Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-11-28
ANOTHER RAILROAD MURDER,


ANOTHER RAILROAD MURDERi
In this issue of THE CHRONICLE will
be found full particulars of the late dread
full slaughter on the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton e. Dayton Railroad. There Is some
thing so sickening in the details that We
have scarcely nerve to write about IT,; but
we must call attention to a few facts in
connection with this disaster.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
and Atlantic & Great Western Railway
companies use the same track between
Dayton and Cincinnati. A freight train
the former company is disabled about
- miles above Cincinnati, and, the New
York Lightning Express of the latter be-
ing nearly due, man is sent up the road
about half mile to signal it. This is
done and the train checked without a col
lision. The signal man then returned to
the neighborhood of the disabled train,
aythou1h the accommodation train Of the
Hamilton e Dayton road ,oos nearly due.
He was then sent back by the conductor
of the express train TO signal the accom-
mediation, and, when about half way to
where he ought to have been TO signal 1t
successfully, he met the train coming
under full head of steam. 1t being on
steep down grade, of course the waving
of signals and the engineers thrilling
calls for the brakes and the reversing of
his engine were in vain, and the engine
rushed into the sleeping coaches of the
express train, whose occupants were
trustingly relying on their murderers for
protection and safety. There seems to
have been plenty of time to warn all the
passengers off the train, but, so far as we
have read, il was not done. The duty of
arousing the sleeping passengers in the
rear sleeping coach was entrusted to n
negro, and it was done only in time for
them to be crushed and scaldCd and burn
ed to death. Again, both the Ne,O York
eapress and the Hamilton dcconamOcjd-
ton ,vcre duc.ih Cincinnati at the same
Gnle, according to the Gazette's report.
If this be true, what else can be expected
but accidents, and are not the managers
ofthe Hamilton & Dayton road as clearly
guilty of murder and as richly deserving
of the penitentiary rs the most graceless
scoundrel in It?
It is II great consolation to the friends
OF the dead and to those who were man.
gled to know that the railway officials
have investigated the affair, and that the
usual verdict, No blame can be attach
ed to any one,n has been rendered by
them. The Coroner of Hamilton Coun-
ty has also been investigating it, to be
followed, we fervently hope, by the Grand
Jury. f.. 10.
These dreadful railway murders mast
be stopped, but they never will be until
railway officials are held to n stern and
rigid accountability. If the laws at
present on our statute books are INSULT
cleut, In Gods name let the Legislature
enact such rs will consign the authors OF
such wholesale murder as this we are
writing about to the penitentiary. I'm
Ill an example or two arc made, travellers
are ut the mercy of these corporations,
who will take their money and agree to
transport them over their roads, but In
stead will hand blackened and CHASTITY
corpses over to their friends. The high
wayman who says Your money or youI
life," is respectable in comparison with
the railway company which says, Youl
money and your life. "