Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-03-25
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) By the poiiteness Of Nr O. B. Parsons Of shi
) lefty. and Of Mr. Kinks, We have Canada paper
giving full particulars of the great accident 1,
! the De.jardin Canal The following notice oi
j il Is from the Toronto Globe Of the 18th:
IL ASnationai calamity may fairly be saidto have
i befallen MS. Men who have stood in the fore
Emost rank have been taken from amongst U.s.
The brain wanders, and the pen almost refuses
to do its accustomed duty, when attempting 70
q describe the heartrending scene We have Wit
Il messed. 81 M "
I The train from Toronto, due at Hamilton ats
/: quarter 70 p. M, had come from Toronto, and
4 was proceeding At moderate rate of speed to
4 pass the swing bridge across the Desjardin 0a-s
NAL when the accident occurred. Those at a
i distance may not know that cutting has been
made, as an outlet to this canal, through the
Burlington Heights. and that the Railroad cross-
Ecs it by a swing bridge 40 feet above the level
1 Of the canal At present, OF course, the ws,er
below is covered with ice about two feet thick. /
Just before the train reached the bridge the
engine ran of the track, owing, il is supposed,
| to some defect in the axle. This is founded on
the observation Of some marks on the road Tor /
some distance on the west side Of the spot |
| where the accident occurred The immense
weight of the engine cutting through the timber
Of the bridge produced the effect naturally to be
expected, The whole structure gave way and
with one fnghtful crash the engine, tender and
two first class passenger cars broke through the
severed frame work and leaped headlong into
the yawning abyss below! The engine and ten
der crushed at once through the ice; and the
baggage car striking the corner Of the tender in
the act of falling, was thrown to one side some
ten yards from the engine; the first passenger
car rushed after, and turning as it descended, +
fell on its roof breaking partly through the ice.
The last car fell endways, and strange to say re-
mained in that position. ts1s - .
+ Theloss Of life was Of course fnghtful; there f
were more than one hundred passengers on the
train, and the list Of those who escaped number
about twenty, as far as we can yet learn s9@
Immediate assistance was had from the differ.
ent shops and persons engaged on the works Ii
All that were in the last car, we're taken out
mostly wounded, and, we are sorry to say,
too many dead A hole was cut in the bottomj =
of the car, which lay across the canal, and the !
bodies taken from it as rapidly as possible; but
this could not be otherwise than a slow opera.
ton, when it is considered how intensely cold !
the water is at this season of the year. and that 4
The depth was sufficient to hide an engine, tender g
and baggage car from view. ~ tss Il n
The Hamilton Spectator ofthe 18th, says: :
Gloom, deep dark and melancholy still shrouds q
duu TIE Ou Scchteu II
20 have gathered intensity, five may Judge from Z
she eagerness with which additional particulars &
of the calamitous disaster were sought after. II
From morning till night it was the all absorbing n
,opio everywhere, and the same deep feeling of
sorrow prevailed, business scarcely being tho't e
II amid the general gloom. The sympathy q
grows stronger, and many an eye unused to z
weeping has been wet with tears in lamenting te
he sad fate of SO many victims of this sore dis d
ster. ' SO @#s ea,d a I'm :,
We have labored night and day to supply the !,
lemand for our different issues since the mo. Y
nent of the disaster, although borne down th :;
he general sympathy for the honored dead-a a
ympathy SO deep that it has almost unnamed n
is, and rendered US unfit for the duties of our a.
alling and even now the pen reluctantly con- bt
ents to perform its accustomed office.-Wh hen IN
contemplating the sad, mclan choy results offhe ~
earful plunge made by that i'll starred train in "a
Q yawning abyss OF some sixty feet beneath or
he level OF the now dilapdated bridge, the head III
eels and the brain maddens at the thought that or
contained at least an hundred human beings, vi
ome-aye many-of whom we have since rec. 10
gnized in death as "old familiar faces" The Oh
est the noblest, the fairest and the most be- ac
oved were there The cool, calculating man of
he world, the experienced and long tried nlera 10
hant the volatile YOUTH the pious man of God, -
nd the learned, the rich, the gay, the poor all Al
ere Unfortunately mingled together in the 90
acrifice! What pen can0ortray or what mind a,
an form any thing like an adequate conception 8
the ruin and desolation of that dreadful scene?
: is beyond the power OF human ingenuity to Ia,
epict so deplorable, and heart-rending sight vi
> was witnessed on Thursday night. The bodies a
ave all been recovered, at least 90 far as is ti1
nown, and it now only remains to perform for
le dead the last rites OF sepulture. 1t was in s;s
eco sorrowing sight to behold on Saturday fo
corning the disposal Of the Recognized, odies of -
lose from distance. Many were coffined and NJ,
sspasneu ~ .ne., lIenus oy tra'n uurns ,ne pc
lie passtr BY looked on those cofins and read ~,
,e inscription on each; not the inscription he
hich told the date of death and age Of deceas- N,
], but the address of the party TO whom thev NJ;
ere to be sent. Verify, this is city of mourn 20