Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-05-20
The Accident on the Central
Road.

The Accident ON the Central
Road.
The wreck is thas described BY the Utica
Observer:
The passenger train was Of course
brought to dead stop. and the consequen-
ces we're terrific. The baggage car scraped
against the freight cars until one side of it
was torn completely off, but it tsucceeded in
passing the bridge. The first passenger
car, Immediately following, also cleared the
bridge, but was thrown off its trucks by
the coHcussion, and laid fat across the track.
The inside of the car was demolished, and
the passengers bruised, but by wonderful
good fortune, not one was killed or dan
gerously injured in the car. The second
car, which had not cleared the bridge, was
thrown by the conclusion of the track, and
went headlong into the stream, striking its
forward end directly againss the eastern
stone abutment of the bridge with full
momentum accompanying speed of forty
miles an hour! The forward part of the
car was chattered into splinters, and present.
ed the appearance Of having suffered from
an explosion of gunpowder. The condition
of the passengers in this car may be better
imagined than described. Many were kill
ed outright, and Others fatally injured
The scene is described as heart rending and
terrific to the last. The third car followed
the second, and ran directly on top of it,
striking the abutment the same way, and
meeting similar fate. The fourth car al
so ran of, and its forward end pitched into
the creek. The cars lie broken and piled
up on one another as high as the telegraph
ic wires, presenting scene such as the OIL
dest Railroad men declare they have never
before.
The Utica Herald says:
The Express tram was transformed in an
instant from scene of life to a charnel
house. 1t consisted of four passenge cars.
The first car crossed the bridge. The sec
ond struck against the abutment, its front
sinking and its rear rising. The third shot
under and into the second; and the fourth
still under and into the third, piling the
cars three high. The first car was COM
pletely shivered; not seat left into its
place, but all completely wrecked into
atoms. The other cars dovetailed one in
10 the other, in most disastrous commix-
ture.
INCIDENTS.
Mr.. Moore, of Rising Sun, Ind, was kill
ed by fracture of the skull, causing a
of the brain. He was insen-
sible. A gentleman who helped to take
lim from the car, informed our reporter
hat when he raised him he said "this man
5 dead" and Moore answered, "No, | am
lot dead.' These were the only words be
Uttered. He was identified by his bag
rage check. Three daguereotypes Of young
aides were found in his possession proba
lie tie likeneses of his daughters.
The corpse of Mr.. A. Moore has been
properly laid out. Mr.. Moore was man
pparently about fifty years of age, and as
le lies il the stiffness of death with almost
smile upon his countenance, as if in
uiet sleep, the heart sicknes when we think
f the suddenness of the catastrophe, and
he stunning effect which will be produced
pom his family when they learn their
bereavement.
Mr.. Bettman, Of Cincinnati, is very bad
Y injured about tie head and chest. One
f his arms is also fractured. There is a
robable chance that he will survive, al
hough terribly cut up. He was sitting by
be side of his son who was killed. He
7as on his way to Germany to place his
10Y with his grand father to be educated.
he agony of Mr.. Bettman while his son
Tas missing was intense. When it was
nnounced to him that the corpse had been
ound, the Father exclaimed, "For Gods
axe, bring in his body, let me see him
nee more"
Miss Wheeler was rescued by Mr.. Cox,
f Auburn, brother of Rev. DR.. Cox, Of
his city. Her escape without injury was
lmost miraculous. Miss Wheeler had no
scolIection of the accident from the time
f the shock until she found herself sitting
n the bridge. Her shawl was torn to at
ms.
The wife of Michael Broderick was COM
letely scalped, her head being quite cir
ed as an Indian would do with knife.
he was sitting beside her husband, and
,eir daug liter twelve years occupied
,at before them. When the crash came
[ichael says he missed both wife and
aughter at once. The latter he soon
und and rescued in few moments from
heap of fragments, apparently unhurt;
ut it took him longer to find his wife,
oody and bruised. He himself received
ardly scratch. His wife will probably
cover. They belong to Boston.
s. s. Horton, Binghampton, had his
lroat cut from ear to ear, as completely as
lough it was done with knife, and yet
e doctors say he may recover.
John Stryker, of Rome, was on the Ex-
'ess train, and in the car where the pas
myers suffered most, but escaped uninjur- ;
|. He states that he felt the first jar :
I'd knew that trouble was at hand. I'm 8
llsively he prostrated himself under the !,
ats, and fortunately came off with only :
me severe rents in his garments.
A lady passenger in the. Cincinnati ex- :
ess train, states when the bridge broke
e passenger cars were piled one upon =
e other, and il was necessary 10 pull the 7
ople out. When she reached terra firma 9
e first sight that met her vision was the
ad bodies of Two children of about five y