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express, having, as he thought, an undoubted right of the road, was unsuspicious of danger on the curve, and did not see the other train until too late to materially check the speed of his own train, much less avert the disaster. He had barely time to reverse hie engine and jump for his life, wbeu the massive lo motives aud all their precious freight of human life collided, with a loud crash and a power which shook the earth.— Head-lights, cow-catchers, and all the lighter works were crushed like tinder, and the massive iron boilers received the full force of the collision. All was over in the twinkling of an eye, and in less time than it takes to read this paragraph twenty-seven souls were swept into eternity.THE FATAL CAK.Next to the engine as usual was the baggage car, belonging to the Lafayette and ludianapolis Jlailroad, next was a first class coach belonging to the Michigan Central road, and this was the fatal car, in which Death held high carnival. The baggage, car was about 11 inches narrower than the passenge r coach, and a little higher on the trucks, and the force of the concussion drove it like the smaller sectiou ot a spy-glass, into and through the passenger coach immediately behind. The baggage car remained intact, and narrower, as we have said, came crushing through the coach, sweeping off’ the top but leaving the sides of the car unbroken. Like a monster battering ram it swept everything before it, and scarce a single passenger in the forward part escajjed instantaneous death.As it entered the coach it jumped the forward trucks upon which it rested, and the end dropping about twelve inches, for want of support, gave the baggage car an angle of about thirty degrees.— And to this simple fact the escaped pas-
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La Porte Weekly Union
La Porte, Indiana, US
Wed, Nov 09, 1864
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