Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-03-24


Il DREADFUL ACCIDENT ToRosro, Cana
da, March 13.-The Great Western r. X:
train, which left Toronto this afternoon for
Hamilton, ran off bridge above Hamilton;
precipitating the engine, baggage car, and
| two passenger cars into the water. The
locomotive and baggage car passed over
in safety, but two rear cars, containing
about one hundred and twenty passengers;
fell through. Between go and 80 persons
are supposed to be killed on the spot
Among the killed are Sam uel Zimmerman,
banker and contractor, Mr.. Street, million
aire, Of Niagara Falls, together with his
sister and mother-in-law. Th. G. Maeklin
is reported killed. s-s-
FURTHER PARTICULARS FROM AN EYE
WITNEss.--Our informant was at the scene
of the disaster, at 7 o'clock this morning
The place where the accident took place
| is short distance beyond Hamilton,
where two bridges Gloss the OellaDd Canal
at an elevation of about 60 feet above the
water When he arrived. parties were still
busy in extricating the dead bodies from
the wreck. There lay the shattered re-
mains of the baggage car and two passen
ger cars, the first on its side, and one of
the passenger cars turned completely bot
tom side upward and about two-thirds
submerged; the other lay near, also a COM
plete wreck While gazing on the sad
scene, the body of a woman was brought.
out--the legs drawn up and the arms e1-
tended rigid in death.
| In an out house adjoining the station.
house at Hamilton were about fifty or sixty
corpses laid out on the floor, men, women
and chldl4n No inquest had yet been
held. Most of the passengers were of
Hamilton, Toronto, and the adjoining
towns. Mr.. Zimmerman, Mr.. Buchanan,
| Vice President of the road, and Capt. Two
hey a popular commander on Lake Onta-
rio, were among the victims. Only ono
lady passenger was saved, and she with
considerable many cuts and bruises. y
German lad who was in the hind car, see
ing the conductor hastily retreatng to tho
back door, took alarm and followed, and
he with the conductor and two others,
were the only ones who escaped with tri-
fling injuries--tumbling out of the car just
as it made its final pitch into the deep
chasm.
But fifteen persons were taken alive
from the wreck, and of these five have
since died of their injuries. The number
of persons on the train is variously estima-
ted 1t from rs to 100.
The cause of the accident was undoubt-
edly owing to the engine having by some
means got off the track just as the train
was approaching the bridge under dimin-
ished speed; the wheels of The engine OF
course cutting off the ties of the bridge ~
it advanced till the whole weight Of the
engine and tender falling heavily parted
the string pieces, and pitched headlong
into the canal below, and is now buried
with the engineer and fireman, at least
twenty feet below the SUI rface.-Bufuio
| Commercial.
A Cool VILLAIN.--The Boston Troeel-
Ter SAYS that on Wednesday, last, Carter,
the murderer Of the late Warden, WAS ia
ken out Of his cell for the purpose of Civ
ing committee the opportunity to Judge
of his physical and men al condition. H0
was hand-cuffed, but taking piece of
spoon handle from under his sleeve he un-
locked his cuffs and liberated his hands rs
quickly as itcould have been done by ano-
ther with the proper key. The committee
expressing some astonishment by their
looks, Carter, with an oath coolly remarked,
''you don't suppose I'm fool enough to
sleep with them things on me, do you?"
E4- From a table lately compiled in
| England, we subtract the following: Of
| 1000 infants nursed by the mother, 300
die; of the same number nursed out, 500
die; Of children born alive, one-fourth die
before l ! months; ne-third before the 23d
month; half before the 9th year. Two
| thirds of mankind die before the 39th year:
three-fourths before their s. st year, and of
about 1900 only one survives whole
century
The HAVANA LOTTERY immense
,Nf E~, 81.
government an annual revenue of one mil
lion of dollars, in the shape of govern
ment dividend. The worst part of the case
is, that nearly four-fifths of the tickets arc
disposed of in this country. Thus, indi-
rectly do our people aid in upholdng the
miserable despotism of Spain.
A MIss1NG SHIP.-The ship Hungarian.
which left Liverpool for Philadelphia, has
now been out one hundred and thirty days.
without any news being heard of her. As
she has never been seen or spoken, she is
most probably lost. She had thirty-fve
passengers, besides officers and crew on
board.
FATAL A Acc1DENr.-On "Wednesday last.
about 1 / o'clock, Mr.. George Huff, while
engaged in digging gravel from bank.
on the farm of Mr.. James Boggs, in Pick
away township, was instantly killed by the
caving in of the bank. His skull was
fractured, one thigh was broken, and ho
was otherwise injured. irclepiUe Her
qld t- 'n.. .a ..Er.HH.t .t.i.
Col. Botkin. formerly of Ohio, but of
late years resident of Madison, Wiscon-
sin, and prominent, citizen of that State.
having been member of her Legislature
IN both branches, died suddenly on the 9Th
nst.. at San Prairin. of disease of the