Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-03-19

HORRIBLE ACCIDENT ON THE ToRoNro AND
HAMILTON RAILRoAp.-Siriy Persons Reported
RWct.--roRoNrU, Thursday, March l2th.-
The train whic lett Toronto this afternoon, for
Hamilton, ran of the track ut the Des Jardines
Canal, above Hamilton, precipitating the on
CINE, baggage car and two passenger cars into
tho water, and killing about sixty persons.-
SIml. Zimmerman is among the killed. Many
Of the bodies have not yet baen recovered
from the water.
LArER.--Toronto, Thursday, March 12-9
81 +. M.--rhe cars went over the bridge near
Hamilton. Locomotive and baggage cars
passed oyer safe. Two roar cars, with l2O pas
semgcrs, fell through. Between 80 and 80 pas
seugurs killed on the spot. Zimmerman, the
banker and contractor, killed. Mr.. Street, OF
the Falls, the millionaire, and his sister and
mother-in-liw, and Thomas @. Macklam, re-
ported killed.
\ The passengers who escaped death are more
I or less manSled, some of them fatally.
Tremendous excitement here about the accl'
dent. Parliament adjourned the moment it
/ heard oft. The passengers We're mostly Can
adams, Us the train was local between Toronto
/ and Hamilton but still there were several
Americans on board. The bridge is partly
broken down, and the cars lie ON the top ol
each other, having fallen about forty feet
Doctors are leaving to attend to the wounded.
N otbing has ever occurred in the shape OF an
accident here that has created such profound
grief and excitement
FURTHER Observation-Disclosures Marcl
I've learn the following particulars oithe
railroad accident at Hamilton, G. W., from
gentleman who left the scene of disaster TINS
morning. The accident occurred on the Great
Western Railway, at the bridge over the Des
turbines Canal, which is elevated some slSty
feet above the water. The bridge swings, and
it is supposed that tho train which passed FOL
the East short time before had sunk the
bridge so much that the locomotive OF tins TRAN
was UbstruCtgd by the abntment TO such ue'
gree that the passenger cars were raised VI
and thrown into the Canal.
The train was the local accommodation from
G0ron and Hamilton, and lett Toronto at fou
O'Clock yesterday afternoon. The number Of
passengers was estimated at from seventy-iivt
10 one hundred, of whom only fifteen were Ia
ken alive from the wreck, and of these live hav'
since died. The water in the canal is eighteel
feet deep and all those not Immediately KILLED
were drowned. Tho engine and tender VIII
the engineer and fireman, were pitched head
long into the canal, and are buried twenty fee
below the surface. The baggage car and tw'
passenger cars are completely shattered, an'
one Of the latter turned bottom side upward
, and nearly submerged.
When our informant arrived this morning
the parties were still busy in cxtricatinS III
bodies from the wreck liz an onthOuso nd
lOlhlllS tllG pldllVh ilthSU 'tI liAllllltOh1
0 nifty or sixty corpsGs OF men, women and chi
4 drcn were laid on one floor. No inquiry int
= the cause OF the accident had yet been held
Most Of the passengers were from Hamilton
r Toronto, and tho adjoining towns Samu'
I Zimmerman. Of Niagara FalS Isaac Buchai
i an, of Hamilton, Vice President of the road
Captain fwDhry, II popular cu,nmanderon Lak
i Ontario, are among the victims.
e Only one Of the lady passengers was savo'
y and She was considerably cut and hrnised.-
A Geriam lah, in the hind car, seeing the cot
" ductor hastily rctrcating to the back door, toe
\ alarm and followed lin, and he, the conduct
ii and two others were the only ones who @
x capped with thrilling injuries Mr.. G. }. BrydSe
De the Managing Director of the Great Mestei
IN Railway, and DR.. Mackllm and Mr.. Thom
At Street, Of Chippewa, were on the train, and !
il, though considerably injured, escaped WI
,, their lives. Tho following is list of the bod
n, recognized, up to this morning i-Donald ST
in art, Key. 4, Booker, the father of Mayor 30
OF kur; ErasInS W. Green and little girl, Il
daughter Of Mr.. j. H. Clark, all Of Toront
IN J,mts Cannon, AID Thomas Benson OF Pc
ne Hope; John Sharp, Doolbindari A, Gran
80 hlr. RnSsel. of the firm OF Mclcst, Merrell
,Ie Russell, OF Brantford Joseph Burr OF Chicag
nj and john c. Henderson, OF Hamilton. In o
he Of the Company's buildings lay the bodies
u sixteen men, two women and ono child, ana
!ot these but three were rec0gnized-Edwa
II Duflield, Rev. Dir. lIeisse and John Merely.
az The remains Of Mr.. Zimmerman will be tax
az TO his residence at Niagara Falls, this aitt
noon. lie was in the baggage caE ut tho til
OF tho accident.