumulate or i%nagina-
ton engendtr.
Since my writing The above the afternoon
~iouGaals have appeared with the anne Of tne
killed ami wounded so far as known, and the
numbers given correspond with The nbove.-
The Bulletin, which hes helore We, has a lu!l
list, and gives, too, a statement from MI.
Swain Of The Lsager, who saw the occldent.
W. II. +.