The Portland daily press., 1868-04-17

FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE ERIE Rail.
ROAD DISASTER.
NEW YORK, April 16.-Further details oftbe
Erie railroad disaster at Cars Point arc as
follows:
Mr.. G. G. Dixie, of Brooklyn. who is serious.
~ InJured, was In the forward sleeping car in
company with young lady and little boy
he can Tecollect ouly that he was thrown from
ms berth, and found himself unable to rise
shortly after the car reached the bottom of the
embankment it took fire, and Mr.. Dixie would
inevitably have been burned to death had it
not been for the exertions of the young lady
in his company, who, with the assistance of q
gentleman, dragged him from the burning car.
Both OF Mr.. Dikes legs were crushed. The
young lady and little boy we've not much in
jured.
The engineer states that the accident took
place fourteen miles west of Port Jervis at
Cars Point, rugged bluff, along side Of
which, 100 feet above the Delaware, the track
was excavated. The theory is that rail broke
about 400 feet west of Cars Point, the engine
and five cars passing over the fracture safely,
The forward truck ofthe sixth car then got off.
the coupling parting; this car, followed by the
remaining three, went ON a distance of 400
feet, when coming in contact with some obsta-
Gle, it was thrown down the precipice, drag
ging the others with it to the rivers edge
The train at the time was going at the rate of
from twenty to twenty-five miles per hour.
The cars which escaped were three passen-
ger one postal car and one freight car. Those
thrown over the cliff were all passenger cars,
three OF them being sleeping cars. 1t was in
fensely dark. On reaching the foot of the
Cliff two cars were found to be in the river,
and one-the last car, on fire. Several per-
sons We're extricated from the burning car, but
it is believed that at least six or seven perish
ed, and as there were over two hundred pei
sons in the seven cars, this is o low estimate it
is feared. The passengers saved did all they
could to rescue the wounded. At o'clock a
special train with five physicians arrived.
e A Port Jervis dispatch states that thirteen
persons were consumed in the burning cars
learn that six charred bodies have been re-
covered this evening, and win be here to-
night, but these ii will be impossible to identi-
fly. The dead now at the depot are fifteen in
number, one only of whom bias not been iden-
titled. A handsome boy of about fifteen years
of age was drowned; the others are coffined,
and CHASTITY sight they are. The unknown
woman reported killed yesterday, was Mrs.
Snow, of Iowa. Mr.. Lapham, editor of the Sy-
racuse Courier, was among the wounded; also,
James II. Heenan, a telegrapher, and A. Stur-
teyant, of Binghamton.
Later.-The deaths from the Erie disaster
number twenty four. Six bodies are unrecog-
nlzed. All the dead and nearly all the wound
ed remain at the place where the accident oc-
CURED. eef = f7a itTE ~ - %
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A servant named Bridget Connally attempt
ed to poison a whole family named McAlpiile.
at Hudson City, yesterday, without success
She escaped. f4 p
Charles Ward OF Amityville, Long Island,
was robbed of five hundred and seventy dol
lars by highwaymen in East New York, last
night. aa no slI.lf s4iel1tsE 81 = + 4 -
f1 ~ LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
ALBANY, April 16.-The Assembly to-day
passed the Central Underground railroad. of
New York, BILL
The bill appropriating $4,000 per mile for each
mile OF the new railroad constructed was con-
sidered in committee of the whole. A motion
to order the bill to a third reading was lost
81 to So. w
In the Senate the consideration of the Erie
railroad bill was resumed. Mr.. Pierce's amend
ment requiring the assent of two-thirds of the
stockholders to ratify any action of the COM
pany for the extension of the broad gauge rate
was lost-12 to IA. The question required on
the amendment of Mr. Chapman to legalize a
guarantee by the Erie company of the bonds
or coupons of any other railroad, necessary to
the formation OF continuous line of commu-
nication between Chicago and New York, the
same to apply to future contracts. Only two
Senator opposed the motion, but no definite
action was taken, .a va rs l18I
FORTUNATE ESCAPE FROM TERRIBLE RAIL-
lfHa -szf ROAD DISASTER. on r
Some fiend piled heap of stones on the
New Haven railroad track near 18th street, as
the 8 A. M. train from Stamford, Conn, con-
sisting of nine passenger cars, crowded to their
utmost capacity, reached 10Th street. The
tram was moving at the rate of twelve miles
per hour: The cowcatcher caught in the stones,
It's slant iron bars were wrenched from their
fastenings, the fragments of iron and stones
obstructed progress and there was q sudden
stoppage of the cars. Those standing up were
hurled madly forward, and those occupying
seats thrown from them. For few moments
there was intense excitement. Hardly had
the train come to a stand-still when a train
bound out of the city came rushing by at
high rate of speed. Escape from terrible dis
aster was almost a miracle