The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1866-09-20
.:::::SEPTEMBER 20 l..
cI IcocII AND PERSONAL.

,,orpa AND CREssoN RAILROAD.
S''o J, aoer Monday, May 81, 1856, trains
'la lad will run as follows;
2 Hp" v connecting with Day Exp.
V21snt W and Bait Exp. West.
,dp H NJ. connecting with Phila. Exp.
" East and Day Exp. West.
n or on departure of Bait.
~ ~ NJ, or on departure of Phila.
Express East
!, JoHNsTowN DIsAsTER-FdH Of
,,,r,n at the Rai7road Depot-Three
:, Killed Outright, and Three Hun
Rour4ed-A Whole fo,on Plunged
Q,rrov and Nourning Our Johns
correspondent, "D:. d." writing un-
.te of 18th inst, gives the following
lie description of the late terrible dis
at that place -
hart-rendiug calamity occurred here
rrday last, during the passage east
Of President johnson and party,
| made an hospital Of nearly every
D. and leG: our town in mourning.
oIatform ever the bed of the abandon
nal, Immediately east of the Station
e, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, was
he'd with people of all ages, sexes,
koaditious Of health-the young man
roung woman, the infant and the
sr, the little boy and the old man of
s:core years and ten, as we'll as the
ue and the strong, were all repre-
At eleven o'clock, the train bear
he Presidential party arrived, and
i after the rear car In which we're
President and party had passed lit
st Of this platform, which, though
led before, now became perfect
Cf human beings, making a mass of
s1d bones weighing at least .ffty tons.
iel: Johnson, General Grant and
iral Farragut had been Introduced,
cheers aud cries for Seward were
for end given, when in an instant
atform sank in the middle, and fifty
Of flesh, and blood, and bones, in
lundred different forms, of all sizes.
mshing together amid the broken
/: and timbers TO the bed of the canal,
tFeuty-three feet below. 4 scene
lnng description followed. Men,
u and children in indescribable con-
mingled together, many too much
led 10 utter a cry for help or prayer
mercy, others writhing in agony,
shless from fright or suffecaiion, and
i screaming wildly with terror, to-
r with the walls and yells of women
children on the banks above, made
scene Of misery we pray it may never
lr lot to witness again.
Fnediately the work of removing the
commenced, and as victim after
was carried from among the debris,
Ftd cries were given by the friends
Dg in agonizing anxiety, as they recog-
wife, sister, daughter, husband
he:. No pen could do justice to the
r scene which presented itself to those
Eed in the work of assisting the in.
as plank ana joist and timber were
fved, and we leave your readers to
an idea Of the scene from the as
med results of the terrible accident.
tened and intensified as it was, 10
u 0y the excitement and madness of
'caSion.
hOugh many women and children
carried out lifeless, and it was
at 'orpses, at the time, it was after
discovered they had ouly tainted
we're easily revived by the admins
- OF the usual restoratives. This
gave rise, however, to many exagge-
Stories, and the town was rife with
rs OF the deaths of many persons who
Jed comparatively uninjured Among
feported fatally injured, we can give
lines of but three who are dead at
ne We write, viz: Mr.. d. Metzgar,
Feor of the Mansion House; Ma
a Duncan, and Mrs. John Quirk, of
ect borough. Among the most
|A'y injured, and whose cases are
F'I' we have the following list of we'll
citizens Emanuel Young, of the
Ward, James B. McCreight, of the
~ Ward, both badly bruised and in.
IN the back John Cox, Esq, cap
Knee of, and otherwise bruised,
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