The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-12-20
AWFUL ACCIDENT.
Two Passenger Cars Fall off
a Bridge.
One of them Burned Up With
Its Inmates.
Fearful Loss Of Life,
List of Killed and Wounded.
IBY Telegraph.l

List of Killed and Wounded.
by Telegraph
BUFFALO, n. Y, December 19.-An
awful accident occurred yesterday p. NJ.
on the Lake Shore Railroad, twenty
one miles from here, near q place called
Angola. The train from the west, due
here at l:30, to connect with the train
going east, ran Off the track. One car
was thrown down bank thirty feet,
coach was burnt up and some thirty
persons consumed by fire; another coach
went down a ledge about twenty feet
and twelve or thirteen passengers Killed
and number wounded.
AS soon as information of the accident
reached Buffalo word was conveyed to
our physicians, and by four o'clock a
number Of them had reached the depot,
and in company with William Williams,
President, and K. n. Brown, Superin-
tendent, and other officials of the road,
took the train at five o'clock, and the
scene of the accident was reached by
seven, the bridge crossing Big Sister
Creek, about one-quarter of a mile east
of the village of Angola. The train to
which the accident happened, as before
stated, was on the Lake Shore Road.
The New York Express, from Cleve-
land arrived in this city at 1:30 P. NJ,
but was two hours late, having been
detained by broken bridge on the
Cleveland & Toledo Railroad. 1t was
composed of three first class passenger
cars and smoking car and two baggage
cars and was under the conductorsbip
of MI. Frank Sherman, of this city.
Silver Creek was the last station stop
ped at prior to the accident, and Angola
was passed about three o'clock. The
train was going at its stated speed of
about twenty miles an hour from An
COLA TO the bridge over the Big Sister
creek; however, the road is down
grade, and it is possible that the train
was going at geater speed than that
above, when the casualty occurred.
Be that as it may everything was ap-
parently alright when the bridge was
reached, and when the train had crossed
half way over, fearful jerk was OK
perienced by those on board, and the
next moment the rear coach was de-
tached and went plunging off the bridge
and down the abyss to the ice, a dis
tance of thirty or forty leet The brakes
were at once applied, but before the
train could be stopped the coupling of
the second coach had become broken
and it too had got off the track and
rolled down the embankment, landing
on its side ut the bottom. So suddenly
h-d oil tnis nappencu JnaU uv vuo of the
inmates of either of the coaches had
time to make their escape, and without
n moments warning some forty or fifty
persons were hurried into the presence
of their Maker.
The scene which was presented to the
inmates of the other cars when the
train was stopped was a fearful one.
The car which first went over the preci-
pice took fire instantly and before any
person could get to it the flames made
rapid headway and in few moments
was all ablaze. Those persons on the
spot proceeded to render all the assist
ance they could, but only some four or
five persons were saved from the burn
ing car. The remainder, some forty or
fifty men, women and children, were
consumed with the car while n por-
tion of the passengers had escaped in
jury. Some gave their attention to the
burning car and the balance attended to
the other which had also taken fire. For
tunately the flames in the latter instance
were extinguished before they had
much headway and as rapidly as posi-
ble the injured, dead and dying were
taken from the burEiRg car and with
the few rescued from the burning coach
were conveyed to the residences near at
hand.
How many perished in the burning
car it is impossible as yet to say, and
very probable 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 rescu-
ing the half dozen or so Of persons
before the fire was under full head
way.
No attempt was made last night to
disturb the remains of those who per-
ished in the burnt car. That will be at
tended to this morning.
The following are the names of the
dead, as far as known:
Jasper FULLER and wife, Spartansburg,
Pa; Mr.. Graves, and W. II. Ross, North
east, Pa; Z. B. Forbush, Buffalo, pat
ent agent; Mrs. w. Freeman, Norwich,
Del; Mrs. Mary Shedden and child,
Cerfu, n. Y; j. B. Haywood, North
east, Pa; Frank Walker, son of julius
Walker, Buffalo; two men, names I'M
known; Mrs. John NJ. Strong, Buffalo;
Mr.. Hubbard, st. Catherine; an un-
known woman badly injured.
The following are injured:
Mrs. Christiana Lang, Minnesota,
injured about the head and body; W. G..
Patterson, Oil Creek, cannot recover;
Mrs. Fisher, Minnesota, badly injured
and insensible; Chas. P. Wood, Buffalo,
seriously injured; r. Z. Rebsee, Tren-
ton, Tenn, badly hurt in the back and
also inwardly; Mrs. Mary Sheldon,
Corfu, badly injured; H. L. Fisher,
Minnesota, in dangerous condition;
w. ii. Moore and wife, Iowa, seriously
injured in the back and head; Mary E.
Sayles, and Miss Maria Taylor, both of
Corfu, both seriously injured but not
dangerously; Henry Jackson, Illinois,
badly injured; Miss l.. N. Babcock,
Syracuse, seriously; S. +. Howard,
New York, leg broken and cheek in
iured; j. r. Babcon, Syracuse, \. Y,
bruised, not dangerously; middle aged
man, unknown, dying; Robt. Steward
and wife, Oneida CO., n. Y, slightly in
iured; VIII. More, Iewa, head and body
bruised; Robert Retrenburg, Albion,
seriously injured; Eugene Howard,
Buffalo, slightly.
A few 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, slightly injured: c. W.
Crescoe, Iowa, head and side; Rudolph
Lane, Crescoe, Iowa, head; Garrett Hur-
die, Cory, Pa, head and internally; VI.
Copeland, Minneapolis, Mimi, head;
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