Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-04-24
The Erie Railroad Accident.

LFrOm rev IOrk Papers, or Ihursday.l
First let me descrt be the scene of dis
astEF. Had Il been necessary to sBl-gt
a place for thus devils work, more tit
ting and appropriate spot could hot
have been chosen than Carr's Rs,t.k :
ihe road here runs along an . brtlut ami
sheiviuR preCiIice. To the fi4hL there
Is 4 wooded Gisght at an altitude of 100
feet, covered with SPARE shrubberys IO
the lett the beautiful Delaware, a duaF-
ter uf mile wide, chanung musicaiiy
over IFS rocky bed. There stletchrs
the gigantic shelf or gallery overlook hg
a sheer precipice of 100 feet on the Def
aware, and showing aiUng It's harrow
edge enormous Natural abntmrnts of
scanned and riveu rock, as though they
were placed TO support the fe ,rful patn-
way tTaVeTsed by the trains. The pHs~en-
euger in lO,,king out OF the car windows
must naturally feel Il SENSATION Of awe as
be looks down in the stIpPudOus depths
below It vas at this point that his acci-
dent happened. It WIS 3:25 o'clock. The
night was dark, the heat in the train
oppressive. In the thTt6 Sl6ebihk cars
hundred persons were aiumbtring,
few m the pass, niger cars awake, or uOz-
ing uneasIly, and shining abOuT, as IS
common in a long railway journey.
Many Of those as 8tp ia the births W., re
la their night atfire-young and strong
men, weak WOITipu and trusting chill
dren. In he SuIuking car q score of
IiIen putting at tle'r cigars or drawing
COns0iatIOn from their pipes. The train
9gGs tTGUetiag thiTfy.JfUe mites an hour,
suddenly death bursts in with the
speed OF ghIn ny u on thUse two hun
drtd men. women al d children The
enRiIe and TIE first five cars have pas
sed safely over The culvert which crtIs-
ses Il quiet little creek that eliptft-t from
Il plateau eight feet above the river into
the Delaware. The day car O. Ossrs H
J.
lOOsrDiFifE trstEI1 the first five cars and
locomotive, Is ps tiiLszLals- ever
ban * meuf, followed by the three Sleep
'n@ cars, TO the plateau above the Drsi8-
ware. The four cars tumble over each
at her down the slipping. rocky wall
among the loose uIaSses of gran ste and
quar- bowluers. Every rocky bOwIder
takes q lie. Tue cars are smashing and
jumping from rock to rock, and nPads
aud faces are riven of beauty and life,
smashed, battered, crusht and de-
faced. Few are spared Disagreement
beRten out Instantly. THE air is Ireigh-
ted with Eruans, sObs, and signs of iht.
qtnck a. the dying. One p or fellow,
a Freuchlnan, named Sauss, has his
nOCril serappd out as If dome hy an Oys-
ter knife. A man named Purinlon, as
be bounce 8 from rock to rock, has his
eyes beaten IN, his uppt forehead torn
,4ft, aud hole is dug out of his skull
with rs much facility as il it were
turnip. A woman namtd Snuw, with
ner husband and seven young cAi.drsu,
are jammRd, WIN they strike the bl2-
teau, under heavy car; death is nIer-
ciful in thus case and dos not mutitHte
the feaTurPs a sraHrh on the crown of
her head, and the lauIp is put out for
ever. TIE husband and seven ch .Idieu
live to tell the pitiful tall, but ali are
inyuFs q Iuur8 or less. One IMAM has b
- frnrrr mn If HvTs
chin Whisker dangling from the chm.
HIS fiugerS are GW list eli, torn, and burnt
toy The embsTs in the rear car. His eyes
are CLASSY and have a TtpFuacbfdl 10. k.
Tnpre is a little I'D of ten Years, un-
known, with q cultivated face, rosy
cheeks. There lie te-ether, graA ped IN
their last embrace, n man and wife,
Ephriiu and Mary HOy't, torn and mu-
tilAied, th' ir fOTeheads riv,n and fur
rOwed with traces of the Jagged rock
getting cold, with his calm, rtsOlUte
face, is g. K. LOouIis, of BufftlO, his
hair dripping with the washing sedgV
waters, ard dark streak under The
eyes tO tell how be WIS swept into the
iiImItable space of night. NOlhiBg but
a confused mass f torn tim Der, br, ,k' n
bones and bleed .ng bod res and. to add
tO the horror Of it, one OF the cars takes
fire from the scattered Goals of the
stove, and rix persUns damned in the
sgHts-iour women and two men, are
slowly reduced to ashes and calc ned
homes. Que man, named Oliver, resi-
siding at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in
your city, has beth legs bruken. He is
iammed under . Car fiat on 8 b-Ck,
and while thus undergoing uuspeaka-
ble tOrtureS, bis eyes are Fastened or a
woman alongside of hum, who is al~O
fastened by q timber whose head is
broken into fragments. The brave old
man bears neF last expiring sob, and
his arms being free, he ma es q vain at
tempt TO free himself. For two long
hours, this old mau, who is weak ana
slcklYy ! es on the COLI damp Dla eau of
mora-s before ne can be ex ricdLed.
In the mtantiine, the fifty OF sixty
persons who have escaped III the ii .
ioreEno-t cars are out endpavOring to
assist those bur ed in The ruin and
wreck of matter. The engine Is reverS-
ed, and he pEople on the cars do their
best 10 clear away the broken ard burn
ing timhers. The gray mist of The
morning breaks slowly on the river,
and, after time, the wounded. the dy-
ing and the dad. with the exception of
those burned To death, are put on the
ears, which reach Port JervIs st o'clock
n the morning. The entire TOW n, men,
women and children turn Out to assist
the suffering ONES. The Delaware,
NJ nnesInk and American Hotels 8rt.
con VPrted into Temporary b spitals,
twenty -four rooms ia thu first named
house being made to serve as hospital
wards.
Eleven surgeons belonging to the
town, as well as from neigh hOrlMg
places, have been kept busy ali day.
A great MANY OF those Injured rlih ht-
ly have gone hume. About sixty Wers.
seriously injured, and many If theuI, il
is believed W,ll die. When I left Inc
D. IawaTe House two ere speedily ap-
pIOachiug dissolution.