Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1859-06-30
Terrible Rail Road Disaster.
Forty Lives Lost and Sixty Woundedll

Forty Lives Lost and Sixty wounde dls
The sad intelligence as brought to us
this morning that terrible Rail Road &C
cident had occurred between South Bend
and Mishawaka last night. The principal
Editor. accompanied by Mr.. Holmes from
this office, and other citizens, went to the
scene of the disaster by the first train going
east. Mr.. Root sends us by telegraph the
following particulars: .sek
South BEND, June %.
| A little before midnight the night ex-
press from Chicago to- Tol edo, when be-
tween South Bend and Mishawaka passing
over an embankment spanning a ravine,
at the base of which was culyert, the en-
bankment suddenly gave way and the
whole train was precipitated into the ra-
vine. which. Was flled~with a perfect tor
rent OF water. The engine was literally
buried in the opposite side of the ravine in
quicksand and mud, and the tender, bag
gage and express cars and two second
class cars were shattered almost into kind
ling wood and piled on top of the engine.
Two first class passenger cars followed and
were torn to pieces and carried down the
stream, while the sleeping ear, although
making the leap. with the rest, was less in
jured. The stream is naturally but riv-
ulet, was swollen by the extraordinary rains
Of the previous afternoon and evening"
Flood wood probably checked the culvert
converting the embankment into dam,
and the great weight Of water with the
conclusion of the crossing train, caused
the sad catastrophe. About 100 persons
were ON the train, of these 80 have been
taken from the ruins dead, and so or GO
more are wounded or escaped hurt. The
rest not heard from. AS many OF the dead
were drowned in the ravinc. it is feared
that others not heard from have lost their
lives in. the same manner. -.
Mr. Bliss the President Of the road AMI
Mr.. Sibby one Of the Directors were i i the
sleeping car and escaped uninjurcl; the
Engineer and fireman both named Chulip
of Laporte, were killed at their posts
fartwell ofTole,lo. Expressman. and Bah
bington, Baggage Master, were also; killed
in the baggage car; G.. w. Smith, Road
Master, killed: Mrs. L. p, .Gillett and child
of Stone Mills n. Y. dead. E. n. Gilleti
but little hurt; VIII. Gillett Cortland y
Y. missing Names of the dead impossi
Die to obtain, the wounded arc Frc,l Miller,
Holmesrillc Ind; III. ID. Knapp Hudson
Wis; Miss Hattie Knapp Auburn, n. Y;
Sherman, Boston; Aug, White. Holmes.
vile. Ind; VIM. FTannery. p. Myer. p
Quinn, {. Anderson, w. r. Anderson
all Of Ainsworth. H.: A. ID. Pisen. Chi
cage; ID. p. Rhodes, Cleveland; Miss a
Moore, Freeport; Mr.. Il Mrs. A. J, lnry,
Brooklyn NY: G. Jackson and Mrs. VI
G. Elder, Waukshaw Wis; Oscar War
perton Rockford. H.; Waliworth father
and son, Adrian; G.. Bennett, Adrian
Thos. Mclean Michigan City. train boy.
dead; NJ Ii. Regain, Lady and Daughter
Rockford H., lady badly hurt daughter moi
yet found, s c. Rose, Coldwater, Mich,
slightly injured; Jesse Aging. Louisville,
Warren Co.. Pa. slightly injured; Wells
j. Hawk. Charleston, Va, slightly injured
a. Vansire. wife and four children, War
rem CO.. he and one child. badly hurt, Ste
phen II. Arnold. Decatur. Iowa. badly in
jured; w. III. Wellan, Milwaukee. slight
| ly injured; b. o. Brien, Chicago, slightly
injured; NJ. w. Convict, slightly injured;
Mary Coats. Youngston O.. slightly ipjur-
ell; Samuel Akin, Belleville, slightly IN
lurel Olmsteal. brakeman. leg broken
Miss ID. y. Porter, HUDSON, Mich, slight,
ly injured.
The following escaped unllurt:
- Lewis Hester, Shrewsbury, Pa; Johr
lIerrick, Rome. Jones Co., Iowa; II. w
TAFT, Susquchannah depot, Pa; Gurle,
A.llison, Vermont; J. X Gardner, Chi
cago; Henry Crease. Philadelphia; NJ
White, DeKalb. III; S. Arnold, brothe
of the wounded Araold; Calvin Hazan
Milwaukee. ....sg, i.-. .saa
One Lady was carried down the STREAM
towards the River but lodged in tree TOT
and hesrd several float by crying for help
Fig n,er1 hal been runaing over th'
bridge from aaporie East very carefully,
but supposed the embankment safe. Th
train was not running faster than 10 or /:
twelve miles an hour. The train goin,
ives. had passed over the enibanklnen
safely at 8 l-2 p. 81. eofla.F. -
The United States Express hal owe
$50 900, in their safe, which was broker
to pieces by the collision. bnt the agen
there has found most Of it in the ruins
One of the'through mail bags was foun'
near the, river, two hundred yar,ls frou
the wreck. Whether others. are lost can
not be told. The ravine is about 20 fec
deep and Is to 100 feet wide.
F. Tho night was very dark anil a curve il
she road Just before the embankment wa
| reached, Gsgood, Conductor. was but lit
f1a ,,,,,raJ y.~,.ta nj. ~.