The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-07-05
A CHAPTER OF HORRORS.

Terrible Accident on the Grand Trunk
Railroad, by which Twcnty.three Hesaan
Beings Meet an AgOnizing Death-Friset.
fal Collision on the Pittsbsrgs, WASH.
instsn and Baltimore Railroad-Feariai
Explosion In New York.
. THE GRAND TRUNK HORROR.
terrible accident occurred on the Grand
Trunk railway, near Belleville. Canada, on
June ~, by which some twenty-three m
beings met IN agonizing 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 baggsge-car remaining on the track, tele-
scoped the smoking and ~second-class cars,
leaving them on top of the engine, exposed to
the escaping steam. Tho Inflated passengers
were confined in their terrible prison for some
time, breathing vapors of death, and suffering
all the agonies of immersion in q boiling caui.
dron of superheated steam. The unlnJured
passengers finally came to the rescue, and,
with axes, crowbars, ETC., affected 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 .
correspondent, Z" was one battling description
HIS l6IIkDl6 Lax VI t1IO bukO1CAo AOA ~ OSAS
of the lookers-on, b made every possible
effort to grant their requests for water and
their condition, under the influence Of their
terrible injuries, was fearful to witness,
while the prayers and cries Of p~remonition OF
approaching dissolution were here and theer
heard" Sixty-ive men and women were fear
fully scalded and otherwise injured, SIX OF
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-fiye
injured persons will live. The sufferings and
appearance of the wounded are described as
frightful.
FRieHYFUL COLLISION ON THE PITTSBURGH,
WASHINGTON AND BALTIMORE RAILROAD.
A fearful collision occurred June ~ ON the
Pittsburgh, Washington and Baltimore rail-
road, near COnnellsville, Pa, resulting in the
death of Henry Paxton, Conductor Robt. Lock-
hart, and Mail Agent ]. 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 q new switch, missed its calculation.
and at the point mentioned, where there ls q
very abrupt curve, both engines came together
with q crash that shook the earth In the
vicinity like the shokk 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 extn-
gushing q conflagration in a drug store, IN
Liberty street, New York, on June ~, some
carboys of yitriol, which the firemen were re-
moving, exploded with frlghtful effect, injuring
some twenty-five firemen-some OF them
fatally. The wounded we're carefully attended
to, and taken in ambulances to the Park Hos
pital. The effects Of the explosion we're
terrible, the contents of the store being scat
tered in every direction. One man was driven
from the interior of the store through a door
into the street. The whole end OF the first
foor-roem was blown out, and the fixtures,
bottles, etc., were driven about with the force
of powder projectiles.