Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-06-13
SEVENTY KILLED.
Accident to Sunday School Ex-
cursion in Ireland.
SLAUGHTER OF DEE IaNooEETs

The Greatest Railroad Disaster Ever
Known in the United Kingdom--A Col
lIsion While Going Down Grade at q
Rate o. Fifty Miles an Hour.
DUBLIN, June 13.-The railroad acct
dent near Armagh yesterday is without
a parallel in the history Of raiIroading in
Ireland.
The train carrying the Sunday school
excursion bound for the popular little
seaside resort of Warren's Point was
made up OF two sections and fully / 200
children and their relatives and their
teachers We're on board. This train,
short distance out OF Armagh, was as
cending a steep grade to a bank that
rises to heighth of fifty feet, when the
engine of the rear section gave out and
was unable to draw the heavy train. In
some way which is not now clearly un-
derstoOd. several Of the rear cars became
detached from the balance of the train
and started down the steep grade.
Down Hin at Terrific Speed.
In a few seconds the cars were going
down bin at a terrific speed, with the
brakes either utterly useless, or from
without proper attention. Had the
track on the level just below the grade
been clear for any considerable distance
the detached cars might have lost their
momentum and the terrible accident
that followed been averted, but unfor.
tunately the regular from Armagh
followed just behind the rear section of
the excursion tram, and with the loco
motive Of this train the detached cars
came into collision with terrific force,
wIecking the locomotive as well as the
cars themselves.
The scenes at the wreck Immediately
after the accident were heart rending in
the extreme. The rear section of the
excursion train from which the i'll fated
cars had become detached was stopped
after proceeding but a short distance,
and the passengers as well as those of
the forward section soon ran back to
render what assistance they could to
those Of the little children in the
wrecked cars whose manned and man
gled bodies still showed signs of life.
a Scene OF Horror.
The dead and the dying little ones
were scattered in inextricable confusion
among the jagged timbers and twisted
iron work of the wreck, and the groans
of the imprisoned sufferers mingled in
an awful din with the shrielxs of their
more fortunate companions, who stood
by powerless to afford assistance.
People from the surrounding country
hocked to the scene and set to work to
remove the victims from the wreck.
Physicians We're summoned by telegraph
from Belfast and other points and at
tended to the wants of the injured
while the dead were taken from the
ruins as fast as possible and placed in
rows upon the grass.
The engineer, fireman and guard of
tho rear section of the excursion train
and the traffic managers clerk were ar
rested charged with causing the acct
dent and remanded without bail.
seventy-two Dead.
The dead now number seventy-two,
with almost a certainty that others
among the large number of injured will
die. This makes the disaster the great
est railway horror that has ever been
known in the United Kingdom, and the
possible exception of the memorable
Iay bridge disaster, by which seventy
four persons lost their lives.
The engineer of the regular train from
Armagh saw the detached cars dashing
down upon him in time to stop his en-
CINE, but notwithstanding this, the
force of the collision was terrible. as at
+. the moment they struck the locomotive
the wild coaches were flying at the rate
Of fifty miles an hour.