Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-06-30
LATE NEWS.
GREAT TRAGEDY.
Terrible Disaster On tho South
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F ORTY LIVES LOST.
FULL PARTICULARS.

FOkTI LIVES LOST'
FULL PARTICULARS.
From the Chit ago ess and Trib1 me
The city was Mortified yesterday morn
ing with q report that an accident, attended
with unusual loss of life, had happened
near Mish wsukie, about 80 miles from this
city. to the Express train on the Southern
Michigan Road, which left the Depot in
Chicago. on Tuesday evening. at O'Clock,
n, with something near 100 passengers
in the five cars-two second class and three
first class cars-of which the train was
made up The runner was soon confirmed
by inquiry at the Office Of the Railroad
Company and within one hour every part
of the city had heard Of the great cataa
trophe. though nowhere was the fatality Of
tn. tragedy suspected. Report at fret
stated the number of killed ct so, then at
40. aud later at 80; but at this hour there
is no room to doubt that at least 60 human
beings have been sent home by the catas-
trophe Of which we speak. The town was
alive with excite ement, as several well
known citizens were on the train; but no
thing of a .efnite character except the
names of few Of the killed and few OF
the saved, was known until toward evening
when the following disI atch was received
South BEND, I>D June 2S-A little be-
fore midnight, the night express train from
Chicago to Toledo. W. en- between South
Bend and Mishawaka. passing over an en-
bankment spanning ravine, at the base of
which il cuivert, the emhankDent sud-
denly gave way, and the whole train was
preciptated into the deep ravine, which
was followed with perfect torrent of wa
ter
The engine was literally buried in the
opposite side of the ravine in quicksand and
mud. and tender. baggage and express car,
and two second class cars, were shattered
almost into kindling wood. and piled on the
top of the engine. The two fret class pas
senger cars followed. and were torn to
pieces and carried down the stream, while
the sleeping car, although making the leap
with the rest, was less in ured.
The stream is naturally but rivulet but
was swollen by the extraordinary rains of
the previous afternoon and evening. Flood
wood probab checked the culvert. con-
verting the embankment into q dam, and
the great weight Of water, with the concus
sion of the crossing train, caused the sad
calamitys
About $50 persons were on the train Of
the.. 60 have been taken from the ruins
dead, and so or 60 more are wounded, or
escaped unhurt; the rest not heard from,
as many of the dead were drowned in IN.
ravine 1t is feared that others not heard
from have lost their lives in the same man.
ner.
MIR. Bliss, the President of the road, ard
Mr. Hiram Sibley, one of the Directors.
were in tho sleeping car and escaped unin-
iured The engineer and fireman, both
named Chulp. of Laporte. were killed /;
Hartwell, Of Toledo. express man. ard Bah
bington. taggsgem master, were also killed,
in the baggsge-car. G. w. Smith, Road
master, killed. Mrs E. p. Gillett and child,
Stone Mills, N. Y. dEad-E. P. Gillett but
little hurt. W. H. GilIett, Cortland, New
York. missing.
The names of the dead is impossible to
obtain. The wounded are Fred Miller
Holmesville, Ind; E NJ Knapp. Hudson Wis
JR Gardner Jonesville. Mich Charles
Sherman, Boston Augustus White. Holmes
Vile, Ind VIM. Flannery, P Myer; P Quin
| c Anderson, v r Anderson, al Of Aims
worth, ILL., A D Piser. Chlcago;D P Rho
des, Cleavland Miss A Moore, Freeport
Mr. 4 Mrs AG Jury, Brooklyn. N Y; c
jackson. and Miss G M f der. Waukesha,
Wis. Oscar Waspeton. Rockford. III; Wall
worth, father and son, Adrian G Bennett
Adrian.
T. Mishan, Mich City, train boy. dead N
H Regan, wife and daughter, Rockford, II
lady badly hurt, daughter not yet found s
CR,se. Co dwster. slightly i'jured !; Jess
Dvling Louisville, Warren Co Pa slightly
VI Hawk, Charleston. Va slightly; G Ysrt
and wife, Otsego. Co N Y, eighty A Van
Sycke, wife and four children, Warren Co
O. he and one child badly hurt.
S II Arnold, Decster Co Iowa, badly hurt
W II " eller. Milwaukee eighty B O'Bri
en-. Chicago. slightly W N Conne,l. slight
", Mary Coat.. Youngston. o slightly Olm
stany. leg broken Miss D A Porter, Hud
son. Mich eighty.
The following are not hurt: Lewis Heller
Strasburg, Pa J Heck, Rome. Jones Co la
Il W TAFT. SusquehaGna Depot. } G Gard
ner, Chicago. Harry Grease. Philajelphla
NJ White, Dekslb III. S arnold, brother O
the wounded Arnold Calvin Hogan, Mil
waukee.
Cit,xensof south B md and Mishaw wska
turned out to assist the wounded and searcl
for the dead
One lady was carried down the stream
towsrds the liver. but lodged in . treetop
and heard several float by crying for hell
The Engineer had been running over tn
bridge from LAporte each way carefully
The train WAS not ronnilg faster than tel
or twenty miles per hour. The train goine
West had rae.ed over the smbankmsnt saf'
~ ct 8 SOP. n.
The U. 5 Exprees had over e30 1000 i
their cafe, which b oks to pieces by the col
lision. but the agent here has found most
it 10 the ruins.
One Of the through nail-bags vas foun'
near the river, two hundred ysrde from th
break whether others are lost connot b
told.
The ravine 10 about Is feet deep, an
Is to 100 feet wide. The night vas YER
uark, and there vas curve in the roa
lust before the smbaukmsut was reached
cAuss o. TnB pisAsfAA
At the SPOT where the disaster happenet
ANAL stream or 30. aneh" 10 erosaed ~ th
road, on % eabsakms,t - - % fsse
height Here, les shs passage ot the vats
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