, 1876-12-30
DOWN TO DEATH.
A Train on the Lake Shore
Road Falls Through
a Bridge.
The Scene of the Calamity
Near AslatabuIa De-
pot, Ohio.
Eleven Coaches Plunge Down
a Depth Of Seventy
Feet;
Crushing to Pieces as They
Strike tile Ice Below.
The Wreck Immediately Takes
Fire and Burns Eurlously;
While a Terribly Cold and Biting
Wind Is Raging.
One Hundred aud Seventy Per-
sons on the Ill-Fated
Train.
One Hundred Beloved to Be- Either
Crushed, Drowned, Frozen, o1
Burned to Death.
Tho Number Of Injured Estimated at De-
tWccn Fifty and SixtJ.
One Hundred and Seventy Per-
sons on the 1ll-Eated
Train.
One Hundred Believed to Be Either
Crushed, Drowned, Frozen, o.
Burned to Death.
Tho Number Of Injured Estimated at De-
tWecn Fifty and Sixty.

" VA4A khN St1thuIsf HNe4AA n le&s HA%h Cl0b9iA3
tho iron bridge just cast Of tho station, this
evening about 1850, rent through, carrying
everything but thn leading engine. Ono engine
aud eleven cars were prccipitatcd down an cu-
bankmcnt fully 10 feet. The cngluc snd cars
took fire and were entirely consumed A. near
as eau be estimated, about Ito passengers wero
On the train. Probably fully ouo-third wcro
burnt to death. A largo number were wounded,
ard q few escaped unlurt. The conductor, Mr.
Hem, escaped unhaEmcd.
Everything possible is being done for the suf-
fcrers The tratn was moving GLOW Oh account
Of the deep snow. Tho weather is extremely
cold, and tho work Is going OH slowly. The
sight Ii terrible.
Mr. Folsom, engineer Of tho cngncsthat went
down. md hls fireman, are injured, but think
not scrorsly. But vcry few OF tue dead have
Is yet been taken out Of the wreck.
II lis Impossible at present to get al partic,1-
lars.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
Gpecfaf MspaseA to 1as 7tfbBa&
CLEVELAND, o., Dec. 3a.-About 8 o'clock
this evening tho Pacific Express train On the
Lake Shore Railroad, due bete at 7:tG p. m.,
vent through the iron bridge quarter Of 4
nile east Of Ashtabula Station, where the road
crossed Ashtabuh Creek. Tho traiu Included
GlEfEu c0A6 AAA AlAHu " thO CAHluE&a -
binding enoW-storm was falling, driven by
furious ga1c, and inado It impossible to SEQ
more than abort distance. OF tho eloycn cars,
which wcnt down sheer pluu1c Of seventy
tvu feet, and, rs far a. can now 10
learned, were burned. There wcru 1876 passcn-
gers OH the tratp, of whom onc-aith, or between
thirty and forty, we're killed outright. The NUM-
bcr OF wounded Is not reported at this hour, and
no nauscs tan be asccrtnlncl.
A special train, with officers Of the road, all
the physicians that could bc hastily summoned,
and appliances Tor the care OF the wounded, left
Cleveland at O p. III. Tho conductor Of tho
train was in a bagEagc-caF, and Is safc Tho
driver Of one Of the engines, Folsom by name,
has leg broken.
No CAUSE for tic accident Gun be asccrtaincd.
HEL1KR TRAIN.
Epecidi Dt!patch to 1As Ttftuns.
PA!NxsviLLK uEpoT, o., Det. M.-A spccia!
train left Cleveland at little after II, consist
Ing Of one coach mud ono sleeper drawn by two
engines. The track was 10 heavy tllat but little
time WAS made. Aboard wcrc Charles Paine,
General Superintendent; Charles Couch, DiyIs-
lou Superintendent; Charles Collins, Chief
Engineer: and Henry stagcr, traiu dispatcher.
The train Is supplied with everything which ca1s
10 OF use. Drs. Hclncldcr aud Boyntoil, with
three assistants, arc also aboard. Mr. Knowles,
OF the firm OF Knowles Bourne g. Co., Clcvc-
land, Is also aboard. lie cxpccts that
his rlfo anu daughter, who were on
their way home from New York,
wcrc on tho fitted train. Tho wife mud twp
daughters Of Henry Kelly, blacksmith, on
Cha,np1ain street, arc also supposed to have
been aboard. A son Of hir. Kelly Is With us OH
the special.
Another man known to be hurt is Henry
Chauplin. Ut Cleveland. A dispatch saying,
"Como Immediately; am hurt" vas received
by &. Williams Walton, friend Of bis. who
goes down With Ut on tho spcc'al. Cbamplin Is
bookkcepcs tn the Non-E1plosive Lamp Com
pany,
FAEss DISPATCHES.
CLEVELAND, O., Dec. GA terrible accident
has occurred at Ashtabu1a, 0. Train No. 8,
bo,ind west, weut through m iron bridge down
scyenty-ayo feet to the river Eleven coaches.
Particulars soon. 4 heavy buow.stor.n prevails
there. ....
sEcoNp DISPATCH.
CLsvziANp, O., Dec. :0-0:l0 .. m+-In thu
accident at Ashtabula, O., on the Lake Shore
| Road, 1t is reported cicYcn coaches and al the
baggage aud exprcss cara husucd. About onn
out Of every iYo persons wss killed.
| THIRD DISPATCH.
CLEvaLAAn. o., Ucc. 29-l0 p. m.-Tho scene
| OF tho EaIlroad accident VI Ashtabuls, O., Is a
few rods cast Of tho dcpot. Tho iron bstlgU
spans the Alhtabula Crock Rcycnty-tlyo feet
] above tbs water, On both s!aos orc high banks,
snow has been falling almost constantly for tho
past forty y-ciRht hours, anu nuw driving storm
is raging, making It very diillcult to got newa
from thu wrecked anl burning train No, 3.
Conductor Hem left Eric for Cleveland ono
hour late, and nearel tho brldye Ut Ashtabu'a
about 4 O'clock. ~
Very few particulars eau be learned at this
hour, but assurancss aro given that tho citizens
ot Ashtabuta, with competent corps Of physt'
claus, arc doing everything possible for tho sui.
| ferere.
| PARTIAL LIST or K,Ltxp AND WOUNDED.
The following Is partial list Of tho wounded:
George ". Waite, vic and sou, OF Ashtabuls,
badly hurt; J. W. Martin, w!fe and mother,
thought 10 bo from, East Avon, lA~ngstou
County, N. T.. fatally injured; ]. II. Murray,
Hartford, Conn.,, Injured; ". II. Vosburg, Duf.
fall, N. T., injured; II. ". Shepherd, brooklyn,
N. T., leg broken; Bernard Sawyer, Whitehall,
N. \, slightly bruised; Thomas c. Wright.
Nashville. Tenn., slightly; II, l.. Brewster