Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-01-08
The Accident on the Ohio and Pennsylva-
MIA Railroads. Thrilling Scene.

; The Accident on the Ohio and Pennsylva-
mia Railroads. Thrilling Scene.
We have already stated that by collision
on the Ohio and Pennsylvania railroad, few
days ago, four persons were killed and six
wounded OF the latter, Henry Mansfield, Of
St. Louis, and Geo. w. Lee, of Allegheny city,
Pa, had both legs broken; w. II. Tyler, of
New Bedford, one leg and an arm broken; NJ.
Robb, Of Trumbull county, Ohio, one arm and
leg broken; VIM. Waters, one leg broken j.
Painter, of Canton, Ohio leg broken - ohm
Veatman, Postmaster at Hartford, Ohio, leg
broken; Hugh Moore, Of Youngstown, Ohio,
leg broken, and others severely injured. An
eye witness writes to the Cincinnati CONNER
cial as follows Ball. Sun.
The collision was so sudden that no time
was allowed to apply the brakes. The huge
locomotives rushed upon each other as in
deadly conflict, and having spent their giant
power in one onset, sank together upon the
track, a common mass Of ruins The baggage
car passed entirely through the first passenger
car-the bottom of the former passing Just
above the floor of the latter, sweeping, in the
twinkling Of an eye, every seat from its place,
and crowding passengers, baggage, stoves, and
broken pieces Of timber in space not large
enough for one car. The conclusion was felt
but for a few seconds, and all was still except
the fierce Kissing Of the escaping steam. AL
most instantly the shrieks Of dying men we're
heard far above the noise Of the crushed en-
gines. Three or four men lay off to one side
in the snow-some with broken arms, others
with shattered legs and bruised bodies crying
in piercing tones Of agony for help.
Just above the front end OF the second pas
senger car, where great mass Of fragments
had been washed up, three men were seen,
two Of them held up by their legs, the third
showing out of the mass of ruins but his head
and hand, crushed and black from congestive
blood. Poor fellow, death gave him no time
for agony. Near to those but on the other
side Of the car, stood brave man, Matthew
Kolt one leg broken and his right arm held
firmly beneath the heavy timbers Of the bot
tom Of the baggage car, resting upon the front
Of the second passenger car. He uttered no
complaint, though bis leg was broken and his
arm literally ground to pieces Nearly an
hour elapsed before he could be released, yet
he showed no impotence and LET no groan es-
cape his lips. The other two men we're almost
equally brave, enduring their long confne-
ment with remarkable fortitude. The officers
Of the trains, assisted by some Of the passen-
gers, exerted almost superhuman efforts to ex-
tricate the wounded and to place them in the
cars, but so firmly we're the ruins pressed to-
gether that il was probably not less than an
hour elapsed before all we're taken out. The
cries Of the wounded for physicians, for water,
for warmth, and for wives and sisters, we're
sufficient to rend the stoutest heart
One poor man, whose throat had been either
cut by splinter or by broken glass, was laid
- ~.
ped up on two or three seats, but his suferings
did not last long; he breathed through the cut
in his throat for an hour or so, and then lay
still in death. From papers in his possession,
his name was found to be Samuel Johnston,
from New Middletown, Ohio