The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-07-22
THE ERIE RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Full Details by Mail.

VIA OttdAlS Wy MdiL
+ From the Nea0 York Times, Of July III
The most serious accident that has ev.
or occarred on the Erie Railroad hap
peued to the Express train (Which leaves
Jersey City at $50 p. ny on Thursday
six miles cast from Port Jeryis, at about
9 O'Clock, p. m. The train consisted of
Eiocomotiye, six passenger cars and one
baggage crate. There were about loo
persons on the train. They had just
stopped at Turner's corner, where passen
gers take tea, and then proceeded west
ward at the rate Of about 35 miles AMI
hour. On approaching place known as
"Shinn Hollow" where the road is straight.
with steep embankment, some forty feet
in depth, on ono side, the locomotive
struck broken rail, which it jumped,
carrying along the crate and the first four
passenger cars. The two rear cars, how
ever, we're thrown from the rail, and, af-
ter being drawn over the sleepers for
some distance, the coupling broke, which
connected these two cars with the rest OF
the train, and they were both thrown o.
yer the em bankment. The rear sar turn
ed two or three times completely over,
while the other made but one turn and
. half, remaining bottom up. The last
car was torn to fragments, one OF the
heavy iron tracks passing through the
bottom and crushing to death several OF
: those within. All the deaths occurred in
this car, whilo in this, as well as the 9TH
er, large nuuber we're seriously injured.
A number had their limbs broken, aud
; were pierced by splinters and frag-
: ments of the wreck. Six persons were
found to have been killed, viz: three men,
= : Que woman, (colored) and two children.
: Two or three were living last evening,
whose injuries are so serious that it is
= thought they cannot recover.
For over an hour scene of the widest
confusion prevailed around the spot. All
the lights having been extinguished, the
. surrounding darkness added to the bor-
ror of their situation. While some la
j bored indu>triou-ly to extricate those who
were buried beneath the wreck, others
piled PORTIONS of the fragments together
: and made bon6res to give light, aud 9TH
.ers brought water from spring near by,
= to revive those who were fainting from
. pain and the loss of blood. AS soon as
. possible after the full extent of the disas-
ter was known, the locomotive, with one
A car was despatched to Port Jervis to bring
: assistance, and in about an hour Ql3 p
;, u it returned, having from four TO five
\ physicians, with such medicines and res
toratives as we're at hand, and number
). of citizens, who promptly came down to
offer their assistance. BY this time all
the living, but injured persons, were pla-
ced in the remaining cars; those most Sc
riously hurt reclining upon double seats,
/, and the dead being laid in one one of the
= = cars together. The train reached Port
Jervis about midnight, but the news OF
the disaster had been circulated among
!. the citizens, who rose, lighted their hous-
= es, and made every arrangement to re-
: ceive and care for the wounded passen-
gers. The following is list of the killed
- and wounded, carefully prepared from the
y reports brought US FROM several quarters,
: and from statements of passengers which
i
8 our account of the statements published
;. below. 1t will be seen by the latest id.
> telligence from our reporters at Port Jer.
Wis, that the number of the injured is not
so great as given below, from which it is
to be hoped that several oftbem were less
). seriously hurt than was at first supposed
. List of the Dead and Wounded.
KILLED.
: l. Harvey Wood, Wellsborough, Tio-
ga Co., Pa,
j. 2. A. Robertson, New York City.
! 3. a child of Mr.. and Mrs. Turner
d No. $50 Ninth avenue, New York City.
q 4. A man, name unknown.
h 5. Mrs. Ray, (colored) Binghampton.
u 6. A child of Mrs. Brown, of Water.
d bury, Conn.
INJURED-AT THE FOWLER HOUSE PORT
d JERvIs.
i. l. Mrs. Turner. Ninth avenue, N. Y.
e Husband does business in Brooklyn.
t, 2. A child of Mrs. Turner, slightly in
e jured.
3. Charles J. Burdell, N. j., slightly
luJuTeu.
!, a. Morton Brown, Waterbury, Conn,
l. ankle broken
]. 5. William Norton, lawyer, No. 62
T. William street N. Y. bruised, not seriously
6. Col L. Lay, N. Orleans, ribs broken
1t 7. Wife of Col. Lay, slightly injured.
= 8. A child Of Col Lay. slightly injured
II 9. G. Barrett, Cleveland, Ohio, thigh
j. broken.
d 10. Adam Ray, (colored,) Biugbamp.
tou, N. Y, husband of Mrs Ray, who i.
l. killed.
IL. Mrs.Crosby, steuben county, N. Y
e slightly injured.
e u. Child Of Mrs. Crosby, do.
l3. Emil Haas, frm of e. Haas & Co.
/ No. 30 Broad St, N. Y, slightly injured
nl Ia Mr. Raknr RnHaln sli.LA ;n;.l