The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-07-05
A CHAPTER OF HORRORS.

Terrible Accident On the Grand Trunk
Railroad, By which TIVE nty.ahree Human
Bcinss Meet m Ase MIXING Death Frisht.
fal Collision o. the Pistsb ursh, Wash.
iasten asd Balsimsre Raiirsad-F Fearful
Explesten In New York.
THE GRAND Trunk HORROR.
A terrible accident occurred on the Grand
Trunk railway, near Bellcville, Canada, on
June ~, by which some twenty human
beings met an agonixing death. The details
of the calamity are of the most shocking and
heartrending description. The accident re-
suited from the locomotive jumping the track.
The baggase-car remaining on the track, tele-
scoped the smoking aud second-class cars,
leaving them on top Of the engine, exposed to
the escaping steam. The Inflated passengers
were confined in their terrible prison for some
time, breathing vapors of death, and suffering
all the agones Of immersion in boiling caul-
dron Of superheated steam. The uninjured
passengers finally came to the rescue, and,
with axes, cr0wbars. etc. effected openings
and dragged the poor creatures from their
frightful cage. Five persons were found dead.
The wounded were dragged out and carried to
the roadside, where they lay for hours In the
most fearful agony. =. The sight" remarks q
correspondent, "was one battling description.
The terrible cries Of the sufferers rent the ears
OF the lookers-on, who made every possible
effort to grant their requests for water and
their condition, under the influence Of
their terrible injuries, was fearful to witness,
approaching dissolution we're here and there
heard" Sixty-five men and women were fear
fully scalded and otherwise injured six of
whom died on the spot. Many OF the wounded
were disfgured beyond recognition. At last
accounts twenty-three had died. and others
were dying. The medical men say that not
more than six or seven out of the sixty-fve
injured persons will live. The suYerings and
appearance Of the wounded are described a.
frightful.
FRIoHrFUL COLLISION ON THE PITTSBURGH,
WASHINGTON AND BALTIMORE RAILROAD.
A fearful collision occurred June 20 on the
Pittsburgh, Washington and Baltimore rail-
road, near Conceivable, Pa. resulting in the
death of Henry Paxton, Conductor Robt. Lock-
hart, and Mail Agent j. Blackburn, and the
serious injury of eight passengers. and slight
injury to about nine Others. A freight train
bound east, endeavoring to reach Connellsville
before the arrival Of the mail train, and thus
get on to a new switch, missed it's calculation,
and at the point mentioned, where there is q
very abrupt curve, both engines came together
with . crash that shock the earth in the
vicinity like the shook Of an earthquake. Both
trains were wrecked, freight particularly 30,
and many OF the passengers were injured to
such an extent that they cannot survive.
FATAL EXPLOSION IN NEW YORK.
While the firemen were engaged in extin- |
gushing condagration in . drug store, in |
Liberty street. New York. on June ~. some |
carboys of vitriol, which the fremen were re- |
moving, exploded with frightful effect, injuring
some twenty-five fremen-some OF them |
fatally The wounded were carefully attended |
10. and taken in ambulances to the Park Hos |
pital. The effects of the explosion were |
terrible the contents of the store being ecaf. |
cred in every direction. One man was driven |
rom the interior of the store through door |
nto the street. The whole end OF the first |
ioor-room was blown out, and the fixtures,
'ottles, etc., we're driven about with the force |
II powder projectiles.