Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-06-02
Tar RAILROAD DISASTER. = We find 1,

The RAILROAD DISASTER, We find |,
the Cincinnati Gasette, Of yesterday morn
ing, the following particulars in regard to th,
unfortunate accident which happened to th,
Twenty-Second Regiment, on Thursday, th.
3Osh ult, on the Cincinnati and Marietta Rail-
road:
Five companies, numbering about Eve hun
dred men, all fully armed but not uniformed,
OF the Twenty-second Ohio Regiment, left
Columbus for Athens, Ohio, on Thursday
morning, at half past four o'clock, via the Lit
tie Miami Railroad. At Loveland they took
the Marietta road--filing fifteen "box" cars -
They stopped at Chillicothe about an hour,
leaving for their destination at 3 30 P. M. The
train proceeded at a tolerable speed-between
fifteen and eighteen miles per hour, IL is
thought by those who were on board. When
one mile east of Raysvile-twenty miles from
Chillicothe-the axle of the tender broke, and
six cars were precipitated down the embank-
ment, and literally crushed to pieces. One of
the cars was thrown into creek containing
four feet depth of water. The jarring occasion.
eddy the accident threw great many passen-
gers out of the doors-two of which were open
in each car, one at either side. It is believed
that those who were thus thrown out were the
most seriously injured. The two forward cars
were occupied by Company l, Captain OlmsteAd,
and we're the most seriously injured. Geo. w
Balou, q native of Chilo, Clermont county, fell
uuder the first Car as 1t went down the embank-
ment into the creek, and was killed instantly. |
When his comrades removed the crushing |
weight from his body, they could scarcely re- |
coguize his features. His head was terribly |
bruised and cut. His neck and arms were la |
cerated, and the feah all over his body horribly
mangled. E
Without waiting TO ascertain the extent of
their injuries, those who were able to move, af |
ter recovering from the shock which they all ex. |
perienced, set themselves nobly to work render. |
ing assistance to the wounded and suffering
Under the car which crushed Ballou to death,
they found q man named T. M. Oxley, also
member Of Company /. He was struggling to
free himself from his perilous position, though
badly bruised aud cut. The others who were
seriously, and it ia feared fatally wounded, are
named as follows; VIM. Sigh, from Felicity,
Ohio; his breast and stomach were injured 80
badly that his recovery is considered impossible;
Isaac Dunlap, from Columbus, both jaws horri
bly, cut. and legs and arms lacerated; Frank
Gascon, of Freesburg, injured about
the head and breast; but little hope
OF bis recovery is entertained. The above are
all that are injured beyond the dlsplacing Of
loiIt, or flesh wound, except member of
Cap.' hoDineon'5 company (whose name we
could not ascertain), who was pierced in the
nip with bayonet, upon the point of which he
fell. 1t was fortunate circumstance that, with
this one exception, perhaps, the bayonets were
reversed in the muskets. Had It been other
wise, the amount of injury sustained by the men
would probably have been much greater than it
was, as the arms were 80 stacked in the cars
that they fell in advance of the wreck. Twen.
tty-one members of Company were more or
less injured. About a dozen members of the
other companies were hurt in various ways.