, 1869-07-16
RAILROAD Dis 5TER.
Terrible Accident on the Erie
Railroad.
4 hight Express Train Wrecked
and Burned.
Mint feTsols Clushed or Burned ID
DEATH,

new YORK, July 1a-The night erpress t,aIu
on tne IHe Railroad from this city, last night ran
into freight tta!n which ha4 l,een Ieft partially
on the tt2ck, instead Of Side truck, about thtftJ
niles from CARR Rock. The engine, tender bag.
Na2c caI, express chr, smoking car, one passenger
and smashed ons oI III SHAPE TGe be- snilntsrs III ed
cal1a and fragments Of tlmf,er1 came Into contact
with scattered IRE from tue locomotive, and q
cou1aUFatIou tnHucd, in HAIch the tfnbeY9, bag
gIEc aud woundcd IaaksenGern al went 10 feed
the flan1ea- Seven carr we're destroyed md Alx
ssnSeTs were tlem ScW Yorx and one o. t1s e t.
poAed to be Rcr. Denl u. Hal!cck.
Another despetch sa5s aA the through na4 was
buyDed IN tte Post O1lca car.
ACCOUNT GiyEH DT OPF1CERG or TIE n0lp.
NEW fnKk, july 1t,-0ticelH Of the Enc Hai-
WAY fnt1Ish the following sccount Of the &ccideut
The through freight train, hound wcst. backed
on the sWiieh 10 get ont Of the way Of The night
express Rt $50 ?. H. from New York, but did not
clear the main track betore the Latter struck, The
TWO engines coltd!ng, upset the engine or the eI-
prcss tram With the LaSgnKe and smoking cAyx.
~ three Of Hhich were hnlred: There wcre some
were killed, and three bodies burned.
Rev, l. u. Halloek, Of eea East Fourteenth
death. So fas as known, ~ or sesen were Killed.
The passengers were Transferred 70 another
train and Lent fornRId ut . = a.
Ne" ioEE, July 1h-FuE1hcr accounts Of tho
disaster on tie Erie I:oad state that Rev. Mr. Hal
lock was not hurt bY tue collision. bnt Hu tamncd
death.
a passenger states THAI the freight train, which
should have awaited on side track on the left Of
before tie arrival Of tho express Tne engine Of
the former hAd not reached the n4ain track when
l. WIS s'1gck Y the Iocomot.s. Of the express
ens.ne ot ise trcsst tra.n ~ was e0fi s..ndins nns
The enSns Of shs express san sruee n1t tbe
house, 10 which It set nre and then TUNED around
and y tnt on the track to the left headed cast.
express car vent down hiu towards The river. e.
The nrst paz.enGsr car te!escoped into the bag
three rear sleeping cars. Only dozen pieces Of
bagEngc were savGtl The freight engine stood
locked into q passenger car.
wafer CARED from the rtyer, he passengers
moved the freight cars cast. THo cars were
moved at a time Many OF them Here loaded
with gu. At halfrast ] O'Clock this morning
Eone were suffering terribly from their Injuries;
Eome were nast oil paln. At O'Clock this morn
fcenca OF suffering occaIr1rg, n1d thers were
somr remarkable scenes. The engineer Of the
cypress tram stood hEasely u bis nost, ami ruFn-
so osef seSesl ttines with Its engine, but lortu-
Rev Mr. GallecI toId his brother fr,-law he was
BOT hurt ut Ill, Int was wedged Ii. Ills fellow
died u allow. agoniZsng death, in the presence Of
synpathtzing friends. who we're unable 10 help
A 5ouug German EAId his father Has tlurupd
When the zui1ls Of the smoking car rerc removed
watch md some coins. '''' ~ '''' '~'A~' y A''
The thult ot the disaster is a,trihuted to the
engineer Of tie freight train, Who started Out l'-
fore tte e1nFess 1ain passed him Lie has dis
a German lost his wiic and three children. lie
escaped without Injury.
Tie through mill md rcp1stcred letters for
Cleveland we're destIoYEd The xxy mall Hut
Haved through the cxcE1tons t1 tho Two asenta
Mekhss Spencer md Nicholson.
MIST Hone, tho scene Of tho catastrophe. is In
rlIc CoIiutv, pcppsYlyanta, 1]moet seven miles
caat ot Cars Rock. anil about ten rods Ssurn tho
uelap at4 River At tho right OF the trnck cptuR
wcst there IL h rocky dcctIyity Of about nftccu
feet,
LIFT oy k1l1EpAHp ;SJyRKp,
poK1 Jrrv,n, July ls.-Thc folio log IA n list Of
thc k,llra nni rounded Of the accident Ut Noun.
lIpTr on the Eric lkntlTp2l, tAl9 uoruiuR;
RiikI-Wyr, ii Ii, IIallcCr, Of Now York c.ty;
David I.ats, (irrm4n culiEr1pt: q German NO.
man und two children. names unknown, mud sew
cral aihers whose chAl7cd bo,iieS hare moi Uccu
HnUndfL--fhaticH UaPF. German cnigrRnf.
travelling Nrts, only alightly wounded Ills
faittI, baFd lfaeT, ~ns Killed nnd burned in the
smuAinQ car. GotfTl't1 Grnua, Gcfman c1n!Rraut,
had en:a1 boEn LII the 1tR liEokctl. Thcrp 4rc no
Dthcr seIlouo ln1rI1c. reported. Ms. d. Went
worm, 1f HhnHofpH, Vt" 10sk, VIM ufllscd IN