Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-02-18

TRAIN or Cars SMASHED Up ON The LAX
sHoRE RoAB,-Yeslerday (FIiday,) afternoon
about 4o'olOck as the Express train on the Clsve
land and Erie Road was passing Farview station
about l2 miles west of Erie, Il was run into by
locomotive, by which two cars we've smashed
and the whole train more or less shattered.
From nr. Elliott, who was a passenger, WI
learn that the train was nearing FairvieW station
and that the speed was slackeDed, when a loco
motive without any train attached, which haI
been following the train from Erie, came up q
full speed and dashed into the rear Of the traiI
with terrific force, The engineer Of the Expires,
train had seen this engine coming as he slackened
his speed, but seeing that II was not Iessening ID
speed, and that 1t would run into them, he imme.
diatey restarted his tran TO keep out of the wey.
His train was going at a rate Of about ten miles
an hour when the other came up at probable
double that speed, and with such force that the
engine was driven directly into the rear car as
Ear as the smoke stack, which was broken or
The seats In this car were much broken, while
in the second car not one seat was left whole, and
passengers in both were thrown about in the
greatest confusion. One man who was sitting at
tho extreme rear Of the train, was thrown over the
seats and had his head cut, and Mr.. q. D. Cross
man, of Boston, was injured in the knee. The
whole train to the baggage car was more or less
broken, but singulally enough car was thrown
of the track, and by an almost miraculous escape
not q passenger was seriously hurt.
The passengers all tender the greatest praise
to Conductor Murray for his prompt and efficient
action throughout the accident He Immediately
sent back TO Erie fer another train, and brought
the passengers into Cleveland with only two
hours detention, arriving shortly after 9 o'clock.
How the accident could happen is a mystery.
The Engineer of the detached locomotive says
that he tried to reverse his engine but could not
butif SO, why was such an engine allowed on the
road9 He says that he had tried, three miles
back, to reverse 1t, and could not. The engine
had been in use on the Erie Pittsburgh Road,
and was being returned to Cleveland. The
amount of damage done we do not hear estimated
S
MARINE DISASTERS IN ls59.-Capt D. P. Dob
bins furnishes to the Buffalo Express list of the
marine disasters for 1859 upon the chain Of the
lakes, of which the following is the
REHABILITATION.
1852
Loss on Steam Hulls ........ Sl69 4O5
do do Cargoes........ ls2,l3O
Total loss by Steam Vessels s35I, ,535
Loss on Sail Huls. 1881, ,23s
do do CargOes .......... 337,327
Total loss Iy Sail Vessels. ...... s66s, ,565
Total loss by Steam and Sail Vessels 81, ,o2O,IOO
1859.
Loss on Steam Hulls sl63,725
do do CargOes. es...... 9O,5sO
Total loss by Steam Vessels sl94. .3O5
Loss on Sail Hulls s3l3.7I9
do do CargOes.......... 224,2Os
Total loss by Sail Vessels. S597, ,927
Total loss by Steam ana Sail Vessels S782, ,232
Increase in losses. es................... s2s7, ,868
Loss Of Life in 1858. 1872
do do 1859. LOS
OecEea5e-s ...... II
Synopsis of the Marine Register Of the Board of
Lake Underwriters in the Spring of 1859:
CRAFTS. NUMBER. TONS. VALUE.
Steamers, l3l 66,s34 s.. .s46.l37
Propellers, 1877 66.7g3 2,s44, ,25O
Barks, SO % 6O4 542 600
Brigs, SO 2T,S05 494 200
Sch. & Shops l,OOl l92,5ls 4slO,l5O