The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-10-12
The Storm Last Week.
SOME OF THE RAILROAD ACCIDENTS WHICH
FOLLOWED IN ITS WAKE.


! PHGNixvrLLE, OcT 5.-Last night a
terrible accident occurred ON the Picker
! Ing Valley branch of the Reading railroad,
! about two miles west of this place, to the
! PennypaCker excursion train, killing seven
( persons and injuring about forty-three.
! The rains had washed away the track. and
! the train was carried down high embank-
ment. A culveIt, too small to admit OF
/ the passage of the rapidly accumula:lng
: water had been washed away, followed by
! the entire bank underneath the railroad
track. The train which left PhpnlxVliie
a. 6:20, consisting in the order named of au
engine, tender, two passenger, baggage
aud milk car, loaded with participants
at the Pennypacker reunion, fell through
this wash in the road. The night was
dark, and those persons not in jured by the
smash-up upon emerging from the cars,
heard the groans of the wounded inter
mingled with the kissing of steam from the
engine. 1t was terrible in the extreme.
The Pottstown wreckers were early on the
ground, and all night long the dead and
wounded were being removed from the de-
bris. Some twenty five-wounded were
taken to nei gil boring farm houses and some
eighteen 20 PhGuixville.
There were about $50 excursionists on
the train, most of them being from Php-
,.ixville and the surrounding country, of
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PHDNIxyILIE, Pa, Oct 6-The debris
at the scene of Thursday evenings disas-
ter on the Pickering Valley railroad Was
burned last night by oIder of the railroad
company. The coroner's jury, after view
ing the remains of the victims, allowed
them to be removed to their la'e homes.
The Jury this morning visited the scene,
vie we'd the surroundings and adjourned to
meet on Wednesday morning, when wit
h. t..lyn
-Four of the persons injured have since
died-Michael Corbett, brakeman, Mrs. AL
bert Pennypac cker, Peter Dauiield and John
misunderstanding the deaths SO far foot
up eleven.
WILMINGTON, Oct. 5.-~An accident oc-
CARED on the Wilmington and Northern
railroad by which an engineer was killed,
and fireman so badly injured that "a fatal
result is expected. The Train left Reading
at 4;15 yesterday afternoon, and reached a
point between Isabella station and Waynes-
burg junction when suddenly the locomo-
tive dashed into ditch, followed by the
tender, both of which were badly wrecked.
At first the body of the engineer could not
be found. Finally about twelve o'clock
last night the wreckers found it under Ihe
engine. His name was Amos Peacock,
aged 40 years.
TRENTON, Oct. 5.-The express train
coming south on the BelVldere and Deia-
ware division of the Pennsy ylvania railroad
ran into a broken culvert near Milford, \.
Jersey. last evening, and was completely
wrecked. The train was washed out into
the Delaware, and now lies in the stream
some distance from the shore. The latest
dispatches safe that no bodies have yet
been fouad, and that the cOnduc:o aud en-
ginecr aud three passengers comprise Ibe
missing.
GREENPoRr. L. L., Oct. 5.-The steam
er Massachusetts, which left New IoIk
last night, grounded on Rock Point, five
miles east of Horizons poiut, at midnight
last night. The cause OF her going ashore
was loss of reck koning in the storm. The
opinion is that she viii 60 to pieces. Much
of her cargo, consisting of bales of cotton,
oil in barrels and general merchandise, was
thrown overheard to tighten the vessel aud
Is strewn along the beach. Two hundred
passengers in all were on board. The ladies
were all landed, and all will be safely
ashore by ten O'Clock.
Fort WAsHIN GTON, Oct. "a bridge
was washed out near Fort Washington,
across the Sandy Run, into which The en-
gine and an accommodation train plunged.
The engineer, George Bartle, was drowned.
No passengers were on the train. The
ira hands are somewhat bruised.
a number of schooners, slpops and small
er boats were wrecked at the mouth Of
Chester creek. Several mills in Chester
were damaged, aud six houses were blown
down. The loss is roughly estimated at
from $50, 900 to $50, 600.