Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-07-02

Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Ferry were in the sleep ,
ing car, and were somewhat injured, bot are anle
10 resume their Journey 70 Now York Mr. :
r. "a purse and child escaped unhuIt
j. N. Rnapp, Of Warrington City had eis
hand broken. Mr.. Knapp his wife and ehia
with him, the former was slightly ilureu oue
the child entirely eacaped MI *. lost abouV
I'M Kpabp, brother OF the above, Of Hud-
son, Wisconsin, somewhat bruised but not 80
! rously.
Miss X. Il. Knapp, Of New York city, injured
/ in the breast but is doing we'll She Is sis'ef
of the aforeuamed Knapps. -,
e. A. Gurley, Addigon, W, badly bfelseo
about his head, &c He will be well in lew
GAYS 80,
4. p Ellis and wife, Of Pennington, Name
both injured his wife badly. She may recover
! Mrs Parsons Of Eau Claire, Wis, IS pauy |
hurt, but is not considered dangerously SO
One Of the Tidswell family is badly injured |
| and can hardly recover Five Of this Ia mly
will thus be the victims Of this disaster, one
lad about ten years Of age, being the only
survisor This family were ON their way 70
Thompsonville ConBecticnt.
b SshaubS Of Chicago, pretty badly hurt ont
not considered dangerously so.
Mr. Lester, from Sturgis, Mich, on his way
home from Pixies Peak, badly bruised m us
breast Doubtful If he survives LIST c'n'
siderable sull Of money in sgold which he bro
with him from Pixies Peak.
A brakeman on the train, named Ornn Olm.
sted of Toledo, is badly hurt His arm ana
leg broken in two places. He will hardly re-
cover
, Mrs. WestcOtt and child, of Rochester, n
Y, slightly hurt.
|, Rev NJ. Washington, of Woodstock Illinois,
James Bragg. resdence unknown slightly
y Allied Wightman, Grant Co., WISCONSIN,
. slightly.
Mrs. Chester Cav, Otsego county n Y,
slightly.
and erysipelas had set in, aud he will probably
!, die Tie was employed on the road,
Patrick Owen, skull fractured. 1t had been
= trepanned, and he will perhaps recover
I, WIN. Harney, slightly injured.
w r. Anderson, nose badly cut
:, Oscar Compton, hurt in the side and on the
!, arms Says lac has 10 use of his arm. Re
T. sides in Rockford, III.
y Mrs E. Makashaw, lower limbs injured.
y Mrs NJ B. Streeter, Morris, ILL.,, side and
- head injured, butnot dangerously.
~ Mrs Mary j. Croats, Berry Hill, Irumbull
= Co, Ohio; hips and back injured Can stand
:. and walk, she had been TO Wisconsin for the
~ ~ benefit of her health, and was on her way
ii back
"a Laborer on the road badly hurt, but is Z
81 prospect ofrecovery. We could not learn hii
name.
MIR Goodsell, somewhat injured
u James Wbitehill. of North East, Penn
bo somewhat injured but was able to pursue In
as journey.
ao Mr. Morris and wife, of st. Paul; ON thei
AZ AZ way to New York, were slightly injured.
y Mr. Brown of Marathon, New York; iniu
ries slight.
:. There may be few more slightly injured
''' but probably not. OF the above list, three an
o.. perhaps four will not recover Every attentio
~ was being bestowed upon the victims by th
vi citizens of South Bend and MshawaRa. Hor
." George Bliss, the President of the Road, an
,,J Col. Ransom, one of the Directors, were ais
on the ground and have given orders that til
,.t Company will pay all the expenses incurre
supply every one with the necessary attendanc
o., clothing, &c, and in fact every thing that ma
~, - be needed will be supplied by the Company,
The following is the statement of Hon. Ge
~ Bliss, President Of the Road, who was on Il
-" train at the time of the accident:
w. GEO. BLIss's STATEMENT.
,, On the night of the 9th inst, very seve
~ rain storm OF several hours duration accumul
~" ted a large body of water in what Is usually
- dry gorge in summer, midway between Sout
~ Bend and Mishawaka, and carried away stoI
arch cuvert Of feet span, with an embanl
ment Of about twenty feet over it, between
- IL and IL 2 O'Clock. The night vel
Wv dark and the train came usual about Il
n, latter hour, contSining baggage car, an EN-
a. grant passenger car, one second class car, al
w., four first CLASS passenger cars, the last one
- which was a sleeping car-all tolerably We
- flled-and every belih in the sleeping car 0
cupied with unusual number OF women al
a. children. The whole train plunged into Il
49, gorge. The baggage, emigrant and second cla
& IL, 1 min and do
VI VI which were buried quite out OF sight in the sar
I|u' | and water Of the stream, now from three to S
Nv or eight feet deep, the foremost three of Il
first class cars fell further into the stream, al
ms not on top of each other, but partially on the
sides, and were entirely crushed. The slee
~, ing car fell inside of the others, right side
careenng a little, in three or four feet of waite
but was comparatively very little injured-t
"a' lamp in the room not being extinguished
None Of she passengers in this car were sci
ousy injured. There was over foot Of wat
800 in the bottom. The passengers from it we
got on shore very wet From the other ca
- many got on top of them, and were assisted
l., the shore, where bOnlres were built. Messe
'eu gers were dispatched to South Bend and Mish
waka, each about two miles distant and maj
soon arrived at the scene of disaster.
oln As to the cause of the accident so far as
an learn, it was entirely Proyidentiai, and u
A. av5idable. Usually there was little or no W
i''- ter uassing through the oulvert. The rain
M many hours was most profuse. The culvt
MS was examined at 10 O'Clock, and it readi
passed all the water. The track master al
seu bis station men were over the whole line duril
the storm, aud all was safe The track-mast
10" was on the engine, on his way home, and W
- killed 1t was an old rule Of the road that t
section men shall be on duty and pass over {
eeV' road during every storm, and examine all
h'y bridges and culveFts, at any hour of the day
night, and the Division Superintendent renew
4 uS this order within the last ten or twelve days
'ha- BY noon the next day after the accident the
was go little water in the brook that pers
could easily step over it
MAD As to the number of passengers on the ira
an it is impossible to ascertain with accuracy,
the conductor was so much bruised as to
,blo Obliged to 90 home on the first train. I
number Of dead bodies taken out of the wrt
NOT thus far has been 93, and two have since di
making the total 35.
anu TRuLY SAD CAsE--RDBBiNo THE DEAD.--i
James McNelly, of Toledo was one of the
capped at the Culvert Calamity. The BIZ
saws
Mr. McNELLY relates the sad case Of at
who with six young children, was on the ira
He FIRST found her in the wreck, crying for
in. six children, one Of whom, a boy about {
years of age, was before her and in eight, W
UNI his head severed and gone. Two others
not been removed from tho wreck to the bank, b
ly mangled. The mother was placed M
hurt them AS Mr., Men passed near the boys,