Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-27
TINE LATEST rREsTLE HORROR
An Awfnl Holocaust on the Erie
Railroad.
Fsrty.sIx Persons Killed, Wounded
or Burned Alive.
Tragic End OF a Honeymocn-Ashes
10 Ashes and Dust 20 Dust-List
of the Unf0rtunates. 3.tt

Dispatch to the Courier-Jsurnal.l
CoRaY, PESN., December rs. The fol-
lowing is the list of killed: Mark Haight,
of Brocton, banker, one leg shattered,
the other burned of at the thigh and
badly bruised about the head; Mr.. Os-
horne. ofWestfall, side Of head smashed,
and one leg burned of below the knee;
Mr.. RYAN. internal injuries L. II. Bell,
telegraph operator at Sherman;. Mr..
Carleton. bruises on the body and head;
Frank Taylor, baggage-master OF tie
train; Con Maloney, track-master, OF
Brocton.
9 Wounded. W. II. Lee, Cory, slight
Ily; Jacob Bartlard, Of Irving, n. L;
Levi Briggs, Argala, N. \. John ID.
Hitter, Rochester; Mrs. ]. M: Carleton,
Mill Village, child saved and husband
missing; Maggie Carleton. Titusyllle;
George Miller, Fredonia, N. T.; Henry
Miller. Titusville; ]. j. Burtis, Titus
Vile; Eliza Tally, Ripley; W. ii. Tick
nor, Titusville; John Cowdry, Cory, two
large wounds over the left eye, and
bruised about the body; Cary Cook, in
iured internally and suffering great pain;
John Dundas, of Hamilton, Ontario.
very severely. Fay Flanders, conductor,
will probably recover, If his internal in
juries are not too severe. he loses two
toes on the left foot and half of the right
foot. Hisribs were broken by being pull.
ed out by chain. Earl Bacon, reported
dead, is only slightly injured, having Sc
cured the registered letters and then
jumped.
Twenty-one were killed altogether and
recovered; sixteen are so charred as to
be unknown; four are in the Chautaqua
House awaiting relatives, and one Is at
Prospect. There are yet three to i've
bodies under the ruins, reduced to ashes,
distinguishable only by pieces of skulls
and bones.
The train was going on down grade
of eity-two to eighty-fve feet to the
mile, was about sixty rods from the
Prospect depot, and had steam shut of.
1t was about three feet from the north
end of the trestle when the broken
wheel of the tender was discovered,
when, under the impetus of the down
grade, stoppage could not be made.
Every care is being taken OF the
wounded, who are scattered around IN
the farmhouses near, and medical attend
ance was promptly furnished.
The conductors pocket showed thirty
seven through tickets taken up, and one
to Prospect. There were supposed to
be forty.two to fifty persons on board.
The train consisted OF one passenger car,
one baggage car, engine and tender.
NEW YoRK, December 25.-The Tri-
bune tomorrow will publish the follow
ing additional particulars Of the Goose
creek railroad disaster: The cars turned
completely over, and bottomsides up.
They fell perpendicularly to the ground
below, distance of twenty feet. When
the cars struck, the trucks crashed
through the bottoms of them. AS the
stoves Of the passenger cars we're d.
rectly under the trucks, they were
crushed to pieces, and Immediately the
woodwork Of the cars took fire. OF
forty-six people known to have been in
the two cars, but one escaped unaided,
namely, the brakeman on the passenger
coach, who jumped clear of the cars as
they were falling. The woodwork of the
passenger car, thickly coated as it was
with varnish, burned freely, before any
thing could be done by the force at hand
to prevent. The flames enveloped both
ends of the car and crept rapidly to-
ward the center. Penned within 1t at
| this time, with no possible chance
| to extricate themselves, we're forty three
passengers, the conductor, and one child.
OF those seated in the ends of the car,
none escaped; but, help arriving, about
twenty-five dead and living were taken
out of the center of it, and the flames
we're extinguished, or more correctly
speaking went out Tor lack of anything
further to feed upon. The remains of
the other passengers we're then recov-
cred, and all brought to this place. The
roll foots up as follows: Saved, all
more or less injured, 10; dead, 10; mis-
sing, 8. The dead, with four exceptions,
were burned so as to be unacceptable
from the features, and there are but
three that could possibly be identified
from the shreds of clothing adhering to
the roasted flesh. Five were headless
and without limbs; and the remaining
ones had the flesh all burned off the
extremities. The eight missing are
supposed to have been completely
consumed and there are pieces
of skulls, watches and the like, sufficient
to partially justify such belief. -Four
others are known to have been on the
train, named Catharine Kelly, kitty
Ryan and Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Rice. all
of Titusyille, Pennsylvania; it is thought
they will be identified tomorrow, as
friends are here for that purpose. The
case Of the two last named is a pecu-
liarly sad one. Mr.. Rice was the only
son OF Mr.. James Rice. leading citizen
Of Titusyille, aud his wife the only
daughter Of Austin jackson, Of Roches.
ter, New York. They we're married on
the 9th Of this month, and were on the
way to Rochester to spend Christmas.
Judging from the clothing, baggage and
appearance Of those coming to identify
them, number Of the dead belonged to
the lower classes. The bodies are laid
out in the freight-house there, and vii be
kept several days for Identification.