Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-11-29

4 Only her head and neck could have been
saved from fire, for her body was Locke
/ ed between timbers, and could not be
drawn cut.
tsThe conductor and engineer procured
axes and attempted to cut into the car,
but failed in this. Rapidly the fire
swallowed this car and strobe through
and over every passenger coach Of the
train Its progress was uulmp peded and
its triumph complete, save that 1t could
ind no more lives to destroy.
As soon as possible two physicians
I Drs. Bunker and Miller, came over
/ from Lockland and attended faithfully 81
I to the iniured-none fatally, fortunate
f lys save the unhappy victims Of the IRE.
/ Dispatches were sent to the city, and
Especial car, bearing Drs. Wood, Muir
I ply and Miller, and containing s kretch-
ers and other uecessari6s, was sent TO
the scene Of the wreck.
1 ttWhen the fire had exhausted itself,
| the wreck was cleared away from the
track and search for the dead was made
[ a headless trunk and a trunk that
/ lacked limbs were found, and three eth
eEs were found, less muulatsd. While
I the dressing of the wounded was in
/ progress, these CHASTITY remnants of hue
manity we're picked out, all eharred
( and blackened, and still smoking with
/ heat, and carefully laid asides So far as
/ was possible, the parts were placed to-
/ gether. There were remnants of two
bodies, however, that amounted to no
thing more than several unreoOgnIZaDl6
masses Of broiled flesh and broken
/ bones.
IDENTIFICATION OF THE DEAD-FOUR
SISTERS KILLED TOGETHER.
"Since the above was written. we
/ have come into possession of important
facts; the Identification, finally, of the
victims Of crush, steam and fire. Ten
pieces Of baggage mostly trunks, were
I found belonging to the four ladies. Eight
Of these were opened. They were found
to contain splendid WardrObes Of four
/ ladies, all neatly packed away for
| journey. Among the letters they con
tanned were some that fully established
the identity OF the owners, proving
them to be four sisters of a wealthy
/ family Of New Orleans. Of the name Of
/ Morgan, their given names being Har-
! riet, Rebecca, Sarah and Elizabeth
/ One of the letters was from Gen. Beaure-
gard, as President of the New Orleans,
Jackson and Great Northern Railroad,
recommending them to the kind atten-
ton of railroad men generally. 1t an
pears that they left their home in New
/ Orleans June last, and spent the sum
mer and fall at ST. CathaFiue's Wells
/ and Toronto, Canada West. When
/ killed, they were on their way home,
1 intending to stop at Louisville and
/ spend a couple of DAYS with some of
/ another letter was from Charles
1 Harrod, corner of Magazine and Match
/ ez streets, New Orleans, signed as their
| ahectionate brother, and Indicating that
I he was acting as agent Of their property
/ There were also a letter from his wife
| Clara NJ. Harrod, signing herself as
/ their affeCtiOnate sister, from which it is
| inferred that HarrOd is their brOther-in
! law.
THE FIFTH VICTIM RECORD OF HER
OIs2L.
sit has been ascertained that the gen
tleman killed was Mr.. Charles Jackson
of Boston, who had aequaintancss on
the train and friends in this citv This
man was not scratched. He was rOas-
led aHVe-In the fun VigOr of manhood
and he met death in the heriosm of a
vain attempt to save one or more of the
ladies. After the crash he was seen
outside the train, on the ground, en-
tirely unharmed. It was supposed that
he was standing on the platform and
Jumped; but when he saw the head of
one and hand Of another of the ladies
who were imprisoned in the car and ap-
/ peailng for help, projecting from the
window, while the steam was sca1ding
them, but before the roasting alive had
communicable worked his way back
into the car (hoW it is not known unless
through one of the windoyvs) IN a noble
effort to save life. But he was imme-
diately chOled and blinded by smoke
and steam, and sank down beside his
felloW-traye1ers and sufferers, and died
with tn en-"