Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-03-08
Railroad Accident Near Phil
adelphia.
SOUTH AMERICAN NEWS
CO N @ Hx sc - - ION II
from New Ork.

NEw YORK, March About 200 recruits
embark from this port for Hilton Head daily
large number of furloughed soldiers are re-
turning TO the army OF the Potomac.
BY passengers arrived here we have the fol-
lowing additional particulars of the accident on
the Camden and Amboy railroad.
{ Ii occurred q Bril- tol, Pa. about 20 miles
from Philadelphia. at 2 ID.
Adams express freight cars. from Washington
were off the track near the station; the midnigh
train from Philade pha, when it came up, was
detained in consequence on the same track in
their rear signal light seen bv the eDgi-
neer OF the pm. train from Washington, indi-
eating the detention, and il proceeded regularly
there was a curve in the road, and the train ran
into the rear of the IL ~ train from Philade-
phia; the engine of the 8 p m train from Wash
ington was completely encased in the of
the Philadelphia train, which was filled princi-
Dally with soldiers as the collision occurred the
end of the passenger elevated and the en-
CINE was eacased in the forward end of the car;
the passengers were showed to this end and buried
amidst the ruins and could only be extracted by
cutting the car 10 pieces
One passenger was taken out dead. and shortly
two Others with six injured, three of whom died
in a few minutes. One fireman of the m
Washington train was killed; the engineer and
another fireman escaped
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diers: some 30 others were injured, some serious
ly, and one was badly Scalded
The wounded were taken 10 houses near by.
and all possible attention shown them
Two other cars dem0lished--one being broken
into splnters
The engine OF the pm train was badly in
jured
The force OF the collision threw thee ears
backward some 900 feet tearing out the ham
pers.
The postoffice car i on the Bristol bridge; the
mails were detained hours
The soldiers were mostly returned prisoners
and left Washington at pm on Monday. No
| other passengers were injured
| The Post says our consul at Halifax has been
| informed that one OF the iron rams constructed
| IN France and said TO have passed into rebe
| hands, is now az one Of the West India islands
preparing for a cruise
fhe old rumoF that these vessels are coming
i 10 this port l. repeated
The steamer Costa Rica. from Aspinwall, the
/ Doth ult. bringing north the Stars passengers
al aquarter OF million or treasure from Cal
| ifOrnia, has arrived.
The steamer Constitution, from San Francisco
| the Goth, has arrived.
The news from Chill is unimportant.
The harvest of wheat has been plenty anC
very large exports of wheat and -four will be
| shipped 10 all parts of the world.
Mr. Dumas has entered upon his present tern
constitutional president of San Salvador
Honduras i again prey TO revolutionary
commissions with attempt to make Vice
President Varruch president Martial law il
proclaimed
The coffee crop OF Costa Rico i good aver
age That OF Salvador promises 10 be IN sd
vance OF former years
The co'te crop of the latter is abundant
Gen. Sickles left Panama for Bogota on D,
oath.
The steamer Savaul a., irom Hilton Head OF
the 4th, arrived here
She brings important de-paiches from simon
20 he war department
The Charleston Courier of the ID. says an of
hcer of Saermans army vas in that city takinl
preparatory steps . the raising Of regiment Q
white troops.
A lumber o. families sh0 had removed be
ycnd the city bad returned with their Household
goods
The Savannah Republican OF tue %. contain
hss been published.
xke Republican also contains q rebel accom-
OF stiet N ans occupation Of Columbia. from ID
Augusta Constituencies of Feb 9th, derive
, from = citizen OF Columbia.
| It appears that the rebel troops in large nun
bers LETT on the 1871 10 the direction OF Char
lo:te
Gov Magra,h left on the 18Th for the upps
section Of the state