Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-04-16
NEW YORK.

NEW 0BK, April lo.-Ine Train on tne
Erie road, which left Buffalo twenty
minutes past two p. M, in charge of Con-
ductor Judd, and Charles Douglass, Su.
perintendent, with an engine, tender,
three sleeping cars, two first class cars,
one second-class car, two baggage cars
and one postal car, was proceeding on
time, making the usual stoppages, until
about three o'clock this morning,
when Mr.. Ames and eMr. Horton,
of the General Postofiice and in charge of
the postal car, saw the bell rope straight
en- out and break in two, when Mr.. Judd
Immediately remarked to one of the Off
GERS that he had lost his rear cars. They
ran to the platform car, when the four
rear cars were seen running down preci-
pice, from seventy-fve to one hundred
feet high. The scene of the accident is
thirteen miles beyond Port Jarvis, on
the Delaware division Of the road. The
sides of the precipice are formed of
jagged rocks. In their descent the cars
were broken to pieces. At the bottom
is a culvert, through which flows
stream of water emptying into
the Delaware. The impression pre-
walls that the disaster was caused by a
broken rail which threw the rear car
from the track, This displaced three cars
Immediately In front, and the connec-
tons breaking, the whole were precipi-
tated down the embankment. Conductor
Judd and Superintendent Douglas were
slightly injured. The cars in going over
the embankment turned several times
before the bottom was reached, and we're
nearly demolished. The sleeping car
was entirely consumed by FIRE. The pas.
sengers in the cars left standing on the
track Immediately began TO rescue the
wounded and remove the bodies of the
killed. Many of the latter could not be
recognized. Seven persons we're burned
to death, and six were killed by coming
in contact with Jagged rocks. The
wounded parsons we're placed on train
and brought to Port Jarvis, which place
was reached at 8 o'clock this am. Sew
eral surgeons were Immediately called,
and everything done that could be to al
leviate the sufferings of the injured. The
bodies of the persons killed were left on
the ground,
A Port Jarvis dispatch states that fifty
of the wounded are there, all injured
fatally. tits now stated that twenty lives
were lost. The people at Port Jarvis
threw open their houses, and the ladies of
the town rendered all assistance in their
power, Mr.. Blakesky, of Obion, New
York, who was on one of the cars that
went down the embankment, states that
the train was the Cincinnati express, due
in New York at eight o'clock this morn
ing All of the four cars that went over
the embankment were completely
smashed, and Il think, twenty five to thirty
killed outright. saw five or six bodies
taken from the ruins quite dead. A
number of wounded in the rear car took
fire from a stoVe abort time after being
removed from h. should judge there
we're about seven dead bodies burned up
in addition to the three dead bodies
taken out before the FIRE reached
them. The car ahead ofihe one in which
l was sleeping also took FIRE, but the
flames were speedily extinguished. The
catastrophe took place in the darkness Of
the night and the confusion and terror
was appalling. and the horror was
greatly increased by the agoniziug
shrieks aud grDsns Of the wounded and
dying
PoRT jaws. April Is, p.m.-The
scene at the disaster on the Erie railroad
bafies description. The immense hight
Of the embaukment and the character Of
the ground render the calamity terribly
fatal The horrible mutations, broken
limbs aud gAshes form a fearful sight
Several viii die Of their vOunds The
loss Of life will not le less than forty or
6hy. The names Of SOutherners do not
appear amOBE he lisi Of killed and
wounded
NEv YoEK. April le-Mr. Phillips
President ofths Michigan sOuthsrn rail-
road, and Charles NJ Gray, General