The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-09-08
THE LATE RIA ILWAY SHIASH-UPS IN
THE NORTH.

The following summary of the late railway Gcci-
dents in the North, and the comments upon them,
is from the n. Y. EreninG Pos: OF the 2lst uh.:
On the Goth Of October, 1864, nearly year ego,
we narrated q conversation which an accomplished
engineer once had with us, predicting the terrible
era of railroad massacres which seems at Last to
have arrived. Let us give again what he said to
US:
'.Within ten years." said the engineer, 'you will
hear of frequent and fatal accidents on our Ameri
cen railways. They will increase to an extent
which will be absolutely appalling. The wood and
iron on which the wheels of the trains runs can
last but certain time. At present they mostly
new, and tho danger of which speak does not
exist but they will continue to look sound to the
eye until their texture has been changed by the
and then they will suddenly give way. The first
warning which the companies have of their rn-
soundness, with the exception of the length Of
time that they have been III use, will be GONE ac-
cident to the trains that pnss over them. But the
not be regarded. The desire of profit will induce
az long as the superintendent finds no defect in
them apparent to the eye, and thus the disaster
and the discovery OF their defective condition viii
occur at the same moment"
How true this forecast of the future was, we
know from the dreadful record Of the past year.
During the two months of October and November,
in 1864 we gathered from our own columns alone
the following register Of "accidents" az they are
facetiously called
OCTOBER 1O-New Haven cars thrown from the
track and broken when running ON the track Of
the Harlem Railroad, Mt Seventy-seventlstree in
OcroBER I2.SHudson River Railroad train ran
into a mass ofrock and earth on the track, at One
Hundred and Fifty-ninth- street, in this city. The
engine and three cars thrown off engineer and
firemnn bruised. Passengers escaped.
OCTOBER 15-Shore Line New York and Bos-
ton) Railroad train, having on board two hundred
thrown from the track. Nine soldiers and two
brakemen instantly killed. Other soldiers seri-
ousy injured.
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The engineer,
fireman and one soldier were instantly killed;
fifteen persons wounded.
0cronEn 29.-Collision on the Chattanooga and
Atlanta Railroad. Five soldiers were killed and
fifteen wounded. .a.
NOVEMBER Collision between a passenger
Inianapos railroad I hsase assd boies aaa
were taken out of the wreck Of the passenger
train; from twenty to thirty persons wounded;
some OF them died.
NOVEMBER 6.-Erie Railroad train ran off the
track at Calicoon-some Of the cars going into
the Delaware river. Four persons killed; many
wounded.
NOVEMBER 8. Casualty on the Baltimore and
Philadelphia Railroad. Two engines and seven
cars hurled into the Susquehanna river. No lives
NOVEMBER g. The Washington express train
from New York thrown from the track OF the Boil
timore and Philadelphia Railroad. Six cars de-
molished; three persons killed and several geri-
ously injured. !-u
In the months OF January and February OF this
year-1865-th were the following:
JANUARY s. Morris and Essex Railroad-collis-
ion in Bergen Tunnel; one killed and several &C.
verely injured. H.. s
JANUARY 9.-Morris and Essex Railroad-pas-
senger train ran off at Summit.
JANUARY 13.-Cleveland and Toledo Railroad
passenger train ran off near NOrwalk. - T.
JANUARY 19.-Hutson River Railroad-passenger
train thrown into the river near Yonkers.
JANUARY New Jersey acknowledgements
train thrown off by broken rail near New Bruins
wick.
JANUARY 30.-Galena Railroad-five passenger
ears thrown down an embankment; several per-
JASuARY 80. --Pennsylvania Railroad collision
near Conemangh, caused by disconnected en-
gine; one man severely injured.
JANUARY 31.-Hudson River Railroad-Rye pas
senger cars thrown of near New Hamburg: a
brakeman injured. ,.,... =
FEBnuAnY 4.--Marietta and Cincinnsti Railroad
passenger train fell through bridge at Deer
Creek; several persons burned to death by cars
taking fire. ''
FEBRuAEY 4.-Central Ohio Railroad passenger
tran thrown down an einbanlSment at Newark.
FEBRUARY 4.--pennsylyania Railroad passenger
train thrown off: several pereOn6 injured