The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-05-14

| The miSs0uP1 P&clnc Railroad DiSaS-
teF-Further Particulars Of the
| Terrible C0IliSIOn-Additi0na List
OF YietIms-GraphIc description Of
the Accident By Newspaper Re-
porter.
ST. LOUIS, May 13.-The train
bearing the bodies that were killed
By the collision yesterday, arrived
about o'clock this morning. The
Coroner will hold an inquest at once.
The following additional names COM
plete the list of killed: James NJ.
| Smith, Seymour, Ind; Mr.. Ballen-
tine, Sedalia. Mo-; A. S. Flint, john
son County Mo; young man, sup
posed to E r Spsuldipg. Boston: G.
w. Tucker, Waterville, Ks; Chris
tian Rodenburg, Leavenworth; e R.
| Wilson, residence unknown; VIM
Taylor, of the firm Rest, Tenner,
Smith & Co New York; Jos. D. Me-
Kee, of Anderson, Ks. The only
additional names of wounded are,
Ira Z. Warner, express messenger;
and Maria Clark, colored.
The Republican reporter gives the
following description of the collision
and wreck:
The express train consisted of FIVE
passenger cars and baggage ear, and
the freight train was a long, heavy
one. At the point of collision, there
is an embaukment fifteen feet high,
where the road curves so sharply that
two approaching trains can not see
each other until close together. A
boy, standing beside the engineer,
Mr.. Jackson, vas the first to observe
Al l. or Al 1.
freight engine, entering the curve at
the east, just as the express tram en-
tered it at the west end. He pointed
to it, and directed the attention of
Mr.. jackson to the danger The
brakes were Immediately whistled
down, the engine reversed, and the
speed of the train somewhat checked;
but no application of human power
could brake up the heavy freight
train and bring it to bait under a
half mile
1.-The two engines rushed at each
other like malign and enraged mon
sters-grappled with a tremendous
crash-reared from the track In a
mortal wrestle, and fell into helpless
and diejointed fragments on the
ground The shock was terrible.
The tender. baggage car, and the two
forward passenger cars. of the ex-
press train, on one side, and the
tender and several box cars of the
freight train on the other, rushed into
the crash with their respective eu-
gines, leaving a frightful ruin. spat-
tered with the blood of forty human
beings, entrapped and mutilated be-
meath its shameless mass
The two engines were driven with
suth 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
jammed together, the cars being shiv-
cred into long slivers, and the seats,
wheels, trucks and irons pleaded into
an indescrib1ble heap, that rolled off
down the embankment. The three
rear cars of the express train shared
the concussion, but escaped the fate
of the two forward ones. After the
collision they we're found standing
stiff and still on the track with their
brakes close up showing that the
brakemen had done their duty we'll
in responding to the engineers whis-
tie before they leaped from the train.
impossible to view without absolute
horror A soldier passenger said, I
have been IN many battles, but never
saw so sickeuipg sight 1t was
chaos and death combined The en-
gines (both on the same side of the
embankmentl were but heap of
battered fragments. while around on
all sides was the confusion of ruin
twice confounded The baggage ear
and the next one to it were shivered
as if By an internal explosion, and the
mass of broken timbers, iroD rods,
wheels and other portions Of the cars
looked like the frantic work of some
internal agency"
LATER.
ST. LOUIS, May 13.-The Coroner's
Jury has been taking evidence in the
collision case most of the day, but
nothing new has been elected.
The body of Andrew w. Strattou.
of New Brighton, Pa. was claimed
this morning, and viii be sent home
for interment.
Frank Holt, who, with his little
daughter was. Killed. was en- route
from some point in Kansas to West
field Ohio, to see his sick wife. in re-
sponse to a telegrqphic summons.
His little boy, Miron, who was also
on the train, and somewhat hurt, is
now at the residence of NJ ID. Lewis,
near Glencoe, Mo. where he will re-
main until sent for.