Year: 1878

comparatively very little hurt, but
/ feariully frightened as they were re-
lieved from their perilOus situation. ]
had a conversation with the Baggage
master, who comes from COlumbu
and he said he was standing outside
his car on the pla tform, near the door,
and was first Knocked back across his
car among the baggage, rebounded and
temporarily stunned, ultimately find
ing himself hung by the hands ON some
telegraph wires that had fallen across
the wreck. He proceeded to the Sleep
ing car, and on examination, found he
had only been bruised and badly
shaken.


CHAs. HICKS ACCOUNT.


Charles Hicks, of Philadelphia, en-
route for Kansas, stated that he was In
the rear of the first Car, but providen-
TALLY escaped. He was asleep, and the
first he knew was landing with his
head Though the car window, his stiff
hat saving the glass from cutting him.
He had stick and broke the rest of the
glass around the hole he had made in
1t and crept through. The car looked
as if one end; the roof off and the sides
Just about to fall into atoms, being
completely splntered and bulged out.
He saw several persons thrown through
the sides by the concus sion down the
embankment, and the cries every
where were heartending. In one place
he saw body 80 completely buried that
nothing but one foot stuck out of the
debris, and he knew not IL it belonged
to man or WOman-the body was
crushed into perfect jelly. He first
answered the screams and pleadings of
poor woman with four bright child
rem, and succeeded in releasing them
with but trihing Injury, and then set
to work with will, working at all
sorts till the train brought home the
wounded, The first Car fell to pieces
down the bank, and portion of the
second Car struck up on end, on the
track, as if raised with a derrick, and
part of the tender was jammed into it.
The engines were down the bank on
the south side. A mail clerk told him
when the coils ion first occurred he
hardly realized it until he felt the pull
verified car falling down an embank-
ment and grasped something within
bis reach stationary to hold to. He
thus kept himself from being smashed
W piOCCos LILO was oA0ACA OAb
not particularly injured, though his
companion Was killed on the spot,
while letters were strewn about like
chaff. Further Investigating Mr..
Hicks, he added: The boilers were
completely stripped, and the water
from the demofalized tender almost de.
luged the passengers, while cars and
engines lay on one side of the track,
down the embankment, and on the
north side lay wheels, axles, and
Thousand fragments. a boy engaged
ON the train rs lamp trimmer, was
killed on the spot, his body presenting
d horribly mangled sight. He Was
found by the side of wrecked freight
Car, lying on pile OF wheat that had
been scattered broadcast. 1t was me-
lanchOly that the telegraph cOmmuni-
cation should have been destroyed, as
the doctors could not be gotten to the
scene under two and half or three
hours. when four or five reported on
hand. One fne young mHn he had
noticed on the train, who had kept
them all alive with his mirlb and
jollity-lsst seeing him alive at Pitts
burgh, but during the morning his
heart sick to witness his body In
mutilated mass.