Connecticut western news., 1877-02-16
ARMTAR ELLA.
A HarsTord Sufferer Just Home. 4
 Thrilling Stsry 0H n MF. n0wrv.


 Thrilling stsry or n Mr. Mowrv.
 Mr. J. M. Morwv of th,s city arriv@ | home v. s,erday. having just left Ashtsbals. where be has been a sufferer for Ave weeks | --ever since the great accident In which h. " n' down. Mr. Mowry has c bsd cut o' ! two inches or SO above his left temple. A t'.e tire of his injnry the skin lay open !" the bone of his skull. Then his neck is hurt One of the homes of his right shoulder n broken. Four of his rihs were knocke" out of place. Hts right knee was dislocs. ted and h,e spine badly hurt His nose ~a, broken also In the accident. It ia hard i' ace how he could have been knockrC about any worse and l,ved to tell of i,; ,n' deed. hiR being alive today Is a wonder.
 He was riding n one of the forward car not 6 sleeper. There was a man leaning an the hack of bis seat talking to him. sn6 npposite him were Aye prrsors si,ting l. two seats. which hGd been thrown over h face each other. These Ave and the uasi rnlking to Mr. Mnwry were killed. and. i, all. thirty whO were In that car p-rished. Death was all around hlm. He says th, accident knocked the sides and window. all out of the Car. aud tue roof ft1l do~, directly on the body of the car making it 1 box of the height of the window si!ls anc seats. The roof hit Mir. Mowry on th, head and forced his head over on the back "f the seat before him 20 that he was lik' man banged. He could pot pull out o' ttse moose and he seemed to te cagtd. but he. found he ald slide his head either wa, sidewIse and he had the presence Ot min' t" slip himself along ,i,! he reached h. passage way. There he got out of tLt l ,rsp.
 Tue Car was perfectly dark, but 1t was liGh "ut of dsors. and there appeared N crack in tue dnor or side of the wrecked vehicle | Through this he dragged himself and gO' ''ut On the pile of rubbish. There he s~ 'ih someone cried, Kun! Another trah ,s coming right down on us" At this h. -isr,, up. bu, his legs gave way and h. l tell, and fell almost iciO ihe ice and wAt.I of the CT elk, head 6rs'. He just Say. d himself. Then he tri-d t9 crawl, and hnsl ly did get himself off into the snow, tw,n or thirty feet from the Car. As he la. there he Saw man rush along, dragging r lady by the wrist. She could not keep her talance. and the most of the time be wss rolling her over in the snow. She had on
 was almost frozen. Bolod was pouring
 from her head. and her neck WIS hare.
 Mr Mowrv says something had manglet, her breasts horribly. When she got by him shu cried out that her child was burning. The man put his overcoat upon her sno
 went back. That was the last he saw ot them.
 Alter terrible suffering the passengers
 were got up the bank of seventy i've fe,
 and Mir. Mowry and seven or eight others
 were csrrI d to rumshop aud tavern krpl
 ny d, grad d and heartless fellow. On'
 m ID was left there all night on table hay
 ng piece of Car moulding au inch and |,
 half by eight and a half, driven dowt
 into him through his shoulders. As he lay
 Ou the d,mr of the bar-rnom Mir. Mowr>
 neggr ,O be killed, SD intense WAS his sui
 t-r,ng. and man lying next him said h,
 wished he could die. I'm going to d,e ,oo." he said, and he lay back and WAS
 c0rpe in . few minutes. The lnndor, finally carried Mir. Nnwry up,o dark bed room and th, n thUpgh it caused the mos acute suH ring hr pull, If the sufferer
 ,"ots-and stole tn m. K,nd ladies frcu tue city visited the place the, D, xt day an, ] mad the unfortunate men carried up to tn Ashtahula Hnus- upon beds laid on seds aud at this latter place. amid many tcnd'
 attentions and with the b,sl of mtdica care, they have be, in hospital. Que 0 tue victims, however, dit'l two days ago. Being asked whether he had been ap proachtd bY the railroad officers in the msl
 ter of a srtllemrnt, lac said they had iakcI
 him into a priv,te room St Ash,abuia 0 Cleveland ou h,s way home, aud telling hin ''it is hard to fiS iSht \ rnilrnsd" asking hin If few hundred d. liars would not be h-,
 ter than notb'ne. He. however declin~' making any srul ment, and he says tna , to-day nobUdY standing On the top of th Ashlabula prrcipice would be willing |, ,-ll even halfway down for all the non., . in the world. Hr himself is b .dly cut uI
 suff rs constant pin. and has sustataint nervous shock from which he is siil mu:h weakened. The deia,is nG his s,nr, are almost '"o horrible [" print, and he | [ p>iiRvr that the huInhrnf ihe ,si has n+ el | much un,1rrst ai-d II al ne not thought t' ; slide. his neck nut oi the trap 1, WAS in, u would have made the number one larger |. Har!ford Courant