Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-04
COLLIDING CARS.
frshtful Accident on the Rome, Wa
tertown q Ogdensburg Railroad-Sixteen
People Killed.

ALBION, N. Y, July 2S.
Eleven mangled bodies lay around the
floor this afternoon of the little depot
of Carlyon Station, upon the Rome, Water
town q Ogdensburg Railway, located eight
miles northwest of Albion, in Orleans
| County. Last evening a fearful wind, rain
ana thunderstorm ragged in that section of
| the State, doing considerable damage. AT
Carlyon Station a freight car was standing
| upon side-track, and was blown by the
wind about 100 feet to switch on the main
track. Here it remained. At $40 O'Clock
last evening the express running between
Niagara Falls and Thousand Islands,
dashed into this freight car,
causing one of the most fright
ful wrecks that has happened in this
portion of the State for many years. The
tram was making about twenty miles an
hour, and as it passed the station the head
engineer saw the obstruction, blew for
brakes, and with his fireman jumped as
the train struck the car. The forward
g1ne plowed off the track on the south,
the second on the north, turning over on
their sides, where they were ground and
broken into pieces. The destruction which
followed beggars description. Besides the
engine, the two baggage cars, day coach
and four sleeping cars were ditched and
terribly wrecked Four cars remained
upon the track; all of them are said to have
been well filled, and it is a wonder how so
many as did escaped with their lives. The
passengers were thrown into a heap of
crushed tlmberS and a mass of bleeding
corpses. From the wreck, enveloped in
darkness and drenched in rain, means and
groanS went up, mingled with pitiful ap.
peals for help. Men, women and children
were plunged beneath the overturned cars
In an indescribable mass of mangled hui
manity, and from the wreck the white
hands of ladies and the limbs of phil
dren protruded in such manner
as to make a most sickening sight.
The following are the names of those who
perished in the wreck: Birnie Bostwicl1
of Carlyon; Thos Hayne, Chicago, Ill. !;
Jane E. Carl, Lansing, Mich; Prof. G.. w.
ces, fireman, Oswego; James Mccarthy
engineer, Oswego; VIM. Lafeure, Bay
| City, Mich. Ashley Tyler, Camden N. Y;
Thos. Stells, Watertown, y. r.; 0. B.
Troop, Schoharie, N. y; j. G. Schenck,
Eaton County, Mich; Louis J. Boos and
wife, Philadelphia; Thos. Dixon, Cleve-
land O.
1t is impossible to give a complete list OF
the injured. The following are the names
of those persons now lodged witt faIs4ersi
Alice Jennison, PhIf1delpnia; dlSloca-
tion of the hip ana ankle.
Mrs. Prof. G. NJ. Stone, Battle Creek,
Mich. fracture of the forearm, and other
wise bruised
Mrs. Josephine Lefevre, Bay City, Mich;
left leg broken in two places, four ribs
broken and breast crushed in.
Mrs. R. c. Munda, of Bay City, Mich;
badly injured internally.
Mrs. w. T. Hall and daughter, of Lesley,
Mich; mother injured about the head and
daughter sustained severe spinal injuries.
Mary NJ Throop, Schoharie Court House,
N. Y; legs bruised.
Alexander Lowar, Mendon, Mich; in
jIred about the head.
Mrs. A. M. McKaster, Ireland, arm
broken.
Mrs. Dudley Salisbury, Battle Creek,
Mich; arm dislocated, throat bruised,
lungs crushed, cash in head.
Rev. E. D. Gould, Carthage, Mo-; deep
cut in head and generally bruised.
Miss Briggs, of Battle Creek, Mich. gen.
orally bruised: removed to Lyndonville.