Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-07-19
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evening by which SIX persons were killed and
thirty-one wounded was sudden and terr:fc.-
The train, which left Jersey City at $50 P. NJ,
consisted Of locomotive, SIX passenger cars.
and baggage crate. There were about $50
person on the train. When running on down
grade and approaching place known as Shin
Hollow about SIX miles east Of Port JerVis at the
rate of IS to 40 miles per hour, the locomotive
struck broken rail, which it jumped, carrying
along the crate and four passenger cars. The
two rear cars were thrown from the track with
great force, and down a steep forty to fifty feet
embankment, the first car whi-h went off max
irg but turn and half over in its descent, while
tue rear car turned two or three times complete.
ly over, and was literally broken to fragments.
Six persons were killed outright, or died coon
after being extracted from the ruins The kill
ed were Mr.. Harvey Wood, Of Wellsburg, tt
oga county, Pa; young man named Schultz.
of Buffalo; Mr. G. W Robinson, of New York;
Mrs. Rsy. eolOred woman, from Binghamp.
ton; son of Mr.. Brown, of Tioga county,
sged years; and child of Mr.. r. P Turner,
OF New York. The killed, and the most serious
ly injured, were in the rear car. The dead were
bruised chiefly sbout the head and neck. The
most severely wounded were C. Barrett, Cleve-
land, thigh broken; ]. E. White, n Y; Col
Lay, New Orleans; E. W Gill, Fairfield county,
Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Brown. Tioga county, and
H. L. Bays, New York. i is stated that Mr..
White has since died
Mr.. Us. Page, of Cleveland, was passenger
in the first car that went down He says the train
was running at fnghtful speed. He had just
laid his head over against the side of the car
to try and sleep when sudden jolt was felt and
instantly the car went over and down the en-
bsnkmsnt. The seats were broken up, and
seats and sitters were hurled in mass towards
the back end of the car. The descent was
rocky, the windows were all shivered, and the
lights extinguished When the car stopped,
Mr. Page found himself on the top of the mass
OF seats and grOaning humanity, and reaching
up in the darkness soon drew himself out of
broken window. He halIooed for lights, and
went to work eItricating others from the ruins.
The scene was one of indescribable horror
The screams Of women, cries Of children, and
groans of the suffering, in the thick darkness,
were appalling. The train ran on some distance
after the disaster, and it was nearly half an hour
before It got back to the scene of distress and
lights were obtained That twenty or thirty
minutes Mr.. P. says seemed an age. Bonfres
were at once kindled with fragments of the
wrecks, all the wounded and dead were extri
Gated, conveyed up to the track, and placed in
the ears-the dead together, and those persons
most seriously hurt laid upon double seats
The sufferers begged constantly and piteously
for water, and as soon as possible il was brought
from spring below the preeipice to revive those
NhO were fainting from pain and the loss Of
blood. Mr. P, who was so lucky as to escape
with but very slight injury, though his sP,ctn-
cles, watch, and cane were broken, took charge
of 4 screaming young child for which he made
a bed with his shawl, and soon had the salts
faction of seeing it drop into quiet slumber,
evidence that its hurts we're not serious. Heat
tributes the disaster to the reckless speed of the
train.
Tie locomotive was sent to Port Jeryis, and
about midnight returned with i've physicians
and a number of citizens. Every attention
and care was afforded, and the wounded were
conveyed to the hotels of Port Jervis and made |
as comfortable as possible. The Times says
the spot where the accident occurred was the |
worst on the road at which car could leave |
the track On the LETT side, going from n. Y. |
is high, mountainous and rocky district, along
the side ofwhich the road is cut. On the right /
hand side, and but few feet from the track,
there is a steep embankment- 1t twas down this
the two cars were precipitated
The Rev E D. G. Prime, one of the editors
Of the n. Y Observer, was in the fourth car /
from the rear. We copy portion of his ae-
count of the catastrophe;
Among the injured, are Prof J. L. Peet, Vice
Principal Of the New York Institution for the
Deaf and Dumb, his wife and child, his wife's
sister and several deaf mutes. Mrs. Peet and
Miss Barry, deaf mute, were quite seriously
injured, but they are now doing well, and are
cut of all danger. One ofthe most heart rend-
ing incidents connected with this melancholy !
was the screaming of the deafmutes,
which could be heard at a long distance, and
which greatly aggravated the horror of the
scene.
To detail its incidents would be as impossible
Is to rehearse horrible dream. When reach
ID the car heard a familiar voice, and making ,
ny way towards It, stepped in the darkness up
1n dead man Iscon reached Prof Peet, and
Iound him supporting his wile's head. Both
we're ignorant Of what had become Of their babe,
u of any other member Of their party OF ten
heard child's voice on the other side Of the
ar, and rushing around towards it, asked one :
who had taken 1t up whose child it was. The
mother franlically exclaimed, ut is nv child" !
md pressed It 10 her heart as if afraid was !
bout to claim it soon found the child of my
riend, in the arms ofa person who was carrying :
up the embsnkment. The babe was only
lightly injured. Il was eseep on the seat e
Then the cars We thrown off the track, and no ,
me could tell where it was found. One deaf 5
mute was reported to be dead. and went, at the
equest of gentleman, to identify him, but he
cvived, and Is doing well :
During all the long hours that we were toll
ng to get the sufferers from under the ruins,
nd up the embankment TO the cars, parents
we're calling frantically for their children, and
hildren for their Paren's- One mother had her
cad child brought to her, another received her
wing babe with eestatic joy. Another beauti-
nj young mother. uninjured, / saw, by the Light 7
4 lamp, holding tenderly in her arms the :
nangled form of what was just before beauti-
ul child. One gentleman who was with me,
rho labOred without faltering from the first,
ave way at this sight and was overcome. He
ad helped to carry the dead and the wounded
p the embankment, but this was too much for
be strong heart Of a man to endure.
Mr. John Beals, son of the proprietor Of
he Boston Post, had rode for some distance in $
he rear car, standing up near the door. which
Tas open, to get a view of the country. The