Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-07-05
A CHAPTER OF HORRORS.

Terrible Accident on the Grand Trunk
Railroad, by which Twenty-three Human
Beings Meet an AgOniz ing Death-Frfsht-
full Collision on the Pittsburgh, WASH
ington and Baltimore RailrOad-Fearful
Explosion in New York.
% THE GRAND TRUNK HORROR. 1855
A terri BILE accident occurred on the Grand
Trunk railway, near Belleville. Canada. on
June %, by which some twenty-three human
beings met an agonizing death. The details
of the calamity are of the most shocking and
heartrending description. The accident re-
suited from the locomotive jumping the track.
The baggage-car remaining on the track, tele-
scoped the smoking and second-class cars,
leaving them on top of the engine, exposed to
the escaping steam. The Inflated passengers
were confined in their terrible prison for some
time, breathing vapors OF death, ana sunerlng
all the agonies of immersion in boiling caul-
dron of superheated steam. The uninjured
passengers finally came to the rescue, and,
with axes croWbars, etc., affected openings
and dragged the poor creatures from their
frightful cage. Five persons were found dead.
The wounded were dragged out and carried to
the roadside, where they lay for hours in the
most fearful agony. "Ihe sight" remarks a
correspondent, g was one battling description
The terrible cries of the sufferers rent the ears
of the lOokers-on, who made every possible
effort to grant their requests for water and
their condition, under the influence of their
terrible injuries, was fearful to witness,
while the prayers and cries of premonitlon OF
approaching dissolution were here and theer
heard" Slxty-five men and women were fear
fully scalded and otherwise injured, six of
whom died on the spot. Many of the wounded
were disfgured beyond recognition. At last
accounts twenty-three had died, and others
were dying. The medical men say that not
more than six or seven out of the siXty-tive
injured persons will live. The sufferings and
appearance of the wounded are described as
friphtful % '
FRIdHPFUL COLLISION ON THE PITTSBURGH
WASHINGTON AND BALTIMORE RAILROAD.
A fearful collision occurred June % on the
Pittsburgh, Washington and Baltimore rail-
road, near Connellsville, Pa, resulting i'll the
death of Henry Paxton, Conductor Robt. Lock
hart, and Mail Agent J. Blackburn, and the
serious injury of eight passengers, and slight
injury to about nine others. A freight tram
bound east, endeavoring to reach Connellsvtlle
before the arrival of the mail train, and thus
get Oh to a new switch, missed its calculation,
and at the point mentioned, where there IS
very abrupt curve both engines came together
with a crash that shook the earth in the
vicinity like the shokk of an earthquake. Both
trains were wrecked, freight particularly so,
and many Of the passengers were, injured to
such an extent that they cannot survive.
FATAL EXPLOSION IN NEW YORK. }st $. .{s
While the firemen were engaged in extin-
gushing a confiagration in drug store, IN
Liberty street, New York, on June %, some
carboys of vitriol, which the firemen were re-
moving exploded with fr1ghtful effect, ihjuring
some twenty-five firemen-sonne OF them
fatally. The wounded were carefully attended
to, and taken in ambulances to the Park Hos
pital. The effects of the explosion were
terrible, the contents of the store being scat
tered in every direction. One man was driven
from the interior of the store through door
into the street. The whole end of the first
tioor-room was blown out, and the fixtures,
bottles, ETC., were driven about with the force
of powder projectiles. t'"