, 1874-08-20

car to mount tho tondor, 20 ovor It, Hp1intoring
itijuring aryorat otl,orH. Tho aoconl car Of tho
train ran ,agaist tho rear end Of the frat car;
and tho forward ond Of 1t was brokcn bndly ana @
tlMeo persons Injured. Tho othor cars of tho
track THO first osr, yory fortunately, contained
only about twoIyo passongord. mostly gentlo-
mon, mud "as rsel ns alnokluR-roonl.
Tho cause Ut tho accttlont la attributed to tho |
switch tenders having loft tho switch open upon
the inan traclt, mud not keeping proper watch
upon 1t for oktra traina as 1t Is a wel1-known |
custom to have hpectni treina run along tue |
telegram from q station q fow milos on oittler
side.
An soon aa asBtstanco arrived. and with suol, Is
was at Ahnd, efforts Horo mndo to extrtcate tho
wounded from their I. po%rilo,ls % Position and to
biHh had boon clonrod away tho ron1aina Of threo
mon wero fouud manglcd and bruised. Mr..
Cox, Of Notristown, wne discovered With Ills
right ankle brokon, lols log drawn ,s'n mp to tho
arins woro lro1ton, md his hoad was battered.
Ills faco WIS cal,n, wllch showed that ho must
have boon killed. outright. Mr.. sohallt Of Nor
fatow haa US ooay 0ru.son; are,,. An nurn Leg
mats, supposed to have boon Nfr. Nagle, Of Nor
l,stowu, wns also found. Ho was attirod IN
black olot11os, aud had'n white half-high hht.
ls faoo was cain, Tth Sa the p1 thn nFy my e9m
body WAS crushed 'hid bruised, and tue lega
hrosan. He ia iasupposed to have dtoa from In
toinalfnjurlcB
mont to your correspondent:
''Aty ,iamo ia Charles Thorn. / have been In
tho employ Of tho railroad company Tor twonty
years at this place. This Is tho first accident
Layo ovor had. Ioponel both switches to obl'gee
to make flying drill OF eomo cars on tho siding,
anil take them 10 philadelphia. did not know
the oxtrn waB coming, aud did not look for any
train. When 1rat saW 1t t. was at tho bend OF
provont au accident Iclosed tho switch nearest
TO mo, nrd tlon ran to tho othor. but was too
Into, "a tho engine was thoro before me, and In
secoud Ind crushed into tho traiu."
Mr.. Thorn in about IS yoara Of age. and WAS
30 confused at The titno your correspondent saw
him that he mado all sorts Of confused answers
to tho intorrogatorles mado-
Dotwocn tho aboyo statement md that Of tho
ttrcnHn OF lilo train tlcro aocms to DO wide
Difference, aud It would Hoom to throw a consid-
eyahlo pare Of tho blamo upon tho awitch-tondor.
ANOTHER sTATEaENT.
Arr. John shonocker, OF West Philadolphis,
was On tho first train that passed the wrock at
Cornwolls, and mas able to giyo d general do
ave woro running rapidly down from Bristol
and Ind boon going somo time, when wo we're
all startled by tho shrioks Of tho locomotive for
tdown b1akes,' and tho train soon came to
stand-still. No thought that some accident to
the locomotive had occurred, md a rusl, OF poo
pie WAS made at onco for tho platform, and
within tlyo minutes At least half OF tile passon-
gors-the malo porsion-woro on tho track. Wo
of q traiu. Ahoad from our locomotive q rod
nug had boon etucl near the track, and this wna
what brought tho engineer to stop tho tsaln.
wont up. and soon learnod from tho excited pso-
| pic, OF whom thoro wore hundeeda. that
passenger train from Philadolph,n had
| boon wrecked. 1 soon saW all myself.
| Ihero Ind bqon coal train atanding on sid
| ing, and it sooms tint the suitoh-tendor, not
| anticipating tho passing Of an up-train ut that
| hour. had not nado tho proper connection with
tho main track. The consequence was, TINT
WHOM tho passenger train came, along with full
speed- running ut the rate, they said; Of 50
know what to do, and the excursion train, run
! ming of on tho Bidlng. smashed into tho cual
cars. The force must havo boon terrific. The
locomotive had boen forced up on some OF tho
@ stoan % shrokine from il. G3heo llrst passonser
car iiad bocn run through by tho second, or
"toleseopcd,'" as you would call it, aud tho
others immediately following struck each other
fronts nil amashed. Tho wrock Of tho locomo-
tive aud tlroo OF tho passenger carp was COM
ploto. Around the aceno was gathered crowd
Of people who had, just as no arrived, completed
| tho reecuo Of atl those who had boon injured by
tho collision. Two pcrsons I know wore hiltod
| outright, for saw tho bodies, and In house
near at hAnd tho doctors, OF whum thero woro
several, were attending the injured. In this
there. mud anotAor porson who could not live
go it Nas said. Ilore wor0 number Of mon
and women rushing frantically aoout-their facos
bruised, and aotno Dleodlng-,who did not, Seem
@ @zs s t. r8eths i shr Saa rosyes ass
friends Ind boon hurt. I talked with ono
gentleman who was on the excursion
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