FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT-EXCURSION TRAIN WRECKED.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 65, 30 August 1884, Page 6

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT-EXCURSION TRAIN WRECKED.

PiTT.snunc, Pea., July 19. — Intelligence just received Mom Canton, Ohio, says : Thus evening a Uain on tlio Connotton Valloy Kailuiiy, of m\U'ou cars, containing the employees of Aultman's agricultmal works and then families, who had been given a pi( mr, Ma', wiccked two miles east ot Canton, and 200 were killed and injured. The employ*-, of the Aultnian &_ Co. machine \\o"ik-> had their annual picnic at Cuviho'-a h\i\U to-day, and over # 2,000 went 'in the exclusion, which was mads up of iw o li.iins of iiitucn car* each. The first suction united at Canton at 7.20 p.m., and A\hile hundicd^ of lather, bi others, and •4-^f.urs at the .station v. vie waiting for fiiomL and iehH\e> on the s*econd section, a halle^ mc^engor came ninning doMn the track cry inn that thctiain had been wrecked and many killed and injured. The .^cene that followed nasof the wildest desciiption, and m hen the w reck was reached, men, women, and children lan around wringing their hands and looking for their lost ono^. ISine car-, wove olFthc track and in \\ater four feet deep. The crieh of the injured were heartrending. The engineer .says the wreck was caused by the track spreading. The engine went over all rifht, but the fir^t car 'jumped the track ami eight others followed. The tiain lan along-ule of the track for 200 feet, throwing the occupants from one side to the other, and finally jumped a .small embankment and landed in three feet of water.