The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-02-22
TERRIBLE RlILROiD CALAMITY.
Cars and Locomotive Mashed.

Cars and Locomotive Mashed.
We are now in possession Of foil particular
of the calamity .on the Southern Road nea
Hllsdalr, Michigan, on Tuesday evening, o
which we had brief notice yesterday
The train going East left thls city at 3 20 p
NJ. on Tuesday, and consisted of three first
class passenger cars, seconG-casS passpnge
and a baggage car drawn by the engine 'sAlor
rlSon." The Eastern train, consisting Of twt
filst-cass passenger cars and baggage car lsf
Toledo at nine O'Clock in the evening, drawn
by the engine "Ohio." The train coming West
should, 10y the time table, have left iillsdale a
1897, but did not leave till 1927, being JUS
twenty minutes behind time.
According to the rule, the train should have
been allowed these twenty minutes 10 reach The
+station at fontsvila: but the Western train die
not wait, the engineer being assured that cal
was right" The consequence was that the
tIains came in dreadful collision about half {
mile west OF Hillsdalr, where there is a sharI
curve, which concraled the trains from each
other until they We're almost in contact: and the
Western train was not perhaps seen at all, as
owing to some negligence, she carried 10 head
| light.
The scene which followed, saws our infor-
mani, beggarS all description. The train going
west going at the rate of twsive-or fifteen
miles an hour, but that going east vas rushing
on at the rate of thirty-tive. The srcond-clas,
car was driven entirely through the baggage
car, in which latter hsxe We're some halle dozen
persons, and struck agaplSt the tender. In the
midst of the confused mass nrlaed Of the ffag-
mentS of the broken cars and Of the locomotive.
| FIVE persons were crushed up, aud in two min
utes from the time of the collision The whole
was on fire. None bat the engineers had an
luSant's warning oft the crash, and the passen-
gers in the two trains supposed, they hasten
| ed out ofthp cars, that the locomotives had got
off the track.
Their first work was to throw snow upon the
burning wreck, in order, if possible, to save the
ilivts el those who were no, already dad and
next, 10 eXricate the living and the dead, who
were as follows
PERSONS KILLED.
Michael kilduf, fireman of the Ohio, was
caught between the end OF the tender aud thr
boiler; The wood from the tender was pitched
over upon him, and he lay against the door Of
the furnace. The wood was burning, and snow
was thrown upon him 10 protect him from the
fire. but it is supposed that he was instantly Kill
led By the collision.
Albert Whitman, baggage master on the cas-
tern train, was only criSp,d d and b|ackenpd
fragment of man when taken ont of tht, ruins.
H., too, is supposed TO have been instantly XII
LED. He vas asleep in the baggage-car at the
time Of the collision.
William Van Aiken, who had hren for sew
era years track master Of this division Of the
road was So asleep in the baggage car. His
legs were burnt oa' when taken from the ruins
and il Is likely that be. " as killed at the instant
Of the collision. lie resided at Hudson, Mich,
where h. had WIFI and a son. His wife was
nearly distracted WHEN her terrible loss was
communicated to her.
Eli j. Parsons, conductor, was standing be-
tween the two doors Of the baggage car referred
to above, and by the shock thrown entire
~ out Of the car. Notwithstanding one should
or was dislocatrd BY the fall, he worked for an
hour, and than was compelled to 90 to bed,
whence hr has not yet risen.
There two train boys in the same car.
One had his knee disocated and bis face some
what cut: the other ESCAPED without much in
Jury. Both were pulled from the midst of the
fire.
The above are all the persons who were Kill
led. We have now to speak of the wounded.
Patrick Regan, engineer of the '.Morrison,"
had his leg broken, and he was also injured in
trrnaly.
WOUNDED PERSONS.
Charles Porter, brakeman on the train bound
west, was standing on the front end Of the first
paSsengrr-car breaking at the moment Of the
collision. Both Of his legs were crushed from
his ankles to his thighs, and his niuries are so
dreadful that ii spems impossible that he should
recover.
There was corpse Of lady in this car, sent
from Beloit, and on its way to some place in
Chic. This was considerably burned, and was
at first supposed TO be the body Of person who
had perIShed with the rest hence the statement
that four persons were killed.
The wounded We're all taken TO The exchange,
at HilSdalp, as soon after the accident as possi-
BILE. Some six or seven physicians were called,
and everything possible was done TO relieve the
sufferers.
All the passengers in the second class Car on
eastern train were more or less scratched and
bruised, though none were very seriously burt.
One man was thrown upon The stove, and bad
his face considerably burned.
Some Of the passengers on the train also suf-
frred from bruises and contusions. Mr.. Ed
wards, the gentleman above referred TO, had
confusion on his head, bruise on his shoulder,
and another on bis cheek.