The Portland daily press., 1870-05-14

only New England name in the list of wound
had au arm broken. The whole number of
killed is nineteen and thirty wounded, fifteen
of whom are seriously and eight dangerously
so. j. p. Jackson the engineer of the pas
senger train, says his train was over half an
hour late at Eureka. The next regular tain
at that place was told that they had twenty
minutes OF the express train time, when Con-
ductor Dubois, on the engine, said, "all right,
go ahead" The train lett Eureka slowly
and proceeded Gully one mile when he saw an
extra freight train dashing around the bluffs
under full Roadway, only 5000 yards off. Jack
son whistied for the breaks to be reversed gave
her sand and told the conductor and fireman to
jump, and in IN instant after the trains came
together. Jackson was hurled over a wood
pile thirty feet on the other side of fence and
seriously hurt.
The collision occurred on a filling fifteen
feet high The blame of the collision is at,
tached TO William Ador. conductor of the
extra freight train, which should have waited
until the extra train passed. He did not I'M
derstand the orders, or thinking he could
reach Eureka before the passenger train went
on.
The Republican gives the following descrip-
ton of the collision and wreck The express
train consisted of five passenger cars and one
baggage Car. The freight train was long and
heavy. At the point where the collision oc-
CURED is an embankment fifteen high and the
road curves badly so that approaching trains
cannot see each other until close together. A
boy standing beside the engineer (Jackson)
was the first to the smoke stack Of the APP
preaching freight train entering the curve at
the east just as the express Sraiu entered at the
west He directed the attention OF the en-
gineer to the danger. the brakes were i'm
meJiately whistled down and the engine re-
versed by which the speed of the train was
somewhat checked but no application of human
power could prevent the shock. The two
engines met with tremendous crash, reared
from the track, and fell into disiointed trag
ments. The baggage car and two forward pas
seDger cars OF the express train on one side and
the tender and several box cars of the freight
train on the other were reduced to ruins and
splashed with the blood of forty human beings.
The two engines We're driven with such force
into each other that it was almost impossible
after the collision to distinguish the parts of
one from the other. The crushed cars were
| damned together the cars being shivered into
long shvers while the truck irons were bent
| into indescriEable shape and rolled down the
| embankment The rear cars of the express
| train shared in the coucussion but escaped the
| fall over the embankment The engines are
| both on the same side Of the embankment and
are heap of fragments while all around is
| confusion and ruin. The baggage car and the
one next to it were shivered as it by an Internal
| explosion.
SENATOR REvELs Grafton, at Cooper In
stitute on Wednesday evening drew out large
audience. The subject was the Tendency of
the Age" and the Senator's remarks are thus
| outlined:
The two great elements of modern civilza,
| ton were Aristocracy and Democracy, the one
| clinging to the medieval past, and the other
| leading to the grandeur Of the future. A ma
ton mirrorel itself in its literature as an
| author mirrors himself in his own works
| What formed the man formed the multitude.
de held that this country was to be the theatre
| OF the final and complete disenthralment of the
| human mind. Everything in our country, in
| our institutions, In our moral training, aud in
| our circumstances, pointed in that direction
He said that the wrongs of the Indian and the
negro would demand the future attention OF
this country. Popular seif-government is the
| true history of democracy. Long before Sum-
ter was fred upon this people was passing a
fiery ordeal. The aristocratic element was es-
| seniiall, the caste principle that the few should
govern the ignoble many. Gentle blood, he
| reditary rank, color of skin, have q large place
| IN its court and its vocabulary. 1t stopped t.
sound of praise ond loyalty. The democratic
| element Is born of the people. and is possessed
OF no class, no color of skip. and 10 blood Its
| tendency goes to secure liberty of conscience
aud liberty OF thought. The Governments o.
the Old World were compelled to recognize in
me New giant OF the age, merely on account of
Its democratic doctrines and institutions. He
| referredto the liberastc tendencies OF England
| by stating that Lord Chancellor of England
| at the present time was a Roman Catholic
| Liberation was the tune to which the Old
| World countries were beginning to march
| he hoped that God would haste the day when
the down trodden should enjoy the same avail
aole privileges claimed by the aristocracy, and
that the time would come when there would bf
a common brotherhood. He said that educa.
sl39 HNaShh the great Lever which was to elevate
i duu euoDlt Tue
he mentioned the feelings of gratitude which
his race would forever cherish toward the Re
| publican Party.