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Show LBv W. U. Telecraph, WlIOLKSALtS EAILWAI KILL, IStS A.D BOASTl.C. Cleveland, O., 24 The train No 6 on the cross cut road, leaving Cany at 1 p. m., tc-day, raa through a bieh trestle over Goose Creek. The trestle was some forty feet high. Train a wreck below. Kight or nine persons supposed killed. Carry, Pa-, iM.midnipht. This p m. at 3:15, as the mail train on the Buffalo, Buf-falo, Carry and Pittsburg railroad, leaving Carry at 1:20 p. m. , Beared Prospect, when within about eighty rods of the station the train was thrown off the track at the trestle work. The passenger, bageage car and tender falling a distance of twenty-six twenty-six feet. The engine passed over ud-hurt. ud-hurt. At the present time the dead bodies of nineteen persons have been recovered. Some are fearfully burned. Thirty-five persons are known to have been wounded, some seriously. Among the dead are frank Taylor, baggageman, baggage-man, of Carry, E. Bacon, of Bracton, C. Waloney, of Bracton. trackmaster, Mr. Bell, of Shermao, Mr. Hake, of Bracton. The others are at present unrecognizable, owing to the charred and blackened state of the corpses Among the injured are H. Flanders, of Carry, conductor W. H. Tickner, Titusville, and J. Cowdray, employee of the Philadelphia and Erie road, at Carry. Carry, Pa., 25. By the accident yesterday it is now ascertained that there are twenty-one killed altogether. OF these sixteen are so terribly charred "as to be unknown, four others are in the Cbantaqua house awaiting relatives and one ia at Prospect. There are yet from three to five bodies under the ruins and rendered to ashes being distinguishable only by pieces of the skull and bones. The train was going on a down grade of eightj-two to eighty-five feet to the mile and was about sixty rods from the Prospect depot and had Bteam shut off. It was about three feet from the north end of the trestle. The brokeD wheel of the tender was discovered when the train was under the impetus of the dewn grade and a stoppage could not be made. Every care is being taken of the wounded, who are scattered around in the farm houses near, and medical attendance has been promptly Fur nished The conductor's pecket showed thirty-seven through tickets, taken up, and one to Prospeot. There are tup posed to have been, including these, from forty-two to fifty persons on board the train which oontsisted of one passenger pas-senger car, one baggage car, the engine and tender. New York, 26. The Tribune tomorrow to-morrow will publish the following ad- ' ditional particulars oF the Goose Creek railroad disaster : The cars were turned completely over and bottom-aide uo. They Fell perpendicularly lo tho prouod, a distance of twenty tt-et, and when the carB struck the trucks crushed through the bottoms. The Btoves in the pas:-enger pas:-enger cars were directly under the trucks, and wero crushed to pieces immediately, and the woodwork of the cars at once took fire. Of Forty-six people known to have been in the two oars, but ono escaped uninjured, namely, the brakem:.n on the passenger ooach. who jumped clear off the cars as they were falliug The woodwork of the passenger car, thickly coated as it wa3 with varnish, burned fiercely, and before anything could be done, by the force at hand, to prevent, the flames enveloped both ends of tho oar and crept rapidly toward tho centre. Penned within it at this time, with no possible chance to cxtricato themselves, were Forty-three adult passengers, the conductor and one obild. OF those seated in the ends oF tho car none escaped. es-caped. Help arriving, about twenty-five twenty-five dead and living were taken out of the centre and the llamos were then extinguished, or, more oorrcctly speak-iog, speak-iog, went out through lack eF anything I Further to feed upon. Tho remains re-mains of the other passengers wcro recovered re-covered and all brought to this place. The roll foots up as follows: saved, all more or less injured, Dice teen, dead nineteen, mis.-ing eight. ' The dead with Four exejptions were burned so as to bo uorejognizablo From their Features. There wore but three that could be identified From the shreds f of clothing adhering to the roasted flesh. Five were headless and without limbs. The remaining olcs bud the flet-h all burned off the extremities. - The eight missing are supposed lo have p been completely consumed. There are pieces of skulls, watches, and tho like, sufficient to partially justify tho belief that they were tho remainB of four others, knowD to have been on the train, namely: Catherine Kelly, Kitty Ryan, and Mr and Mr J. Wilbur F. Rice, all of Titusville, P.i. It is thought they will be identified to mor-i mor-i tow as their friends have oome for t hat purpose. J DC ease ui uiu vwu miier ia a pecul arly sad ono. Mr. Uioe was the only son of Jas. Rioe, a leading citizen of Titusville, and his wife the only daughter of Austin Jackson, oF Rochester, N. Y. They were married on the 5th of this month and were on their way to Rochester to speBd Christmas. Christ-mas. Judging from the olothing, bag-gape, bag-gape, and appearance of those coming to identify them, a number of thedad belonged to the lower classes. The bodies are laid out in the freinht house to be kept soveral day for identification. |