The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1860-01-17
Rail Esoa} }Aeciaent-'TEarilii'Rs Scenes
anS Wonderful Escape.

We have asseady briefly mentioned that at one o
clock on ThuHday morning last accident happened
to a pass6nge train on the Pittsburs, Fort Wayne
and Chicago Rail Road, beyond Enon, By which
several passengers injured but, fortunately, none
killed Tic widow of the lac Scn9tor Linn, Of
Missouri, anddanghtcr, Judge Dc!alcd, of Memphis,
and dozen ,thers who were in the sleeping car,
were thrown7own an cmbankmcnt Of thirty feet, the
car turning Ger several tmcs-oncc over stake and
rider fence ittoo!i fire and burned up 4 passenger
furnishes thu Pittsburg Chronicle With the following
account of tle accident:
After stalg that the accident was occasioncl By a
broken rail;ld that the locomotive and baggage Car
passed over aiely, lie says 'Tlc passenger car first
meets the oblruction and is thrown ithe track. With
its load Of human life, it hurled and over down
steep cmbunEncnt on an adjacent fence. It's inmates
scramble ou-the fallen stoves set it on fire, and
abandoned o its fate, it is a bcacon-light to what
follows. Ita flames throw over the icc and snow q
lurid glare Iat is consumed, and the fence itself
is in flames IN iuGods Providence not single life
was lost I'VE witla few bruises only, the passcn-
gers csca pnJuccd The sleeping car last on
the tr.iipNwasby severe wrench severed from the
passenge6 SCarricds son with terrible velocity it
struck eepers on which the track is laid. 1t
wuvercd moment or two and suddenly leaning over
its impnlsedarrcd it forward. onward and onward
and over precipcc. Down the pTecp;ec it turned !;
leap after lc7 it took; crash after crash came broken
glass, falling ike rain among its occupants until jump.
lug over tic ence, the stopped with all its inmates
sixty feet iim tie fence, within field Crash was
only saccccrd by terror. 'Icp!" was cried but who
was there tohclp? Those who had escaped the tur-
ming car s1Ort distance in front lad gone on to the
shelter of tlr baggage car still the track with
very few exceptions. One Of thcm-not be invidous-
was Mr.. Gedge George, of Cincinnati He and some
others not aknown, returned to assist the terrified
passcngcs.A
Picture ia your minds eye that sleeping car-lalcr
OIL its side at that moment all Frustrated, The
lamps extinqishcd te smoke of The ovcrhrown stoves
filing and sSng the car adding 10 its gloom distrac
ton and dagger. The cry Of fire was raised and
followed hSe most terrible confusion, in the midst OF
LTD S$$2 Ts----v.s-l
7rtit yTie CIR wat nov filled Nyl smoke
While all ar H B was so dark that nothing whatever
could be distinguished. Tho passengers knew moi
where theJN were, Or the extent of the danger Al
length the floor was found and general rush for the
open air WIS made. Some few however remained be
lin ana asgstcd in rcscung the lad before rctrrct
to, AMI her mobile and courageous daughter. from t!c
perilons posi- lion.
IN ID" MeaEtimc other cries for assistance were heard
A young lad named Euren, Service. ONLY twelve year,
oi trfeli:hA with his widowed mother liads lcr ln
der Tie he'tfl stove baly injured and threatened viii
Immediate Path. Calmly. bat promptly, he drew hi:
coat sleeve ofer his hand and raising the fallen stove
rescued ll;s heightened parent from death. We'll may
she be pfoadfof that boy. She helped Of tho
car badly b nc, and her teeth Knocked out. Another
young lazy Was carried out with her collar bone bro
Ken matt rcss was spread upon the snow, on Which
she was laid, lani she was protected from the then
extreme cold BY covcrets hastily thrown out Of the
car y gentlemen Of Springfield, ILL.,, S. S. Whchnrst
Esq, was an14ng tho most active in doing good. liz
was cyetgwlre helping every ono. When the cx
cclnentsu Silet hc found himself with Il tiisocatct
shoulder, anSf Otherwise severely injured and othcl
passengers aIIo suffered much The lady Whose colIal
lone was brti;ea was Miss Loas,lalc an octrcss
No one WAS fi2t need cmi, add that tic injured
lady: hFst Spoken oi WIS the respected widow o
Senator L:li Of Missouri and tint noble hearted girl
her H';usAerI Mary i. Barr