Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1857-03-18
FRIGETFUL RAILROAD AccIprmT
TRAIN PLUNGED INFO 4 RIVER
SIXTY OR EIGHTY PERSONS killer
ToRoNTo, March -

The train which left this city this afternoon
for Hamilton, ran off the bridge over the De.
Jardihe Canal, above Hamilton, precEitatiug
tue engine, baggage car. and two passenger
cars into the water. The locomotive and bag-
gage car passed over the bridge in safety, bus
the two rear cars. containing one hundred and
twenty passengers fell through. Between
nifty and sixty passengers are supposed to have
peen kiiled upon the spot. Among the kil-
led are /: -.
Samuel Zimmerman the well know. bapl-
er and contractor. He was a native of Penn
sylvania.
Dir. Street, millionaire of Niagara Falls
together with his sister and mother in-lay.
Thomas Z. Macklam is also reported ss Kill
led.
ihe passengers who escaped death are ali
more or less mangled, and most are iuiufcd
oeyoad all hopes Of recovery. The doctors
are leaving Torouto and Hamilton to render
services to the wounded. There are several
Americans among the wounded
The bridge is partially broken down. The
cars tell one on the top OF the other q distancs
of forty feet
The excitement caused by this terrible ca
tastrophe is beyond precedent 6
1he Parllament adjourned immediately on
learning the tidiHgs Nothing that has here
tofore occurred in this vicinity has created
such profound grief
SECOND DESPATCH
BUFFALO, March 13.-We learn the follow
ing particulars OF the railroad accident ut
Hamilton, G. w, from a gentleman who
left the scene of disaster this morning. Tn.
accident occurred on the Great w Western Rail-
way, a. the bridge over the D,s Jardipe.
Canal, which is elevated some sixty feet above
water. The bridge swings. and it is suppo-
SEQ that the train which passed for the East q
snort time before, had sunk the bridge SO
much that the locomotive of thi. train Wa,
obstrueted by the abutment TO such d, gree
that the passenger were raised I'd and
thrown into the canal.
The train the local accommodation
from Goron to Hamilton, aud left Toronto az
o'clock yesterday afternoon. The humber
OF passengers was estimated at from seventy
five to one hundred, of whom only fifteen
were taken alive FROM the wreck, and of these
five have since died. The water in the canal
is eighteen feet deep, and nearly all those not
immediately killed were drowned The Gu
CINE and tender with tue engineer aud fireman
were pitched A@adiong into the canal, aad are
buried twenty feet below the surface The
baggage car aud two passenger cars are com.
plcteiy shattered, aud Que of the latter turIsd
bottom side upwards and ,.early submerged
Vi hen our Informant arrived tbs i..,luiny
the parties we're stiu bus, ia, extric:,tiny the
bodies frem the wreck. In an clubhouse a,i-
Joining the Station Hause at Ilaniiison about
ATTY or sixty corpses Of ncu, wdncli aud chill
dren were lad en- one floor. \ inquiry into
the cause Of the accident had Yes been held
NOSt or the passengers Were from Hamilton.
Ioronto, and the adjoining towns. Samuel
Zimmerman. of Niagara Falls, ls,,ac Buchau-
an, OF Hamilton, Vice Presi Gu; OF the Road.
Captain Twohey. popular coamandcr ou
Lake Ontario, are among the victims.
Only one of the lady passengers was saved.
and she considerably cut ami bruised A
German lad. in the hind car, seeing the con-
ductor hastily retreatin. to the back door, took
alarm and followed him. and he, the conduo-
tor aud two others we've the only cues who CO.
| capped with trifling injuries C. D. Brvdy--.
the Managing Director of the Great VI estcru
halfway, Dr. Macklen and Thomas Street,
OF Chippewa, were on the train, and although
considerably injured, escaped with their lives
The following Is a list of the bodies recogni-
zed, up to this morning DoaaId Stuart
Rev. n Boaker, the father OF Mayor Boaker
Erastus W. Green, ard little girl. the
daughter of Mr.. j. H. Clark. all of Toronto
James Cannon and Thomas Benson of Port
Hope; John Sharp, Cookindcr A. Grant.
Mr. Russell. of the firm of Melest Merrcll
Russell. of Brantf,r,: Joseph Barr. Of
Chicago, and John e. Henderson, of iiainil-
ton. In one of the Company's buildings lay
the bodies of sixteen men, two women and
one child, and of these but three were recog-~
nized, d,-Edward Duffeld, Rev DIR. Heizse
aud John Morley The remains of Mr Zip,-
norman will be taken to his residence at Nj
agara Falls, this afternoon. He was in the
baggage car at the time of The accident.
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