New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-03-23
awful RailrCad Accident Near Hamilton, {. ",
SEVERAL PERSONS KILLED AND MANI WOUNDED
TIL ENTIRE TRAIN DEMOLISHED.
STATEMENTS or PASSENGERS.

regard 10 the SHOCKING ulsa.leI Oh INC ule1~ " S'
Railroad on Saturday:
H,vuroy' G. W, March l9-IO:3O q. m.
SIR: / regret 10 have occasion 70 inform you inst
an accident attended with loss Of life o,curr t. tae
night express trsin gOlpg east, on TINS runway S'
about 3 O'Clock this morning.
The fearful storm Of l.st night had washed sEay
t. portion Of heavy bank betScen tiamooro and
DGndss ard INFO this chssm the engine ran, taking
with II the fret portion Il the tain.
The eneiDeman brakeman, and two or three o. the
pssseI gers were, regret to cay killed sni several
others more IT lees seriously injured.
The telegraph wires having been deranged by toe
storm, am unable 10 give the exact details OF t1s
distressing calamity, with the eNsc: n1nber OF tne
killed ana sounded but to alleviate fIt possible
the 1r1ety Of the friends Of travellers by that Hin,
ard for the information Of .he pubic hss'en TO COM
unicste all the particulars have been able 70 Cd
tain.
Ire following sre the names of the persons who
were killed a. lar as has been sscerianed:
Mr. Jones Boyer Of Ohio
Mr.. Alexander Brad Of hamilton.
G. Morgan, engine driver.
". Milne, brakeman.
There are some Of the Injured still al Copetown,
under medical treatment. As soon ss am 10 posses
SION If further and fGler particulars VIII communal
cate 10 you.
The night freigb.train west had passed over the
spot al which TINS sad ident occarrei IN perfect
safety less than bali an hour before the accident hap
pered 20 the night express.
'o' GU ''-' G ]. BRIDGES.
s,er dispatch states that two more deaths had
occurred.
TIE night train vest had passed over the line from
Hamilton 70 CopetoSn, meeting the night express,
east, az the latter place.
The inc was then in good condi ion. There w.s,
however, guaLtty al water damned up BET Seen the
track snd the mountain. This, il supposed, caused
the slide.
TIE chasm made by the washing away Of the lice
is AZ least rs long as three passenger cars and IRON
IL 10 20 feet deep. Into this the locomotive rushed
acOrg buryirg itself completely 10 the soil, and be-
coming, Of course absolute wreck. The baggage
car itl above and on the locomotive the first psssen-
ger car ran sant upon this the second passenger ear
sid under the upturpe end OF the first ant the thnd,
the sleeping car running to this, had Its coraer car
red away.
The scene presented vGs Of the most frightfll de-
scrption ana witnesses Of i represent ss isT more
horrible than even that a: the d sardos Bridge. The
furious equnoctal stOrmwas raging IN s its violence;
1t vas blowing hurricane; toe snow Was falling, DO,
in fakes ba, IN positive masses. The water, too, was
yet washing over TIE ridge of the mouUtIo, on whose
side the track il built and the difficulty OF succorng
the wounded or extracting the dead snd the living
was much increased,
The shock TO the passengers in al but the last car
WIS., very severe; in the lat or sleeping csr, WAS
hardly te owing, probably, TO it3 peculiar con't!nc-
ton Here II wac however, that ths late Supernten
dent Of the Locomotive Department OF the Rlusay
Mr.. Braid, unfortunately happened to be. lie was
not in The berths, but sitting IN the corner, neir tne
stOye chatting with Mr. Wilson aud another gentle
man Bolts end tmbers from the passenger ear IN
front EFT red the sleeping car, OILY WoundBg Nh VIII
son but killing Mr.. Braid instsI.y.
TIE debris OF the cara presents 80 confused mass of
absolute wreck 20 the eye tnat TumOr was for tne
in circulation that second class was attached -
the train, and buried under the whole. TINS IL
not the case, the officials OF the hoe INFORM us a.
though people im'gined they dlscernei portions
OF ID amid the ruins of the others.
TIE grester part of the killed and wounded wers
taken back ID Copetown. There was doctor on
board the rsr, who, with DR.. Mullen o. Copetosn,
is attending 10 those who not begord their skill
A humber were also brought TO Hamilton, whose
names are 6s folOws:
THE WOUNDED ~ HAMILTON, AT HENDERsONs,
IN CHARGE or Or. ROSEBUEGH.
Henry Post, Bofao, % years old, Les broken below
The knee: doing well.
WIN. W Smith, Kalamazoo, Michigan, head AMI
hand bruised; injuries rot serious.
+. ID. Adams wife and two children, Bltfalo. Mr.
A1aus mad bis right leg bruised, left nip crushed and
bruised: no bores broken. Mrs. 4. iyhuy bruised
about the heed; children very eighty injured.
(. u. Bryant, Pontiac, rio broken over the heart
Thomas Sacket, Nest Avon, Livingston County,
y. Y; slightly bruised.
Adam Wilson of this city wounded in the back and
brused in the face and head; nothing serious.
A. the Ango-Americsn HOte, in charge OF DIR.
j. II. Smith. Brighton. Livingston County, M,hi-
gan; s.th and seventh ibs broken, LEI. sidei severe
brusc on the hight knee slight bruises on other parts
of tie BODY. Recovery DOUBTFUL.
A, Mr Ladd's, John street, in charge OF Drs Rose
burgh srd Si!iIgs:
Hrsm Cook Of Cleveland late of this city. Severe
internal injuries; recovery doubtful
Columbus Ds.3er, Detroit, not much Injured and
gone
STATEMENT or 4 PASSENGER.
The Rochester Democrat Of Monday moEaing gives
these further particulars in the statement OF Pas-
seDger:
We s~e indebtsi 20 NJ. William Cox of Phi,iel-
pLiR who IVES passenger on the tram snd arrived
IN this city by the Neslork Express train 10 con-
psiy with Mrs. Geare, Mrs. Markham, and others Tor
tie following ssteueIt;
d" TIE accident occurred a. en- embaukmsnt on the
south SIDE of q mOlL4iD, between CopetoSn all Dun
Cas. About TIVE eve rods of the emb 3lsment 81 been
swept away by the food 20 the depth Of forty feet
was ~ the See pirg ear at the end of the trlic.
Tire fret irtima ion received OF DAGGER was tie
mer doue cr6 h, and N On Instant vas hurled ron
lny berth % the f1or, alghtins t5rtunstelJ on my
fet 18a T. the door % the car hnf out on the
platform WhsIe | obtained din yieS OF t1e c)nd!-
lion Of fa g. Tae zee ping vas sal, 90 the track,
but the trucks were torn of AID the body OF the car
YVES shout balanced on the verge OF the chssn, Tue
forward END being pitched dJEnssrr. AMI tue rear
end elevated about eight feet from the grOuGd. a
tie other cas- were IN the chssm. 20, down to the
ground ard win some other passengers sect f1r yard
10 see what had happened. The cars were piled up at
the bo;to D, IN teri bly, confused state.
" The engine which hsd OF course gone over irs',
was a. tie bottom, Ard buried so deeply in the sot.
eslth that there wss nothing visi'le of I except toe
tops OF the driving wheels. Toe teuier had passed
over the engine and appeared 10 be sp. in tgo that
the water tanks lay each eide OF II. The Baggage
csr cad gore completely over the -Ie and ten Ter,
aud lying against the opposite bank on IT'S side,
ald considerably br, ken Up. Aeains. and IN top Of
ruins Of the engine what appeared - oe the
Temsps Of mail or freight ear, could not tel. which
The first passenger lay with ia forward end smous
these runs. TIE second passenger car Egs driven
into std partially Trough TIE trst The hind end OF