Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-02-08

SERIOUS RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Train Burned-Esshteen Persons Killed
and Thirty.niue wounded.

Train Burned-EsShteSn Persons AhieA
and Thirty.nine wounded.
sPoUoHKEEPsIE, n. Y, Feb. IAN oil
train bound south, broke an axle, which
was dragged along the ground until the
train reached the drawbridge at New Ham,
burg, where q collision with the piers
threw the car of. Intellectual attempts
were made to stop the Express train,
which struck the oil train, scattering the
ell which Immediately ignlted, envelop-
ing the entire Express train in flames.
The Express train consisted of locomo-
tive, one baggage car, one express car and
five sleeping cars.
The engine, baggage car and express car
were hurled into the river The draw
bridge caught fire in ten minutes after the
collision and fell, carrying with 1t the
Chicago sleeping car, all the inmates of
which perished. The following sleeping
cars were wrapped in flames, but the in
mates escaped.
The Chicago sleeping car tickets indicate
that thirteen persisted, but passengers say
the car contained twenty-five or thirty
persons, not one of whom escaped. Anoth-
er probably more reliable account is fur
nished by the Western Union Telegraph
Company, who say that eighteen were
killed outright, and many more fatally in
jured. Three sleeping cars are among those
destroyed.
A dispatch from New Hamburg says
that up to o'clock this morning sixteen
bodies had been recovered.
LATER.-The Northern and Western
passengers will be forwarded via Harlem
Railroad until the new Hamburg bridge is
built. The details of the accident are hor-
rible. There are several instances of chill
dren burned in their mothers arms. The
body of the conductor of the sleeping
L. r Iii,
found on his body he only gives surnames:
Lowell, Fowler, Pearce, Gary, Sarbish, Co.
mund, Norcrade, Rosenthal and Forbash,
eleven. This tallies with the sleeping car
tickets, sixty-five in all, of which fifty-four
are called for. The engineer, named Bash
tell, is missing. AS soon as the bodies were
raised to the surface they were placed in
heated baggage car to thaw, when their
clothing was searched for means of identi-
fication. At the latest account nineteen
bodies had been recovered, fourteen of
whom were passengers. It is thought all
have been recovered.
FIRES.
MEMPHIS, Feb. 7-Gov. Alcorn's gin
house, containing 400 bales of cotton, was
burned to-day. Loss, $4,000. insured
for $50, 900.
In the Arkansas House of Representa-
tives, three sitting friends of Clayton were
ousted, by vote of 63 to 45. A special TO
the AUoldnche says there is great rejoicing
over the result. --.------,
IuKA,5 MISS, Feb. The hotel here
was burned to-day. Loss, $50, 900.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 7.-The Smith
Brothers locomotive works, with twenty
three adjoining buildings, were destroyed
by fire to-day. Loss, $4,000.
NEW YORK, Feb. IA fire occurred at
160 Broadway to-day. Loss, over 500, coo.
RELIEF OF THE FRENCH.
The committee appointed by the Cham
Der Of Commerce of New York city for the
purpose of devising means for the relief OF
the sufferers by the war in France, have
issued an earnest appeal to the people OF
the United States for donations to aid the
desired end, either Of money or provisions.
The German army, with an able magnan-
unity, and setting an example which is
worthy of our admiration, have shared
their scanty rations with their starving
foes. Let it not be said that we of our
abundance have done less than they.
In view of the fact that last years crop
was small one and this year will be late,
the necessity for prompt action is urged,
for the sake of humanity. The appeal is
signed by Charles 81. Marshall, Chairman;
Charles Lanier, Treasurer; Arson Phelps
Stokes, Secretary. Remittances in money,
which will be transmitted to Paris without
delay, can be made to Charles Lanier,
Treasurer, No. q Pine street, New York.
Signed, J. w. Simonton.