The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-02-11
A Frigh.ful Railroad Accident.
The Hudson Rtvor Express Trail Runs
into a burning Oil Erafn-Ehfrty
Persons known to be Killed.

into Burning Oil Trafn.Thirty
Persons known to be Killed.
PoUGHkExpsIE, N Y. February THE
following particulars of horrible railroad
accident. at Newhanlburg, on the Hudson
River Railroad, have been received: An
uil-traiu. bound north, caught fire near the
bridge at that place at late hour last night.
The express train came along and ran into
the oil-train. catching fire also. The oil
train set fire to the bridge, and the combined
weight Of the two trains broke the bridge in
two, and the cars fell through in a mass Of
wreck and confusion. Several persons were
unable TO get out of the cars when the crash
occurred, and were burned to death or
drowned. The engineer, conductor and
brakeman of the express train are known to
be killed. The scene st ths track Is fearful.
corps Of engineers from this city have
rived to attend the wounded and dying
Three sleeping cars are among those destroy
ed. Eighteen persons are Known to have
been killed outright, and many more are IN
ured. no names have yet been ascertaiued.
SECOND DISPATCH.
ALBANY. n. Y, February IA dispatch
has been received ip this city from Mesers.
O'Brien, Roche and Prince, members of the
legislature, all detained by the disastrous &C
cident which occurred on ths Hudson River
Railroad, near Poughkeepsie, last night
These gentlemen escaped without injury,
but the safety OF the other assembiymen.
who were on the express train when the &C
cident took place is uncertain. A report is
current in the city that telesrlms have been
received from the scene of disaster stating
that upwards OF thirty dead bodies have not
vet been identified, and fifteen mere are yet
partially imUa6ded in the debris. The work
of removing ths bodies vas taking place
when the last dispatch left. Great excite
ment prevails in this city over the news.
THE sCENE-CHASM OF DEATH.
A field of ice stretching away to the right
for miles, calm aud unrufflcd, and the noun
tans rising dimIy gray Leyoud; another
and lesser patch to the left, and at your feet
au abyss Of two hundred feet across. filled
with confused heap of black and charred
fragments. with broken beams aud with
posts still upright and firm, but grim, burn
cd and Tseking with foul cdor and the
fumes Of oil. This mass is looming here and
there for four or Eve feet above the water,
which is brown and filed with fragments of
discoored ice, and now and anon you see
particles Of dress or q coat Or a cloak. And
down beneath all this, under two fathOms
Of water lies a sleeping car containing thir
ty-three cEarred and maDgled bodies, which
last night were hriul full OF hope ard life.
! On the margin Of Tie ice, and on p'anks
placed on the debris, sturdy, earnest and be
gTimed men, employees Of the railroad com
pauy and villagers searching with ropes
aud hooks for the bodies of the dead. At
last, when the light becomes stronger and
their number is increased a body is found.
1t is evidently Jew. once a handsome man.
but POW how horrible 10 look upon Now
that they have found the proper locality
they draw forth another victim, and then,
one after another, they successfully raise to
the surface and bear out upon the ice the
/ body of mother and two little children
found clasped in her arms. The eldest Of
the Jews found next after him, and
ve.y near. lie is stouter and shorter. His
face wears fearful expression, giving him
the appearance of one who had been strau-
gled, and his tongue is thrust half out of his
mouth, between his cenched teeth. He,
too, was found with his face down, and the
back of his head was burned almost to a
coal.
y woman, supposed to be the wife of Rev
Morrill, Fowler, was next found. clasping
her children in her arms. Unlike those
found before, her face and not the back Of
her head was burned. She was lying on
her back and her face has the perfect ap-
peaTance OF skull cut IN charcoal. the lips
being opened, disclosing her teeth, white
and seeming to grin. Lying in tbs car, on
the floor, one child, little girl of elk years,
is yet within her embrace, and the other, q
babe Of sixteen months,i is seemingly creeping
upon her bosom.
Near this woman now lies the body Of
another, dressed ia silk robe. with lace
cuffs and linnen collar. a gold chain is
suspended from the neck and attached to a
watch (gold). and bearing an inscription,
and she wears diamond ornaments and rings.
1t is rumored that this is Mrs. Peasc, Of
Buffalo, though the inscription in the watch
would lead one to believe that her name is
Perry.
Among the rest, the body of a woman her
two children clasped in her arms, was drawn
out. The husband and father had left them
only moment Lefors to go to the smoking
car. and escaped uninjured The mother, as
well as one of the children. was badly burn
ed, and the other child haG been drowned.