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The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], Death of a venerable Creole. (search)
g particulars of a railroad accident, which recently occurred a Delaware: A most fearful railroad accident occurred early yesterday morning on the Delaware Railroad, just where the track crosses the canal, near St. George's Station, by which seven persons lost their lives, and fifteen were more or less injured. A wood train, consisting of thirteen platform cars, empty, and one old passenger, in which the conductor, Mr. Albert Butler, and some twenty laborers were seated, went down the Delaware road for a load of wood. When the train reached the high bridge which spans the canal, lear St. George's Station, the draw of the bridge was discovered to be open, but the discovery came too late to stop the train, the ice on the road preventing it, and it was precipitated into the canal, a descent of about sixty feet. Car, upon car was piled in pieces upon each other, crushing a number of persons. The conductor was fortunately standing outside of the car, and seeing the train was about t