The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1861-03-28
HARR1sBURGH, March FL, 1881.

HARR1sBURGH. March FL, 1851.
EDS. GAZETTE: tel-graphed to you
yesterday briefly the accident which oc-
Cured to the train Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company which left Pittsburg
on Wednesday afternoon Mt four O'Clock.
Ii appears that several cattle had fallen
from \ stock train near Huntingdon, and
one of these caused the accident. AT
Piper's dam, four miles west OF Hunting
don, the locomotive struck an OK, cutting
of Its hind legs; tho animal rolled under
the baggage Ger. throwing it otf-but this
car was dragged nearly mile before the
train was stopped. The stove in the
baggage car Was upset, and it speedily
fred the mail bags. So rapidly did the
flames spread. tina: it was iound impossi
BILE to save anything except two trunks.
The entire through Eastern mail was de-
slroyed. as was all the baggage. with the
exception above noted. After much diff.
fculty the cars were detached. and NOV
cd apart for safety, and the passengers
then had nothing to do but to wait until
the baggage car was burned up so that
the track could be cleared.
1t was certainly a most providential
matter that the car was thrown off the
track on the mountain side. On the
other side was the Juniata river. At t. g
base of precipitous bank Of forty feet
There was little or no margin on thai
side between the ties and the bank, and
il the car had SO turned. nothing earthly
could have saved it from precipitation in
to the river, dragging with it the Other
Cars of the train. Nearly every passen-
ger was asleep at the time OF the aocl-
dent. a. .-..-
There was great Amusement afforded
/ the passengers in reading tho scraps o
letters saved from the fire, which laid
scattered on tho ground. All kinds Of
[ove letters were read, in prose and verse
also many touching letters to his Excel
lency the President, &c. The remarks
of the ladies as they picked up remnants
Of silk and other dresses recognised al
their own, were also amusing. Mr.. Rob.
ertson. OF Curling l. Robertson, lost al
bis baggage, including valabls papers and
books. Capt. James Wood. Of Wate.
street, also lost all. James A. Lourie,
ESQ.,, is in a similar predicament. There
were a number Of other Pittsbnrgers or
the trsin who also lost everything. For
tunately I started of in such haste for :
day here, that I had not time to prepare
baggage, and 80 have lost nothing. One
lady had $500 in gold in the baggage Cal
but she found nearly all Of it between the
ties. 'a -.z -- .ast-s-. .. IL
Yours, $.
A general dispatch to the Pitts. papers
says: .s' ".-
Tho Washington letters were in a
great part applications ilom the West ior
Office, though the addresses and sigma
lures were SO nearly destroyed as to be
illegible. They will be sent to the dead
letter office. Money letters were some
times seen half consumed. In one case
an epistle containing twenty ten dollar
bills and one Ave dollar bill was burnt
squarely in half. leaving the halt Of eve
ry note perfectly legibls, while the rest
was completely consumed. A letter &c
the President was found only half burn
cd up. A special Post Office agent left
the city to-day TO proceed to the scene O
the accident and secure the remains o.
the letters and such other government
property as may be worth having.