The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-11-23
Terrible Accident On the Indiana
Central Es:isNvnyy

We have given the regular teIegraphic
dispatch to the Cincinnati papers, relative
to terrible railroad accident which hapoen.
ed on Friday morning at C1mbridge City.
Ind. We find in the Cincinnati Gazette a
letter from the scene of disaster giving more
/ full details.
The train, freight. with a number OF
cars was preclpitaed through the bridge
across the east fork of the Whitewater
! The locomotive and ten or twelve cars went
! through. The brakesman, John Green, and
Mr.. Larkin Newly, hog driver, of Lewis
vile, Henry Co., Ind, we're taken out dead,
literally mashed by falling barrels OF -four.
A. J. Smith, the conductor, and who former
ly ran passenger train, was horribly iniur.
ed, and died soon after he was taken out
from under the ruins. Jacob 8. Elliott, Of
Greensboro, Henry Co., Ind, hog drover,
has one leg broken. and his back severely
Injured. The engineer and firemen escaped
by Jumping from the engine. Two other
men are supposed to be buried under the
wreck. Elliott will probably recover. III
The bridge was being repqired, and the
workmen had taken up two rails on each
side in order to put in some new ties, but
they had not taken the precaution to fig the
station, which is about half mile from tho
bridge. The train was an extra through
freight train, and being we'll loaded. did not
stop at this station. The g. 81 Mail passen.
ger train had just passed, aad the hands not
supposing that any other train would pass
before the regular truin time, Immediately
engaged in taking up the bars; but, as be-
tore said, did not flag the station. The extra,
which had passed the passenger train at
Dublin-two miles from the scene of the
accident in at u high speed, and not
intending to stop at the station, kept up ,
speed, the engineer little thinking that des-
truction awaited them so near. The work
hands, discovering that the train did not stop
at the depot, as they had expected, ran as far
ss possible from the bridge with the signal,
but the train was under such speed that it
was impossible to stop. The engineer and
firemen saved their lives by jumping from
the train before it reached the bridge.
The scene at the place Of disaster is des-
cribed Us being deplorable. Hundreds Of
bnrrels of h)ur, with any quantity of live, as
well as dead hogs; the heap of broken care.
The disabled locomotive and tender, consti
tuted mass of confusion rarely witnessed.
ler'ng brought about by the calamity, when
we consider that among the ruins were those
who have either been summoned into eter.
nifty or crippled for lite. '.. ,',. -...
The loss will be very heavy on the Com
pany, aside from the prob, BILE amount that
will be required to pay damages for the
loss of life by the culpabe cnrelessness Of
some one in the employ Of the Company.--.
The water under the bridge is about four
ieet Deep and is literally filled with barrels
OF Hour which have been thrown from the
bridge a0d burst in the fall. About two
hundred had been wasted in that way.
This was done in order to get at the per.
sons under the barrels. Hogs, both dead
and alive, are piled one upon another lin
great quantities, while apples, corn, &C.,
ure scattered about in profuson. II now
looks like 0s If it will be sometime before
trains can pass the bridge Clevs. Herald.