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Show The TaucKEE Accident. From the 1 Sacramento "Union" we condense the following additional particulars of the railway accident on the Central Pacifio road . The train was drawn by two engines ' which wooded up at Coldstream, a few ! miles west of Truckee. Alter pulling ! ou; Irom this station the rato of speed became so great, sixty miles an hour as reported by an engineer, that oon-duccor oon-duccor Marshall started forward to ascertain the cause, u brakeman meanwhile mean-while setting up three hand brakes, the air pump not being in shape to aot. As the breakmau was passing forward, after setting the brakes, the accident came with a loud crash of breaking timbers, and instantaneously tho mail, express and baggage cars, were hurled down the embankment, the sleeping car immediately behind being thrown from the rails but fortunately not going go-ing over. The engines continued on to Truckee, a half mile, leaving the whole of the train at tho place of accident. Passengers and employes at once rushed out of the oars to the scene of destruction and with the assistance of citizens from Truckee removed the dead and wounded. Marshall, tho conductor, was found between two sleeping cars, his body nearly severed in two. He must have been stepping from one car to the ether when the crash oame throwing him betwocn them where he was caught and crushed. crush-ed. Hawks, ono of tho mail agents, had his chest completely broken in, and bis rigbt arm fractured in Bcveral places, whilo hh fellow agent esoaped unhurt. Van Wornicr, express agent, was thrown against the side of his oar his skull being smashed in, while Captain Taylor, the guard, waa found beneath the wreck, horribly mutilated. The baggage-master, George Warren, and the forward brakemeo, Horace Miner, when the unusual speed of tho traio oonvinccd them that thoro was something wrong, ran and put on the brakes of the bant; age and express cars, but as this did not appear to have tho desired effect, Warren called out to his companion, " For God's Bake, Miner, save yourself, there is no use staying here to bo killed;" and immc-dUuly immc-dUuly rushed through tho baggage car and into the sleeper. Miner attempted at-tempted to follow, but was tot quie.k cn'iugh, tho orah occurring and caus-! caus-! ing him to suiter a compouud fracture uJ tho right thigh, while a portion of ! two toes of the left foot was cut off. Young Wheeler, eon of the Rev. O. C. Wbeoler, and the noweboy, Wat-kins, Wat-kins, were in the baggage car, and wero badly bruised by fulling trunks, but luckily no bones were broken. Tho express and mail cars wero found to have bf-en broken into kindling wood. After tho accident one of them caught fire, but was soon extinguished. Letters and other mail matter wero scattered over tho ground -by the pi Ic of tho track fur Eeveral ruds. The watchman at the bridge about a mile wc.-t of Truckee. and a sh 'rt distance weat of the place of tho accident, says that when the train crossed tho engines and one ear (tho postal) were about tho length of a oar ahead of tho remainder re-mainder of tho train; and yet the mail agent feels confident that his oar vac attached to the train, and that the engines en-gines were running on ahead and without with-out cars. However this may bo, it matters little; it is fvident that the traio broko in two, either between tho express or postal cars, or between the latter and tho engines, and ran wild for a few momenta, gcttirg on a hich rate of speed, which the brakes did not check iD sriisen to prevent the tram fr m running into the tender of tho rear criywH) aod cm-ini; a j dt which fmasli' d t'l ; lender and threw the three cars fr.it n l ho track. It seems Mranj-e that the train cou'd breuk in two arid iljf iiu-ir.ror not be awnre of it, l.ti. s'.idi wi: the oi"i The mo.it .-itij;a';ir paiL id' t':e accident acci-dent is the almost mincukun escape- of the tleeping-car-, which were stopped jus; as grim death eciucd ready to aiozo upoo their QCGUianu. |