The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-07-21
GENERAL NEWS.

A Railroad disaster occurred July
10, twenty miles east of Lawrence
Kansas in consequence of a deluge of
rain which rushed down a ravine about
twenty feet deep, and carried away
the "bent" of the bridge, probably just
before the train reached it, leaving the
rails still in place. The engine dash
ed down, and the tender on top of it.
The next car, which was the Superin-
tendent's car, jumped the chasm, some
thirty or forty feet, landing just on the
verge of the other side. The Cleve-
land car, the one we started from home.
in, was smashed in forward, the right
side torn out and seats broken up, and
thrown upon its side, its front end in
the stream. The next and last car was
the PRESIDENT car of the indianapolis,
Cincinnati and Lafayette road, and
was but little injured, and did not go
down the bank. The engineer Glib
by) and the fireman were killed out
right Z. S. Flint was injured slight
ly internally, and cut on the head. L.
Hills was cut and bruised in the back
badly. Frank Ford was bruised III the
left breast and side. James Barnett's
head was cut and back bruised. 10
seph Perkins, Charles Hickox, and
Jesse Moore, colored waiter, were also
injured, but not badly. II. N. John
sons left arm was fractured. We arc
all at the Eldridge House, kindly car
ed for and doing well. We shall pro-
badly leave for home in a day or two.
Five others were injured more or less
badly, but are not residents of Ohio.
There were three ladies in the party
but none of them were injured.
TERRIBLE DISASTER ON THE ERIE RoA
TRAIN r n PASSENGERS
BURNED.
New York, July 15.-The officers
of the Erie Railway furnish the fol-
lowing particulars of the accident at
Mount Hope. The through freight
btund west backed on the switch to get
out of the way of the night express at
$50 p. m. from New York, but did
not clear the main track before the
latter struck. The two engines collid-
ed upsetting the engine, mail, express,
baggage and smoking cars ofthe train,
all of which were burned. There were
some emigrants in the smoking car,
five or six of whom were killed and
three bodies burned. Rev. B. B. Hal
lock, of 329 East Fourteenth street,
New York, was in the car and was
burned to death. So far as known,
six or seven were killed. The pas
sengers were transferred to another
train and sent forward at 8 Il. m.
Further accounts of the disaster on
the Erie road state that Rev. Mr..
Hallock was not hurt by the collision,
but, was injured by the broken tim
bers and slowly burned to death. A
passenger states that the freight train,
which should have awaited on a side
track on the left of the road this side
of the station, had started on before
the arrival of the express. The ell
CINE of the former had not reached the
main track when it was struck by the
locomotive of the express train, which
was running at the rate of forty miles
an hour. The engine of the freight
train was standing on a frog so firmly
fixed that it was not misplaced. The
engine of the express train struck the
station house, to which it set fire, and
then turned around and went off the
track at the left, headed east. The
tender went to the right, headed west.
The express car went down the hill to-
ward the river. The first passenger
car ~telescoped into the baggage car.
The whole train was burned except the
three rear sleeping cars. Only adozen
pieces of baggage were saved. The
freight engine stood locked into q pas
senger car. After a vain effort to put
out the flames with water carried from
the river, the passengers moved the
freight cars east. Two cars were NOV
ed at a time. Many of them were load
ed with oil.
At halfpast one o'clock this MORN
ing there was no engine at the secene
OF the accident. Some we're suffering
terribly from their injuries, and some
were past all pain. At six o'clock this
morning nine bodies were counted.
Some distressing scenes of suffering
occurred, and there were some remark
able escapes. The engineer of the ex-
press train stood bravely at his post,
and turned over several times with his
engine, but fortunately escaped injury.
Rev. MI. Hallock told his brother-in-
law he was not hurt at all, but was
wedged in. His fellow passengers used
every effort to save him, he died a
slow agonizing death, in the presence
of synipathizing friends who were una
bleto help him. A young man said his
father was burned. When the ruins
of the smoking car were removed he
recognized the remains ofhis father by
his watch and some coins.
The fault of the disaster is attribu
ted to the engineer of the freight train,