The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-01-24
ARALRO4D DISASTER.

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Particulars, of the Terrible Accident Near
,SAC SIC Tarffsilie, Conn3 DG0A
n Especial to the Chicago Tribune.
! HARTFoRD, Conn, JAM 16.-The
Moody and Sankey lexcursion-train acct
dent on the Connecticut Western Road,
near Tariffville last night, was exager-
ated as 70 loss. of life, yet the affair was
a terrible one. Over 500 residents OF
Nmsted, Canaan, Salisbury and other
places in the western section of the
State had visited the Moody and Sankey
revival meeting and embarked for home
after service, leaving Hartford by a
special train of eleven cars and two
lo9ometiyes. TFhe,papy had enjoyed a
rare tsaStof rci gious scQlnnpriicn With
the great evangelists, and little did they
! imagine the fearful catastrophe,so close
at hatIdI O5EhereL Was no sxarning-
nothing to lead to apprehension. Cross
ing NeA SI70@AT
THE PENNINGTON RIVER BRIDGE,
one mile from Tariffville the train was
Just entering upon the ,trestle work
stretching across the meadows when
an ominOus crash was heard ahead of
the train. The west span, 100 feet long,
on the Howe truss principle, had yield
ed to the overweight of two engines,
and, parting near an abutment, caved
into the stream, crushing through six
inches inc Of ice With Which it, was coy
eredtA The first 4 engine cleared the
woodwork Of theOblidge proper, land,
turning over, landed bottom up, ire
trievably damaged. its mate went
down, enwrapped lin the Breokiof the
bridge, both landing upon solid ground,
but the baggage-car crushed through
the ice into. six feet of water, and de-
posted its dozen occupants yin rs W.
THE ICY FLOOD, ~ -
mixed up with the myriad, of splinters
into which the woodwork was shattered.
The first passenger-car was next crush
ed to half size. Swinging around at
right angles, into its weakest spot, the
side, came like a catapult the heavy
front platform of the next car, the rear
end of which renamed upheld against
the central pier of the bridge. The
fourth car striking. its predecessor,
swung off diagona1ly, and pitched head
foremost into the ehasm This ended
the crash, for the remaining cars were
saved from going off by the ends of the
two ears resting against the pier as de-
scribed. In a moment the shrieks of
women and groans. of men rang out up
on the piercing cold air
THE sHRIEKS OF CRUSHED, MANGLED
2T9XsIT9 BEISes, i6T9lUf
to obtain release from the
meshes into which the shock had hurled
them IN the, ends of the overturned cars.
The unhurt FASTENED to help the endan-
gered, and additional aid came from the |
villagers of Tariffyille, who were arous-
ed by the noise of the crash. A merci-
full Providence preserved the passengers
from the usual terrible feature of fire |
from lamps and stoves, but 4
the occupants of the first two cars were
brought face to face with death by
as the cars forming their |
prisons settled gradually down into the
water and sand Measures for relief |
were well organized by few leading
spirits, and soon the workers hewed and |
tore away timbers with will until
D .r-, IN LESS THAN TWO HOURS,
every car was cleared of its living oecu- |
pants, the wounded being borne away
to the river bank on sledges hastily i'm
provised from saplings land lear-cush-
ions, and thence to hesgenial warmth |
of the cars which had remained on the |
track, and where friends, were ready to
minister to their needs kilograms !
were dispatched TO, Hartford and Win
sted for aid, and special trains arrived
soon after, fordoAcOntributing a
dozen surgeons under the-ex excitement
occasioned by the report that at least
fifty deaths had happened andIYounds
were innumerable. The, worst injured
we're removed to hotels, and private
dwellings, people throwing open their
doors and offering every acc6mnoda-
ton. Two hours later the members of
the party able to travel were. sent home
by a special train over other roads af-
fording connection beyond the break.
Ne.annttiRPelHOLLOM
SEARCIf FOR THE DEAD Va
began, and five, corpses of. women were
aiken from the wreck all having died
rom drowning. Search for the dead this
Observation-Disclosures ofsix young
men who met death in the same way,
having been standing on the front plat
,orm when the car went down, and be-
ng pushed under water. Other bodies
are believed to bejin the ruins, and will
be found by, the, Wrecking party now
clearing away the debris pfepatatOty-to +
he erection of new bridge and the re- ?
sumption of travel. n Strange 10. say, of
In aggregate of thirteen deaths reported,
Ill but two areTby drowning, only one
passenger, Fred. Hotchkins, and Engi-
leer Hatch, dying from the injuries us
rally ineiase4t tysuck a disGEeE as this.
In his sermons to-day, L
-krsafIS. MooDsD
alluded i'm touching terms to the aeei- !
lent, and offered fervent prayer Tor
he recovery of the injured Response
oility for the disaster is claimed to at
,achr to the zCSmpaaY,, whose officers
laf been wai4fts thatlthe bridge was I'M
safe. The Coroner's inquest will con-
onnhnkr otbar uIipSfiOUS