The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1868-05-01

Forty or Fifty kiIieu-AS Many
More Woun ,ed--Thirteen Persons
Burned to DeRth-The Terror and the
New YORK, April Is.
The train on the Erie Railroad, which
left Buffalo Mt twenty minutes after two
Yesterday, F. NJ, in charge of Conductor
Judd aud Charles Douglass, Superintendent
Division, and ingine, tender, three sleeping,
two irst-class aud one second class, two
baggage and one postal car, proceeded on
time, making the usual sloppage until
evening when the passengers entered tho
sleeping cars for the night. About three
O'clock this a. NJ, Mr.. Ames, and Mr..
IIoslen, of the general Pos!olfice in charge
of postal car, said that the bellrope had
Strengthened out aud broke in two, when
Mr.. Judd imme ediately remarked to an officer
that he had lost his rear cars
They ran to the platform of the ear, when
the four rear cars were seen running down
precipce from seventy.hve to ono hun
dred feet high.
The scene of the accident is thirteen
miles beyond Port Jervis on the Delaware
side of the road. The sides of the preclpice
are formed of jagged rocks, aud in their
descent the cars were broken to pieces,
At the bottom is culvert, through which
fuws stream Of water cmptyug into The
Delaware. ...,..4
The impression prevails that the disaster
was caused by a broken rail- which threw
the rear car from the track. This dis.
placed three cdrsimmedately front, aud
| the connections breaking, the whole were
precipitatcd down the embankment.
Conductor Judd aud Division Superin.
tendeut Douglass were slightly injured.
The cars, in going over The embodiment
turned several tiaies before the bottom was
reached. aud were nearly demolished The
sleeping car was entirely consumed by fire.
The passengers of the cars which were
LETT standing on the track Immediately be.
gan to rescue the wounded and remove the
bodies of the killed. Many of the latter
could not be recognized. Seven persons
were burned to death, and six others were
killed by coming into contact with jagged
rocks &c.
| Mr.. Hollenbach. of Morris, Illinois, makes
the following statement: He left Ceve-
land yesterday forenoon, and while in the
FIRST of the three sleeping cars, was awoke
between 3 aud O'clock, in the morning, by
jerk, with oo1cussion and a subsequent
rolling of the car down the embankment.
On cessation Of the motion screams OF
fright Hnd pain arose from several women
and children occupying the car, who had
not held as tenaciousiy to berths as the
male passengers. lie received few con
tusions, but was unconscious of them at
the moment and in company, with others
at once left the car and surveyed the scene.
The car had rolled ou an iHeliped plane
down the bank, aud stopped at distance
Of one hundred ioet from the road Fear
| ful shrieks issued from the center aud last
sleeping cars. The former had fallen per
pendicularly fifty feet, from a culvert. into
the stream below, and the latter had rolled
siDuonsly to this car, but had caught fire
! from the ciuders OF the sloye. Both were
much shattered, and blows from the frag-
ments as the cars broke contributed much
toward The iujurss sustained. Attention
was Immediately given to extricatng the
sufferers, and the engine, baggage car,
smoking car and one other passenger car
went 10 Port JerYie, and after transferring