The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1872-12-26
Horrible Railroad Accident.
CLEVELAND, December "a.

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} red fsv rods south Of Prospect station.
eight miIss from Brostos. Two ears ware
burned. A. far as learned. four men we're
killed. Conductor Malonsy, Rosdmasssr
Frank Tsylor, basssgsnastsr Mark Hsish''
Of Brsetou, and E Bell, Of Sherman, Now
Ysrk. Fay Flanders, conductor, 10 dyisg.
Colonel Bacon, mall agent, was dangerously
Injured. O,bers we're injured, but We caa
learn 40 names.
LATER -Trais No. ., on the Cross Cut
road, leaving Cory 81 l p. N. ,o.dsy, ran
through the high tres.le over Goose creek.
The trsstIs is some forty feet in height
The train 10 q complete wreck below and
bnrniog. II ls reported there are eight or
nins killed and . number woanded. Will
have further par.iculars within an hour.
CoRRY, December 24-MidnigbL
This afternoon, at 3:l5 o'clock, as the
mail ,rsia on the buffalo, CORY i PIt,u
burgh rsilrssd, leaving Cory at go ?. m.
scared Prospect, and when within about
eighty road of the station, the train was
thrown sH The track st . tres,ls work, the
passenger and baggage car and the tender
falling . distance Of iweuty-six feet, wbiIs
the engine passed over unhurt.
A. the present. iime The dead bodies OF
nineteen persons have been recovered, some
Of whom are fearfully burned, and thirty
i've persons are known to have been ve''nd
ed, some Of ,heu seriously. Among the
dead srs Frank Taylor, bsggsgemsn, Of
CORY; E. Bacon, Of Broctsn, mall agent;
Col. AsIouey, Of Brsc.ou, track master; Nj.
Bell, Of Sherman; aud Mr.. Hsr.e, Of Broc-
ton. The others at present are uurscogaiEa-
bls owing TO the ehAsred asd bissksned
state Of esrpses.
Among The injured are Harvey Flanders.
Of Cory. eouduc,or; v. H. Ticknor. of IT,
tusville; J. Cowdrey, au employs Of the
PhiisdeIpAia l. Kris railroad at Cory, M.
Averilis wife, Of the firm Of Hollieter, Swift
& Co., insurance agents, Of CORY, is miss
log. The accident was caused by q broken
rail.
Flanders will probably loss the toss Of enc
fsos and the other foot entirely from burns.
Hs 10 also slightly injured Internally, but
vii probably recover.
ERIE, December ~.
4 fearful accident occurred % the Gross.
Cut railroad. st Prospect station. One
coach and baggage ear fell off . bridge
twenty seven feet high. The cause was .
broken Hsogs on the sssIsrs. r~eniy-,wo
persons were hi lied and eighteen wounded
The pames Of tho killed, IN far a. ascsr,ain/
cd. ste John DougiAss and Eiwin Bell. o.
Sherman, N. Y; Co. AAlouey and Mark
HsIght, Of Broc,ou, N. Y; frank Taylor.
OF Cory; Eliza sesIy, Ripley. New York;
johnson, Of WestReld. N. y. The wounded
are Maggie Curtin, Of TitusviIle; Mrs.. J. N.
Curtin, Of Titusviiie; George Miller, " FIRE.
donis il. J. Barlis, Dunkirk, New York;
W. H. Lee, Of Cory, Psansylvauis; Jacob
Burton, Of Irving, N. Y; W. A. Ticknor,
TisusvilIe; Lizzie Briggs, Angola, N Y.
\. Hilton, Rochester, N.Y.;J. P. Ssunder,
Cory; J. A. Duubsm, PlsasAntville; e. z.
Bacon, Broctos.
| LATER
NAyvILLE, December rs.
] The sasldsnt occurred ut the trestisw work
shout eighty rods from Prospsc. station, and
seven milss north Of Mayville. Tho irssllt
10 about three hundred feet In length, and
tho distanss 10 the ground 10 about twenty
Hvs feet. The fsngs OF the tender wbss
broke few rods this side Of the scene si ths
accident, but kept the track until about one'
third oven
When the wheels OF the tender lt:t tht
track and run over the ties, brssking eact
tie % It WAS dragged alsng byIbs locomo-
tive, and turning the track u Which threw
arst the baggage over the trsstle, tho esl
turniag completely over. The top Of the CO..
stri king the ground, the heavy truck
brssking through the bottom Of the ear. -
The passenger coach went over With th'
baggage car, also turning over, and boil
Immediately took ere from the stoves. I
wss soms time before any Of the injured Peo
pie or the dssd bodies could be taken out. =.
Assistance arrived from Msyviis, and ,h,
mea vent to work, breaking into the burn.
log coach, wAere the