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The lender before nicntitKiL'J, as having entered the car, struck hi id u» iIils hack, and full partly on him. h passed the first five benches, doing but little injury in the pas-sengcrs sealed on them which is an utiac-countublu miracle. The clothes of many of them were torn into ribbons, but they received no bodily hurt.Mr. Durable, a grandson of the linn, hen* ry Clay, was sitting on the fouuh bench; when discovered, he was jammed into a space of S inches. It was with great difficulty that lie was removed, whim it was discovered tbaL he was not injured in the least. IIis clothes were torn into shreds^ his llesli | chafed a little, but he was nut at all severely hurt. It is si miracle how be was saved—die 1 passengers who aided him owl,say it is almost incredible. |A Get man gentleman, n pns-cngcr in the ! downward train, leaped from the car before ! to on tinned as standing in the air, resting on «| dm sntolte pipe of the engine. Kin jarred j I himself a little, but seemed delighted nl his j | escape. No other passenger in that Uain | wus hurt.There were several distinguished citizens ; in the cars of the upward crane at the time of the collision, amonp whom was the Hon. Dan- ! ] iel Webster, and Mr. Graham ufN. Y. city.1An express was despatched to Havre dc ; Grace for another locomotive, and the pas- « j sengers were conveyed tn Wilmington, wlmre • [ they took ihe boat for Philadelphia, and sir-i rived between Sand 1) o*cloch this morning,; having hr mi over 13 hours on the toad.A meeting was held on the boat, ;»t which ' the 1 Ion. D.mfd Webster presided. A series of resolutions were offered and adopted, the purport of which we learn to tie. that the i meeting condole with the friends of the dead j and the injured, and censure lltn^e who M- ! lowed the upper train to proceed front Havre I do Grace, when it was known that the lower j end train had positive'orders to reach that place without stopping, dec.[Phil. Chronicle, Sunday, Alsiv 5.
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Norwalk Experiment
Norwalk, Ohio, US
Wed, May 22, 1844
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