The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-07-23
From lhe Bulletin OF the lsth.I

| INCIDENTS OF THE DISASTER.
The suicide of the conductor of the down
train is one of the tragic incidents of this ter
rible affair. Mr.. Vanstavoren, after the acci-
dent, procured vehicle and came to the city
with the dreadful news. He received no bod
lily injury by the collision, but when he reach
led thecity he was in very high state Of ex-
Ecitement, and limited at an intention to destroy
his own life. This was subsequently, put into
Iexecution. In the course of the afternoon he
lprocured an ounce of arsenic, and Swallowed
ut; he soon afterwards expired, notwithstand-
ling the exertions ofseyeral physicians to save
him. sdg
Mr.. V. was but twenty-nine years of age;
he was unmarried, and resided with his broth
er in Buttonwood street. above 10th. His
funeral will take place on Sunday afternoon
The deceased was much respected by very
large circle of friends, and he enjoyed the con-
idence of his employers in the fullest degree.
| A report is in circulation that he was employ
ed on the Camden and Amboy Railroad at the
time of the Burlington disaster but this, we
are assured, is entirely false. He had no con-
nection whatever with the accident
The weather yesterday was terribly hot,
and the sun glared down with dreadful inten-
sity upon the poor victims, and upon those who
Itoiled TO relieve their sufferings. 3a4
An eyewitness describes one car that took
| fire, and which was in flames in an instant. AS
soon as possible the car was broken open, but
no hOing soet5 a0as left in 1T. The inmates scers
all dead and enUeloped in the fierce t7aaaes p
As most of the victims were Irish Of course
the demonstration of grief which met ones
helpless ears were of the most VIOLENT charac-
ter They surpassed anything within the
range of the reportorial experience. 3gs58eeX
| The bodies of those who were burned be-
T
a blacksmith shop near where the accident
occurred, we counted twenty-one burned
bodies. a hrfGst
| Under temporary she'd lay the bodies Of
| leght other human beings so charred as to be
utterly unrecognizable.
! Near where the engines came in collision
portions of human bodies lay among the smok-
| ing timbers, and the bent iron.
| We will not shock our readers by descrip-
ton Of the condition ofthese bodies All were
burned in the most horrible manner and Of
the whole number there were many that were
so mutlated that there is not the slightest
hope of their being identified. Very few had
any vestige Of their clothing left on their
bodies, and the heads and limbs of many were
burned entirely off! This morning here were
fifteen bodies at the Master street Depot that
cannot possibly be recognised.
Some Of the bodies of the victims were
without boubt entirely consumed. Ex-Lieut.
Davis in searching among the ashes under
some portion of the machinery, found a few
calcined human bonds in two places They
were, without doubt, all that was left of two
human beings! The remains Of both could read
ily be held IN the palm Of the hand .gtor
Two or three trains ran to and fro between
the city and the scene of the disaster during
the afternoon. The friends of the sufferers
crowded upon the trains despite the exertions
of the police to prevent rush, and some of
the more daring ones actually rode upon the
cow catcher in front of the locomotive.