The evening Argus., 1868-04-16
By Telegraph.
sxponrrp FOR TIE DAILr ARGUS.
TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCl-
DENT!


at 900 p NJ. and was in charge of eonduc-
tor Judd and Charles Douglas, superintend'
ON, of division. About three o'clock IN the
morn;no the officers of the postal car saw
,ho hall rome straighten out and break. Con
a.,,,,nr Indel Immediately remarked that he
nod lost his rear cars. On going TO the
,Iatform of the car the four rear cars were
soon running down an embankment 75 TO
On feet high. G. r. Hallenbach, of Morris,
m states that he left Cleveland yesterday
,,,orn;no. while in the first of 3 sleeping
cara was awoke between and o'clock
this morning by a violent jerk, with con
cussion and the subsequent roihng OF the
car down an embankment. On cessation
of motion, screams of fright ana despair
arose from several women and children oc-
cunyinp the car, who had not held as tena-
ciouslv to the berth as the male passengers.
He received few bruises but was uncon-
scious of them at the moment and in com.
nanv With others at once left the cars aud |
snryavad the scene. The car had rolled
down the bank and stopped at distance OF
I00 feet from the road. Fearful shrieks
arose from the centre and last sleeping cars.
The former had fallen perpendicularly lew
feet from a culvert in a stream below, and
the latter had rolled similarly to this car,
but had caught fire from cinders OF the
stove. Both were much shattered and the
blows from fragments as the fragments
| broke. contributed much towards the inJu'
ries sustained. Attention was Immediately
Given TO extracting the sufferers, and the
| engine, baggage car, smoking car ana other
/ nassenger cars went to Port Jeryis, and,
| transferring the passengers &c, to another
train immediately returned for the transpor-
,at;on of the wounded Mr.. Hallenbach
reached this city about half past Twelve
o'clock to-day, together with about twelve
others, who have been slightly hurt, whose
accounts corroborated his. Mr.. Blakesley,
of Albany, New York, who was in one car
that went down the embankment states that
| the train was the Cincinnati express, due IN
| New York at o'clock this morning. All
four of the cars that went over the embank-
ment were completely demolished. Mr..
Blakesley thinks 25 or 80 were killed out
right. He saw ) or ladies taken from the
rnins quite dead and a number OF others who
were wounded. The rear car took hre from
the stove a short time after the living per
sons were removed from it, and he judged
, there were about dead bodies burned
} There were in addition 5 dead bodies taken
ont before the fire reached them. The car
, ahead of the one iu which he was sleeping
3 also took fire, but the flames were speedll!
extinguished. :.
The catastrophe, of course, took place II
the darkness of the night, and the confusor
and terror was appalling, and the horror wa:
:, greatly increased by agonizing shrleks an(
groans of the dying Many of the killeC
Q could not be recognized. Seven persons
d were burned to death and six others wer'
killed by coming in contact with the rocks
q The following are the names OF the killed
| | Ephran Hoyt, Chenango Ford; Mrs. L
Hovt, Chenango Ford; unknown man Ma
ry L. Cobb, Hornellsville; +. Blossom, sa
II loon keeper, Susquehanna depot; child O
Mrs. Tysdell, Ithaca; n. b. Corwin, SUP
posed from Verona, n. y woman unknown
? commonly dressed boy unknown =.
q Durham. Kingston Mr.. c. X. LOOMS, Bu
falo;F. ]. Knapp, jamestown, n. y +; Tho:
r. Princeton, l52 Broadway, n. Y.
Fifty two are known tohave been wounded an
have been cared tor. Several slightly wour
ded have arrived in this city. Among tn
wounded are Gov. Hawes Cochrane, badly
vfJ. FL. Horton, Salem, Wisconsin, SIDE al
: head; II. P. Snow Beaksbury, Iowa, hea
& breast; A. r. Henan, Louisville, badiyiJ
Henderson, Rome, Ohio, breast, badly JOB
Bslsire, boy, Cincinnati, face and limbs +
/ r. Newton Corning, Pennsylvania, back an
I breast OH. Gillett, Mercer Pa, Mrs. u. /
. Gallett, Mary Stewart, Mercer, Pa. back al
face badly j. 7. Ranney, St Johns, hea
and back three children of L. P. Snow, hu
seriously Mrs II. Bailey Logansville. Oh
h. slightly psrid Rogers, Corning, head an
We limbs; w. Hager, Corning, head and limbs
John Clubers boy unknown woman abo
7 80 years of age, her baggage was check
. SOC New York Addie Snow, child shgt
"; c. W. Dugiass, division supL Dciewal
! 4 L 14E-= n
back. The wounded persons were plac'
on the train and brought 10 Port Jervl
which place was reached at 8 O'Clock th
Z. a. IN. Several surgeons were immediate
summoned and everything done that cou
be to alleviate their sufferings. The bod
of the persons killed we're left on the grour
among those wounded were young lsdi
. named Maggie and Emma Hoyt, both
seived serious injuries in the breast. Ih
father and mother were instantly killed, tn
, lived in ChenanCo; Daniel p. Snow OF 10
was also injured his wife and one OF
os- children were killed three other children
capped with only slight injuries.
4th Mr. Fenow and family, on their way
California, and Mr.. Horton, postal age
|. T. appeared at the post-ofice to-day, cover
,; with blood, caused BY assistance render
lin rescuing the wounded. The engineer
the train reports that the accident occur
at Carr's Point, a rugged bluff, alongside
l which, l50 feet above the Delaware,
track was elevated. The theory is tha
rail broke about 400 feet west of Cal
e1- Point, the engine and five cars passing o
the the fracture safely. The forward truci
susi s the sixth ear then got of, the coupling p
M the ing this car, and, followed by the remand
went ON about 400 feet, when, coming
contact with some obstacle, it was thrc
7. down sprecipiee dragging the others wit
= to the rivers edge The tram was goinl
ne the rate Of 20 to Is miles per hour.
UC cars which escaped we're three passeu
cars, one postal chr and one freight cal
Those thrown over the cliff were all pass
oity. ger cars. 1t was an intensely dark m
On reaching the foot of the bluff two
i. we're found to be in the water, and one OF
last cars on FIRE. There were over 200
sons in the seven ears. A part of the
i'll, ! Wis dispatch late last night says: 1t is
ls OF ed there that thifteen people were consu
.s;ah s?n in the burning cars. Six bodies were
can can covered last night. Among the wounded
ilass Guerney Maphon, Engineer, of Syrac'
reby A. l.. Oliver, from Cincinn
who James Hanlon, Louisville; Geo. I
and Frenchman c. Z.
s,.a- ,n- of Brooklyn, was coming from the w ives