The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-08-29
Another Railroad Accident.

NEW YORK, Aug. 26.--A collision oo-
Cured on the Long Island railroad, this
morning about 10 o'clock, near Jamaica
The two engines Gen. Grant and Gen.
Sherman, attached to the respective
trains, were smashed, The engineers on
both trains escaped uninjured. -Four or
FIVE persons were killed and quite num-
ber injured. The water boy was badly
crushed.
NEW YORK, August 25.-The following
particulars of the collision on the Long
island railroad to-day are furnished by
passengers:
At 5:45 A. M the Greenpant train,
which should not leave the Jamaica sta
tion unless the Hunters Point train had
arrived was started from Jamaica 10
minutes before time. and met the other
train at full speed about mile west OF
that village
The signal of the approaching train
from Hunters Point was heard by sever
al passengers on the other train, and
gentleman, who was standing on the
platform of the smoking car, looked ont
saw tho danger and leaped off witheut
sustaining any injury
The Hunters Point train was under
full speed, as tho Conductor doubtless
felt secure Of right Of way, but the other
Conductor, whose name We understand
is Sands, had begun somewhat to slacken
the speed of his train, as he was well
aware Of the insecurity of his position -
There was sufficient time, indeed, for all
engineers, fremen and conductor, to
lump off, which they did without receiv-
ing serious injury.
The eastern bound train was complete
ly run through and crushed to pieces by
| the superior weight of the other. The
scene was so frightful to those who es-
caped injury that some tainted with ter
ror at the appalling sight. Men were
hanging suspended beneath the wreck by
| the lacerated tendons of their legs, both
which had been torn away in the COLI
sion. Others were suspended by the
throat Others were lying beneath tons
of the wrecked cars, moaning out the
| few brief moments Of life remaining to
them Oh earth. AT first t seemed as
though few could have escaped from the
dreadful catastrophe.
The shock was so great that the two
trains rebounded from each other 200 er
300 feet,
The number Of passengers on the train
from the East was so great that many
were standing on the platforms, and as
| the fronts of two OF three of the cars were
crushed, most of these passengers were
either killed or wounded
One of the most astonishing circum.
stances attending this appalling murder
is the fact that while the smoking car OF
this train was crowded with passengers
not one was seriously injured. though iu
the next car twa men were killed, aud in
other ears behind more or less injury was
done. .-..-.-
When orr informant left one man was
still hanging by his crushed legs between
two cars, and the employees of the road
although importuned by the passenger:
to take measures for his relief, set to work
repairing the engine. The man was still
alive; passengers were prevented from
prying the cars apart by some OF. the EN-
ployes, who pretended that if one ca
was lifted from the other the last would
fall upon its side, and this reason
was given for their own inattention +,
the poor dying man:
The engineers and firemen grouped to
} gether soon after the accident, andas on
of our informants asserts, were cheerful
/ IL congratulating each other on thei
own escape, and even indulging in . liz
tie laughter over some OF the incidenf1
One of them observed in an inonchale1l
tone. "Now suppose weshall have I. -
of q time made over this" All this 0
|. Cured while the dead and dying -
, strewn on the green grass around 49,
These stories came to rs from the -
ii gers, bullet us hope, for thGpy
) man nstures that them is so
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