The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-06-24

II Iumps the Track--Several Cars
i rsIascoped sud the Passengers
II <raIded by Escaping steam from
i The locomotive Nine Persons
killed and Sixty.dve WOunded-A
scene Of HOrrOr--List or the I'm.
fortunates.
BgIEylLLE, Ont, June 22 The
-.ht express went past this place at
.22y this morning, full of passengers,
snong whom were some ministers OF
NJ English Church, enroute HON eward
.:om Synod at Toronto. When some
even miles below Belleville station
a1 engine Jumped the track, carrying
.-alh and fearful torture to scores OF
...eHgers in the forward car. The
asgsge car remained on the track, tel
-,coping the smoking and second-class
.assrnger car, leaving them on top Of
he engine, exposed to the escaping
lean from the locomotive. where
cores we're hopelessly penned for some
me, breathing the vapor of death and
.utering all the agony OF immersion
MO a boiling cauldron Of super-heated
SaIer.
Mr.. Il NJ. Roddy, an eyewitness,
,sy- that Immediately after the accident
lr went TO the secondclass car. 1t and
he smoking car were telescoped and on
.ar locomotive the steam from which,
..u.ng from the cars, was so dense that
h- could see nothing. One after an
other Of the victims were crawling from
rhr openings.
Crgwbars were Immediately put into
:-tgsition ty the passengers from the
ar.,cla.ss cars, all Of whom escaped
rl.y. and openings were made. Many
srrr found entangled and were extri-
ra,ri with the utmost difficulty, the
,imhers having to be broken. Five
persons, found to be dead, were carried
10 the roadside. where the wounded lay
for three hours in the most fearful agony.
DR.. Burdett, OF Beileville, arrived at
this time and had them removed to the
Pullman cars. On their arrival at
,hs place every effort to allay their
.aeringS was promptly put forward.
The medical men of the town were sum
mone1, mattresses procured, and
srEe freight shed turned into tenn.
rorary hospital, where the patients re-
c~.yrd every possible attention.
The medical men and their assistants
were unremitting in their attentions,
while the ministers Of the Gospel We'd
with each other in their zeal in the ad-
DI1is,ra,iOn OF their sacred office.
The SIGHT was one that battles
description. The terrible cries of the
,Gferers rent the ears of the lockers on
who made every possible effort to grant
'heIr requests for water and food, and
'Grr contortions under the influence OF
heir terrible injuries were fearful to
witness, whilst the prayers and cries OF
Nrmonation OF approaching dissolu-
.on we're here and there heard.
After the injured arrived here some
o.. them passed away, a happy relief
'e.ag afforded from their dreadful
slones. Those who were the least
1lured walked about, swathed in ban
!ageS, and conversed freely about the
occurrence of the night. The express
s0d baggage car were forced past the
.'oken down engine without injuring
he express messenger or baggage mas
let, butthe smoking cars telescoped the
'7cond-class car, and in going forward
snocked off the safety valve Of the
boiler and remained on top OF the ell
gne, allowing the steam to fill the
'ecoDd-c'ass car, which was filed with
.assencers, many of them lumbermen,
. route for Quebec. Thetwo firs-class
~. and the Pullman car were compar-
svely uninjured and the passengers
''re transhipped and went east this
morning.
Sxty.five men and women were fear
July scalded and otherwise injured,
hine Of whom died on the spot and their
o"ies brought to this place. Four
men have died and others are dying
hOuT. ~NOt mOIC tudn ouC-thiiu
o. the wounded will live. John Hib-
'trd, the engineer, was instantly killed
and the fireman badly injured. One Of
4,s Iegs will have to be amputated.
IL Nelson, conductor, and the other
Ifaln hands, escaped uninjured. The
Wounded and dying are lying stretched
'h mattresses on the floor Of the freight
room, so much disfgured as to be un-
'ecognizable. Five Of the wounded,
Who were able to walk, left by the ex-
Press train at ii A. NJ. for Toronto.
The following names have been OBJ
aned: John HILBERT, engineer, killed ;
-, Kidd, fireman, leg smputated ;
I9hn Neyson, and his wife, "a
hent street, Montreal. The hus-
oand is severely wounded aud appears
% be dying. The wife was not so Sc
vsreiy injured, though considerably
,calded about head and face; Mr.. and
AIRS. Csllendar, Kempville, both severe
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