Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-03-19
rrightful Railroad Catastronho

AohoNTo, MARCH ia dreadful acc;do..
occurred on the Great Western Railroad ''u'
The train which left Toronto this afternoo
Tor Hamilton, ran off the bridge at tho 'on E"i
Jardine's Canal, above Hamilton precinit o.;" DeS
the engine, baggage car and two nasson'.s ns
cars into the water. The locomotive and sei hs
gage car passed over the bridge in safatv ls.
the two rear cars, containing one hundred IVY IVY
twenty passengers, fell through, and hetua"t anu
sixty and eighty persons are supposed to bora
been killed on the spot. Among the k;IIaS IIas
are eu
Samuel Zimmerman, the banker and 90,
tractor o eol-
Samuel Zimmerman was a nativa of D.
sylyanla, and some years ago went to Cansd"
and be, ONE contractor on some Of tho bua' a'
public works of the province. He amasseS
there large fortune.
MIR. Street, the millionaire of Niagara Falls
together with his sister and mother iD.law
Many OF the bodies have not vet been 70
ken from the water, and the names of but sa.
have been ascertained. The passengers uL"
escaped death are oil more or less manoled
Most OF them are injured beyond reeoyprv
The doctors are leaving Toronto to attend tho
wounded '
The passengers were nearly all Cauadians
as the train was running between Toronto ond
Hamilton, yet there were several Americans IN
the cars. :"
The bridge partially broke down and t,o
cars, one on top of the other fell a distance If
at least forty feet
The excitement caused by this terrible 10
tastrophe is beyond precedent. Parliamen,
adjourned the moment it heard of the acci'
dent. Nothing has heretofore occurred in tb;s
vicinity that has created such profound grief
SECOND DISPATCH
BUFFALO, March 13-We learn the follow.
ing particulars of the railroad accident at Ha.
milton, G. W., from gentleman who left the
scene OF disaster this morning. The accident
occurred on the Great Western Railway Of
at the bridge over the Des Jardines Canal
which is elevated some sixty feet above water
The bridge swings, and it is supposed that
the train which passed for the East short
time before, had sunk the bridge so much that
the locomotive of this train was obstructed bv
the abutment to such degree that the mas
senger cars were raised up and thrown into the
canal.
The train was the local accommodation from
clock yesterncon. The number of passengers
was estimated at from seventy five to one hun
dred, 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 kill.
ed were drowned
The engine and tender with the engineer
and fireman, were pitched headong into the
Canal, and are buried twenty feet below the
surface. The baggage car and two passenger
cars are completely shattered, and one of the
latter turned bottom side upwards and nearly
submerged
When our informant arrived this morning.
the parties were still busy in extricating the
bodies from the wreck. In al outhouSe ad-
joining the Station House at Hamilton, about
fifty or sixty corpses of men, women, and chill
dreu were laid one the floor No inquiry into
the cause of the accident had yet been had
Most of the passengers were from Hamilton,
To onto, and the adjoining towns SamL Zim-
norman, of Niagara Falls Isaac Buchanan,
of Hamilton, Eice-President of the Road, and
Captain Twohey, popular commander Oh
Lake Ontario, are among the victims
Only one of the lady passengers was saved,
and she was considerably cut and bruised 4
German lad, in the hind car, seeing the con-
ductor hastily retreating to the back door, took
alarm and followed him, and he, the conduc-
tor, and two others were the only ones who
escaped with trifling injuries. Mr.. c. J. Bird,
ges, the Managing Director of the Great Wes-
| tern Railway, and DR. Mackem aud Mr..
Thomas Street, Of Chippewa, were on the
nd olt
capped with their lives.
The following is list of the bodies recog'
nized up to this morning. Donald Stuart,
Rev. A. Boaker, the father Of Mayor Boa
ker EraStus W. Green, and little girl, the
daughter of Mr. j. H. Clark all Of Toronto,
James Cannon and Thos Benson, OF Port
Hope John Sharp, Bookbinder A. Grant,
Mr.. Russell, of the firm of Mellest, MerrelI
& Russell of Brantford Joseph Barr OF Chl-
cago, and John c. Henderson of Hamilton,
In one of the Company's buildings lay the
bodies of sixteen men, two women and ODG
child, and of these but three were recogn2eu
Edward Duffield, Rev. DR.. HelSsee ana JaU,
Morley. The remains of Mr.. Zimmerman VIII
be taken to his residence at Niagara Falls lns
afternoon. He was in the baggage car al 'Nc
time of the accident.
From the Rochester Democrat of Saturday mofnns'
Mr. Simeon Sinsebough of Ithaca, .ho
came direct from Hamilton yesterday aileL
noon, saw the body of the engineer extrcat
ed from the water before he left As many
as seventy persons were believed to be klllsu
at this terrible casualty. The most intense "a
citement prevailed at Hamilton and other Pa,
ces in Canada, some one or more persons ifom
the towns along the road having been nuns ls
bered among the dead. Beside the neWspaPe'
vender, whose name is given elsewhere we Ab taL.
not learn that any one from this city or ntlsn,
borhood was among the unfortunate paSs'l'
gers. .,-
A gentleman who was at the scene yeo~.
day morning, says passengers from the neo
crossed on the ice and took cars on TINS SaoU, w.
tho hridra WaSterp-honnd messengers Ga'e