The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-10-19
TERRIBLE RAILROAD CATAs.
TROPHE.

terrible accident accuTred on the New York
Central Railroad, last Thursday evening, near
Beaver Meadow Brook, about six miles west Of
Syracuse. The accident was caused by the wash
ing away Of about eighty feet of embank ment.--
Tha mail train, consisting of one baggage car, a
mail car, aud four passenger cars were all, except
the last car, rhrogn down an embankmeat of
twenty feet telegraphic dispatch gives the fol-
lowing particulars of the disaster:
The accident was the most disastrous that has
happened on the Central route for many years
The cars were Under full headway, aud they ap-
preached Nine Mile Creek station, between War
ners station and Syracuse, the engine suddenly
plunged off the track, darting down into the creek
some fifteen or twenty feet. The coupling appa-
reutly broke instantly, the first baggage car
plunged over right on the top OF the engine. This
was followed by the mail car and three passenger
cars, all of which took the fearful leap after
the other.
The cars were all well filed with passengers,
and the catastrophe was so sudden that only one
shock was heard above the noise of the wheels be-
fore all were heaped together in common ruin at
the bottom of the gulf The last car only remained
on the track, and those fortunate enough 10 be ON
board that carriage instantly leaped out and went
to the rescue of the other passengers. The scene
presented was most awful. The mail car was tHrn-
ed bottom up, and was found to be on fire. having
caught from the hot stove. The FIRST passenger car
had turned on side. with the front part buried
consequence of heavy rains In this car. Miss
Brown of Toronto, the daughter of Mr.. Brown.
late OF the Toronto Globe, was riding. After most
OF the passengers had been got out of the ruins
OF the persons searching found shawl, which he
pulled out, discovering human being, and he then,
with the aid of others, dragged forth the body of
Miss Brown. She had been drown ned in three feet
OF water, and from confusion on the head, she
had evidently been stunned in the collision
The second car was turned broad side to the train
and the third car through the centre of it, cut
ting it nearly in two. The third car was all
smashed to pieces, the passengers being crushed
together in one mass. Here Mr.. Bronson, of New
Britain, Connecticut, sat- and his bowels torn
open by splinters of seats. Some pieces of mahog-
any were extracted from his intestines by the doc
tors to-day. His entras literally cut to piece
meal and, though he still lives his recovery is i'm
possible. lie is man of iron build and strong
constitution. Ieerawled out of the ruins to the
track, literally holding in his bowels by his hands.
Fortunately the third car jumped so high that it
went through the second ear above the heads of
the passengers Had it cut through a little lower.
several more would have been killed.
| From the nature of the accident and the COM
plete destruction of the cars, it is miraculous that
out OF sixty or seventy passengers, no more We're
fatally injured. There several narrow escapes
| oi passengers. MIR. Ogsbury, of Jefferson was in
| the second car. and the whole Woodwork not
one foot aboFe his head, was splintered to atoms.
The Albany Journal, of the 10th, furnishes the
following list of killed and wounded:
| Miss Brown, of Toronto. killed; Clinton Brown
son. Westheld, Connecticut, fatally wounded {since
dead; John uaksbury, of Vermilyea, Jefferson co .
| rib broken; Samuel Plumb. of New York slightly
| injured Lizzie Franklin, Warren r. l.. rib broken;
Patrick Nolan, baggage master, badly injured, his
| legs and shoulders being badly broken; 2. Pestln
GER emlgrant baggage master, collar bone broken
X. liaslup, engineer, bruised and scalsed fireman
badly bruised; Mr.. McMaster, the recently appoint
| ed mail agent, was badly bruised; Mr. De Forrest
| OF New Haven, Coqnecticat, arm broken
HORRIBLE MURDER.-The Detroit Advertiser o
| the l4th inst, has the following particulars Of
heartess and cold-blooded murder at Fentonville
| Michigan:
A gentleman named Johnson, recently moved t,
| Fentonville, with his family consisting of a wifi
| and three children-the oldest of the latter bu
! eight years Of age. Not having got all his bed
up, the wife remained at the hotel over night
while Mr.. johnson went to his house with th'
children. and was accompanied by a boy nance
| George Coiwell, about IL years old. About efgh
| O'Clock in the evening two young men came in
asking for Mr.. johnson, saying that they were go
| ing to his fathers house, short distance from
| there On receiving very pressing invitation
| they consented to remain over night, and 90 will
! him i'll the morning to see the old gentleman. Mr.
| Johnson that night slept in a bed, with his tw'
small girls; the little boy slept with Colwell ant
| the young men had a bed made upon the hoor, be
| tween the other beds.
| During the night Mr. Johnson heard one of hi
|
blow on the side of his head. He was partially
| stunned and the next he remembered. he was run
ming after man who attempting to escape by
thesd0or. The man turned again aud struck hin
with ssme instrument. MIR. J. followed the fellow
| for some distance without being able to overtakt
| him and therefore returned to the house. On en-
| tering the room where he had been sleeping, hor
rible sight met his eyesone of the little girls ana
the Colwell boy lay dead before him, and the Other
little girl and boy insensbe from the effect of theiI
| Injuries, The agonized father screamed Murder
and called in the neighbors. Several came in, and
| on examination, the following particulars were
disclosed:
| The first body examined was that Of young Col
| we'll. lie had received blow, apparently from All
axe. His skull split entirely open, and his
brains had all run out. The little boy who lay be
| side Colwel had been struck twice in the head by
| an axe er hatchet, and another in the abdomen
One of the little girls who slept with her father had
received several wounds in the head and body from
| a similar instrument. She dead The other
girl had cut in the head apparently from slant
| ing blow from the axe, which had taken off p0r-
ton of the scalp. The father himself had received
two blows on the top of the head, aud severe cut
inside of his hand. The little girl is doing well,
| but at o'clock last night, when our informant
| left, the boy not expected to recover. Suspi
cion rests upon two young fellows who had re-
ceutly had some difficulty about some gambling
operations. Mr.. Johnson had about $780, and it is
supposed that they of it, and took this
means of gaining possession of it, killing the chill
dren, that there should be evidence against