The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1864-11-25


our base" Here's your sfanies for your Mass
i Davis" They move out of the Orange depo
gaiiy to the time Of Dixie, though the enginee
I hesitated, when the final moment of depA,tur
: came, outstepping on the platform, and W,
Z at last only got ON board ) little expedi.n
y oi oifernahdo Wood, who pulled him into tn,
train backwards by his coat tail Lngnee
Mcclellan was dressed in the full rig OF Majo
General, for which his Uncle Sam paid Ii,
> was very nervous, and remarked that he shoulc
. prefer u gunooat to ride ON such locomotive
: The engine was a new on, built at hicago last
August, but on plan designed Ly Benedict
Arnold, and subsequently improved by Aaron
BUR- and John U. Calhoun. 1t was built to the
order of jeff Davis and and bore the engaging
nlme Of Cessation which was adopted us "a
: slight change from the original designation
Secession" 1t oecasioned good deal OF r..
mark that hardly any soldiers took passage on
the train. There was some men named Grant,
Sherman, Hooker and Dix around, who very
ungentrously expressed duul Is MS to Il o safety
OF the track ami the ability of the engineer.
and it is supposed this lryjudiecd the blue
coat boys Besides this, the conductor Of the
train refused to hav: an American flag ON tn
engine. and the soldiers have stubborn feeling
ofprjudice on the SUBJECT. Notwthstandi &
good wishes and cheers of all the rebel soldiers
in Lees army, all the British aristocrats the
pirate Sammes and his friends From all that
can be learned FROM the incohtr mt talk of the
few survivors of the sad catastrophe, it appears
that there was trouble from the very start. 7 he
engineer and his fireman Pendleton quarreltd
all the trip, about the method of freing up,
and the conluctorand fare taker We econstantly
giving contradictory orders to the blak, men,
and nervous conservative old gentleman pulling
Mcclellan no end of trouble, just how the ac-
cident happened no one can tell how, but Ger.
tain it is that before the train got half way
through, there was shocking smash up. The
locomotive exploded the cars werr piled up in
fragments, the track t,rn up and such a multi
tade of passengers fatally injured that it is
doubtful if tieir names can ever be ascertained.
Some asserts tnat an old Illinois joker, Familiarity
called old be, caused the disaster by putting
rail on the track Others, that the fireman Pen.
dleon let too much water out of the peace t nix
upon the fire in MoClean's boiler; others, that
Valandigham ran the train off the track by
dropping an 20 A. K" stci OF timber under
the wheels; others, that thecnginecr was frighten
ed bysuldeny liscoverng"a uigg r in his wood
lie" on the tender and overturned the loccmo.
tive ly attempting to "change his ba.e" tco
suddenly. Whaevtr the cause was there is no
doubt of the complet wr ok of the whole train.
and the sad fate of the excursioniss There are
but slight fragments Of the more distinguished
persons that are recognizable. Ben. Wood is
missing sltogeather except his AHA badge
Fernando was recognized by cory of the stat
ute of limitations in his trousers pocket; Horatio
S 'ymour and Vnllandigham were found locked
in each others irmes and crushed under the
weight of certain "dry goods boxes" that con-
tanned bogus soldiers votes; Governor Parker
was badly bruised and lost his cyosght SO that
he "could'n see it'' any mure; Pendleton was 7
pitched hedlong intoa nasty ditch of secession, s
mu which choked him. and as for the engineer E
was blown up so much higher than Gilieroy's
kite and was 80 minutcly pulverized that there :,
ls no occular proof that auy suc man ever cx-
isted The funeral of these excursionsts will I
very soon, be attended in Richmond, Va, ly }
Jeff Davis and all his cabinet, and it is cur ent-
ly reported u S, Grant may attend, not, how
ha yr.,l
trains run II this road as the company being
made bankrupt by this calamity will immedi.
ately wind up its affairs. The Uuion line is,
however, in gooi running order.
POSTSCRIPT. i
Since our first sercr' few additional facts Of 0
interest have come to light. Upon clearing a. Il
Jersey was found partly san ling, hut the south 7
end of it was knocked into "smtherce,s" jim c
Wall, when taken from under the platform c
badly injured but his tongue still rnnning, was {
heard to mutter that this was "a d-d sight $
worse than arbitrary arrest" Jack Rogers d
was got out alive though little hurt--hut was o
inquired if Dan Husman or any other '
friend had saved his silyerqu art OF a dollar g
for him, Friend Middleton was Iast all help, !
though DR. Newell kindly off red his services. 6
George febiy gasped ont that he had "enough {
Of that" Every Jer yman in the South end Of +
the car had gone crazy from the effect of the con
cussion and raved about seeing Starts A lot of 0
Gov Seymours friends" from New York who Q
had got into the jersey ear, succeeded in pull t
ling Gen. Wright out with con paratively little a
injury A survey of the wreck of this car shows
the utter impossbility ofits ever being repaired
IF run again. and the fragments, tog, ther |
with couple of ricketty old platform ears la
belled Delaware and Kentucky which we're
not much damaged, are all that can be saved
These are to be given oJim Brooks, who is ex-
pect d t, open political junk shop where he
will sell Know Nothing relics, Mcclellan ,