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Show MORE HORRORS. Tho eugiuccr of au express train, with special instructions 10 guard against collision with a slow train ahead of him, recklessly runs his traiu at the highest rato of speed allowed, dashes into tho accommodation train aud hurries into eternity twenty-four human hu-man bo'mgs by a horrible and torturing death. Tins was on Saturday evening, within seven miles of Boston. The saruo morning another collision occurred oc-curred in Pennsylvania, where equal evidences af gross culpability arc apparent, ap-parent, by which six were killed, three dangerously wounded and a number less seriously iniured. But the description descrip-tion of tho Massachusetts disaster is by far tho more horrible. It is styled an accident, but it was no accident; it was the natural result of direct disobedience dis-obedience to orders and the most reckless disregard of tho safety of the train. . One is almost appalled when uotiog tho frequency and terrible character of these horrors. A coroner's jury has found the president, superintendent and an engineer of the Staten Island Ferry Company, with a government inspector, guilty in the Westfiehl case. A coroner's jury has also found several officials similarly guilty for theStarluck explosion and its consequent loss of life. And here we have another fearful fear-ful illustration of how human Ufa is sacriliced at the shrine of cupidity and carelessness. So far tho only result has been an outcry by the press, a momentary glow of indignation on tho part of tho public, aud the mourning of tho victims' friends; and then a new horror arises to bury the memory of the previous one, while the culprits escapo with a little inconvenience and some unenviable notoriety. It is timo that legislatures would cover such cases by proper enactments, and the peoplo hurl from office every official that would not energetically aid in their just enforcement. Since the above was in type wo received re-ceived in the regular dispatches the account, from Mobile, of still another disaster from a steamboat boiler explosion, ex-plosion, by which between fifty and sixty persons were killed, drowned and wounded. It seemcs almost as if there were an epidemic of such frightful occurrences. |