Terrible Railroad Accident.
By C. W. S.
A TRAIN of eight passenger and three other cars, drawn by two engines, fell through a bridge at Ashtabula, O., on the evening of Dec. 29, carrying everything but the leading engine down an embankment fully seventy feet. About 175 passengers were on board, and about 100 lost their lives, many perishing in the flames, as the wreck speedily took fire. A few days since, a convent in Montreal was burned, and 13 or more perished in the flames. And to-day’s papers bring the sad intelligence that a vessel stranded off Long Island, and after a night of intense suffering from cold, twenty-eight souls went down into a watery grave with the falling of the iron masts to which they had bound themselves. The night was spent in agonizing cries to God and singing hymns to him, which could be heard from the shore. Our minds have hardly time to recover from the shock of one calamity before another is recorded. C. W. S.