The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-07-06

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Who can answer I Daily ara We reminded
that even in the midst Of life, We are in death.
A daily paper cannot be taken up, without
the reader finding the record Of some violent
death. By dissipation. by accident, avoidable
or unavoidable, or by the hand Of the assassin
are human beings hourly hurried, without g
word Of warning. from the estate Of life, to
that of death. i1'3-5't sr s...aj
In the reading Of the daily journals Of sew
eraI cities for the past ten days. the writer has
noticed the announcement Of fifteen deaths
from delirium tremens-and how many occur
ed unchronicIed, no one can say. ss
Within the limits Of q fortnight, i've human
monsters have been executed in the United
States for wife murder, and a still much larger
number arrested for this most unnatural and
diabolical crime. 7.sraysst ~ fs2 8.
One wife received poisoned Cruel from the
hands of her husband while she was prostfate
upon sick bed clergyman gave his wife
poison in draught Of wine, and third. and
most horrible murder Of all, was committed
npon wife who had jnst become mother,
for the purpose of receiving an Insurance. that
the unfortunate woman had upon her life 9as
Can the annals Of the darkest age, develop
a greater degree of devilishnesa than that
which nerved the arm to commit deeds like
these-and who that stands in the way Of an
other, in this desperate and depraved day.can,
with perfect security. say that bis life is safe.
At Cleveland only last week, . scheme was
brought to light-and defeatsd-for the blow
ing MP Of $l50.000 steamboat, that would
have involved without question, large loss Of
life.
During the past eighteen months. We cannot
reccollect Of the passing Of single week, with
out seeing accounts of the loss of life from
.ome kind Of champhene accident.
Only last week two men were killed within
fifty miles Of this place By railroad accident =
Both were young men of bright promiss--and
one was to have been married upon the Fourth
of July. In the twinkling of an eye they wers
hurled by an unforeseen power into the jaws o.
death. and passed the portal that man passes
but once. 4sol1~
But the last and greatest human-slaughtel
oecurred near South Bend. of which details
will be found in another column. fat
Upon night. as dark as Egypt. railwa,
train was speeding along with the velocity o
wind, bearing onward its precious freight of 81
hundred an fifty human souis-of sudden it
turious career was ended by leap into
chasm, caused by a powerful and overHowinl
commotion of the elements.
And then the scene-tongue cannot describ
it, nor pen tell Of ell its horrors-the darknes
Of the night, the crushing Of the cars, the rul
ming Of the water, the cries Of the dying, tt
shrieks and groans of injured and the livinI
How any survived that night of horror an
destruction il almost miraculous, and its mu
lerous details cannot be considered withoat
shudder.
Two.thifds of all upon the train were kill.
outright or fatally injured, and it would see
as if the construction Of the road should ha
been such o. to have prevented such an q
,.urence.
The Newspaper accounts differ somewh
as to the cause Of the accident, but the mt
probable supposition is. that the construct
" the road was defective. One account say
Inquiry as to whether blame is attachat
the Railroad Company for the accident
.,lts in finding two opinions. The people
,e neighborhood and some others acqnain,
i'm the locality considered the culvert {
,aIl. The officers of the Company said
was large enough. Whether it was too srn,