The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-04-23

pdrtmenI, was the next Witness
He testified to the forms of commits.
sion, of many of the agents; he then
stated what he heard at the party
which he communicated to his faith.
er the same night.
TELEGRAPHIC.
New York, Apr. Is.
The train on the Erie Road which
met with such frightful accident
this morning, left Buffalo at 2:2O
yesterday p. m. and was in charge
Of conductor Judd and Charles Doug
las superintendent of the Division.
About 3 o'clock in the morning
the officer of the postal car seen the
bell rope straighten up and brake,
conductor Judd Immediately remark
cd that he had lost his rear cars, and
going to the platform of the car the
four rear cars were seen running
down an embankment from IS to
100 feet high.
G. B. Hollenback, of Morris ILL.,,
states that he left Cleveland yester-
day morning, and while in the first
ofthree sleeping cars was awoke be-
tween 3 and 4 o'clock this morning
by violent jerk with concussion
and subsequent rolling of the car
down the embankment. On q ces
sation of motion screams of fright
and dispair arose from several wom-
en- and children occupying the car
who mad not held as tenaciously to
their berths as the male passengers
He received a few contusions but was
unconscious of them at the moment,
and in company with others at once
left the car and surveyed the scene:
The car had rolled on an inclined
plain down the bank and stopped at
q distance of 100 feet from the road.
Fearful spectacles were presented
from the centre and last sleeping
cars, the former had fallen pcrpen-
dicularly, q few feet from q culvert
in a stream below, and the latter had
rolled similarly to this car but had
cought fire from the cinders of the
stove. Both were much shattered
and blows from fragments, as the
fragments broke contributed much
towards injuries sustained. Aten-
tion was Immediately given to the
extrication of the sufferers. The
engine baggage car, smoking car and
other passenger cars went to Port
Jarves, and transferring passengers
&C., to another train and immediate
ly returned for the transportation of
the wounded.
Rollenback reached this city about
half past IL o'clock today together
with about IL others who had been
slightly hurt whose account corrobo-
rated with his own.
Mr. Blakesly, Of Leon, N. Y. who
was in one of the cars that went
down the embankment states: The
train was the Cincinnati Express due
in New York at 3 o'clock this NOR.
ming. All four Of the cars that went
over the embankment were COM
pletely demolished, and I think rs or
80 killed outright. l saw 5 ar 8 bod
les taken from the ruins quite dead,
and number wounded. The rear
car took fire from tho stove q short
time after the living persons were
removed from it, and I should Judge
there were about dead bedies burn.
ed up these in addition to dead
bodies taken out before the FIRE
reached them. The car ahead of
the one in which l was sleeping also
took fire but the flames were speedi-
ly extinguished. The catastrophe of
course took place in the darkness of
the night and the confusion and ter
ror was appalling and the horror
was greatly increased by the agoni-
zing shrieks and groans ofthe woun.
ded and dying. Many of the killed
could non be recog nized. Seven per-
sons were burned to death and six
others were killed by coming in con.
tact with jagged rocks &c.
The following are the names of
killed:
Ephraim Hoyt, Chenango Fork;
Mrs Hoyt, Chenango Fork; I'm
known man; Mary + Cobb, Homes
vile; + Blossom, saloon keeper, Sus-
quehana depot; Child of Mrs TisdelI,
Ithaca; B H Corwin, supposed Of
Geneva, N. Y. Woman unknown
commonly dressed; Boy unknown; ]
Q Durham, Binghampton; Mr. G X
Loomis, Buffalo; Elijah ]. Knapp,
Jamestown; Thomas r Princeton,
152 Broadway; SO known here have
been wounded and have been cared
for. Several slightly wounded have
arrived in this city.
Among the wounded are, G W
Howcs, Cochrane, Ind. badly; J II
Horton, Salem Wis. side and head; L
P Snow, Blakesburg Iowa, head and
breast; J r Heenan, Louisville, bad
"; J. Henderson, Rome, O. breast
badly; J Balsier, Cincinnati, face and
limbs; E r Newton, back and
breast; A L Gillett, Mercer, Pa; Mrs
A L Gillett; Mary Stewart, Mercer,
Pa. back ond face badley; ] Tenny,
st Johns, head and back; 8 children
Of S P Snow hurt seriously; Mrs P
Bailey. Loudonville 0. slightly; Da-
vid Rogers, Corning, head and
limbs; w Hager, Corning
head and limbs; Jim Dubois, boy;
unknown woman, insensible, aged
about 30 years, baggage check Sc,
New York; Addie Snow, child,
slightly; c w Douglas, division Supt
of Delaware Division, badly bruised,
on head, shoulders and back.
The wounded persons were placed
on train and brought to Port Jer-
Wis, which place was reached at 9
o'clock this morning. Several Sur
geons were Immediately summoned
and every thing done that could be
to alleviate the sufferings of the in
jured. The bodies Of persons killed
were left on the ground. Among
those wounded were two yonng Ia
dies named Maggie and Emma
Hoyt, both received serious injuries
in the breast; their brother and moth.
or were instantly killed, lived al
Chenango; Danl P Snow, of Iowa,
also injured, and his wife and one of