Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-12-27
The Terrible Railroad Calamity neav
/ CORY, Pa.-Nameo Of the vlovime.

CORY, Pa, Dec. .aj.-The following are known
to have been killed by the accident ON the BufYa.
10, Cory, and Phtsburg Railroad last night =:
Frank liaight, of Brockton, banker, one leg shat
tered and the other burned OIL at the thigh, and
badly bruised about the head; Mr.. Osborne, of
Wcstfeld, side of his head smashed In and one
Leg burned "a below %a;, the knee Mr Ryan, internal
man, Mr. Carleton, bruised ON the body and head
Frank Taylor, baggage master Of the train; Con
Maloncy, track-master, of Brockton.
Fay Flanders, the conductor, will probably re- |
cover, If his internal injuries are not too
Earl Bacon, reported dead, Is only slightiy njur.
ed having secured the registered letters and ex
tricatcd himself by jump.
Or the Killed, twenty-one have been recovered
| and sixteen are SD charred as 10 be unknown
| Four are In the Chantay,ia House awaiting rela
tives, and one nj Prospect There yet three
to five bodies undey tho rlns reduced to ashes,
and disinguishahic only by pieces of skulls and
bones. -
How THE DISASTER OCCURRED
The train was going on the down grnde Of u
tp NJ feet to the mile, and was about GO rods from
Prospect depot, and had the steam shut Off 1t
was about three feet from the north end of the
. treslc When the broken wheel Of the tender was
, discovered, and when under the impetus of the
down grade, stoppagc could not be made.
sIcKENING PARTICULARS OF THE BURNING.
NEW YORK, Dee. GA special despatch says
: that when the cars struck, the trucks crashed
c through The bottoms Of them, and ga tho stoves
Il of the passenger car Wcre directly under the
trucks they were crushed to pieces, and irnmed
ately the wood work Of the cars took fire. The
woodwork of the passenger car, thickly coated
rs it was with yarnish burned freely, and bcfort
IS anything could be done by the force Mt hand t.
prevent it, the flames enveloped both ends of thu
I. lear and crcpt rapidly towards the centre.
VI The remains of the other passengers were thei
recovered. The dead, With four exceptions, wer
10 burned SO rs to be unacceptable from their fc,
lures, and there arc hut three that could pOssibl
IL be identified from the shres Of clothing adhern
iu to their roasted flesh Five were headllcss AM
"a without limbs, and the remaining ones had tn
p flesh all burned of their extremities.
r' Penncd within 1t at this time, with no possibl
LII chance 10 extricate themselves, forty-thro
~ adult passengers, the conductor aud one child.
Gu Or those seated in the ends of the none cscal
~ ed, but help arriving, about ~ euty-aye dead an
oI living were taken out Of tho centre of it, and II
a. flames We're cxtinguished, or more correctl
III speaking, went out for lack OF anything furth'
to feed upon. ~
-Four Others are known to have been on Il
81 train, namely, Catharinc Kelly, Kitty Ryan, ar
fg Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur F. Rice, all OF Titusvill
Rf Pa. 1t is thought they will be identified tome
Rs row aud their friends are here for that purpose.
The case of the two last named is a peculiar
&c sad one. Mr. Rice was tho only stI4 Vi dam
nd Rice, leading citizen Of Slusvilfe, and his wi
the the only daughter of Austin Jackson of Roch
ow ter, n. Y.at
They were married on the fifth Of this mon
ing and were on their way to Rochester to spe
law Christmas