The Lincoln County herald., 1867-12-05
TERRIBLE RAILROAD CALAMITY.
On the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton.
Atlantic 4 Great Western. and DAY.
ton 4 Michigan Railroads.
rOCR w0MEy AND A NAV BURNED TO
DEATH.
fc,ne,noau Commercial, Nov, 2e.1

DEA7H.
tCincinnati Commercial, Nov. %.
The really terrible calamity Of which
We have to write occurred yesterday
morning on the railroad commonly known
% The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton,
but which 10 used, 10 common, BY several
roads, Q short distance above Lockland,
at about . quarter Of six o'clock. The
darkness Of early morning was at that
time and place, made impenetrable BY q
dense fog that had held It's place the
night through. It happened that an sx.
ira freight train OF thirty.six cars, drawn
BY the engine "Brecket," was obliged to
halt On, and north and south Of, the
bridge shove the l.ockland station, owing
to the breaking Of the engines pilot.
The engineer Immediately sent back .
man to flag the express train that he
knew was following him--s combined
Eastern and Northern express, made up
Of tho passenger coaches Of the Atlantic
and Great Western railroad, through from
New York, and of the Dayton and Mich.
igan road, from Detroit, connected at
Dayton. This train loft Hamilton ut
twenty.seven minutes after five, and took
about twenty minutes to reach the bridge.
The fagman's lights for this train were
in good time, and it was
promptly halted.
THE DEATH TRAP.
Here, then, behind tic freight train Of
thirty six cars, and within o couple Of
rods Of the caboose, stood the oogine
n ,Iof q train Of ten cars-two OK.
press, two baggage, two Atlantic and
Great Western sleeping coaches, two At.
lautic and Great Western passenger
coaches, Dayton and Michigan sleeping
coach. The Dayton ani Michigan sleep.
ing car vas the last Of this second train,
and next to it was the Dayton aud Mich.
igan passenger. All the cars, save the
last, we're filed. In the car sat (for those
who had occupied bcrths had risen and
made their toiletD four ladies aud two
gentlemen. One Of these gentlemen was
Mr.. Allison, the car builder. The other
was unknown. Three of the ladies ap.
peared to DO intimate, and sat together.
The fourth appeared to have made their
as she occasionally spoke tu
them. She. however, sat by herself, in q
seat on the other side from them. This car
was the death trap, and all these ladies
were soon roasted to death.
PRECAUTIONS THAT FAILED.
As soon as the train haltod, its conduc
tor, William II Sitter, gave orders to his
fagman, theodore Cress, to start back
with light-"lo as fast as he could and
as fur as he could" and stop the Hamil-
ton accommodation and freight mixed,
that was follwing rapidly, and would soon
be up With them. Cress was seen to start
back at rapid pace, bearing red light
and white light. While he went on his
errand the conductor walked down along
the freight train its entire length, Of
nearly twelve hundred feet, to see what
damage the Brebket had sustained. lie
then started back, and had walked only a
third of the distance in return, when he
realized that something was wrong.
Three quarters Of q mile away, in the
darkness aud through the fog, was coming
q train Of sixteen cars two passenger
and the balance freight-whizzing along
with the speed of much steam and steep
grade. lie heard the whistle of brakes
on once, aud knew that the aagman's sig.
nal had been noticed. He heard the
whistle again and wondered that it should
have been repeated. He heard it third
time, saw the dim glitter of a swiftly sp.
preaching head light, and knew, although
he could not comprehend why, that death
and destruction were at hand.
TIE CRASH.
Whistling the brakes down, turning its
wheels with reversed motion, doing all
that it could do to avoid itS fate. tho
franklin, an unwilling agent Of death
slid along the wet rails, propelled BY the
momentum Of its train, and plunged half
its lsngte into that rear sleeper" The
crash was terrible. Instantly nearly all
the passenger cars were jammed into each
other, aud the Stesdman was drivan into
the caboose of the freight train. In two
Of the cars people were writhiug under
the tortures Of torn limbs and bodies but
in that last car death was revelling. Mr.
Allison escaped, but there we're four wo.
men and . man imprisoned between tim
bers and pannels, bleeding, ,Sasping and dy
lug, one with her eptrails torn out, and
another with her head cut Of.
sCENEs OF HORROR.
II this was terrible that which ensued
was horrible. While the bewildered and
frightened passengers in the other ::cars
were being released, the steam scalding
bot, was parboilng these mangled victims
and tho smoke was choking them, and
soon there was q wh,rl of 6rc through
their car, from the engines head light Of
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