Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-04-01

Fun particulars ef she. ca.
fastrophc--AIa H.cfails.
81 The Toronto Colcnist has the following par.
ticniars OF the awful accident:
Every person 10 the first passenger car, ex-
ceps Owen Doyle, James Barton, Of Ssratlord,
and two children between eight and nine years
of age, persisted. Oae of the children was
thrown out Of the window on to the ice, it
knows not how. The other was dragged cut Of
q window, having been up to its neck in water
for some fifteen minutes, in almost a senseless
state. They were brother and sister. Their
mother, father and uncle persisted, and Owen
Doyle, who saved himself, is their uncle. He
saved himself by forcing his way out of win
dow as the water was rushing in. He iemem-
bers swimming on tie ice, and then Hos; his con-
seriousness James Barton cannot tell how he
got out of the window. He recollects but
Wild scream--being dashed against the ceiling
of the car. Half senseiess aud half drowned,
he made last spring for a window. He was
picked off Of cake of ice few minutes after
wards. Doyle had his brother, sister in-law,
two cousins, and cousins wife, and two nieces.
all killed or drowned. And what with his own
injuries, the fearful excitement of the scene he
had passed through, and the loss of so many
near and dear to him, the poor fellow wander.
ed about almost berett of his memory and his
senses
The escape of Richardson, Mr.. Urquhart, of
the express, the mail conductor, and the baggage
master, was equally marvellous. When the To-
connective and tender went into the abyss liter
ally, the baggage-car swung round apparently as
it was going over, and broke loose from the
tender. The consequence was, it struck on the
ice to the left Of where the locomotive disap-.
peared, and slid, SO strong was the ice, short
distance. 1t never overturned; and its three
inmates though thrown among trunks and all
sorts of things, strange to say, escaped with
but trihing bruises.
TOUCHING SCENE.
woman, who was near the scene Of the dis
aster, and who was first to witness it, gives some
interesting particulars about the two children
the Doyles, who so miraculously escaped She
rushed down the hill to the cars, and the first
object that met her attention was the poor little
girl, about eight years of age, on cake of ice.
The little thing said: "Oh, don't mind me, save
my brother" and the poor little fellow at
the top of one of the windows, mporing some
one to drag him out. The woman, though the
ice was broken for some distance round the car,
managed to reach him. slGa
RECOGNIZING THE DEAD.
- The bodies wereplaced in large store house,
and as friends and relatives came to seek for
their dead, the scene is described as heart rend.
ing. A wild scream, a deep sob or moan, told
of some sad scene or recognition. Around GER
tain bodies groups collect. One of these is de
scrbed as looking at the figure of woman,
once beautiful, and though her hair lies tangled
and wet, and her face is distorted from the eff
fects of drowning, she still chains that idle
crowd with melancholy interest She has a
marriage ring on her finger. Two lockets are
on her breast, and breach is suspended by a
yellow ribbon around her neck. For whom did
she wear them? ~ #
In the pocket of one would be found letters
from his wife and children, wishing him home,
and sorrowing for his absence. Another died
with daguerreotypes on his breast of those he
loved. A mothers letter was found in this ones
pocket asking relief, and saying she was ILL
The money for relief was found side by side
with the letter Another's name was learned
by the letters of those who loved him. And yet
another was hurrying home to console the sick
or the dying