Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1857-03-26
Full Particulars Ofthe Hamilton Catas-
trophe-HsFr0wing Details


The Toronto ColoRia has the following par
ticularS, Of the awful accident:
Every person in the first passenger car eI.
eepI Owen Doyle, James Barton, Of slraIford,
and two children between egh. and nine years
Of age perished. One Of the children was
thrown out Of the window onto the ice, il knows
not bow. The other was dragged out OF
window, having been up to its neck in water
for some fifteen minutes, 10 almost a senseless
state. They we're little boy and little girl.
brother and sister. They can recOllecs moth
ing after the fearful crash, and being thrown
upon their heads. Their mother, father and
uncle perished, and Owen Doyle who saved
himself is their uncle. He saved himself BY
forcing bis way out Of window while the wa
ter vas rushing in. He remembers swimming
on 10 the ice; ana then lost eonseiousness.-
Jame Barton cannot tell how he got out Of the
the window. He recollects but a wild scream
being dashed against the ceiling Of the car,
half senseless and half drowned, be made n
last spring for q window. He was picked of a
cake Of ice few minutes afterwards senseless.
Doyle had his brother, sister-in-laS, two sou'
sins, and a cousins wife, and two nieces, all,
killed or wounded. And what with his own
injuries, the fearful excitement Of the scene be
had passed through, and the loss Of so many
near and dear 10 him, the poor fellow wander.
ed about almost bereft Of bis memory and bis
senses.
The escape OF Richardson, Mr.. Urquhart OF
the express, the mail conductor and the bag
gage master, was equally marvellous. When
the locomotive and tender went into the abyss
literally. the baggage car swung round apPar-
emily as it was going over, and broke loose
from the tender. The consequence was, it
struck on the ice 70 The left Of where the loco
motive disappeared, and slid, so strong was the
ice, a short distance. 1t tnever overturned; and
its three inmates, though thrown among trunks
and all sorts things, strange and happy to say,
escaped with but barely lrihing bruises.
TOUCHING SCENE.
A woman, who lives near the scene OF the
disaster. and who was first to witness it, gives
, some interesting particulars about the two chill
1 dren-the Doyles' who SO miraculously es'
leaned. She rushed down the bill to the cars
indeed the poor woman literally rolled down
for it was so steep and slippery she could moi
3 keep on her feet; and the first object that met
her attention was the poor little gIrl, about
r eight years Of age on a cake of ice. The lit
. lie thing said, 'oh, don't mind me, save my
brother and the poor little fellow was at the
4 top Of the windows, imploring some one to
s drag him out. The woman, though the ice
was broken for some distance round the car
= managed to reach him; and after resculng him
Is rushed.up the hill with one child in her arms
and got passenger who was himself badly
o wounded, to carry the girl on his back. Sh
f. put them to bed, and strange to say they &c
i, up with scarcely mark, 1t is difficult to cor
= ceive more melancholy spectacle, than
see these two children looking on the mangle
" remains of their mother, father, and nearly a
|. who we're dear to them.
i. RECOGNIZING THE DEAD.
Yesterday morning the wife of Mr.. Morle
arrived from St. Cathrines. to pick out o
Il many dead, his body. The scene was heart
!. rending as she passed from one dead body t
n another, all marking death with greater hOr
e rors by being more or less maugled' A
IL last one, even more distorted and mangIe
than the rest, was come to; and wild screar
but TOO we'll told her tale Of woe. And in
large storehouse, strewd with dead bodies; an
e with others going the rounds to make simi
H. ar heartrending discoveries, was she left +
D. kheel down and beTail her bereavement
in Whilst on one side OF the large building roy
III of bodies we're placed, as yet unrecognlzed
= and questions we're asked of every new come
t. il he knew or she knew any thing Of them,
at sob or moan would be heard iu anothe
re part indicating that some one had come tror
he a distance and found all Eer sad expectation
'h realized. Nor was the circumstance less han
- rowing, ofpassiug the stranger by, who f'
Sc from his home, and far from those that w'
g. dreaming of his return. there lay manglet
lis unrecognized, unwept victim Of a railroad d
nd aster. Here was evidently poor Ilish Il
us borer; his pipe was still in his hand; a smi
I'd played over bis kindly cOuntenanCe' Or
'e passed, yet another, and stall another, an
no one knew him. God emily knew the gri
that some would feel who did know him.
his Here again linger larger group. The
= are looking al the figure of woman. on
= beautiful. and though her hair lies tangled al
av wet and her face is distorted from the effec
Of drowning. she still chains that idle GROW
with a melancholy interest. Shs has ma
10 riage ring on her finger. Two lOckets are
- her breast; and Il broach is suspended by
T.. L.