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Show CHIMIN At RECKLESSNESS. Tilt! Cliirjio Sc Alton railway is the hit- --t reports Heeiu; of u terrible i-ollinion, an exn -d train inakint; up timet at a liih rate of pivd having ru.sinil throiili a (u into n coal train, whee coii'liLi'tor, knowing the tx-pre&s tx-pre&s train was eoniiug, w;w straining every time to make an interinetliate station I e fore it. The tend ue tor of tlieuiAl train had heen urtlereil by the train tli.-pLiteher to remain at a certain st.ition until the express train arrived. Aeeimling lo all rules of dispalehiug trains hy telegraph, he nuiat liave replied that he mulerslool tlio order and have reeeived im eu-dor-ieiuent that it was all tight. Alter Al-ter this he seems to have conceived iiu idea th t he knew more idxnit the road than the per.-un managing the (rains, and that lie could reach the intermediate station and get out of the way before the express could arrive. ar-rive. He therefore started his train ahead regardkss of orders and reckless reck-less of continences. Keen if he had had .sullieient time to reach the station, sta-tion, and had reeeived no orders, the most common caution ought to have warned him that any necidcnt or unforseen delay lo ins own train would in all probability result in a collision and the most terrible consequences. Despite this, and regardless of orders, lie seems to have driven ahead. The trains met in a fog. The boilers of both engines exploded. The baggage and smoking cars of the express tr.im were filled with steam, five persons were kilk-d outright, and forty-one bo badly scalded that many of them cannot can-not live. And all this agony and horror is a direct conseu.ueu.ee of the wilful recklessness of two men, the conductor iind engineer of tlie coal train. These moil should be at once arrested and tried for manslaughter, if not for murder; and if convicted they should be niaJe to suffer the extreme ex-treme penalty of the law. Only by the moot sharp and speedy punishment punish-ment can such crime bo met and checked. |