The Dickinson press., 1889-06-15
CHILDREN CRUSHED,
A Terrible Railroad Accident
Near Armaush, in
Ireland.
Railway Cars Dash Down a Steep
Grade, Colliding with a Fol-
lowing Train.
Scyenty-twO Children Taken Out Of the
Wreck Dead. and Many More
Are Badly Injured.

DUBLIN, June 13.-The railroad acct
dent near Armah is without a parallel
in the history of %railroading in Ireland.
The train carrying the Sunday school
excursion bound for the popular little
seaside resort of Warrensport was made
up two sections, and fully 1900 children
and their relatives and teachers were on
board. This train, a short distance out
of Armagh. was ascending a steep grade
to a bank that rises to a height of fifty
feet, when the engine of the rear section
gave u and was unable to drew the
heavy train. In some way which is not
now clearly understood several of the
rear cars became detached from the bal
ance of the train and
Started Down the Steep Grade.
In a few seconds the cars were going
down hill at a terrific rate of speed, with
the brakes either utterly useless or from
negligence on the part of the guard
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
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that followed been averted, but. unfor-
tunately, the regular train from Armagh
followed just behind the rear section of
the excursion train, and with the loco
motive Of this train the detached cars
Collidcd with Terrific Force,
wrecking the locomotive as we'll as the
cars themselves. The scenes at the
wreck Immediately after the accident
were heartrending in the extreme. The
rear section of the excursion train, from
which the Inflated cars had become de-
tached. was stopped after proceeding a
short distance and the passengers as we'll
as those of the forward section ran back
those of the little children in the wrecked
cars, where MANNED and mangled bodies
still showed symptoms of life. The
Dead and 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 suffer
ers mingled in an awful din with the
shrieks OF their moro fortunate compan-
ions who stood by powerless to afford
any assistance.
People from the surrounding country
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remove the victims of the wreck. Ply
sicians We're summoned from Belfast and
other points to attend to the wants of
the injured while the dead were taken
from the runs as fast as possible and
Placed in Rows Upon the Grass.
The engineer. fireman and guard of
the rear section Of the excursion train
and the traffic managers clerk have been
arrested charged with causing the acct
dent, and remanded without bail.
Dead Number Seventy-two.
The dead at this hour 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, with the
possible exception of the memorable Tay
bridge disaster by which seventy-four
persons lost their lives.
The n in which the doomed.
coaches became detached iioln the train
of which theJ formed a part seems at
this hour to be unexplained. 1t is as
serted that they were deliberately un-
coupled by a train hand when it was
found that the engine could not pull the
entire train any further. However this
may be. there is no doubt that the disas-
ter is primarily due to obsolete applian-
ces, the brakes being the old fashioned
hand brakes with worn links.