The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-03

of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, the
bridge over the Gasconade River fell with
the train of excursionists on it, and
twenty-five people were killed and fifty
seriously injured. A frightful accident
occurred on the 18th of July, 1856,
at Camp Hill, near. Philadelphia. The
train containing 1,1OO Sunday-school
children collided with the express, demol-
ishipg both locomotives, three cars tele-
scoped, two others fell upon them, when
all took fire, burning to death 66 chill
dren and injuring 100 Others. On St.
Patrick's Day, 1857, the train on the
Canada Great Western jumped the track
while crossing the Desjardins Canal, and
the train descended into the chasm 60
feet deep, upon ice 2 feet thick above Is
feet of water. Of 80 passengers 60
were instantly killed, including all the
women and children but l. At
Lewisham, England, in June, 1857,
disabled train was run into and
II passengers killed and 1853 seriously
hurt. At Helmshore. near Manchester,
England, an excursion train consisting
of seventeen car loads was run into by
a wild tram with loss of eleven killed
and seventy-seven wounded. On the
25th of August, 1861, terrible disaster
occurred at Crydon Tunnel, near Lon
don. Three trains left the station within
seven minutes, when, through failure Of
the signals to act, the second plunged
into the first, wrecking it completely
within the tunnel, and the third plunged
into the wreck of both the others.
Twenty-three were killed and 176 in
jured A week later at Hampstead train
went over bridge, killing sixteen per-
sons, seriously wounding twenty more
and less seriously 300 Others. On the
18th day of October, 1862, two trains on
the Edinburgh & Glasgow Road collided,
killing Is and wounding 100 passengers.
On the 29th OF June, 1864, an emigrant-
train on the Crank Trunk Road plunged
into the open draw bridge over the Rich
elicu River, at st. Hilaire, Quebec.
Eighty-six dead bodies were taken out OF
the debris, and near 800 wounded, some
of whom afterward died. On the 18th
of July, 1864, a train on the Erie Road,
twenty miles west of Port Jervis, with $50
Confederate prisoners, dashed into coal
train. Sixty soldiers and some of the train
hands were killed outright, and 120 were
injured On the 7th of March, 1865, the
New York and Washington express ran
into train at Bristol, destroying two Of
the rear cars and killing and wounding
fifty or more United States soldiers re-
turning home on furlouyh. On the 18th
of April, 1867, on the Erie Road, al
Carr's Rock, near Port Jervis, raj
broke on a curve and four cars were
J thrown down the high embankment intt
the river, killing twenty-four and injur
ing eighty of tho passengers. On Decem
Der 18th, the same year, the rear car O.
an express train on the Lake Shore Roat
was thrown off the track by broken raj
near Angola, at the bridge over thu
Big Sister Creek. The ca
fell fifty feet, the passenger
and stove being piled in amass and secon'
stove thrown upon them, the whole forty
four passengers with three exception
being burned to death. By CO.
lison on the 2Sth of November, 1868, O
,, the Western Railway of Bohemia twer
ty-onc were killed and sixty injured. l
August, 1871, at Revere, Massach'
sctts, train dashed into another, settin
it on fire, when twenty-nine were killed an
fifty-seven wounded. On Christmas Ey'
1874, an express train went over an en-
bankment, killing thirty-four passenger
, and injuring seventy. At Ashtabul'
!; Ohio, December 26th, 1876, some eight
= passengers were burned and sixty badl
injured in disaster that our reade
will generally remember. At Tarifvill
y Connectic ut, January 18th, 1878, tire
tie bridge gave way and thirteen persol
u . were drowned and thirty-three injure
and finally at Wollaston, Massachusett
October 9th, 1878, nineteen were kille
:" and fifty severely injured.