, 1865-01-06
ExeraofdinaFy and Appalling Railway

Extraordinary and Appalling Railway
ts9 si ss. Catastrophe. aai vall
One Of the most frigbtfu1 railroad accidents
that has for many years occurred in the West
took place October 3lst, on the indianapolis and
Lafayette Railroad, about miles south Of La
fayette. The following from the Lafayette C0u-
rier, supplies The details sIsF
The regular Cincinnati express, due here at
4 clock in the afternoon by the new time card,
collided with cattle train on curve one and
half miles this side Of Culvers Station, about7
miles from this city. The passenger train was
20 minutes behind, but waiting the requisite
time at Stoe1well, had the undoubted right to
the road, and was moving at rapid speed, when,
on turning the curve beyond Culyer's Station,
the cattle train was observed, but too late to
avert the eollslon.tC nod cEraal L8aIr f
Next to the engine as usual, was the baggage
car, baloNging to the Lafayette and Indianapolis
rairoa leaxt was a frst-class coach belonging
10 the Michigan Central Road, and this was the
fatal car, in which death held high carnival
The baggage car was about IA inches narrower
than the passenger coach, and little higher on
the trucks, and the force of the concussion
drove it, like the smaller section of a spy-glass
into and Though the coach Immediately behind.
The baggage car, remaining intact, and narrow
er as we have said, came crushing through the
the coach, sweeping off the top, but leaving the
sides of the tar unbroken. Like a monster bat
/ B6rluB Tdmj FL. swept everything DeIOfe IL, anu
scarce single passenger in the forward part es-
capped ihstan hneous DEATH
! AS it entered the coach, itjumped the forward
/ trucks upon which it rested, and the end drop
| ping about twelve inches, for want of support,
| gave the baggage car an angle of about thirty
degrees And TO this fact, the escaped passen-
/ gers of the Inflated coach owe their lives. Had
! the baggage car gone through on the same line
upon which it entered, not a soul could have es-
I tbnf 10 rd
/ gers were instantly crushed to death, A little
further back, and the elevation Of the DEATH
dealing car brought in line with the tops of the
! seats, and here it was that heads were crushed
like egg shplls. a little further and those only
/ who were Standing were struck down, while but
a step beyond, passengers escaped without a
| scratch save from the splintecs of the wreck.
Language has no power to depict the scene.-
! Within the compass of a few feet inside that fa-
| tai car, was compressed the bruised and bleed
/ ing bodies of the dead, the manned and the dy-
! ing. The red velvet cushions had a deeper dye
from the life blood of the victims, and the re-
mOYal of the bodies, living and dead from the
debris of the car was full Of horrors. q num-
Der of the dead were so tightly wedged between
the bottom Of the baggage car and the passen-
get coach, that the baggage car had to be raised
by iaekscrews before they could be taken OUT
The car dripped with blood like slaughter
pen.lo. 9. rtu
THE NEW PHAsE.-N. P. Willis does not alto
gether relish the new order of things. In the
Home journal he talks like this
"War-Iime EXcesses have substituted an al
together new Ferocity for the elong-accustOmed
Money-Alaking Sagacty in the character of our
] countrymen." He illustrates our present ram
pant Americanism by a quotation from the book
of Judges io is there told, as hnal effect of
Israel war with the Philstnes, that In those
days there was no King in Israeli but every man
did that which was right in his own eyes ~
Than which continues he, "a more faithful pic
ture Of the men seen in Broadway and the Bow
cry, at the present moment, could not possibly
be WrittfhYI .Ua. gIlTo.l
Mr. Willis then proceeds in his observations:
''Yet the breaking out of this pustule of corrupt
matter on the face of our feverish nation-this
one-man insolenee--is seen no more under the
military button than under the rags of the beg
gar. Notwithstanding the prodigious multipi-
cation Of beggars, there is no longer any humil-
ity in their behavior. BE it a soldier or an old
woman, a child or cripple, the needed charity
is insolenty dernanded-sulkily or saucily-
and the boon, If given, taken as right and
without thanksi or, if refused, correspondingly
resented. fre sfrerl.fr
! Nor can we contemplate with satisfaction the
change which we actually see, in the visage of
our young men, as made by war. There is here
and there a noble looking fellow among them it
Is Iruej put the most OF Jie mens now met IN
Broadway and the Bowery, (the hundreds of
these same "heroes at home on leave ~ are sau-
ely warli1e. And it is not seen merely in the
twirling Of moustaehe or the defying of an
eye; but who that has occasion TO ride in a car,
or mingle as a stranger, nowadays, in any
crowd of our great city, can be pleased with the
new manners which do certainly more and more
prevail shoulderng and elbowing, the
rough jostling and rude language the indffer-
ence, sulky and savage, Of every man to his
neighbor and the complete un-deferential con-
duct of every gathering everywhere, if for their
own Independent pleasure--of men, women and
children And, (for a lesser RESULT it has posi-
lively made more discordant the common key of
the popular voice; while we think that the un-
seen working of the same fierce spirit is actually
changing, for the worse, our prevailing national
type of female beauty.
How OLD IS THE RACE 2-How long has man
1.-The great crowning work of the creation
been upon the earth2 Here we are lost. The
discoveries in. Switzerland 60 to show that two
or three races pre-historical, pre-Adamite, had
liyed in wooden cities built on piles extending
into the lakes of that country They could be
traced by The instruments they used. One had
instruments of stone; a second of bronze and a
third of iron. In other places, as in the region
of Aniens in France, implements of stone, fash