The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-04-25
Terrible accident on the Erie Railroaa
a Train Preoipitated One Hundred
Thirteen Bodies Consumed in
the Burning Cars.

a IRAN EE6CIp1gageQ IAe zluutsAsA
+ Feet-ThiTteen Bodies Consumed in
/ the Burning Cars.
NEW York, April ia train on the
/ Erie railroad, which left Buffalo twenty
minutes past two yesterday afternoon, In
charge of Conductor Judd and Chas- Doug
/ lass, Superintendent dieisiou-eonsistiBg Of
an engine and tender, three sleeping two
first and one second class. two baggage and.
one postal cars, proceeding on time making
usual stOppage until IN the evening, when
the passengers went into the sleeping cars
for the night About 3 A. n. Nr Ames and
Ar. Horton, Of the general post Office. IN
charge of the pestai car, saw the bell fape
straighten out and break IN two, when Mr.
Judd, running, remarked that he bad lost
his rear cars. They ran to the platform Of
the car, where the four rear cars were seen
running down precipies from IS TO 100
feet high The scene OF the accident Is
thirteen miles beyond Port Jarvis. on the
Delaware division of the road. The sides
of the precipice are formed of jagged rocks.
In thedescent the cars were Rr0ken to pieces.
At the bottom IS a c0lvert through which
HoWs stream Of water emptying into the
Delaware river The impression prevails
that the disaster was caused By a broken
rail, which threw the rear car from the
track This displaced three cars running
whole were preeipitated down the embank-
ment
Conductor Judd aud Superintendent Doug
lass were slightly injured. The cars, IN going
over the embankment, turned several times
before the bottom was reached, and were
neurly demolished. The sleeping car was
entirely consumed by Ere The passengers
aboard of the cars left standing on the track
Immediately began to rescue the wounded
and remove the bodies of the killed Many
Of the latter could not be recognized. Seven
persons were burned to death, aud SIX others
were killed by coming In contact with jagged
rocks. The wounded persons were placed
on train and brought toPort Jarvis, which
place was reached at nine o. clock this morn
ing Several surgeons were Immediately
summoned, and everything done that would
Ia any way relieve the sufferers. The bodies
Of persons killed were left on the glound.
a Port Jarvis dispatch states that there
were about thirty wounded and twenty
lives lost The people at Port Jarvis threw
open their houses, and the ladies Of the
town rendered all the assistance Ia their
power. Mr.. Blakely, of Gleon, Ksx York,
who was on the cars that went dowR the
embankment states that the train was.the
Cincinnati express, due IN New York at
eight o'clock this morning All fouref the
cars that went over the embankment were
completely smashed and I think tYentg.fve
" Ai4lEt1 -A4lsG4 GIts4Etlh- Saw I've lS NIX
ladies' taken from the ruins quite dead aad
a number wounded.
The rear car took Ere from the store q
short time after the living were removed
from it, and lshould Judge there were about
seven dead bodies burned up. There were
il addition three dead bodies taken ont be-
fore the FIRE reached them. The car ahead
Of the one inwhieh I was sleeping also
took fire, but the flames were speedilyse eZva
ffrugTfaha Cd ha of
took place in the darknesssof the night, ana
the confusion and terror was appalling, and
the horror was greatly ineFeased By tho
agonizing shrseks and groans of the wounded
and dying
b Phillips, Presidens Of the Michigan
Southern railroad, and Charles M. Gray,
/ General Freight Agent of the same road,
were on the. ill-fated Erie train yesterday. :
The killed and most Of the wounded ara at =
the depot at Pert JARVIS. Half deze1.
physicians are there from this city Tho
engineer OF the=tTaln says the accident oe-
CURED fourteen miles west of Port jarvis,
at Carr Point, n rugged bluff, along ihoside
Of which, one hundred and fifty feet above
the Delaware, the track was ezea7ated. Tho
story IS that rail broke about four haadred
feet west of Cars Point, the engine and
Eve cars passing over the fracture safely
the forward truck Of the sixth then cot oil, &
the coupling parted, aad this car, followed
by the remaining three, went on four han
dred feet when, coming in contact WitE
some obstacle, it was thrown down the spree-
ipiee, dragging the others with It to the
rivers edge. The train was going at tbs
rate Of twentg to twenty-five miles per hour.
The cars which escaped were three passen-
gen gars, one postal car and one freight car .
Those thrown over tie eiih were ali paseen-
ger cars, three being Sleeping cars il was
intensely dark. On reaching the foot of tho
bluff two cars wera3ound to be in the river
and one the iast car on fire. There were
over two hundred persons iH the seven cars
A Port Jarvis dispatch late last night says
1t Is stated there that thirteen persons wafe
consumed IN the barning ears six bodies
were recovered last night Among tho
wounded are TurneY Lapbom. editor Of che
Syracuse Courier; Al SturtevanA, Of the
Binghampton Standard and James r Hee-
nan, Of Louisville 9. C. Dixie Of Brook
iyn, was coming from the w est Ia company
with youRg lady, who by strenuous ezer-
tons saved him. His legs are badly crushed.
and he would have burned to death withous
her aid
PoRr JARVIS, April I5.-P M-TEe aeefie
Of the disaster on the Erie railroad baiiies
descriptions The immense height Of the
embaakment and the character of the ground
rendered the calamity terribly fatal The
wounded are horribly mutilated-the broken
1tmbs and gashes forming iedIful sight,
Several will die Of their wounds The loss
Of life viii not be less than forty or fifty.
The names Of the Southerners do not appear
among the list Of killed aDd wounded.
=o-4s--es----
The Nashville Gazette pitches into Mem
phian in the following style:
A fellow signing himself ] 81. Campbell,
who seems to have been the cause of the ar
rest of some so called Kukluxes in Memphis
a few days since, comes out in card deny
ing that be was stool pidgeon Of Beau
monts. A more complete case Of sell con
ction we have seldom seen. Claiming 70
have stood SO high IN the organization that
he was nominated twice for Grand Cyelops,
he says: That this was Ku EIux den
do not knew" Again he writes: They