American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-11-25
An Escaped Locom olive.
"of all tho words by tongue or pen,
The SWEETEST are, IL might have been. ;

The SWEETEST are, il light have 6sen.'i
Between five and six yesterday morn
ing 19'h) two passenger locomotives 20
ing opposite directions ON the Little Miami
Road. came in collision near the turn .iabl-
a mile or so scove The Front street D. poi
The engineers saw each other iniime TO re-
verse, and one or both sprang to the ground
in anticipation Of the shock, which, how.
ever Was not great. as neither was encum-
bered Y the momentum Of train. But
the force Of the collision jerked the throt-
tie valve Of the u pward eng ne wide open.
and before the engineer could regain his
| footing, it leaped backward with fearful
bound and disappeared. city ward, in the
thick log! horror seized the men gather.
ed at,tbe spot. for the eseapsd Monster
was FREQ up for the Express run to Chilli
cothe. and rosring under full head Of
steam;- rightin its path q mil4 fellow
were hundred passengers settled on their
cushioned seats 10 tie Columbus Express,
soon TO leave the Depot. and beyond these
an unbalanced city Of two hundred thou.
sand souls!! j ls.-
1t was all with God. No power could
follow after, and the doomed people were
hardly warned by the trembling ground
and the c'ank of insane machinery, before
ths Visitation was upon th,m -.
Fortunately, should we not say Provi
deiitially. switch under the arch of the
depot that should have been open 10 the
outgoing train. had been left shut bv a
negligent wstchman. and The fiery iron
comet going now at seventy miles an hour
swept thorough The building, almost singing
the faces OF the horror stricken subjects o
sPassover in the crowded passenger cars on
tho parallel track-on, right on, through
the Eastern wall OF the depot, and now
leaving the track. out upon the city! For
iurately. again the direction of the engine
was aside from the crowded street, and LED
straight into one oi thobe lnge piles o
sfon, coal, that all this season Bill III. yard,
of our fuel merchants, Inio this nearly
fifty feet from the Derot-lhe ergine sail.
ed, absolutely without touching the inter
mediate ground, Hare ii buried itself and
wallowed its own wreck until 6res had
gone down and its steam quite spent g
People in Newport beard the unusual
noise made by the claug Of the flying en-.
ginp, and came over on the ferry baot tc
learn the cause.
| TIE Ticket Agent Of the Little Miami
in attempting to describe the appearance
Of the locomotive as it came through the
depot, uses the most expressive paradox
Il saw a sudden noise go by, and all was
still again!' 81 er1E va
The exact circumstances Of the collision
are not easily learned The Little Miami
Locomotive. Jno Kugler, was backing
down from fendleton s. op to take out tht
6 A, NJ. Express, and the Washington
WAS going upto Il Turnpike switch for
The cars Of the Marietta Exp ess that fol-
lowed tie Columbus.lraln with an interval
OF fifteen minutes. The Kugermay have
been in advance OF tstime, as il should
have left he shops-thr,e miles above the
depo,-at $50, and the majority CT the
testimony makes the time of collision 5:23
TO $50, On the other hand. itwssincum.
bent on the Marietta engineer to keep oil,
OF the Kulger's way, and noreov, r, the
apparent lorce OF the collision did not JUS
tfy him in jumping from his engine. But
it is not true that the latter gave his ma
chine "steam" after he reversed. nor that
he was inexperienced on locomotive. He
| Waterman was the regular engineer Of
the yard, or switching engine. II is like
ly that both engines were going too fast,
considering the circumstances Of time; and
| the thick iog.-Cincinnati Commercial.
GENEROSITY --One great reason why
men practice generosity So little in the
world is, their finding so ltlle there: gen.
erosiIyis catching; and il so many escape
it. it il in degree from the same reason
that countrymen es ape The smallpox be,
cause they meet with no tne to give il