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4s.r.5Is -.ain sad AsOldsnt.
EFoHr KILLED; Er0RTLyyURED.

A tsribls catastrophe oesuIrsd on Monday I
a. s.A mat, at Alliance. Stark e0uniy, Ohio
IA. srossiag Of the Clevsland and Pittsburgh
Railroad ssd The Fort Wayne sud chie'go
Railrosd. x
The lollsuisg particulars We clip from the 6
ellsbussh Gozszs. Of Wednesday, the lO'h: {
Oar telegraph column yesterday contained I
paragraph concerning the seeidea! At Alliance '
on Monday evening. We are to-day enabled
70 give IbO particulars ia full-Vhieh are as
follows:
The f.sttraiu Of the Pittsburgh, For; Wayne
and chieagO Railroad which left Pittsburgh
At three o'clock o. AOnday afternoon arrived
at Alliance st ha'f pAsisiK where !, stopped on
ia Oua track to give is passengers az oPpOrtu-
nity to take tea. The track Of the Cleveland
and Pittsburgh road crosses the other track al
nearly rigIl anglss-bOlh tracks running along
either side Of Sourbecks hotel. When the
time allowed for tea expired the train Of the
Fort Wayne road st arltd strictly on imE,
srOssug the Cleveland track slowly. While
on the track the head Eight Of the Cleveland
train was seen turning The curve. 10 a mo
nsnt afterwards il ran violently into the Fort
wayss train. pushing The Two hind cars with
great force into the hotel, breaking down a
large portion Of il and deposiing Que of the
cars in the hotel A large number Of persons
we're stsnjing upon The platform. The rules
Of both roads are as follows: AT every cross.
ing Of this kind, must come to dead halt
1hether any other train be in sight or not;
and a messenger must be sent in each direc-
ton to1ass whether the track be clear or not
This rule was strictly observed by the Con-
ductor Of the Fort WSyaO train, and the flag
man who was ssnt out to warn the approach
ing train vas slaughtered The Conductor o
the Fort Wayne train was Mr.. Z. A. Leavitl
of tbs Cleveland train. AR. ". Q. Cleland.
The Cleveland train ran some distance ate
the collision occurred, aud the engineer, vii
liam Cherry, by whose criminal rseklsssn es
the accident was caused ran of and has no
vet bssn found.
Strange to say that no persons in the train
we're killed though some were injured. Whe
the wreck was scneWhGt cleared away it wa
sScertainsd that eight psTsons who had bee
staLding upon the Pla.forE' were killed. Thei
names arc as follows: Jacob Ruby. Alliance
John M'Intyre, Alliance; Dr.. Smith and lady
Alliance; J. Arerholt, New Gard n, 0 N. 6
TAYLOR, Philadelphia; John Brooks, N. Jersey
Some Of these had lost log or arm, and a
were horribly disfgured. The sight is des
oribed to US rs being terrible u the extreme
The bodies were conveyed 10 tie car house
await On examination by the Coroner's Jury
which was sworn IN at 10 O'Clock.
The injured are the following: Fieldin
Cavsna ard lady. Columbus, Indiana, hadl
injured Anna Armour, Columbus, indiana
badly Injured. ], Painter, Il S!ak count,
Ohio, tho same gentleman who was hurt at II
rail road accident 81 Darlington, last WINTER
He wra bat slightly hurt Charles Coates, 9
engineer on The Cleveland and Pttsburg
Railroad, was badly hurt. NJ. A. Roth,
Philadelphia, had his thigh badly fractured e
D.N. Courtney Esq, was slightly hurt. N
Courtney, vss formerly Assistant supcriuter
dent on the Ohio & Pennsylvania Railroad
w, @. Clsland, Conductor on tho Cleveland
Pittsburgh Railroad, was slightly hurt,
The wreck wsa complete. The two cal
completely smashed, and the great wonder
now tDhlt OCSupNula NbOdPoW WIN lntE UHB
One OF The cars is iu the 70 tunda Of the hott
which is nearly demolished tits the opnio
lei competent persons that the Cleveland trai
gas running at the rate Of thirty or forty mile
en- hour. rs may we'll be supposed great Ii
dignaIion prevails at Alliance, and is eXpres
cd not loudly bat deeply, and the englnee
Cherry, il caught, will stand a good chan
Of lynch Law.
Al three O'Clock yesterday morning the Of
GERS of the P f., W.. and O., road, start
for Alliance. and did everything in their pow
for tbs relief Of the injured. They took wi
them Dr.. VhonaS Nj xon, Uf Allegbaney.
The Coroper's Jury resumed their labors
nine O'Clock yesterday and continued thel
through the eutire DAY.
Tbs shocking ATTAIN hssexelttd deep foe
ing in the minds Of the community, and the
feel their lives in constant danger, unle
every sot Of csressSness is promptly and s.
verey punished, The Indignation Of all hi
settled upon Cherry the engineer, to who
the accident is solely attributable.
THE rEQUE.T.
A. L. Jones, magistrate, acting CoroGe
sWore in the following persons as jurymen:
Abraham zimmerman, Enos l.. Wood
Thomas G. Stanley John Battershen, T. \
Pierce and II. Laughlin.
The following Witnesses were examined
Mr.. MorIis-Was on rain eit al 3 o'eloc
express messenger yesterday. Arrived {
time at Alliance and took lea--after We got I,
passengers got aboard, and conductor SAID a
was right to proceed, lstepped aboard ar
got into baggage car, aud examined brea
blocks before got on. Engineer whstlsd Q
breaks and We started. Alter we started
made a remark TO the Baggage Master, th
we had Gns supper at Alliance. About th
time lTAia was struck. | 60; light and wei
into the car lying next 10 tho house and bell
ed to carry on! al old lady who said she VI
from Pennsylvania. The locomotive of @.
r, think struck hind cars between The bum,