The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1864-10-19
Tho shore line Raiiroad Disaster.

The Boston JouRSAL Of Monday has the ollov.
ing particulars ot the terrible disaster vi tAs shore
Line Railroad, Al already reported by Wleyrapb,
An extra train. made up o, engine Snd tender
baggage car and nine passenger tarr, len New
Haven Al nine o'clock Saturday morning. having
on board two hundred and seYsnly i've sick mud
wounded New England soldiers, IN transfer from
Knight Hospital New Have'L " the Uuitsd Stsss,
General II apital at Rsadvii'e. In rounding aharp
curve n "Four Nile Ru,." or "Four Mile Ledge
called, eight milos beyond New Londou, and
about nine miles this aldo VI Lyme, CT, where shs
rosd passs through deep cutting In . solid ledgv
VI rock the train preceding st high u spe.d
the hrst passenger car went of the track, follows
by four Uthers. The engpe and tender reIuslr ,ed
upon the rails. the couplings being 'roken by. tho
ahock, and the cars piled up ope upon suc' a"r Ia
= fearful heap OF ruins ttnesth which ivy the
dead and dying aud shockinsly manrl "a bodies
Of nearly . hundred poor fellows Ia. accident
took place y, ptecisely hl-pss, ele zen o'clock P
n. The scene IL described by thos. who wit.
messed ~ as bedng fearful one, and anestod tho
soldiers far more than tie aorrors Of the bsatle-
field The meii who came that they would
rather take the.r ehanc'-s before the ene'nyn rifle
pts thrn r'""lh''i e.,h .l;L:r Dthc. Two u
the cars were br ,sen rely int fragments not
larger than ire hand. Another was forced up tho
lodge som. twenty-five ieet and turned half roind.
% that lay like lr dye from one SIDE oi ,hs cut
! TIM ~ the other W smother, only the rocf aud
one side war LETT. Another was macs Of huIlnn
bod'rs, broken wood, and iron rods and chsius As
one by one the poor fellows were taken at aud
laid upon the ground above the ledge the sceue De-
came moro distressing. Here mn,ilsted t~iak
still breathing, without legs arms broker and ie,-
/ lures indiscernable there poor mani ed fellow
! moaning 'Oh, my dear mothtr. my IL i mother,
! what will she ssy 7" TIE dead pcrs lying In
every posture some calmly sieopir.y, ~ IL were !.
others with staring eyes. Oaa man had leon
| caught between tie eud of tho car
! that lay tue cutting snd the Solo
rock, aud lie had been crushed ou,
out OF him The body WA not e1tI!oatcd unit
! night. Thirteen are known 10 have been kiiled
outright, aud Two died aiely on teing taken
from tho ruins One OF these WAS found IN tho
ditch by the side Of the track. Three ot Jour b.
dies were seen among the rubbish, bu, In srch .
position that the could not he got nt fui time
One of the killed found almost split ~ two,
trom head to ioet. One leg, having OH boo, MAS
seen prouudirx from bensath heap OF truck
Tho whole number injured Is es iH.atvG Ut abov.
forty, most OF them severely. Il Is thought tv.t y
thhI of the number cannOt survive. lhe sSIdeM
IN thought to have occurred from tho opiv Ading Of
the rails in passing the curve ut q Va rate u
speed, or probably from broken .ail 80 CON :
pletely was tie cutting blocked up by the cara
which were destroyed t-at L. "as thought that Z
train could not possb,y cgot through before soms
time Monday, and Bupornt, ,ndeut Calhoun, OF tho
Now Haven and New Lynion road. ordered the
ruins W be burned ~ s.Iou be WAS sAsured thsi
there we're no moro eodies beneath.