, 1872-12-28
SATURDAY, DECEMBER %, 1872.

aoter, John EalCh,' GeQrE9 W. Potter. and Henry
Rooms, wore removed from tho debris of the en-
being recognizable. Tlo bodies we're badly
scalded, but the men mnt have died instantly.
A large number OF hogt which we're in the cars,
consigned to q Louisville packing house, were
killed or injured All t1B merchandise in tAs
front cars was badly damaged The engine and
eleven cars are nearly tohl wrecks.
Two trains passed tle point few hours
before the accident occnrd, and the officers Of
the trains stated yesterday to tho reporter that
the switch had been 90 Sc up" and lett secure.
had been tampered with " some person or per-
Sons unknown, and herc' the accident. Our re-
porter was also informed in this connection, that
this same. switch had ken found open several
times before, but the fac1had been discovered in
time to prevent disastrous results.
frons The Csneianaa Gazst:c, Dec. %.
The train On the Whitewater Valley Railroad,
due hero at 3 p. m. Tuesny night, WAS delayed
at Tal1ey junction until dter o'clock yesterday
morning, on account Of tho obstruction Of the
city, caused by collisDn between two freight
traina on Tuesday Afternoon. When the wreck
WAS removed, and the roal cle:r, the Whitewater
Valley train, under charg Of Conductor Stokes,
and consisting Of IN engine, one baggage car,
and two passenger cars proceeded on its way
seven miles from the dty, the engineer, Dir.
Thomas Oakley, perceived that something was
wrong with his train, thmgh the engine was all
right. Ready to suspectof the dreaded danger
Of broken rail, he instantly applied the atmos-
train Was supplied. 1t mco he saw that what
he dreaded Was realits 4 rail had broken,
and he saw, to his horror the cars behind him,
With their living froiglt, of the track and
humping over tho ties aud frozen ground. It
vas but little while, however, until his sus-
pense WAS ended, OF retler until it assumed q
Rhf9rA frain Ia
the three cars careenad, the coupling between
the beggage-car and tho engine broke, and tho
cars tunlbled with crash into the ditch, leaving
the engine an right on tht track. The engineers 8
by those IN the cars begal.
II was dark and bitter aold. Red-hot stoves
in ditched, overturned train filled with pasBen-
gers, suggested horrors With which the public ia
already too familiar. Tlle train men were at
once outside the cars. Tie etoycs we're not so
firmly fixed il their places that the fall did not
dislodge them. The engi1e was furnished with
h number of buckets, and the express messen-
ger, conductor engineer, and others, had enough
presence of mind to give their first attention to
sunduing tho fires. The buckets we're filled
from the engine, and the dres in the stoves were
extinguished in time to prevent q repetition Of
the Prospect horror.
Then, in the darkness a1d the cold, began The
work OF investigation into the injuries. It was
found that the same good fortune which had at
tended the accident so far, followed this feature
OF 1t. As the passengers came out Of the WRECK
one By one, and reported, It wes ascertained thai
no: serious injury wes sustained by anyone
James: Hint, 3 brakeman, was cut on the fore
head; ind also on tho back Of the head, but hi
was not disabled, and returned west On trair
yesterday. The only other person who received
Q hurt worse than slight bruiso, Vas q passen
ger whose head was slightly cut.
AS socn as the cara were secured from conaa
grafton, and the passengers extricated, Conduc
tor Stokes slowed the latter in and Oh the engine
and brought them into tho city.
Tie cara we're thrown into ditch six or eigh
feet deep lying between the l., G. l. L. and th
0. l. N. tracks. They r:n about 100 yards afto
leaving the track before turning over. The us
Of the atmospheric brake, by which the tran
w}~sn it fell over as we'll as the promptnoss witt
which the fire qucst:o was settled, are to bt
credited with aa7in& tho public from news 0
another heartrendin9t railroad accident.