Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-13
Miss Elizabeth Ware, Of

that place.
Dr.. Smith, formerly of this place, but for the
past year n resident of Alliance, was about start
ing for Poland, O., to attend n session of the Pres
byterian Synod 10 be held in that place. His wife
designed accompanying him as far as Salem where
she intended remaining ut her fathers, (Mr. Arm
strong Blackburn, until his return. They had
proposed leaving Alliance in the Express train at
s o'clock, but having missed it, were waiting at the
station for the evening freight, when the accident
occurred. They we're both instantly killed, and
their bodies SO much -mutilated that recognition
was impossible only by their clothing. Their
remaios we're brought to Salem for interment. Dr.
Smith and Lady were highly respected by all who
knew them. Having been married a little less
than a year, the anniversary Of their wedding day
came very near " itnessing their funeral.
The following additional particulars of the hor-
rid murder Mt Alliance, are from the Pittsburgh
,Dispatch-the Editor an eye witness:
THE INCIDENTS
of the disaster were many of them as strange MS
they we've appalling. DR.. Smith, and wife we're
standing together upon the platform. Her crush
ed and mutilate1 form was taken from under the
platform, and partially under the floor OF the re-
-ception room, while ais was found under the up
per car, forty or fifty feet distant.
Mr.. N. G.. Taylor, a young merchant of Phila-
.delphia, was standing near the same spot, and was
so badly crushed that he breathed his last in a few
minutes after being taken into the ladies' waiting
room, manifesting no evidence Of consciousness
whatever.
In the same room was the body of Mr.. John
Brooks, of New Jersey, who is also said to have
been standing upon the platform of the station
when he met his death, and was crushed against
The building by the car.
If the account given to us be correct, and it was
given by eye-witnesses of the occurrence, Jac' b
Rudy, a German, the fagman of the station-the
shapeless fragments of whose body we saw lying
upon a board in a large warehouse near the sta
tion-died as a hero dies. lie saw the train a2-
preaching with the speed Of lightning he saw the
danger of the crowd upon the platform, and Of
those in the train which was leaving. he rushed
with his lantern and bis signal waving, up the
track, directly fronting the death-dealing iocomo-
tive, and it struck him-carried him between the
cars; tore him limb from limb; actually tore his
noble heart out, which was found with his lungs
lying twenty or thirty yards from his body, which
was dragged from under the baggage car q torn
and bleeding mass of ~shapeless human flesh. In
the agony of his fear for others, he had forgotten
Such conduct is worthy of a monument
of marble. His body, or rather what remained of
it, presented a most shocking spectacle. One Of
his arms were torn off, his head and the upper
part of his body had lost every distinguishing fea-
En- of bupoanitv II IL soil that This pnnr fnllny
had eighty or ninety dollars in gold about his per-
son, which had not been found at the time we left;
but for this fact we do not vouch.
In the same warehouse where Rudy's body lay
wore those of j.. Atterholt and King Watson, two
carpenters in the employment of one of the rail
rond companies. Both these were standing upon
the platform of the station house at the time of the
occurrence, but their bodies were found under the
front of the locomotive, the wheels of which were
clot,ed with their blood. Mr.. Atterholt was a
large, fine looking man, from New Garden Ohio
lie leaves a wife and three children. Mr.. Watson
was a young unmarried man.
Mr.. Mcintyre of Alliance, also a carpenter, was
also killed upon the platform, altho his body was
found some distance from it, and taken to his resi-
dence.
TIE BODIES
lying 10 the warehouse were stripped Of their cloth
ing, which had been torn to shreds, but were all
decently covered with white muslin. As we Look
cd upon the dead who were lying around, we were
forcibly reminded of the beautiful oriental bene-
diction, May you die among your kindred"
ALL ABOUT THE LOCALITY
where the occurrence took place were pools of blood
ind fragments of human bodies ard bones. UpunI
the platform lay II coat which had all the appear.
ance of having been ground through the machi-
merry of a paper mill. A crushed bonnet was pull
ed from amongst the fragments of the broken pl t.
forms, and The sole of n boot which had been
forced entire from the wcarer's foot was lying near
it. On q piece of an iron wheel we saw II portion
of q human skull and one of the spinal vertebrate.
THE FORCE
Of the concussion must have been most tremendous.
Aside from the torn building and crushed plat.
forms there were evidences of this on every side
The trucks upon which the passengers cars were
placed were smashed to pieces. Even the heavy
iron axles were snapped off like pipe stems. Some
of them were broken iu two places, and the wheels
were shattered like chinaware. The the train Of
the Cleveland road, after passing through the 9TH
er train, ran one hundred and twenty feet, and
stopped upon the track, the truck under the loco
motive being broken, and the baggage car and
tender being thrown off the track by the breaking
or shifting of a switch. The locomotive was not
apparently damaged to the extent Of more than
four or five hundred dollars. The locomotive
as it did between them, 1.-THE bodies of the
cars of the Pittsburg and Chicago Road
they were not very badly broken up, except at the
points where the locomotive hit them.
The point of collision being thus between The cars
for one of
THE sTRANGEsT FACTS
with the whole matter, and that is, that
of the eight persons killed, not one, so far as we
conld learn upon the most dilligent inquiry, was
in the cars. Mr.. Brooks of Now Jersey was TIE
only one killed who is not positively known to
have been outside the cars, and several persons