Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-06-28

TERRIBLE DIs,srfR on IuE GRAND TguyK-
TwESrY-THRsE PEasoNs kuLEp-SIxrY-F
PERsoSs SCALnED-THE DEAD AND uig DING
CARING FOR TIE NOUSDEu-pARrIAL LIST CT
TIE KGMD.-BELEvILLE Ont. June - -
The night express went down pSst this place Al
1920 this morning, full Of pSssengers. among
the number being many ministers Of the Eng
lith Church, on their Way homewsri from the
synod At Toronto About eleven miles below
Beeville station the engine jumped the track.
carrying death AMI torture 10 scores Of passen-
gers in the forward cars. The baggage car re-
msined on the track and telescoped the smoking
car and second-clsss passenger care, leaving
them on top Of the engine, exposed to the escAp-
ing steam from the boiler. Here the poor crca-
lures were hopelessly peunei in for some time,
breathing vapors Of death and suffering all the
sgonv Of immersion into boiling csdron Of su-
per-hested water. b. NJ. Roddy, an eye-wit-
ne,s, says Immediately after the accident be went
to the seconi-clss car; it snd the smoking-car
were telescoped, aud on the locomotive, the steam
from which wss 60 dense he could see nothing.
One after another Of the scsliei were crawling
from the opening. Cross-bsrs we're Immediately
put into requisition by the passengers from the
first-clsss cars. all OF whom escaped injury,
and after openings we're made many
we're found entsnglei, ami we're extracted with
the utmost difficulty, timDers having to be
broken Five persons were found dead and
were Carried to the roadside, where the wounded
Law nearly three hours in most fearful agony
Dr. Burdett Of Beileyille arrived and had them
removed to a Pullman csr on arrival Here ey-
erything was promptly done to allEy suffering
The medical men Of the town were summoned,
mattresses were procured, End large freight
shed was turned into a temporary hospital,
where the patients were received, where every
possible attention was paid them. The sight
was one to bafie description. The terrible cries
of the sufferers rent TIE ears CT the lookers-on,
vino made every possible effort to gran, their re-
quest for water Snd food. Their condition under
the influence Of their terrible injuries were fear
ful TO witness, whilst the prayers snd cries of
premonition Of approaching dissolution were
here and there heard. After the injured arrived
here rome of them passed awsy,-s happy relief
from their dreadful sgonY. Those who we're
least injured walked about sgsthe1 in bsudsges,
and converse1 freely about the occurrence.
The express and baggage car WAS forced
psst the broken engine without injGring the ex-
pres messenger or baggage man, but the smok
ing car telescoped the second-class car. The lat
ter going forward knocked of the safety valve Of
the boiler, and remained on top Of the engine,
SLOWING the steam to FL the second-clsss car,
which wss crowded with passengers, many Of
them lumbermen On the way to Quebec. The
two frst-clss. CATS and the Pullman car are
comparatively uniniured, and the passengers
were tainshipped and went east ths forenoon.
Sixty-fye men and women were frightfuly
scsllei and otherwise injured, six of whom died
on the spot, and the bodies were brought to this
place; four more have died and others are dying
every hour. Not more than one-third Of the in
jured will live. John Hilbert, the engineer,
was instantly killed, and the fireman badly
injured H. Nelson, the conductor, and other
train hands escaped uninjured. The wounded and
dying ere on msttrasses on the floor Of the
freight shed, so much dishgured as to be unre-
cognizable. Five Of the wounded were able to
walk, and left by the express train for Toronto.
Since the previous report this evening, twelve
more of the injured by the railroad disaster have
died, making twenty-three dead now and others
dying. Medical men say that not more than
six or seven Of the sixty-ave persons injured