Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-10-20

IERRIBLE ACCIDENT ON THE New York
CENTRAL RAILRoAD.-A Train THro0n Ts0eas-
ty Feet Doom an Em6ankns,st.-A terrible ac-
cident occurred on the New York Central
Railroad, Wednesday evening, October 10Th,
about clock, near Beaver Meadow Brook,
six miles west of Syracuse The accident
was caused by the washing away of about so
feet of the embankment. The mail train,
consisting of one baggage car, mail car, and
four passenger cars, were all, excepting the
last car. thrown down an embankment of 20
feet. M
There were about sixty passengers aboard
the cars. One passenger, Miss Brown, of
Toronto, was drowned. Mr.. Bronson, of
New Britain, Conn, had his bowels torn out,
and died today at the Globe Hotel. About
twenty of the passengers were injured, six of
them seriously. The locomotive is perfect
wreck. The mail was burned, as was also all
the mail bags, save one, which was saved by
Mr.. McMasters, the mail agent, who came to
his senses only in time to save it.
The accident was the most disastrous that
has happened on the Central route for many
years. The cars were under full headway,
and as they approached Nine Mile Creek Sta
ton, between Warner Station and Syracuse,
the engine suddenly plunged off the track,
darting down into the creek some fifteen OF
twenty feet. The couplings apparently broke
instantly, as the first baggage car plunged
over right on top of the engine. This was
followed by the mail car and three passenger
cars, all of which took the fearful leap, one
after the other.
The cars were all well filled with passen-
gers, and the catastrophe was so sudden that
only one shock was heard above the noise of
the wheels, before 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 to 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 turned bottom up, and was found
to be on fire, having caught from the hot
stove. The first passenger car had turned on
one side, with the front part buried in the
waters of the creek, which had risen high in
consequence of heavy rains.
In this car, Miss Brown, of Toronto, daugh-
ter of Mr.. Brown, late of the Toronto Globe
was riding. After most of the passengers
had seen got out, one of the passengers search
ing found shawl, which he pulled out, dis
covering human being, and he then, with
the aid of others, dragged forth the body of
Miss Brown. She had been drowned in three
feet of water, and, from confusion on the
head, she had evidently been stunned by the
collision.
The second car was turned broadsde to the
train, and the third car ran through the centre
OF it, cutting it nearly in two.
The third car was all smashed to pieces
the passengers being in one mass. Here Mr..
Bronson, of New Britain, Conn, eat, and his
bowels were torn open by splinters of seats.
Some sllvers of mahogany were extracted from
his intestines by the doctors today. His en-
trails are literally cut TO piecemeal.
Fortunately the third car jumped SO high
that it went through the second car 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
complete destruction of the cars, it is miracu.
lous that out of 60 or 20 passengers, no more
were fatally injured.
There were several narrow escapes OF pas
sengers. Mr.. Ogsbury, of Jefferson, was in
the second car, and the whole wood work
not one foot above his head, was splintered to
atoms.