New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-09
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS,
Narrow Escape Of 800 Passengers
HOW SOME ROADS ARE Built.
FROM The Chiodco Pres.

FROM The Chiedgo Pros
The down passenger train on the Chicago and ReA
lssnd R4ilrosd or Thursday morning was hssv,
one, oomprisirg FIVE well flied frst.clsss car rs,
courteous invi alton extended by Henry Fa-rarm
esq TO the General Assembly, Which body sdjourus{
Its session in this city on "wednesday silernoo1 lsa
reverend gentlemen thus compnentsd, who set on
in the highest spirits on Thursday morning fer tho
10 the Father Of Waters, scross the Prairie Sts,e.
Unless amid the STOW embargocs Of THE Win.er SEE
son, scarcely c0nld a more unprop.ous time have
been chosen. The whole territory .rsyersed BY IL
railroads of our State has been swept and drenchsd
and flooded for reriod exceeding by tbirtythree per
cent the duration Of the rains Of the time ard voysce
OF Patriarch Noah. We have had all ysr.ties of An
falls ard wind gust and the consequences ave be-,
generally expensive and disastrous 10 railroad
neD. Embsukments have beer washed and calveyts
washed away, bridges have become hoat-brfdges IN
eslity tracks have spread and vanished Little CUE.
streams have risen TO rushing rivers, and rivers eec
tie enough a. seine seasons nave become ravng ter
rents they have refused 20 be damned 10 preference,
their part little regarded perhaps, by our more
free.spoken railroad men) bridged and hsve TIM,
on all our thoroughisres visited much detention and
peru upon traveers and vast increase Of the rer
ersl repairs account on the books of the compsnie
The excursooists of the General Assembly, 10 j.t
such a concatenston of unpropitious circume!saces
metereoc gical and railroad, started out from our
city tor their trip to the Mississippi. The train lef
pa m. We referred yesterday to the accident which
brought their progress 10 stand still when near SsuA
gent correspondent furnishes US with toe incidents
more in detail. To-
TIE train bad made only moderate time, lowing 10
Injuries done to the track and at the spot where the
accident occurred running st tho rate Of httie
over fifteen miles an hour. Tae track suddenly gave
way beneath the engine, and the locomotive, tender
and baggsge-csr dashed down slight embapknent
into ditch partially filled with water. The first
passenger-csr plowed after it, aud the second w@
thrown over on the opposite side of the track. None
of the cars but the last, or fifth, remained on the
track, but only two were much broken
BY singular good fortune, no one in either OF the
cars was injured beyond the extent OF few bruises
On board there were "grave and gay" our General
Assembly friends ard party bound for ball. Tnen
was general confusion snd ruting OF such tine feath
ers as Glanced to be most exposed but nothing serious
TO some Of the through passengers, by singular
coincidence IL was their second accident OF the kind
between Toledo and the Mississippi they having been
on the wrecked Michigan Southern train on Wednes-
DAY lsst.
The passengers in the interim of waiting for train
to proceed on their journey seemingly by very gene
raj consent, assembled in prayer meeting st which
the Rev. DR.. Gridley presided, and remarks ard
prayers were made by the Rev. Messrs. Hoyt w. A.
Spencer, Garfield, Lucas aud Others. Says our cor.
respondent, Never did Old Hundred and Rockof
" Ages sound more sweet than when they told the
" praires gratitude to God for his deliveYanes
" from peril"