The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-01-11
Railroad Accident and Wonderful Esca ne
Of the Passengers.

Railroad Accident and Wonderful Escape
Of the Passengers.
We have already briefly mentioned that a t
one O'Clock on Thursday morning last an nc.
cident happened to q passenger train on the
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad
beyond Enon, by which several passen gers
were injured, but fortunately none killed. A
passenger furnishes the Pittsburg Chronicle
with the following account of the accident:
After stating that the acciden was occasion.
cd by broken rail. and that the locomotive
aud baggage car passed over safely, he saws
"The passenger car first meets the obstruction.
and is thrown off the track. With its load of
human lite, it is hurried over and over down
steep embah hkment Oh an adjacent fence. Its
inmates scramble out-the fallen stove set it
on fire, and abandoned TO its fate 1t is bea.
con-light to what follows. Its flames throw
over the ice and snow lurid glare. That car
is consumed and the fence itself is on flames ;
but, in Gods Providence, not single life
was lost, and, save with few bruises
only, the passengers escaped uninured.-
The sleeping car, last on the train, was by a
severe wrench. severed from the passenger
car. Carried on with terrible velocity, it
struck the sleepers which the track is laid
1t wavered moment or two. and suddenly
leaning over, its impulses carried it forward
onward and onward, End over the precpice
Down the precipice it turned; leap after leap
it took crash after crash came broken glass
falling like rain among its occupants, until
jumping over the fence, the car stopped with
all its inmates, sixty feet from the fence, with
in field. Crash was only succeeded by ter
ror. "Helpt' was cried, but who was there
to help. Those who had escaped the burn
ing car short distance in 'front.' had gone on
TO the shelter of the baggage car, still on the
track, with Il very few exceptions Que of
them-not TO be invidiOus-was Mr.. George
George, of Cincinnati He, and some others
not known, returned to assist the terrified
passengers.
Pietura to vorr ~, 4. ax,o -y.o,>;,~,,,
fallen on its side, at that moment-al pros
trate! The lamps extinguished, the smoke of
the overihrown stoves filling and sitting the
car, adding to its gloom, distraction and dan
ger. The cry of fire was raised, and followed
by the most terrible confusion ia the midst OF
which lady was heard to cry, Help! my
mother will be burned - The car was now
filled with smoke, while all around was SO dark
That nothing whatever could be dis stingui> he'd
The passengers knew not where they We're or
the extent of their danger. Al length the door
was found, and q general rush tor the open air
was made. Some lew, however, remained be-
hind, and assisted liz rescuing the lady before
referred to, and her noble and courageous
daughter, from their perilous position.
In the meantime other cries for assistance
were heard. A young lad, named Eugene Ser
wee. only twelve years Old, travelling with his
widowed mother. finds her under the heated
stove badly injured, and threatened with i'm
mediate death. Calmly, but promptly, he
drew his coat sleeve over his hand and rails
ing the fallen stove, rescued his frightened pa
rent from death. Well may she be proud OF
that boy. She was helped out of The car, badly
burned, and her teeth knocked out. Another
Young lady was carried out with her collar
bone broken. "A mattress was spread upon the
snow, on which she was laid, and she was
protected from the then extreme cold by COW
erlets hastily thrown ont of the car gen.
tieman OF Springfield, ILL.,, s. S. Whitehursi
Esq, was among the mos ac i've in6piug good
He was everywhere, helping every he. When
the excitement subsided, he found himself with
a disiocated shoulder, and otherwise severely
injured, and other passengers also suffered
much. The lady whose collar bone was broken
WAS Miss Lonsdale, an actress. No one was
killed. l need only add that the injured lady,
first spoken OF, was the respected widow OF
Senator Linn, OF Missouri, and that noble
hearted girl, her daughter, Mary l.. Barr.
The News from South America.
The Panama Star and Herald brings more
circumstanti tiaf accounts of the state of affairs
in South America II says:
From Buenos Ayres and the Argentine Pro-
vinces we have highly important news. The
previous mail brought us the intelligence
that Gen. UrquiZa, with an army of nearly
IL eco men, entered the territory Of Buenos
Avres, and gained great victory over Gen.
MItre. He then marched to the capital, where
he was met by committee OF citizens, and a
friendly agreement was entered into Between
them. OF which the following are the leading
points:
Brenos Ayres TO form part Of the Csnfed-
Grafton.
"A convention to be conyoked to examine
the National Constitution.
1.-THE home and foreign debt Of Buenos
Ayres to be recognized as national debt.
"UrQuiZa to retire with his army within
two weeks after the signing of the treaty
"a general and absolute amnesty granted -
Alslna has resigned the government OF Bue-
nos Ayres, and was replaced by Llavollol.
The agitation through the country had ceas-
ed. and affairs generally a
bic aspect.
General Velasco, ex-President of Bolivia
died on the Eth November AZ Santa Cruz.
PERU.-ioyernment has concluded a con-
tract with a certain Don Maxine Navarro to
introduce into Peru 1000 Spaniards, who are
to be sold in the same way as the Chinese. to
everybody who may want laborers. They
have tn be between I6 and 40 years OF age OF
sound, robust constitution, and for each head
Mr.. Navarro will receive Il premium of Sj0.-
They have abolished slavery OF the negro and
prohibited by special decree the sale of Chi
nese and now they authorize the sale of white
men.
A correspondent says:
Families have been driven, by every tenor,
from the limits OF our territory, and mpelied
to seek home where law prev Nails and others
are deferred from settling among us by the
same causes, yet such are our natural advan-
tages that the increase OF population impera-
lively demands the exercises Oi the protecting
power of Congress.
A petition says: And last though not least
we pray to be separated from a people whose
religion, politics and conduct have been and
are deadly hostile TO us, and who have evinced
upon all occasions bitter and determined op-
position TO the laws of our Government, aud
have endeavored to fasten upon US the worst
curse possible for a people loving freedom-a
Church government Aud, as in duty bound
your petitioners will ever pray etc.
DEATH OF A NETkRAN.-Ieneral John B
Pianche, an estimable citizen Of New Orleans
who fought in Jackson's memorable battle
died in that city on the I'd inst tant. In notice
OF his death, the Delta says:
An incident with which the name of Gen
Plauche Is connected, has been made the text
OF one OF the most invincible errors that has
ever crept into history. 1t is IA striking illus
tration OF the difficulty Of arresting a false
statement which happens TO interest the fancy
OF mankind. Nothing was ever more trans
parently absurd than the idea which is em-
bodied III nearly ali the histories, poems. and
pictures relating to the battle Of New Or
leans, than the assertion that the mound
behind which Jacksons army was entrench-
ed was composed of cotton bales. The
only basis Of this story was the attempt of
some young soldiers, in the rivalry which
sprang up after they had occupied the line of
Rodriguez canal, TO Increase the height and
breadth OF the parapet in front of them by
throwing in a few cotton bales. Others, too
were used to form he embrasui es for the guns
These bales had been thrown out of a fiatboat
which had come down to Jackson's camp with
-four, pork, and other supplies, and were lying
on the levee. They were a portion of a lot
which had been Consigned to Major Plauche
and had been sold by him to Vincent Nolte-
The speculative efforts of the latter financier
no doubt contributed TO give form and cur
rency TO this story. He set up preposterous
claim for this cotton after the war. and to
maintain it, set on foot the story of the great
service il had rendered. We are pleased 10 see
that i'll recently published and highly spirit