The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-04-16

assistants did what they cud before fur
Their assistance came 20 the rescue. their first
attention being given TO those who exhibited
signs of liie With a groan one dragged h N
SELF out from beneath the mass OF rubbish,
part OF which was human and part OF which
was human workmanship; another begged
piteousy for help; another shrieked with
the pain of Commissions just beginning to be
realized, the poor bruised individual having been
half stunned with half hundred conclusions each
more violent than the preceding. 1t Is stated,
however, more hopelessly sad than all the rest that
tne greater pars o .he INJURED SO utterly bewildered
to have lost all sense Of Identity and were seconds
in compromising the situation even after they had
been rescued though gradually they recovered their
wits ana had strange tales to tell OF how they were
first walked up with jolt, and how all lights went
gu. IN the car and how they found themselves whrl
crash as the car rolled boulder which pricked
hole IN its side only to let in little damp and cold
whirling over and over with seventy-hve human be-
ings whirling over and over with It, The few who,
,1ly AWAKENED oy lot OF the car upon the tiles
situation and cling to whatever was next them
ST support we're the few who Least
the few who had the presence Of mind
to comprehend what was going on. Taken by sur
prise only h mar awake the majority were at the bot
their senses from the succession OF olts and summer
sauts to comprehend that the olts themselves were
slightly dream. All dreamed the same dream, how
ever, though with q score OF them, or nearly, the
% sav sa @ aeI b,
speaking paradoxtcay; for as one Of the facetious
wounded remarks, there was plenty OF sensation but
no scene 1t was altogether too dark for the latter
Seven OF the dead were burned to death amid the
debris OF the wrecked cars, and the remainder,
SV the Of the se
in the ribs of the huge vehicles as they descended
leaving nothing but rubbish and skeletons to find the
catastrophe were visible on many jutting
boulder between the ledge and the bottom OF
1ns the sW
Five mortal hours without surgeon or opiate-fve
mortal hours each Of which had an age OF pain in
ferers; and the wounded had all been gathered up
and were on their way to Port Jervis. CHASTITY
or penced even by the fantastic Dore. Fifty-four
mutations OF something human, with three hun
bred wounds and bruises and broken bones rather
unequally distributed among them. At nine
O'Clock, the relief train having made Port
Jervis, motley car full Of broken bones
simple defective rail- and all the fault of some con-
tractor who had undertaken to make defective rail
answer the purpose just as well as one not defective
These were disposed upon arrival in the excited little
town in the various hotels here and there, which, be
1t said to their honor promptly responded TO the mis-
sion OF mercy; and their names were telegraphed to
New York. where q corps Of physicians and surgeons
was made up and sent forward. A few Of the less
injured, belonging In this city and vicinity, and pre-
ferrng to be cared for at home, were, however per-
mitted to beard death second time by boarding the
ten O'Clock train for the East.
The dead, too, yesterday afternoon had already
been taken care Of and removed, though left the
ground until later In the day. Thirteen dead bodies
had up to yesterday afternoon been recovered, and
IT was supposed that several more had been abs0-
lutely reduced to embers In the smOuldering debrS
OF the This depends, however, upon the impress
not registered it is not probable that this Question
canbe settled until the removal of the rubbish of the
tSa cars Yesterday evening or late In
gathered Of the scenes Of the night before.
At the foot Of the bluff on the one side Of
into the Delaware lay the skeletons and broken
bones OF three sleeping cars, with bedding scattered
here and there, and bits Of frame and panelling
casionally botted with something very red the
crimson daubing Of which suggested that It had been
laid on by that bunger and imp Of things disointed
manages railroads mostly pretty nearly according to
his own within. Here and there were little guilds Of
hair with blood on the roots, sticking to any sort
of fragment which was on hand to stick to-
and as to CASTOR clothing, there were hats and
caps and boots and coats and vests and mortal coils
would never put on again, and which, therefore,
naturally accrued to the Erie Railroad Company or
to anybody in the neighborhood who should appro;
ever put in claim for them, and therefore there
no legal improperly In connscating. All along up the
sharp projections Of dozen little bouders, every
one of which had blood upon its hands and had
Ser Seven mai little a om the general
surface of the bluff had each Killed his man, and
were decorated with small trophies in the form of
little clots OF blood little guilds Of hair obviously
bruised on the head Of the owner, and various little
mementoes Of the night which had preceded. No
rain had washed them OF their blots-blots never
borne before-thOugh the sun OF yesterday and the
natural process OF atmospheric evaporation had
shrveed the bits OF cutice and the cots OF blood into
dry clinging bsters upon the hard gray Of the pro-
jecting stones.
Measures were in progress for the removal Of the
rubbish which, however, was on the ground last
night, though all the dead bodies far as could be
ascertained from cursOry inspection, had been
taken away, and conveyed to Port Jervis, where
they were lodged In sort OF imprOvised dead house.
CHASTITY enough they were-even to the point
of being unrecognizable some Of them-though
three faces might have been noticed which
distortions OF muscle and eyes. that would
not shut, but kept staring as II they would
shoot from their sockets Of the deadly terror which
had taken them by surprise, and In the throes OF
which they had died. Generally, however, the faces
were peaceful enough, though all more or less con-
tused-peaceul, in fact as though their taking or
was not to be investigated by and Jury be-
fore they could be lawfully buried. Below will be
found statements OF passengers and lists Of casual
ties.