Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-05-06
Erie Railway slaughter.

Erie Railway Slaughter.
We take from the New York World
description OF the recent accident at
Carr's Rocks, New York. The details
are almost too sickening to be read:
First, let me describe the scene Of
the disaster, so that your readers NAV
understand its details. Had it been
necessary to select a place for this
devils work, more fitting or appro-
pirate spot could not have been chosen
than Cars Rock. The road here runs
along an abrupt and shelving precipice.
To the right there is a wooded height
at an altitude of 100 feet, covered with
spare sbrabbery. To the left the beau
titul Delaware, quarter of a mile
vide, chanting musieaiiy over its rocky
bed, which lies equidistant between
Pike county, Pennsylvania, and Sulli-
van county, New York. There stretch
IS the gigantic shelf or gallery over
looking a sheer precipice of 100 feet on
the Delaware, and showing along its
narrow edge enormous natural abut-
ments of scanned and river rock, az
though they were placed to support
the fearful pathway traversed by the
trains.
The passenger, in looking out of the
car windows, must naturally feel
sensation of awe as be looks down into
the stupendOus depths below. The
river is sublime, but terrific. 1t was at
this point that this accident happened
this morning, which has deprived
twenty persons of their lives, and ias
seriously injured sixty others 1t was
5;25 O'Clock; the night was dark, the
beat in the train oppressive; in the
three sleeping-ears hundred persons
were siumbering; a few IN the passen-
ger cars awake or DOING uneasily,
shifting about as Ia common in a long
railway journey. Many of those asleep
in the berths we're in their night attire
young and strong men, weak women
and trusting children. In the smoking
car score of men putting at their
cigars, or drawing consolation from
pipes. The team-engine tears through
the threatening space of night, itsiro
front'all aglow, its brazsn throat emit
ting steady scream, and the silvery
Delaware, one hundred feet beneath,
sings the same romance it did three
hundred years ago to the Lenni-Lenape,
when locomotives were not. The tram
10Gs travelling thirty fge miles an hour.
Suddenly death bursts in with the
speed of lightning upon those 200 men,
women and children. The engine and
the fiVe first cars have passed safely
over the eulvert which crosses a quiet
little creek that empties from a plateau
eight feet above the river into the
Delaware. The day car crosses a rotten
rail, which snaps asunder, and, loosen
ing from the five first cars and locomo-
tive, is precipitated over the embank-
ment, followed BY the three sleeping
cars, to the plateau above the Delaware.
The grim terror, Death, is now busy
reaping his harvest. The four cars
tumble over each other down the slo-
ping. rocky wall among the loose mass
- of granite and quartz boulders.-
Every rocky boulder takes a life. The
cars are smashing and jumping from
rock to rock, and heads and faces are
riven of beauty and life, smashed, bat
tered. crushed and defaced. Few are
spared Disagreement or deformity and
thirteen lives are beaten out instantly.
The air is freighted with groans, sobs,
and signs OF the quick and the dying,
and the smooth Delaware flows quietly
along, while it receives as tributaries
the oozing. triekling rivulets of blood
and hquifed brains. 0ne poor fellow,
a Frenchman, named Sauss, has his
nostrils scraped out as if done by an
Oyster-knlte. A man named Purinton,
As he bounees from rock to rock, has
his eyes beaten in, his upper forehead
torn on, and hole is dug out Of his
skull with as much facility as if it were
a spring turaip. A woman named
Suow, with her husband and seven
young children, are jammed, when
they strike the plateau, under a heavy
car; Death is mereiful in his care and
does not mutilate the features a smash
On the crown of her head, and the
lamp IS put out forever. The husband
and seven children live to tell the
pltltul tale, but are all injured more or
less. One man has his Jaw torn out,
aud il hangs limp by a chin Ehisker,
daOgling from the chin. His fingers
are twisted, torn, and burnt BY the
embers IN the front car. His eyes are
CLASSY and have a reproachful Look
There Is little lad of ten years, un-
known, with a cultivated face, ROSY
cheeks: Death struck him gently, aud
ne lays by the surging Delaware's
bank, with q placed smile on his
features, after humping his childish
head from rock to rock downward.
There lie together, grasped in their
ast embrace, man and wife, Eohraim
and Mary Hoytt, torn and mutilated,
their foreheads riven and furrowed
With the traces of the jagged rock
points. The quiet streets of Chenango,
-UU miles away, buried in the shades
IT lofty hills, shall never see them
lgain. Alone, stiffened and fast getting
odd, with his calm, Fesolute face, Is e.
Looms, Of Buffalo. his hair dripping
Win the washing. sedgy waters, and q
lark streak under the eyes, to tell how
be was swept into the illimitablesp pace
'f night. Nothing but confused mass
II torn timber, broken bones and
bleeding bodies; and, to add to the
horror of it, one OF the cars takes FIRE
rom the scattered Goals of the stove,
nd six persons jammed in the seats
our women and two men-are slowly
educed to ashes and calcined bones.
)h, the pity of II One man named
)liyer, residing at the Fifth Avenue
1otel in your city, has both legs bro
,en- He is iammed under a car, fat
n his back, and while thus undergoing
lortures, his eyes are fast
ned on a woman alongside of him, who
J also fastened by a timber, whose
cad is broken to fragments. The
rave old man hears her last expiring
Do, and his arm being free, he makes
vain attempt to free himself. For
gO long hours this old man, who is
eak and sickiy. lies on the cold damp
lateau of morsss before he can be ex-
,icated.
'AN OLD REB, " as he styles himself,
rites as follows to the Richmond Err
miner: (: The principles for which the
1uth fought, and for which she was
l.