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under arrest.THE RAILROAD DISASTER NEARLAFAYETTE.%The Collision of a Passenger Train with a Cattle Train—The killed and Wounded—Horrible Scenes—The Coroner’s Inquest.| From the Lafayette Courier, November 1. JOne of the most frightful accidents in the annals of railway travel occurred on the Lafayette and Indianapolis Road at 55 minutes past three o’clock yesterday afternoon. The r^nilar Cincinnati Express due here at four o’clock ill the afternoon, by the new time card, collided with a cattle train on a curve one and a halt miles this side of Culver’s Station, about seven miles from this city. The passenger train was twenty minutes behind but waiting the requisite time at Stock well, obtained the undoubted right of the road, and was moving at a rapid speed when on turning the curve beyond Culver’s Station the cattle train was observed, but too late to avertTHE COLLISION.Both trams were heavily laden—one with seven coaches and five hundred and eight souls, and the other with nine froiglltcars filled with Government cattle The enginer, George Lamb, of the cattle train, had observed the smoke of the passenger engine just beyond the curve, and revers-ing Iks engine, had partially checked the speed of his train before the dread collision. He stood at his post, pale as marble, until the trains were but a few rods apart, when he jumped for his life, and with the fireman and breaksman escaped unhurt. John Whitten, engineer of theC
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La Porte Weekly Union
La Porte, Indiana, US
Wed, Nov 09, 1864
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