, 1866-01-11
RAILROAD DISASTER.
A Hroken Wlaeel-Almost Miraculous
EkcApe fEom a Wholesale CRruaHe.

The express passenger train over the Pittsburgh.
Fort Wayne 4 Chicago Railroad, which WAS due at
the Chicago depot at II o'clock On Tuesday night,
met with IN accident, which resulted in the two
rear passenger cars being thrown from the track
down m cmhankment twenty-five feet In height,
smasbfnE the cars Into spinte1s, and lniusn8 sev-
esal Passenger or lcs4 severely. Tbs accident
occurred about 10 O'Clock, when ihe train Was
tnirtJ-ttsre miles from this city, and about ten
nlsles ,sest Of Valparaiso, Indiana The train uas
running ut The 1atc OF about twenty miles an hour
when suddenly one Of the wheels Of The last chr
0 sok y ana snaGe ses dng s10oS thf tax fot
coupled to rolled ovef The embaukment down into
the Iaytne below. Fortunately, neither Of the
wrecked eass were htled with passensess-there
beng only about eight In each-or else mort
terrible tcene Of carnage must have cn.ued. As
wss. several pessons werc seresely Injured Mrs.
Joldsn wife Of G. L. Jordan r.; Esa Ct thls s,ty
10 te sewn up BY euigeon. Mt. Jordan vas also
or board the tam, but escaped uninjured. MIS-.
St cass4o aS eaa is snSaids. ir
tns1Dg pain Until surgeon could be procured to
replace It, witch wa1 not until she reached this
e1gc master Of tho train. whose name We could not
% the base q pc skai, and received very severe
To add to the horrors ofthe situation, the rearear
carghi hre IRON The overturned stove, and for
time matcrs assumed serious aspect. but through
escape rom the other car, assisted By The engineer
conductor and fireman, The flames extipEuIshcd
before they had gained anT considerable headway,
In The mldst Of The excitement consequent upon the
ire breaking ont, AID the desperate cndeavors OF
The frightened passengers 10 mike their escanc
Mr. and Mrs. Jordan, who were accompanied By
their little son, ax SeaEs OF age, were almost dis
tlacted at not hndtng him, when hearing 4 faint,
plnuttye CT proceeding from the forward paFt OF
the cas, they, after considerable difficulty tuade
their Eay 10 that direction, and to their aatonsh-
mert found thar boy suspended BY the feet from
the root, he having in come Way or other got
fastened IN that position by the rolling over Of he
car when 1t Was thrown tom the track
Aner the passengers had MI been rescued from
the wreck. the injured ones were placed in The
smoking car. Wbiie those who had escaped un-
bruised with great dlnculty built fire, and then
for the ffht time they were made aWarr Of tho mar
TOW esc1pe they had mad from instant and terrible
death. The wheel. 1t seemed, broke Just a. the
train was paasnR ove1 bridge acroea the Deep
river. and the rear OF the car dropping upon the
ground d,aEged OVER the trest1e work ofthe bridge
IN such manner that had Il swetved to the right
bpt three Of four inches mort, 1t would have been
preGpitated iDto the chas.n below, distance Of
thirty feet After ascertaining this fact the passen-
Grrs vent into the smoking and baggage cats, and
were backed to 4 switch. where theT remained until
the passenger train which 1el Chicago at 1890 came
along. when car vas obtained 1nto which tho
wrecked passe1GeFs we're placed and brought TO
this city. reaching the DEPOT at ahout three o'clock.
Taking all the circumstances into consideration,
this Was certainly Of the parTowcst escapes from
! terrible calamity On record.