The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1864-11-10

70 supposed to have been captured wi
him. You undsrstapd that every req
. meDs hs two fsgs-our colors, ADD
Is banner. = The ktter does not amount
;, much, anyhow, and the former was bro
= of safely by Sergt. Hoag, the regiment
j.. color bearer.
You see great guns in the papers abo,
Generals presenting medals to men 4
9 capturing battle flags. I will give ye
t one instance which fell under my obse
+ evAtion: A man of the 9Th Indiana (or
Brigsde) was sent to Washington da
before yesterday to receive q medal for
rebel hsg which he had in hin possessiio,
l He got it in the following manner: @
the morning Of tho 10th when the fi9h
began, his colonel sent him to the re-.
|, with his horse, consequently he was no
in tho fight at sli.. The next mornio,
no vent out for some frewood, aud foun,
it in the woods. He olaimed nothipp
but the Generals got hold of it, and foist
ed him up as hero. Il will give credi
to the command, su1eepe they think
/ H. As0to AsotD004l Disaster.
The lafayette (Ind } Courier thus de-
seribes the late terrible railroad collision
near that place: WI as#@ - III
Both train: ~: were ~ hss cylZ, ,9aIi,B
freight cars filled with Government cat
tie. The engineer, George Lamb, Of the
cattle train, had observed the smoke Of
tho passenger engine just beyond the
curve, aud reversing bis engine ,lhad par.
TALLY checked the speed Of the train be.
for the dread collision. He stood at hi,
dost, pale as marble, until the trains
were but few rods apart, when he Jun.
ped for his life, aud with the fireman and
brakeman escaped unhurt. John Whit
ten, engineer Of the express, having, as
he thought, an undoudted right to the
road, was unsuspicious Of danger on the
curve, and did not see the other train
until too late to materially chick the
speed Of his own train, much less avert
the disaster. He had barely time to re.
verse bis engine and jump for his life,
when the massive locomotives and ali
their precious freight of human life COLI.
ded with loud crash and power which
shook the earth. Head lights, COW.
catchers, and all the lighter works were
crushed like finder, and the massive iron
boilers received the full force of the coils.
ion. All was over in the twinkling of an
eye, and 10 less time than it takes to read
this paragraph twenty seven souls were
swept into eternity. Next to the en-
CINE, as usual, was the baggage car, be-
longing to the Lafayette and Indianapolis
Railroad, next was LIST class coach be-
longing to the Michigan Central Road,
and this was the fatal car, 10 which Death
held high carnival. The baggage car
was about IA inches narrower than the
passenger coach, and a little higher on
tho trucks, and the force of the concus.
sion drove it like the smaller section Of
spy glass into and through the passenger
coach Immediately behind. The baggage
car remained intact, and narrower, as We
have said, came crushing through the
coach, sweepang off the top but leaving
the sides of tho car unbroken. Like q
thing before it, aud scarce a single pas :
'enger in the forward part escaped in. |
death.
As it entered the coach it iumned Tho
Forward trucks upon which it rested. and
lie end dropping abaut twelve inches,
Tor want of support, gave the baggage
car an angle of about 80 degrees. And
70 this simple fact the escaped passen.
gers OF tho illfated coach, owe their lives,
Had the baggage car gone through on
The same line upon which it entered. not
soul could have escaped. Thus it was
hat tho forward passengers were in.
family crushed to death. A little far
her back, aud the elevation of the death.
leal'ng car brought 10 line with the tons
i the seats, and here it was that heads
Eere crushed like egg shells. A it'll.
arther, end those only who wero stand
ne were struck down, while but a stem
eJond, passengers escaped without =
crateh save from the splinters of the
'reck. q
Language has no power to depict the !,
Gene. Within the compass of a few
'Aas iatoI GdI was compressed .
10 bruised aud bleeding bodies of the :
cad, the manned and tho dying. The
ID velvet cushions had a deeper dive 6
ON the life blood of the victims, and .
'e removal Of the bodies, living and
Fad, from the debris of the car was full s
horror. I
A number Of the dead we're so tightly 9
edged between the bottom of the bag. .
gs car and the passenger coach, that
e baggage car had to be raised by jack. : :
rews before they could be taken ont. :
'e car dripped with blood like slsugh. :
+ pen. =
No ladies were injured. Conductor :
right informs US that. he was standing !.
the third car, and scarcely felt the s
zee OF the collision. Indeed ne nad no /
"a that anything serious had occurred
til he went forward. - :,
With but few exceptions, the victims n
re soldiers discharged and on furlough. ii
mess Of five who had together faced e.
ath o thousand times on tho bloody
ds Of battle was reduced to one-a =,