The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-04-23
To say that the scene baffled de-

plenty OF sensation but no scene
1t was altogether too dark for the
latter. Seven of the dead were
burned to death amid the debris of
the wrecked cars, and the remain
der, known to have been six, were
killed in the descent by the action
Of the rough boulders, which stoved
bin the ribs of the huge vehicles as
they descended leaving nothing but
rubbish and skeletons to find, the
bottom. Yesterday morning the
marks Of the catastrophe were visi-
BILE on many a jutting boulder, be-
tween the ledge and the bottom of
the narrow ravine where the cars
lay-a few fragments, blistered bod
les and q few handfuls of ashes.
Five mortal hours without surgeon
or opiatc-tive mortal hours, each
OF which had an age Of pain in it to
the poor, stunned, bruised and be-
wlldered sufferers; and the wound
ed had all been gathered up and
were on their way to Port Jervis.
A ghastly regiment they we're
ghastlier was never conceived or
lpenciled even by the fantastic Dore.
Fifty four mutilations of something
human, with three hundred wounds
and bruises and broken bones rath-
erunequally distributed among them
AT nine o'clock, the relief train
having made Port Jervis, a motley
car full Of broken bones and broken
heads was landed-all the work of
simple defective rail, and all the
fault Of some contractor who had
undertaken to make defective rail
answer the purpose just as well as
one not defective These were dis
posed upon arrival in the excited
little town in the various hotels
here and there, which, be it said to
their honor, promptly responded to
the mission of mercy; and their
names were telegraphed to New
York, where a corps Of physicians
and surgeons were made up and
sent forward. A few of the less in
jured, belonging in this city and vi
cinity. and preferring to be cared
for at home, were permitted to
!, board death second time by get
ting on the ten o'clock train for the
| East. z@ .t
The dead, too, yesterday after.
! noon, had already been taken care
of and removed, though left on the
ground until later in the day.
Thirteen dead bodies had up to yes
terday afternoon been recovered,
and it was supposed that several
more had been absolutely reduced
to embers in the smouldering debris
4 of the car. This depends, however
upon the impression of the conduc-
tor; and as rail passengers are not
registered, it is not probable that
this question can be settled until
the removal of the rubbish Of the
burned cars Yesterday evening OF
late in the afternoon, therefore
nothing could be gathered ofscenes
on the night before. At the foot OF
the bluff on the one side of a small
stream (cooped by a culvert) which
empties into the Delaware La the
skeletons and broken bones of three
sleeping cars, with bedding scatter
ed here and there, and bits of frame
and panelling occasionally blotteo
with something very red, the Grim
son daubing of which suggested
that it. had beed laid on by thai
bungler and imp Of things disjoin-
ted and bizarre whose name is Gao
cident," and who manages railroads
pretty nearly according to his own
whim. Here and there were little
quids of hair, with blood on the
roots, sticking to any sort of frag-
ment which was on had to stick to
and as to cast-of clothing, there
were hats and caps, and boots and
coats, and vests and mortal coils
shuflled off very suddenly, which the
passengers would never put on again
and which, therefore, naturally ac-
erued to the Erie Railroad Company
or to any body in the neighborhood
who should appropriate them. It
was not likely that anybody would
ever put in claim for them, and
therefore therefore there was no le-
gal improperly in cenfscating. All
along: up the bluff, too, there were
suggestive marks upon the sharp
projections of a dozen little bould-
ers, every one of which had blood
! upon its hands and had obviously
had a hand (or point in themur-
der. Seven little jags projecting
from the general surface of the bluff
had each killed its man, and were
decorated with small trophies in the
form Of little clots OF blood, little
guilds of hair obviously bruised off
the head of the owner, and various
little mementoes of the night which
had preceded. No rain has washed
them off their blots-blots never be-
fore bo1ne-though the sun of yes
terday and the natural process OF
atmospheric evaporation had shriv-
elled the bits of cuticle and the clots
| of blood into dry, clinging blisters
Fupon the hard gray of the project
ing stones.
Measures were in progress for the
removal of the rubbish, which, how
ever, was ON the ground last night
though all the dead bodies, SO far
as could be ascertained from a. cur
sorry inspection, had been taken
away, and conveyed to Port Jervis,
where they were lodged in a sort of
dead house. CHASTITY enough they
were-even to the point of being un-
recognizable, some of them-though
three faces might have been noticed
which bore the photograph upon
them in wild distortions of muscle
and eyes that would not shut, but
keep staring as if they would shoot
from their sockets, of the deadly