The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-04-17
--LATEST NEWS By CABLE.
GOLD CLOSED IN NEW YORK 1888.
RAILROAD DISASTER.

n NEw YoRK, April Is.
The train on tho Erie road, which met
with the frightfnl accident this morning, leff
Buffalo at 2:20 yesterday afternoon, and was
in charge Of Conductor Judd and Chsrles
Douglas, Superintendent of the Division.
About five o'clock this morning the officers
of the postal cars saw the bell rope straighten
out and break. Conductor Judd immediate
y remarked that he had lost his rear cars
Going to the platform of Abe car, the four
rear cars were seen running down an EN-,
bankment from IS to 100 feet high.
g. B. Hollenbach, Of Morris, H., states
that he left Cleveland yesterday morning,
and while in the frst Of the thrss slssping
cars, was awoke, between three and four
O. clock this morning, by violent jerk, With
: conclusion and Subsequent rolling Of the
car down An embankment. On cessation
of the motion, screams of fright and despair
arose from several women and children oc-
cupying the car, who had not held Is stSenu-
onsly 70 the berths a the male passengers.
There were few contusions, but We were un-
conscious Of them q the moment, and the
company, with others, at once left the car,
and surveyed the scene. The car hsd rolled
on an inclined plane down the bank, and
stopped at distance of one hundred feet
from the road. There we're fearful shrieks
from the center and last sleeping cars. The
former had fallen perpendiculariy few feet
from culvert into the stream below, and the
latter had rolled similarly to this car, but had
caught FIRE from the finders from the stove.
Both we're much shattered The broken
fragments contributed much towards the In
juries sustained. Attention was immediately
gwen to the extrication of the sufferers, and
the engine, baseage cars and smoking car,
- IL -
Jarvis, and transferring the passengers, &C.,
% ano.her train, mmedisssiy rstarnsd for
the transportation Of the wounded.
Mr.. HolIenbach reached this city about
half-pAst twelve o'clock to-day, together
with about twelve others who had been
slightly hurt, and whose accounts corrobofa-
ted his own.
Mr.. Blakesly, of Olean, New York, who
was in one of the cart that went down the
embsnkment, etates that the train was the
Cincinnati Express, due in New York at 8
o'clock this morning. All four of the cars
that vent over the emhankment were COM
pletely demolished, and thiak % to 80 were
killed outright. / saw Eve Or six ladies taken
from The ruins, quite dead, and nanber
wounded.
The rear car took FIRE from the stove short
time after the living persons were removed
from it, and should judge that there were
about seven dead bodies burned up. There
were in addition three dead bodies taken out
bpfore the fire reached them. The car ahead
81 the one IA which vas sleeping also took
fire, but the flames we're speedily extin>
guished The catastrophe Of course took
place in the darkness of the night, and the
confusion and terror was sppalling, and the
horror wsa greatly incre ssed by the agonized
IL L. ~ ~ vwr,.v, 4 al nd dwsn
Many OF the killed could not be recognized.
Seven persons we're burned to death, and Six
others we're killed BY coming in contact with
the jagged rocks.
The following are the names Of the killed j:
+. Hoyt, Chenango Fork; Mrs. e. Hoyt,
Chenanso Fork unknown man; =. Cobb
Honeryille; 3. Blossom, saloon keeper. Suf-
quehanna depot; child of M. Trudell, ltha-
c.: b. II. Corwin, supposed to be from Ge-
neya, N. T.; woman unknown, and common
" dressed boy unknown; j. 0. Durham,
Einahampton Mr. c. K. Loomis, Buffalo /;
Elijah j. Knapp, jamestown, N. Y; ThoA
4. Princeton, 1p2 Broedway.
Fifty-tvo are known 10 have been Fonnd-
ed, and have been cared for. Seyerelof the
slightly wounded have arrived 10 this CITY,
Atnoue the vonaaed are; g. W. H0&es,
CochIsne, Ind, badly; s. Il. Horton, Salem,
Wis, s.de and head 1, 2. enox, Beaksburg,
lows, head and breast; ]. =. Henan, Louis.
vile, hadly; ]. Henderson Rome, e.. breast.
badly; John Bolsier, boy, cindnnati. hes end
limbs q. 4. Newton, Corning, Pc, back and
breast; Al. Gilisss ant 1.ss Stewart, Mer-
Ger, Pa, back and face, badly f. L. Kenny,
q, Johns, head and back; three children OF
.. r encv wsre hurt ssrionsiyi Mrs. =.
| Bsiisy, Loudonville, O., slighsly: D. Rogers,
L h>nA ~n1 Ev.ka. NJ sVp.
nins. Head and limbs; 3phn dubois; boy
unknown; unknown woman, insensible, aged
| about thirty, with bag6nss check sos. New
York; Addie Snow, : child, slightly; G. W.
Douglass, Division Superintendent Delaware
Diyision, badly bruised on tho head, shoald'
ers snd back.
The wounded persons were placed on the
! train and brought to Port Jarvis, which place
was resched q nine o'clock this morning.
| Several sprgeons we're Immediately snm-
moned, and everything done that could be to
allay the sufferings of the injured. The bod,
| iss Of he persons killed werc left on the
ground.
Among the wounded we're two young la
dies, named Massie and Emma Hoyt Bosh
received serious injuriss in the breast Their
| brother and mother were instantly killed;
| lived at Chenango. Daniel P. Snow, ofIows,
| was also injured, and his wife and one of biz
| childran we're killed; three other children es.
cspsd With only slight injuries. Mr. 6npv
| and family were on their way 70 cAliiornia.
M. Hostoa, postal aGsut, Appeared q the
| Post Once to-day, covered With blood nps-
ed By assurance rendered In rescuing the
wounded.
| The engineer OF tie tfain repos4s flsa&e1hs
accident occurred at Carry's Point, 1 rufeed
bluff along the side of which is al5ofsss abovs
! the Delaware. The track was excaysted.
Tho tkeofD u that ! rsii bsoks abous 100 ket
west of Garry's Point, on the Delaware; the
epeise and fivs eaes passing 0ser ~ fracture
safeiy. The forward truck Of The 1ixth car
tEea Sot u - tss1, the eeop1Ne paRtiug,
the car, followed By tho ts1ieniAg tAree,
went On 80 ofbet, vhen oomi y eoefAct
With soms obsts1ctions, + - s0sn eoun
~ pesclpics, draegise - oeasgs - +, %
| the river edge. The txaia - foleg - ~
rats of twenty 70 twenty ~ milee - ke1g.
The cars which escaped - -
cars, one possal and ens ~ IhDd
thrown over IL cli6 we're II I'D
three slespsng cars. Itso feee
On ssanhiig The fset 81 - 4era
/ wefe found D ~ iA the q - - - - =
| e.r, "a sse. TAsrs sers = =. J. =
/ A Port Jarvis dispatch. - ~ ul 81 ~
! il h ststsa thew that tkitsaoa pGiGl6 80
consumed IN the bsrsin6 -. ~ bsgSes