, 1865-08-29
The WERz trial,
BOSTON C0RBETT'S EXPE.
RlENCE At ANDER.
S0NVlLLE.
Werz Again Deserted by his
Counsel.
ANOTHER TERRIBLE RAILROAD
MURDER.
COLLISION ON LONG Is.
LAND.
FIFTEEN LIVES LOST.
Two 1ron-Glads in Pursuitof
the Pirate Shenandoah.
ThTTp Tp0hd TTp0pp
Tho Great Eastern in Port
The Cholera Still
Spreading.
Interesting Details Of Gen.
Connor's sIndian Expedition,
Ketchum. the Forgcr, 10 be Ex.
amined Next Monday,
FORMIDABLE REBELLION
In CHINA.
The Negro Suffrage Question in
South Carolina.
Breckenridge and Mason
Looked for in Canada,
Gold Closed a& LIZ 5a2.
FORMIDABLE REBELLION
In CHINA.
The Negro Suffrage Question in
South Carolina.
Breckenridge and Mason
Looked for in Canada,
TERRIBLE RAILROAD MUIR
DER.

| Collf&loI OIL Long Island-Ecarfui K4n~s
Of LEfc-Efftccn Killed and 11any In.
tHred-GnrelcAsnck$ the CaNse-snl1u.
man Eouduct Of the Railroad Eu1-
ploJcs.
New YoRK, Aug. aaS-A collision occurred on h.
Long Island railroad this morning about u o'clock
! nrar .Ictraic2. The two engines Gen. Grant and
Gen. Sherman, attached to 1hu respective tzains
| .c1c SMASHED. The engineers On hoth sr.las e.
| caped uninjured. -Four o. five persons were Killed
and quite number injured The Watcs boz wat
badly crushed. f.
LATER
NEW YoEE, Aug. cs.-Thc following particulars
OF the collision On the Long Ie1anl Railroad to-
day are furuished By passengers:
At 5.s5 this morning the Grccnport train, which
khcNld not leave tie tauaIca station un1css the
Hunters Point train had arrived wns started from
1a,uaIes ten riactcs before time and met the Other
train at It'll speed abont mile west pt that village.
The etgaaI Of M nppEoachlns train from Huntnr'a
Point WIS heard by -uveraI passengers On tho other
tralu, azd cne gentleman who wns stGnding On the
platform Of the smoking cir, looked out, haw the
danger and jumped of without sustaining any iu1u-
y. The Hunters Point rrain WIS u1deT SulI speed.
as the conductor doubtless felt secure Of his
-iStt Of way, but the other conduc-
to-. whose name we understand Is Sands,
had begun somewhat to rlaekcn the speed OF hts
ts1an, AZ lie IVES well aware Of the insecurity Of his
position Theru Was sufficient tt.e f1deed for asl
The engineers, arcneu, ard coudQctors to Jump
OF. which they did without receiving sefions injury
The eastward bourd train was completely run down
and crushed to rieccs BY the superior weight OF tbs
other.
Tho resno was 90 Sriehstni to thnae uhn eersr.a1
Injury, that some fantc with terror At the anpa1
ing sishl. Men WERE hanging suspended beneath
the wreck by the lacc1aied tcndous Of thcir legs,
Ottcta NeTE GpEt}c1iEd bF the tlFOAt ucJ34a which
et1orss iron Tenders had boen crushed. o:hcrs
ncsanG lying eeaeas ;th ths wrecked ca5 aaa
seemed as though fen could haze escaped IRON the
dreadful catastrophe alive, but in few minutes one
beneath tie awful mass Of broken umbers and
crashed and dying human forms, rEtil II was ap'
parent that not more than fifteen immortal souls
Three Of the hunters Point ca1s xcrs torn 10 pieces
Of wcdged into caeh other, and On these the argcst
The shock ms 20 great that the trains 1cbonnde1
from each other tTo or three hundred feet. The
number Of nassen:ers On the train from
The Easi va: % ncar lhas many
Of two or three Of the cars were crushed, most oF
thcsc passengers were either Killed OF wounded,
onc 81 the n1ost astonishing circumstances attend
smokinscar Of this train was crowded With passcn-
ger, Eof ono WIS kcsioasly injured. though on the
rczt CT ten nea we're killed. md 10 ntl;et catE bo-
l3nd 11ofe q les irjusJ was doac. When our h
to.nants LEFT, ono MN wae ettll han.ing b. his
legs between two cars, and the employees os the
read. aliiionsh in;portuned by the passengers 10
takc measures for liz relief, &c. 10 work repairing
tue engines. The man was still alive. and llc pa
scncers were prevented from p.ying the CIR. open
by to.nc Of il,c employees, who pretended thai II
ono car vas lifted from the other the !l wou.d ta]l
npon tts side md this reason was given for their
own tnatlc1tt0p 10 this poor dying inan. The en-
the accident and, =. one OF our informaate .sscrs,
we're checsful1y Mailing each other On t.,cir
owu Escape, and were fndufgtng u little laughter
in nonchalar. tone, Nov euppose ,ye thall
hsrc hl Of time made over this" AL this oc-
CURED while the dead and dying were strewn on the
Us frona the Passengers; but let us hope, for the
fnkc Of humAn natlrc. that there is cone e-sggcra-
tiuu In them.