Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-23
65 Passengers Boiled to a Jelly
% Of the Sufferers Already Dead.
Not More than 6 or z Can Survive.
scenes of FrightfuI Agony.

BELLvuLE, CA, June 22.-The night
Express went down past this place at 1920
this morning full of passengers, among
whom many ministers of the English
Church on their way homeward from the
Synod at Toronto. About II miles below
Bellville station the engine
Jumped the Track,
carving death and fearful torture to scores
of passengers in the forward cars. The
baggage car remained on the track and
telescoped the smoking car and the second
class passenger car, leaving them on the
Top of the Engine
exposed to the escaping steam from the
boiler. Here the poor creatures Wee none
lessly penned Tor s SSne ume, breathing the
y%%ir,Jrs OF death aud suffering all the agony
Ofimmersion In
Billing CanIdrOn
of super heated water. Il. NJ. .Reddy, an
eye witness, says Immediately after the d.
saster he went to the second class car. 1t
and the smoking car we're telescOped and
on the locomotive, the steam from which
issuing from the cars was so dense that he
could see nothing. One after another Ofthe
scalded victims were
Crawling
from the openings. CroNbars were imme-
diately put into requisitiOn by the passengers
from the first class cars, all Of whom eS-
capped injury, and openings were made.
Many were found entangled and were eX-
tracted with the utmost difficulty, the tim
bers having to be broken. Five persons
were found dead and carried to the road
side, where the wounded lay for nearly
Three Hours
in the most fearful agony. DR.. Burdett, of
BeleviIle, arrived at this time and had them
removed TO the Pullman car. On their ar
rival here everything was promptly done 10
allaY their sufferings. The medical men OF
town were summoned, and mattresses were
procured, a large feight shed turned into
a temporary hospital where the patients
received every possible attention. The
medical men and their assistants are unre-
hitting in their attentions, while ministers
ofthe Gospel vie with each other in their zeal
In the administration of their sacred offices.
The sight was one to battle description.
The terrible cries of the sufferers rent the
ears of lOOkers-On, who made every posi-
BILE effort to grant their requests for water,
and their condition under the influence of
their terrible injuries was fearful to witness,
whilst prayers and the cries of premOnition
of
Approaching Dissolution
were here and there heard. After the iu-
iured arrived here some of them passed
away,a happy relief being afforded from their
terrible agOnies. Those who were least
injured walked about swathed in bandages
and cOnversed freely about the occurrence
Of the night. The express and baggage
car was forced past the broken engine with
out injuring the express messenger and bag
gage man, but the smoking car teieScOped
the second class car; the latter going for
ward,
Knocked the Safety Valve OF
the boiler and remained on top the engine,
allowing the steam to fill the second class
car, which was crowded with passengers,
many of them lumber men enroute for
Quebec. The two first class cars and Pull
man car were comparatively Uniniured and
the passengers were transhpped and went
East this forenoon.
SiXtY-fiVe men and women were feaTfuly
scalded and otherwise injured, six of whom
died on the spot and the bodies were
brought to this place. -Four more have
died and others are
Dying Every Hour.
Not more than one-third of the injured
will live. John HILBERT, engineer, was in
stantly killed and the fireman badly injured.
One of his legs viii have to be amputated.
II. Nelson, conductor, and the train hands
escaped uniujured. The wounded and dy-
ing are lying stretched on mattresses on the
floor Of the freight shed, so much disfgur-
ed as to be unrecognizable. Five Of the
who were able to walk left by the
express train for Toronto.
BELLEvILLE, CANADA, June 22-Even-
.ng.-Since the report sent this afternoon
Twelve more of the injured by the railroad
disaster have died, making
Twenty-three Dead
now and others dying. Medical men
say that not more than six or seven of sixty
i've of the injured persons will live. The
and appearance Of the wounded is
iightful. The killed and wounded are all
second class passengers. The first class
escaped uniDjured.