New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-25
ANESCAPED LOCOMOTIVE.
A DESTRUCTION TURNED ASIDE.
OF al the MoTdr hY inngur or pen.

Tno .pcete.t are, ii might have been
Between > end . yesterday morning, two psssenger
locomotives going in opposite directions on the Lttlo
Miami Road came 10 collision near the turn-table,
ne or 70 above the Front street depot. The engi-
neers saw each other in time 10 "reverse,' and
both, spraDg TO the ground in anticipation of ths
shock which, however, not great, n neither was
incnmbered by the momentum of q train. But tho
force Of the collision jerked the throttle valve of tho
upward engine vide open, and before the engineer
could regain his footing, Il leapOd backward with Il
frightful bound and disappeared city-ward in tho
thick fog Horror seized the men gathered at tho
spot for the escaped monster fired up for the Es-
press run 10 ChicOthe, and roaring under a fa head
Of steam. Right in III path, mile belov, T.
hundred passengers settled their cushioned seats IN
the Columbus Express soon 10 leave the depot, and
beyond these an unalarmed city Of two hundred thou
II was 81 with God. No power could follow after.
and the doomed people were hardly warned By tho
trembling ground and the clank Of insane machinery,
before the visitation wss upon them,
Fortunately, should We not say proyidcntially g.
switch under the arch Of the depot that should have
been open to the outgoing train had been left shut by
Negligent wGtcbmaD, and the heryi iron comet, going
GOV at seventy miles an hour, swept through the
building, almost singing the faces Of the horror
stricken subjects Of a Passover in the cToxded pas-
seIger cars on the parallel track-on, right on,
through the eastern wall ot the depot and now, eay
ng the truck out npon the city! Fortunately, again
the direction Of the engine was aside from tho
crowded street, and led straight into Of ,ho-e
huge piles of stone coal that at this ill tho
yards OF our fue merchants. Into tlis-nearly fin feet
from the dep0tthe engine sailed absolutely withor \
touching the Intermediate ground. Here Il burr :
itself and waowcd in n. wreck until IL fires ha rC
gone down and its steam quite spent.
People IL Newport heard tie unusual no, made BY
the caLg OF the flying engine, ard came over on the
'erry boat "a learn the cause.
The Ticket Agent Of the Little Miami, in attempting
10 dercribe toe appearance of the locomotive it
cnrne through the depot, uses the most eHpressive
parodox, " ! saw q sudden noise 20 BY, and AL was
still again :"
The exact circumstances II the collision are not
easily learned The Little Miami locomotive John
h ler was backing down from Pendle;on Shop %
take out the 4. m eIpress, and the Washington
going up 10 the Turnpike switch for the ears of tho
Marietta express, that followed the Colum BUS train
With an interval Of fifteen minutes. The Kuger may
have been little IN advance Of its time, Il should
have leit tie ehOps-three miles above the depot-at
3.5O, end the majority of the testimony makes the
tne OF COLLISION 1:1 10 $50. On the other hand, IL
was ncnnb' nt on the Marietta engineer % keep out
of the hagers way and, moreover, the apparent
ioTce OF The collision did not justify him in jumping
rom hs engine But it il not true that the latter
gave his engine steam after he reversed, nor that
he was inexperienced On a locomotive. lie Water
man was the regular engineer Of the yard, or switch
lng engine. IL il likely that both engines were going
too fast siderng the circumstances OF ue and tho
thick fog. Cincinnati Commercial, 18th.