The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-02-04
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
lFroH. the Jersey City TiIne5.l
Great Railway Disaster.

Gfedt k.a1Eway Dlsastef.
We have to record the most extensive and "a
tai casualty ever known In this country. Yester-
day morning ut very early hour i very large
train left Orange, y. j., route for the " hite
House, Washington, ID. c., under charge OF
Chief Engineer George b. Mcclellan. IL was
expected make the trip through in twelve
hours. The train was heavily laden with mer-
ehandi=e shipped by New York Jew house, Au-
gust Belmont, agent. All the CUpperheads In the
country were passengers, besides few innocent
people who had been deluded into taking an
excursion trip by the offer Of dead-he;td tickets.
HOratIO Seymour was the conductor, assisted by
Franklin Pierce, &. l.. Vallandigham and Joel
Parker. Ben Wood was appointed to hold all
the money received for fares and wore hat band
marked cOnspcuOusly ll-4i-
For convenience and comfort the passengers
We're classified in the cars; the foges under
Charge of Robert &. Winthrop and Mllard Fill
more the short boys under John Van Buren, and
Captain Rynders, the mOuntebanks and min
strels led by Jack Rodgers and Marble, editor of
the World, and the clergymen marShaled by the
Very Reyerends &. Chauncey Burr and IL. j. .
Vandyke-Thcre were several cars that were
intended 70 be attached To the train that did not
make connectiOn-One from Canada with George
y. Sanders conductor, and a ToOmy from
New York, filed with Gov. SeymOur's friends, :"
We're both restrained by the unwarrantable inter
ference of man named Ben amin +. Butler,
WHO came to New York last week u stop Il
spell" The were gOrgeOusly decorated
with such elegant notices as the following -
- Butter has Tiz." Abe Lincoln il IA gorilla
'' Little Mikes the by, be jabers, - Nggers for
slaves. lrislmen for our masters, :" - We are COM
ing, brother jeff, ;" - Let change base,
Here's your spaniels for you, Massa Davis
They moved out of the Orange depot gaiy. to
the tune Of Dixie, though the engineer hesitated
when the final moment of departure came, about
stepping on the platform, and was at last only
got ON board by little expedient of Fernando
Wood who pulled him into the train back
wards By his coat tail. Engineer Mcclellan was
dressed in full rig of MAJOR General, for which
his Uncle sam paid. He very nervous, and
remarked that lie should prefer :, gunbOat to Il
ride on such locomotive This engine was a
one, built at Chicago last August. but on q
plan designed by Benedict Arnold, and subse-
quentIy improved by aaron Burr and john c.
Calhoun lt was built to the order of jeff Davis
and bore the engaging name of 50 Cessation
which adopted slight change from the
original designation '' Secession" 1t occasioned
- good deal of remark that hardly any soldiers
took passage the train. There men
named Grant, Sheridan, Sherman, Hooker and
Dix around, who very ungeuerOusly expressed
doubts to the safety OF the track and the ability
of the engineer and it is supposed that this pref
udIced the :. blue coat bows. Besides this the
conductor of the train refused to have Ameri-
can fag on the engine. and the soldiers have
stubborn feeling of prejudice the subject.
Notwithstanding these slight drawbacks the
train moved of with the good wishes and cheers
of all the Rebel soldiers in Lees army, all the
British aristocrats. the pirate Semmes and his
friends. From all that be learned from the
incOherent talk Of the few survivors Of the sad
catastrophe. it appears that there trouble
from the very start. The engineer and his fire.
PendetOn quarrelled all the trip, about the
method of firing up. and the conductors and the
fare-taker We're constantly giving contradictory
orders the brakeSnan, nervous conservative old
gentleman pulled frantcally at the bell rope. Civ
ing engineer Mcclellan no end To trouble. just
how the accident happened no one tell now,
but certain il Is that before the train got half
way through, there WAS shocking smash up.
and such "A multitude of passengers injured that
1t i doubtful if their names ever be asccr-
tanned. Some assert that an old Illinois Joker,
flmiliarly called Old Abe. caused the disaster by
putting a rail the track; others, that the fire
man PendIetOn let too much water out Cf the
peace tank upon the fire of McClelIan's boiler;
others, that NalIandigham the train off the
track by dropping OAK" stick of timber
under the wheels still others, that the engineer
frightened by suddenly discovering neger
in his wood pile" on the tender, and overturned
the locomotive by attempting To - change his
base - too suddenly.
Whatever the cause, there Is no doubt of the
complete wreck of the whole train. and the sad
fate Of the excursiOnists. There are but slight
fragments of the more distinguished persons that
recognizable Ben. W oOd Is missing altogether,
except his 4-lI-4i badge. Fernando recog-
nizsd by copy Uf the statute of limitations in
his trowsers pocket; fIoratio Seymour and Val
llndigham We're found locked fast in each others
arms and crushed under the weight of certain
''dry goods boxes" that contained bogus SOL
diers' votes; Governor Parker was badly bruised
aud lost his eyesght, 80 that ne can't see it -
any more; PeudletOn pitched headIonE INTO
= ditch filed with secession mud, which choked
him. and FOR the engineer, he blown 80
much higher than Gilderoy's kite and was 80
miuutely Fulyerized that there is no ocular proof
that any such man ever existed. The funeral of
these excursionists will very soon be attended in
Richmond, Va, by JEFF. Davis and all his cabi-
net and it Is currently reported that L. ). Grant
may after d. not however mOurner. There
will be no trains run on this road, the COM
lJny being made bankrupt by this calamity will
immediately wind up its affairs. The Union line
IL, however, in good running order.
ExPAxDTyG Tue LUSGs-Srep out into the purest
arr you can hnd stand perfectly erect with the head
and shoulders thrown back, and thea fixing the lips
% though you were going TO whistle, draw the air
through the uostrils, into the lungs When tie
chest - about full, raise the arms keeping them
extended, with the palms of the hands down as You
suck in the air. 20 bring them over the bead
Just as the lungs are quiet full. Then drop the
thumbs inward, and after gently forcing the arms
backward aud the chest open, the process by
which you draw your breath till the lungs are en-
tifey empty. This process should be repeated three
or four times during the day. lt is impossible to
describe to one who has tried it the glorious
sense OF vgor which followed the exercise 1t is the
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