Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-02-17

departure for England is a request from
the British Government, which has author
lied Its Minister at Washington, in con
nection with Mr.. Rose, representative o
the Canadian Dominion, to negotiate set
tlement of the fishery and other pendin,
questions between our government ant
Canada, before our new Minister leaves fo
London.
A largely attended mass meeting wa
held in Chicago on the evening of the 4tl
to inaugurate general movement for th'
relief of the destitute French. An appea
is made for immediate contributions o
money and provisions, to be sent forward
to France.
Another accident is reported on thu
jackson g. New Orleans Railroad. Two
sleeping cars of the northern bound trair
were thrown from the track and badly
Smashed, and a large number of passen
gers are reported to have been injured
many severely. The accident occurred
near Bayou Chito, ON the evening of the
I'd.
An appeal has been published by com
mittee appointed by the Chamber
Of Commerce of New York city il
behalf of the suffering people o.
France, in which they call upon the
American people for this object, in the
sacred name of charity, and for that alone
Contributions. in money should be for
warded at once. Supplies of breadstuffs
and seed for sowing the crops in the spring
will, it is hoped, be sent by the farmers Of
the West, for the proper conveyance ol
which further arrangements will be made
Remittances inmoney, which will be trans,
mitted to Paris without delay, can be made
to Chas. Lanier, No. 81 Pine street, New
York" The committee consists of Chas.
H. Marshall, Chairman; Chas. Lanier
Treasurer, and Anson!P. Stokes, Secretary.
1t is stated that the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, will send, without charge,
any telegraphic messages between the
New York Committee of Relief and CO.
operating organizations throughout the
Union.
A horrible disaster occurred on the
Hudson River Railroad on the night of
the 9th. A Poughkeepsie dispatch says
when passing New Hamburg, an axle
of an oil car broke and dragged along the
ground till it reached the drawbridge,
when, striking the timbers, it threw the
car off it's track and upon the up-track,
and in the face of the second Pacific ex-
press train. An attempt was made to stop
the express, which was then approaching,
but there was not time enough, and it
struck the oil car, and fragments of oil
were scattered in every direction, and at
once ignited, enveloping the entire ex-
press train in flames. The express train
was composed of locomotive, one bag
gage car, one express car, and five or six
sleeping cars. The locomotive was at
once hurled into the river and the engi-
neer killed. The baggage and express
cars were piled on the top of the engine.
AT the same time the Chicago sleeping
car was one sheet of flame, and though
desperate attempts were made to rescue
the passengers, 1t is said that not one
got out alive. Two of the other sleeping
cars, next to it, were also wrapped in
flames, but the passengers in them all got
out safely, and then the bridge took fire.
In less than ten minutes afterward the
whole structure fell, carrying with it the
Chicago car, and burying it and its in
mates out of sight, under the water and
among the ruins of the locomotive and eX-
press cars. This terrible result settled all
doubts as to the probability of rescuing
any one dead or alive, and then there was
nothing to do till daylight"
The killed, as far as ascertained on the
7th, were David Simmons, engineer; DIR.
Nancreede, New York; Vosburgh, con-
ductor of sleeping. car; James Hafford, New
York, baggage-master; Vosburgh, porter
of sleeping car; Rev. Morrill, Fowler and
wife and two children, Batavia, n. Y;
Mr.. Benedict, editor of the Cleveland
Herald, w. G. Curry, Erie, Pa. L. A.
Root, A. A. Gillett, Messrs. Lowell, Ros-
enthal, Manuel and Forbush Mrs. W. F.
Pease, Buffalo; Rollin Germain, Geo. F.
Thompson, E. Lawrence Mooney, brake
man, New York city.
1t was reported in New York city on
the Sth that four more bodies-one that
of Western merchant, it is presumed,
from papers found on his person-had
been discovered at New Hamburg Up to
that date the victims seem to be twenty
one, but it was probable that others would
be found. Vosburgh, the conductor, was
so dreadfully burned as to be almost un-
recognizable.
A large fire occurred at 'Tioga, Pa, on
the 9th, by which forty buildings, nearly
the entire village, were destroyed.
Grave apprehensions were entertained
in Washington on the 9th with regard to
the safety of the Tennessee, which con-
veyed the San Domingo Commission from
New York. She had been twenty-three
days out, and no intelligence had been re-
ceived of her from any quarter. A rumor
ON the 9Th that the Tennessee had foun.
dered, and that all on board were lost, was
not confirmed A Havana dispatch Of the
9th says nothing SO far had been heard
from the missing steamer.
A dwelling house in Northampton
Township, Pa, burned on the night of the
10th, and two children persisted, and Their
mother was seriously burned.
Accounts of the recent terrible accident
on the Hudson River Railroad charge
great inhumanity on the part of some OF
the railroad employees in their treatment OF
the dead bodies recovered from the wreck
A Poughkeepsie correspondent of the New
York Times of the 9Th says "All the
stories previously told of the inhumanity
displayed are, in part, true. This is partly
chargeable upon the railroad laborers, but
more so upon the flends who swarmed
like vultures, around the bodies, robbed
them, broke open trunks, riiled them ol
their contents, read letters found upon
the bodies with jeers, and indulged in
various vulgar deviltries, There was nc
control exercised over them until Mr.
Charles Bullock, the Cold Spring station
agent, drew his revolver, and drove them
away. Mr.. H. G. Eastman, of Pough
keepsie, also rendered valuable service in
enforcing order" ...