Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-12-24
Terrible Railroad Casualty!
FIVE PERSONS ARE KILLED!
OLIVER B. PERRY AMONG THEM
Twenty. i've or Thirty WOundedI
HEARTRENDING INOIDENFI
A Little Girl Sees her Father and
KOther Instantly Killed.
THREE PASSENGER CARS DES-
TRoYED-TWO ENTIRELY
dgSUMED BYFLREl
FULL PARTICULARS
LISTS OF KILLED AND WOUNDED


It is our painful duty to record another
terrible railroad calamity, by which five
psrsons lost their lives, and a large
number have been seriously, if not fatally,
injured.
As our readers have already learned /;
the accident happened to the mail train on
she CleTeland and Pittsburg road, which
LETT this city at eight O'Clock yesterday
morning. The train had arrived at s small
trestle-wOrk bridge, about a mile north of
Hudson, WHEN the locomotive struck a rail
which, it is supposed, had been broken or
displaced by the frost, The locomotive,
baggage car and the first passenger coach
passed Fafsly over, but the seco1u c0aou
struck the bridge, entirely demolishing it,
and Precipitating the second and third
coac hes into the ravine-the second break
inf in two and falling on the west side of
Il Le bridge, where it was entirely destroyed
By fire; and the third falling on the east
lside, WHARF it now lies, pretty badly
smashed up. After passing the bridge, the
first Passenger-coach caught FIRE from the
uPsetting of the stoves, and was complete
fly consumed.
The conductor of the train, Mr.. o. F. Jen-
khIs, had narrow escape from death or
serious injury. He had just stepped into
the forward passenger car as the accident
hap pened Had he remained in the second
car 4, moment longer, the painful duty of
chro uicling his death might have been
ours.
Tn ere were number Of soldiers on
the train, several of whom, we under
stoode received slight contusions and
scraJches. It was reported that these
soldiers left Cleveland with fixed
bayozets. If this be SO, it is the greatest
woIklsr in the world that 10 greater num-
Der we're fatally injured.
As soon as they could extricate themselves
from the wreck, those of the passengers
who were uninjured Immediately set to
work removing the dead and those who
were wounded and unable to free them
selves from the mass Of seats, cushions,
broken windows, burning Goals, &C., under
which they were buried.
Among the first taken out was Oliver E.
Perry, of this city, who had with him his
gun and valuable dog, being on a hunting
excursion - psstime which he dearly
loved. 1t is said he would go, in the cold,
bleak winter, and stay several days in the
woods, with no shelter but hut made
of boughs. A pocket book, containing
several hundred dollars in greenbacks,
thirteen uOIIzrs n slIYsr and a recipe for
some kind Of dog-medioine, was found,
which, II is supposed, belonged to Mr..
Perry.
The most melancholy and heart-TendiDg
bereavement ls that of the little daughter
of J. 4. Robinson. Her father, mother
and self were on the way from their home
in Michigan to make holiday visit to
friends in Pennsylvania, when death, un-
heralded and unthought Of, thus rudely
tore them from her, and she is left alone in
this wide world, an orphan. Her lamenta
tions were piteous in the extreme,
, Some of the wounded wore taken tc
houses in the vicinity of the accident, but
the dead and the greater portion of the
injured were removed to Hudson as spsedi-
ly as possible, where the killed were
washed and laid out, side by side, in ar
uuoesupied hotel, and the wounded receiv-
! ed sFOry attention, medical and otherwise
at the hands Of the good people of Hudson
We give below a full list of the killed
The wounded had been so scattered that
we were unable to obtain a complete
list, but those We furnish comprise the
most important cases
KILLED.
Mr. J. H. Robinson and wife, of Peters
burgh, Michigan, both badly mutl atsd-
Mrs. RS head being crushed, and hel
husbands body cut and bruised in a shock
ing manner.
Stephen Robinson, of Akron, body con-
siderably mAngled.
Oliver II. Perry, of Cleveland, head bad
ly cut and bruised, and nose split open.
D. d. Miller, of Minerva, starke county,
: arms and body cut and scalp taken off
He has been attending the Medical College
in this city.
WOUNDED.
Major A. Med. Lyon, of Erie, head badly
cut, and injured about the face, shoulders
and arms.
Mrs. Thompson, of Mansfield, injured
internally, but not dangerously.
VIM Cooper and wife,-residenee not as
, certained,--Mr. O.'s arm broken, and Mrs.
O.'s leg broken at the thigh.
Mr.. - Stevenson, of Cleveland, les
broken, and slightly wounded about the
, head and face.
- Kenworthy, of Philadelphia, inju-
J juries not ssoertained.
? Elijah Baldwin, of Cleveland, injuries
not ascertained.
Peter Hemmis, of Cleveland, injuries nOt
ascertained.
Mrs. F. A. Baldwin, of Harrisburg, Pa.
head and back.
Mrs. Pitcher, of Chagrin Falls, slightly
Mr.. and Mrs. Robinson, of Shelby, O.,
injurred-MTs. R. seriously.
Miss Harris, residence not sscertsined
; head and shoulder.
Mrs. Gallagher, of Philadelphia, seri'
Ously.
VIM. Chambers, OF Lawrence county
Pa., head, and left arm badly cut and
bruised.
A E. Burbewsr, of Hudson, slightly.
! Mrs. Andrews, of Cleveland, face badly
and left side.
! Miss Ellen Dedee, of Hudson, slightly
0. F. jenkins, of Cleveland, slight con
tusions,
Captain Mcclure, Of Cleveland, badly
cut In head.
During the day, yesterday, the city wal
wild with excitement, and the telegraph
> ossos. and danof vvere besieged by anxious