Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-20
BY TELEGRAPH.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.


Dreadful RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Cars Burned. and About Thirty Per. |
sons COnsuned-Twslve or Fifteen |
Killed and WOunded-SeVeral Ten. |
nesseans Among the Number.
BUFFALO, Dec Ian awful accident |
occurred yesterday evening on the Lake |
Shore road, twenty"one miles from here,
near a place called Angola. The train
from the West, due here at LEO, to connect
with the train going East, ran off the
track. One car was thrown down an en-
bankment distance of thirty feet. The
coach burned up, and some thirty passen-
gers were consumed BY the fire. Another
coach went down ledge about twenty feet
and twelve or fourteen passengers were
killed and a number wounded. As soon
as information of the accident reached Buff
falo, word was conveyed to number of our
physicians, and by o'clock a number of
them had reached the depot, and in COM
pany with VIM. Williams, President, and
X. L. Brown, Superintendent, and other
officials of the road, took & train at five
O'Clock for the scene of the accident, and
reached the bridge crossing the Big Sister
creek, about a quarter Of mile east of
Angola. The train 10 which the accident
happened was on the Lake Shore road.
The New York Express from Cleveland was
due in the city at 1870 P NJ, but was two
hours late, having been detained by bro
ken bridge on the Cleveland and Toledo
railroad. Ii was composed Of three first.
class coaches filled with passengers, and
the smoking car and two baggage cars,
under the conductorship of Mr.. Frank
Sherman Of this city. Silver Creek was IL e
last station stopped at prior to the accident,
and Angola was passed about 3 O'Clock, the
train going as it is stated at speed of
about twenty miles an hour From An
COLA to the bridge over the Big Sister creeF,
however, the road is a down grade, and
possibly that the train was going at a
greater speed than that mentioned when
the casualty occurred. Be that as it may,
everything was apparently all right when
the bridge was reached and when the train
had crossed half way over, a fearful jerk
was experienced by those on board, and
the next moment a coach was detached, and
went plunging of the bridge, and
down the abyss to the distance
Of about thirty or forty feet. The
brakes were at once applied, but before the
train could be stopped the coupling of the
second coach had become broken and got
off the track and rolled down the embark
ment landing on its side at the bottom.
So suddenly had all this happened that
not one of the inmates of either of the two
coaches had time to make his escape, and
without moments warning some forty or
| fifty persons were hurried into the presence
of their Maker. The scene which was
presented TO the eyes of the inmates of the
other ears when the train was stopped was
fearful one The car which first went
over the precipice took fire instantly, and
before any person could get toit, the flames
made rapid Roadway, and in a few mo-
ments was all ablaze. Those persons on
the spot proceeded to render all assistance
they could but only four or FIVE persons
were saved from the burning car. The
remainder some forty or fifty men,
women and children were consumed
with the car. While portion of the pas.
sengers who had escaped injury gave their
attention to the burning car the balance
attended TO the other which had also taken
fire. Fortunately the flames in the latter
| instance were extinguished before they had
made much Roadway, and as speedily as
| possible the injured, dead and dying were
taken from the car, and with the few res
cued from the burning car, were conveyed
to residences near at hand. How many
persisted in the burning car it is impossi~
bic as yet to say, and probably will not be
known for some time. The place where
the first car struck after being precipitated
off the bridge, was difficult Of access, and
! after rescuing the half-dozen or so persons
| before the flames had made much headway,
no attempt was made last night to disturb
the remains of those who persisted in the
burning car.
| The following are the names of the dead
as far as known: Jos. Fuller and wife,
Spartansburg, Pa; Mr.. Graves, w. H.
Ross, Northeast Pennsylvania; f. B. For-
bush, Buffalo,N. Y. Mrs. w. Freeman,
Norwich, Del; Mrs. Mary Sheldon and
| child, Corfu, N. Y; ]. B. Haywood, North
east Pennsylvania Frank Walker and son
Julius, Buffalo; two men, names unknown
Mrs. John M. Strong, Buffalo; Mr.. Hub
bard, St. Catherine; an unknown woman
badly injured.
The following are the injured: Mrs.
Christiana Long, Minnesota, injured about
the head and body; w. G. Patterson, Oil
Creek, injured so he cannot recover Mrs.
Fisher, Minnesota, badly injured and is in
| sensible; Chas. p Wood, Buffalo, seriously
injured R. E. Russell, Trenton, Tenn,
badly hurt in the back and also inwardIy ;
Mrs. Mary Sheldon, Corfeu, n. T., badly
injured A. E. Fisher, Minnesota, in a
dangerous condition; W. H. Moore and
wife, Iowa, seriously injured in the back
and head Mary Sayles and Marian Sayles,
Corfeu, both seriously injured, but not dan
gerously; Henry Jackson, Illinois, badly
Miss l.. M. Babcock, Syracuse, seriously /;
s. E. Howard, New York, leg broken
and chest injured Ira Rabcock, Syracuse,
bruised, but not dangerously; middle-aged
man unknown, dying Robt Stewart and
wife, Oneida county, slightly injured w.
III. Moore, Iowa, badly bruised on head
and body; Robt. Rivan, Albion, seriously
injured; Mrs. Hamlin, Buffalo, slightly
injured; Engineer Howard, Buffalo, slight
ly injured. Many others whose names we
could not learn, were in other houses in
the neighborhood injured, but the number
was not great, probably eight or ten in all.
The following persons were brought TO
Buffalo, all slightly injured: c. w. Lane,
Crescoe, Iowa, head and side; R. Lane,
Creseoe, lows, head; Garrett Hurdle, Cars
ry, Pa, head and internally Michael
Copeland, Minneapolis, Mimi, head W.T..
Gregory, Syracuse, chest; Isadore Mayer, N.
Y, agent Madame Ristori, head and back /;
A. H. Thomas, Rochester, leg broken; r.
Z. Morris, New London, Conn, head and
back Minnie Mccarthy, Lowell, Mass.
head and side; w. l.. Pelton, New York, ,
head and body Mrs j. Tymson, Keuesha,
I Via, badly cut about the head w. III.
Fuller, Utica, head and body.
In addition to the above, the following
received slight injuries: r. M. Russell,
Franklin, Tenn. ]. Brown, Buffalo ].
Cuyer, New York ; j. G.. Kirb, Salem,
Mass. Mrs. J. H. Thomas, Brooklyn.
Among those on the train were &ephen
| Stewart, of Corey, Pa, President Of the
Oil Greek railroad, whois missing. Geo.
B. Flershium, of this city, expected on
the train has not been heard from fears
are entertained for his safety. Frank
Sherman, conductor of the train, was in
jured in the shoulder and head He came
here on the 9 o'clock train last evening.
Every arrangement possible for comfort
was made by the officers of the road, who
have been uneeasing in their vigilant stten-
| tion to the welfare of the wounded.
| An examination of the road showed thai