New-York daily tribune., 1859-07-02

hv ,b. living wsy Of .hc eulvert and en-
banhn ent plnne ed down full thirty feet ana ,ae sso
s.eopdcAs< cars fs Il or car h,e 20 one se.
II was I, arful Pile. No one IN the Sleeping car "a
l;lled had several c. n.nsions soOu. my 'ace az"
hody Nv wife !. hnrt sbou, a. much a. i am.
ISorE.-Mr Brett, when we encountered nm, was
on his wsy 10 The Milwaukee train He arrived on me
train which kf, IN the morning, at O'Clock fof rhe
Ts.t bu- which returned, arriving here a, 81. The
horror of the through which ne bad passed sesu
ed 20 have partially psralyzed BIS faculties lie ts'AeI
Of the affair BIKE az absen,-niuded mar speaking Oh
sJme Indifferent mai;eT.-Ep'l
sCrSTs Is CHICAGO.
Although the accident happened soon after midnight
nothing was known OF IL here until about clock IN
the 70. rnug when he Express Company received a
dispatch al nourcing the death OF rs messenger b'
when the news once got abroad u new Ike Ihe VIM,
and within an hour i. the theme Of Conversation at
ev.ry corner Of the streets. The different ohlces Oh
the cog pany were soon filed with anxious inqurers
who had fnends on the tram, each begging 70 De as
sured of their safety, hestaog to iDqlue me extent
of their loss Husbands whose wives snd children ah
In them in JOYOUS health and strength only few
hours ago; messengers from wives who sat with tren
bling hearts and palld hps, at home, throngei .he
passenger and general freight offices duriug al tne atef
nart Of the day In the latter elegraphic nsru-
mept and operator and the communications between
il ard the station neares. the horrd sceue were ire
ouent and, 10 the agouized bystanders, iuli
cf dreadful meaning. We saw many tarn
swsy from the operators hst, some win
sces II, up with hope and joy, and others struck with
heavy despair. One gentleman oi tins city had seht
IL wife tree children and sister eastward on the faia
night He was early Inquirer The oohging op,
orator dispatched message of inquiry ana nc s'oou
bv the instrument picture OF woe, waiting an an
~ In reply 10 question, he said ths, he had put
hi. family in IN. forward car. lie was told TO expect
he wort because the destruction OF lie IN that car
was fearful. He trem6led IKE 40 aspen ie1i sn1 'Io 10
W. a, of agony stood ike rain drops on ms brow In
r, ny 10 another question: he SAID that his ~ie wa
gong only a. tar ss Kalamazoo lie was ioiu Ihs'
Eaaps 700 was on the Michigan Central and that nis
precious once could not be involved IN TINS catastrophe
., aU. TIE relief came too suddenly. Tue reyulsloa
fnIIowed Ike waterfall, and the happy and thankiu
msn threw himself into chair ard Fept Ike cold.
roueh- bearced customer who related the incident 10
US Gays that he also cied as he witnessed 'he 'hIs
scene.
This is question which ought not nov TO De as
ous,ed. but with the Information At hanf we Judge
that this is one Of the accidents IN which the tropc
Tke tury of the storm is be charged with the ta
cor s.oueuces Doubtless the engineers OF the Coin,
pany were careful in the exercise OF the SKILL ana
constructed this part of the rosd under the oeef ha
they had guarded agains, accidents hike this when As
batpened Bu, day or two will enable Us to judge
more correctly. Our reporters on the grouhd VIII
make careful inquiry into the fscts.
Mr.. J. j. r. Rce of Laporte, Indians, who WAS
passeI ger the sleeping-ear OF me n-tatei trau'
arrived Yesterday at o'clock, at the Briggs House
but l.f Tor GAINESVILLE last evening. The following Is
the -
STATEMENT OF J. }. II. RICE, PASSENGER
He was in the sleeping ear at the time ot tne aeel-
dent, which occurred about midnight. lhe hrst ne
knew Of anything being the matter, was when the
water was rushing over the The lights were out,
ard nothing but an occasional fash OF lightning was
there To see by He Jumped from the cars, bu, instead
of landing on terra frma he eaped into the torrent,
but succeeded in making his way To eiump OF bushes
and got up the bank aiterward. lie heard great
deal of screaming while in the current ana AFTER ahd
ipy the cries of distress were awfdl There being no
Ecb
rushing wildly about the banks 0 the raylne IN ain
search Of their missing friends. lie says no one was
killed in the sleeping car, but one Old gentleman
iumped out AMI was drowned IN the current. MI
Rice says that OsgOod the conductOr seemed crazy:
he ran TO South Bend and to Mishwauka, and then
returned distance of eight miles, without his hat
He took charge of him, and brought him to the city AT
3. O'Clock yesterday.
One woman who was on the train with her husband
and five children, ran wildly about al night seeking
her family but without success, until morning, when
she found them all dead. She then went to a farm
house few yards of, where. after sitting few minutes
the wretched wife aud mother expired
Mr.. Rice says that a gentleman, with his wife and
two childreD was on pleasure trip to the East But
in the accident the parties became separated. The
bnsbaId found Of his young dead in the morn
ing; next he found his wife dead, but with her arms
closely embracing the other child who was saved.
Mr.. Pardee whose statement We give below, is from
BoouiDgto Ill. He was returning from the East TO
Lls home in the train next to the ilLfated one and
which left the scene Of the terrible disaster at IL
O'Clock Yesterday. He arrived there at o'clock in
the morning but the baggage had all 10 be carried
across from side Of the rayiDe to the other TO an
her train it was impossible to leave sooner Mr.
Pardee improved the interval of three hours in visiting
and examining the and the wreck, and in attend
ance upon the sick and wounded
STATEMENT OF THOMAS PARDEE.
At the time Of his leaving by the train thirty-one
bodies had been taken ont, and he understood that
two more cuverts had been carried away east Of the
one referred to- a. night, and by the same rain,
A. L. Ia haH
them. He calculated the chasm to be twenty feet
deep and fifty feet across. The masonry swept
off by the strong current. The embanknent around
the sonework fret washed out, and then followed
the masonry. He judged from the mark along tue
embarkment that the water had risen twelve feet but
when he left il was almost dry again.
TIE tank Of the engine, the sInOke-stack and few
splnters all that was dscernbe OF the wreck OF
the train. large force Of men were engaged IN pick
ing up the bodies, and many were excavating the
debris but considerable had been carried off by the
torrent. The culvert was said to be, by those who
knew, strong one, but not wide enough for the pur
pose and many had predicted that it would be washed
out by the embankment first beng carried off by the
wide and spreading aters in the event VI their rising
as has been the case
Some nine of Ii Q wounded passengers had been car
ried TO Mshwauka, and were laid out pallets
ranged in large in the hotel. Every was
bestowed upon them. The townspeople were particu-
lsIly assduous in their attentions to the sick, while
there four five doctors on hand minister
ing, asia as possioe 70 thelf wants Inc dead oodies
were picked up and laid out in the cars. with ,heets
covering their faces. The men had worked two hours
10 get out of the water. She was ofcourse
dead when recovered. The sleepingcar seemed to be
ubinured with the exception Of few broken windows.
II lay in diagonal direction from the track. The
CINE sbot forty feet distance from the west bank
OF the ravpe, by which conclude the train go
ing at a rapid rate The scene the banks of the
rayine Mr. Pardee say,, was truly awful, may
well suppose but he Gays the amount Of human misery
among tie wounded was terrible 10 behold. In the
Misbw wauka Hotel he saw. fine little boy about nine