Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-12-25
RAILWAY HORRORS.
Frightful Accident In Pennsylvania.
20 Passengers Roasted Alive
And So InjUred, Many Beyond Re.


ANA SO Injured, Many Beyond Re.
cOvery.
CLEVELAND, o., Dec. 29.-Train No. 6
on the CroY.cut road, leaving Cory at one
P. M. to-da'y, run through the high trestle
over Goose Greek. The trestle was some
forty feCyt high. The train is a wreck be-
low ard burning. 1t is reported some eight
or m-ne were killed and nVmber wounded.
CoBRY, Pa, Dec. 24.-This afternoon at
BIS O'Clock as the mail train on the Buffalo,
Cory and Pittsburg Railroad was leaving
Cory at 1:20 p. IN. neared Prospect, and
when within about eighty rods of the sta
ton, the train was thrown off the track at
trestie work, the passenger car and bag
gage car and tender falling a distance of
twenty-six feet, while the enghe passed
over unhurt. To the present time the
dead bodies of nineteen persons have been
recovered, some of which ara fearfully
burned and thirty-ive persons are known
to have been wounded some OF them Sc
riously. Fourteen Of the bodies are at
present unrecognizable owing TO the char
red and blaeksned state of the corpses.
The accident was caused by broken rail.
ERIE, Pa, Dec. 25,-A fesrful accident
on the Cross Cut railroad at Prospect sta
ton. One coach and baggage car fell off
a bridge 27 feet high. Cause broken fan
&c on the tender. % were killed, and Is
wounded.
Horrible.
The cars fell bottom upward, the weight
of the trucks crushing them in. There was
no way of escape for the imprisoned pas
sengeTs. The cars Immediately took fire,
but there was no water to extinguish the
fapes, and only two axes could be procured
to chop the cars to pieces. In this situa-
ton some twenty-five persons were roasted
alive, filing the air for nearly an hour with
dying shrieks for aid. 1t is believed that
several Of those rescued will die of their in
jurieS.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 24.-Passengers
on the through train from Washington, due
here at 7:10 O'Clock P. NJ, report An accident
near Stanton station, on the other side of
Baltimore. Several persons were injured,
one or two fatally. The train ran into a
carriage which was crossing tha track.
Another Freight Train Smashed
Three men Killed.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 24.-The Times
Jeffe ,sonville, Ind, special says the south
bound train on the Jeffersonville, Madison
and Indianapolis road jumped the track at
HenTyville at three A, NJ, plunging thirteen
cars and the locomotive over a steep en-
bankment, making total wreck of the
train. John Belch, engineer, Geo. Golfer,
fireman, and Henry kOons, brakeman,
were instantly killed.
LOUISVILLE, Dec. 24.-Extra freight
train No.2 left Indianapolis Monday at
Z:25, P. M largely laden with hogs. At
Henryville Station, twenty miles out from
Louisville, the switch was left open by some
person "a known, as passenger train psss-d
over the switch two hours before, and left il
in proper condition. TIE engineand eleven
cars were thrown down the embankmen-
four feet into ravine, instantly killing en-
gineer, fireman and conductor. A brake
man escaped and brought assistance, and
the bodies were recovered frightfuIly man
gled.