New-York daily tribune., 1859-05-20

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the hghway y--rossing one mle "es' I" Jcioeo >'aoh'
abou. 10 O'Clock &. In in consequence oi encounterng
c,t,le mon the track. The bsggsgs car was thrown
off 6rs on the leit.hand side Of ;he track. The int
and second passenger cars were also hroTn of,
hs riob and ,he other on the lefthard aide and COM
nle,ely wrecked Both unnbled into the dtches each
,ripped Of IL top sides broken in, ard every seat in
one was broken and nearly every seat in the other
IN passing the cattle guard the cars tha; had been
displaced leaped the ditch knocking away the upper
norton Of the stone work, and were dragged some
ff,een rods before they vert over.
The third car was broken in in front The front trucks
were DISPLACED and when the train stopped this
car was partly poised upon the front truck, which was
thrown little past the middle. had my seat about the
middle OF this car on the lcf hand side. heard the
s;gnsl to brake the train: saw elk or seven head o.
cattle rush up the highway, and before we felt the
collision stone came bounding back and struck the
side Of the car near the widow where was sitting
/ had sufficient time to comprehend that there was
trouble ahead before the crash came looked ior-
vard and say the car next and in front OF the one
was in crumbe 10 pieces like brittle glass, so terrific
was the concussion. We were on straight, smooth
grade, and were probably going at the rate OF about
thirty.fve miles an hour.
stepped promptly out on the rlght-hand SIDE, ana
saw that there was plenty of work for those who had
been so fortunate as to escape injury. The ground
was strewn with the fragments OF the wreck, and dis
abled passengers in all drectionssome of the latter
still uueonscous and others alive to terrible agony
The first person | encountered was a German
woman. Her suffering were such that could do
little for her and some OF her own people soon came
TO her assistance Near her three other German
women ard two men badly bruised and bleeding.
The next person encountered quite unconscious.
/ procured water and batbed his face and temples,
and he revived little, so a. to be able to swallow
little water. Just then lady handed me a flask OF
wine, and gave him some, and placing cushion
under him, and leaving passenger to shield him
from the SUM- went forward 10 second the efforts In
progress in behalf Of others counted thirty more or
less injured Poor Clifford, the conductor, lay on the
left hand side of the car / had just left. The front
wheel Of the back truck WAS upon his neck when
found As raised myself from my work and cast
my eyes over the scene man came along, and IN
yawling, querulous tone, said: "Wel my cow,
worth forty dollars has been killed in this crape'
| thought, keep your cows out of the highway next
time could not but think that this mans penu-
riousness probably nearly equalled that of the Rail-
road managers, who, / understood, had but recently
dismissed the fagman at this crossing to save cx-
caboose was run up by locomotive from one Of
the two freight trains standing at the Jordan Sta
tion, and the wounded were carried cushions and
broken seats, ard carefully put on board and taken
TO the Station. As | walked up TO the Station the
wounded were all carried in before my arrival The
Jordan physicians citizens and ladies were on hand
promptly and at work to do all in their power to re-
Hcye The sufferers. On the arrival Of the special
train sent Np from Syracuse, other physicians came.
One passenger had broken shoulder, another IA
ladv) broken arm An old man had two ribs broken.
A man from Ohio, whose name understand to be
Sosson seemed to be suffering greatly from internal
injuries was left at the Globe Hotel in Syracuse, aud
Il was thought doubtful whether he could recover.
II is some comfort to know that those left at Syracuse
have at command such efficient medical men a. Ship
pen, Gator, Morgan and others. The Railroad Tele-
graph Company did good business in that depart
ment for while. l was surprised 10 find that even
the wounded We're charged IN iui Tor all their tc!e-
graphin. Some Of the incidents Of escape are worth
relating.
There were several nfant- on board, none of whom
were seriously injured. There were several little
girls who had only slight bruises. There was one gen.
,lcman on board with his little daughter, some Ave
years DID, they were inthe second car and the child
was standing the scat, looking ont Of the window
AS the Ger tpped, she eh Out oi 'ic "inuo" on 'no
ground and when the went over ii did not hit her,
and she jumped up, and in her fright clambered over
the fence and ran 10 the nearest house, where after
much searching, she was finally found. The father
was considerably bruised about the head, and for a
time stunned but had the pleasure Of seeing him
and his child ride away from the station in buggy.
When the whistle gave the alarm, Clifford, the
faithful conductor, in the first passenger car and
~ at spraDg to the rear PLATFORM and probably
met his death while applying the breaks-thus, as
always, doing his duty to the last. Had he been
passenger, the company would be liable to his widow
fer s., 900 But the courts say the employee
of the road takes the risk. VIII not the Directors do
voluntarily what the law would not compel them 10
do in consideration Of Giords long and faithful ser
vice We shall see. N. BUELL..
On Bcord the S,saM0 Laae Neistou "Wednesday EyeEus,
Msy Is, 1859.