Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-03-19
Dreadful Railroad. Accident
ToRoNTo, Friday, March 13.


\ dreadful accident occurred on the
Great Western Railroad, yesterday. The
train which left Toronto yesterday aft
ernocn for Hamilton and ran off the
bridge above Hamilton. The locomo-
tive and baggage car passed over the
bridge in safety, but the two rear cars,
containing one hundred and twenty
passengers, fell through. Between six
ty and eighty persons are supposed to
have been killed on the spot. Among
The killed are Mr.. Samuel Zimmerman,
banker and contractor, and Mr.. Street,
a millionaire of Niagara rs, t"oether
with his sister and mothcr-in-law.
Many bodies have not yet been tax
en- from the water, and the names Of but
a few have been asccrtaincd.
The passengers who escaped death are
more or less mangled, most ofwhom are
injured beyond recovery. Physicians
were leaving Toronto and Hamilton for
the scene of accident.
The bridge was partially broken down
and the cars are one on top of the other.
They fell the distance of fifty feet.
The excitement caused by this terri
bic catastrophe is beyond PRECEDENT
Parliament adjourned the moment tic
accident was known.
LATER
The disaster Of yesterday occurred to
the local accommodation train from this
city, bound to Hamilton, and contained
from se~vcnty-fve to one hundred pas
scngers.
Only fifteen were taken alive from
the wreck, and of these five have since
died.
The engineer and fireman were pitch
ed headlong into the canal.
The baggage car and the two passen-
ger cars that went through the bridge
are complete wrecks.
\ large number of men were engag-
cd to-day in extricating the dead from
the wreck. Fifty dead bodies, includ-
ing men, women and children, are laid
out on the floor of an clubhouse in the
many Of whom have been in
Identified.
Nineteen other bodies lie in one of the
c~ompany's buildings, only three o (which
nave been Unidentified.
The passengers all belonged to this
Hamilton and other towns, and in
many prominent and influential
nA- During Inauguration week all the
MOTEL and restaurant people doubled and
wen trebled their charges, and we were
informed by one that it is their usual hab-
it in regard to strangers, the prices being
only altered for their benefit. We heard
Of one party, who, after travelling the
whole town over for some place to sleep
in, found a cellar-room, for which the
I'D crone who owned it charged them
each for merely lodging in it one
night, and their breakfast had to be
elsewhere. Among other extor-
the hackmen demanded $50 for t
each carriage to go to the Inauguration
Ball!
THE BURDELL MURDER.-The New
York Herald of Friday says:
The Burdell case was resumed in the ,
Court yesterday. Mr.. Mary q
the clergyman, was further examin- Y
ID; also one of his servant girls, who !
Witnessed the marriage ceremony. She
'ully identified Mrs. Cunningham as one
If the couple married, but was not posi-
i've as to the identity of the Doctor. T
C
m+An extensive planter, who has a
examined a large number of
plantations in the parish of St. Mary's,
Ia, assures the New Orleans Bee that b
he prospect of the next sugar crop is y
naonifcent- and vas never fnor than NJ