The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1868-05-02
A Horrible Scene,

The following is magnificent piece
of word painting, from a New York
paper, descriptive of the appalling
accident near Port Jeryis, on the New
York and Erie Railroad. 1t curdles
ones blood to read it: .
First let me describe the scene Of
the disaster. Had it been necessary
to select a place for this devils work. +.
a more fitting or appropriate spot
could not have been chosen than
Carr's Rock. The road here runs
along an abrupt and shelving preci-
pice. TO the right there is wooded
height an altitude of 100 feet
covered with spare shrubbory. To
the left the beautiful Delaware, n
quarter of a mile wide, chanting
musically over its rocky bed. There
stretches the gigantic shelf or gallery
overlooking Il sheer precipice of 100
feet on the Delaware, and showing
along its narrow edge enormous
natural abutments of scanned and
rivCu rock, as though they we're
placed to support the fearful path
way traversed by the trains. The
passenger in looking out of the car
windows must naturally fee! seusa-
ton Of awe as he looks down in the
stupendous depths below. 1t was at
this point that this accident happen
ed. 1t was 1928 o'clock. The night
was dark, the heat in the train op-
pressive. . In the three sleepiug.cars
a hundred persons we're slumbering,
a few in the passenger cars awake, or
doing uneasily, aud shifting about,a
is common in long railway journey
Many of those asleep in the berths
were in their night attire-youug aud
strong men, weak women aud trusting
children. In the smoking car score
of men putting at their cigars OF
drawing consolation from their pipes.
The train was travelling thirty. five
miles an hour. Suddenly death
bursts in with the speed of Lightning
upon those two hundred men, women
and children. The engine aud the
first FIVE cars have passed safely ovei
the culvert which crosses quiet lit
: tie creek that empties from plateau
7 eight feet above the river into thu
Delaware. The day car crosses
rotten rail, which snaps asunder, and
{ looseuing from the first five cars anC
. locomotive, is precipitated over tn
: embsnkment, followed by the thre
C sleeping cars, to the plateau above tn
s Delaware. The four cars tumbl
: over each other down the sloping
4 rocky wall among the loose masses q
: granite and quartz powders. Ever
}, rocky bowlder takes life. The car
}, are smashing and jumping from roc
: TO rock, and heads and faces are rive
Of beauty and life, smashed battered
n crushed and defaeed. Few are spare
IS Disagreement or deformity, an
l. thirteen lives are beaten out instantly
Al The air is freighted with grOans, sol
10 and sighs of the quick aud the dyin,
&c One poor fellow, a Frepehman, name
a Sauss, has his nostrils scraped out !
he if done by an oyster-kaife. A mi
d named Puringtou, as he bouuces fro
Is, rock 70 rock, has his eyes beaten 1
le his upper forehead torn off, and
he hole is dug out of his skull with I
be much facility as if it were sprir
to turnip. A woman named SnOw,wi
her husband and seven young Childre
Of are jammed, when they strike :
a. plateau, under heavy car; death
tie merciful in his case and does not m
NJ tilate the features smash on t
le. crown Of her head, and the lamp
d. put out forever. The husband a
he seven children live totell the pitil
tale, but are all injured more OF le
= One man has his jaw tom out, and
hangs limp by chin whisker dan
ling from the chin His fingers I
eF. twisted, torn, and burnt by the c
bers in the rear car. His eyes
Oor Ssr CLASSY and have reproachful 10,
Or There is little lad Of ten years, |
and known, with cultivated face a
'a $m rosy cheeks. There lie togeth