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AMERICA.Terrible Railway Accident in uhio.►%iA disastrous railway accident has happened in Ohio, on the Lake Shore Railroad, at Ashtabula, Northern Ohio.—■On Dec. 29, about 8 p.m., a Pacific express train going West, irt a heavy snowstorm, with seven cars drawn by two locomotives, was behind time. The train, while on an iron bridge over the Ashtabula Creek, ;ust before teaching the station, broke through, and the entire train fell into the creek, which is here six feet deep. The work of rescue of the hurt and recovery of the bodies had to be prosecuted in intense cold and deep snow. The bridge which fell was an iron truss-bridge, eleven years old, 150 ft. span, and 69. ft. above the creek. Thetrain was moving slowly preparatory to stopping at the station. The railway officials declare that the bridge \yas recently examined and was in sound condition. Of 179 persons in the train only seven escaped unhurt ; fifty-two others were saved alive, more or less injured, several of whom will die, and 120 were killed on the spot. About fifty bodies have been taken from the wreck burnt and mangled so horribly that only three were recognisable. The stories of the survivors give heartrending details. Excepting the leading locomotive, every car was wrecked. The ice covering the creek also gave way tinder the weight of the fallen train, the carriages caught fire, and the wreck burnt till midnight, and the storm raged till next morning, preventing relief reaching the spot. A train sent from Cleveland, fifty-five miles west, with physicians and nurses, did riot reach Ashtabula till almost morning. The snow had been falling for two days, and an almost incessant fierce gale blew from lt;Lake Erie. The intense cold of the night, one of the worst ever experienced, caused dreadful sufferings to the wounded and dying.
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London Week News
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Jan 06, 1877
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