THE TERRIBLE ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILROAD.

FURTHER PARTICULARS -- LIST OF THE KILLED.

FROM SIXTY TO EIGHTY LIVES LOST -- ONLY TEN SAVED.

THE TRAIN PRECIPITATED SIXTY FEET INTO THE WATER.

Toronto, Friday, March 13.
We learn the following particulars of the railroad accident at Hamilton from a gentleman who left the scene of disaster this morning.
The accident occurred on the Great Western Railway, at the bridge over the Des Jardines Canal, which is elevated some sixty feet above water.
The bridge swings, and it is supposed that the train which passed for the East a short time before had sunk the Bridge so much that the locomotive of this train was obstructed by the atutments to such a degree that the passenger cars were raised up and thrown into the canel.
The train was the local accommodation from Toronto to Hamilton, and left Toronto at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The number of passengers was estimated at from seventy-five to one hundred, of whom only fifteen were taken alive from the wreck, and of these five have since died.
The water in the canal is eighteen feet deep, and all those not immediately killed were drowned.
The engine and tender, with the engineer and fireman, were pitched headlong into the canal, and are buried twenty feet below the surface. The baggage car and two passenger cars are completely shattered and one of the latter turned bottom side upwards and nearly submerged.
When our informant arrived this morning the parties were still busy in extricating the bodies from the wreck. In an outhouse adjoining the station-house at Hamilton about fifty or sixty corpses of men, women and children were lying on one floor. No inquiry into the cause of the accident had yet been held.
Most of the passengers were from Hamilton, Toronto, and the adjoining towns. SAMUEL ZIMMERMAN, of Niagara Falls, ISAAC BUCILANAN, of Hamilton, Vice-President of the Road, and Captain TWOLEY, a popular commander on Lake Ontario, are among the victims. Only one of the lady passengers was saved, and she was much cut and bruised. A German lad in the hind car, seeing the conductor hastily retreating to the back door, took alarm and followed him, and he, the conductor and three others were the onlyones who escaped with trifling injuries. MR. C. J. BRYDGES, the managing director of the Railway, DR. MACKLEM, of Canada West, and THOMAS C. STREET, of Chippewa, were on the train, and although considerably injured, escaped with their lives.
The following is a list of the bodies recognized up to this morning:
DONALD STUART, of Toronto.
REV. A. BOOKER, the father of Mayor BOOKER, of Toronto.
ERASTUS W. GREEN, of Toronto.
A Little Girl, the Daughter of MR. J. R. CLARKE, of Toronto.
JAMES GANNON, of Port Hope.
THOMAS BENSON, of Port Hope.
JOHN SHARP, book-binder, of Brantford.
A. GRANT, of Brantford.
MR. RUSSELL, of the firm MELLEST, MERREL & RUSSELL, of Brantford.
JOSEPH BARR, of Niagara.
JOHN C. HENDERSON, of Hamilton.
In one of the Company's buildings lay the bodies of sixteen men, two women and one child, and of these but three were recognized --
EDWARD DUFFIELD.
REV. DR. HEISAK.
JOHN MORLEY.
The remains of MR. ZIMMERMAN will be taken to his residence at Niagara Falls this afternoon. He was in the baggage car at the time of the accident.

A Later Dispatch.
A jury was impanneled this forenoon and went immediately to view the bodies and investigate the cause of the accident. The following additional bodies have been identified:
MR. DOYLE and THOMAS DOYLE, Dunbarton.
JOSEPH MAJOR, Two Rivers.
DAVID McFIGGAN, Galt.
MR. KENDALL, Lockport, N.Y.
MR. and MRS. BRASFIELD, Suspension Bridge.
MRS. DUFFIN, Toronto.
JOHN BECK, wife, and two children.
MRS. RUSSELL, wife of MR. RUSSELL, also dead.
MR. CURTISS, of Dowlings, cannot survive his injuries.
JAMES ROSS, Toronto.
JOHN WILLARD, late of Buckinghamshire, England.
BURNFIELD, the Engineer of the train, and JOHN KNIGHT, fireman.
MR. BARTON, Son, of Stratford.
ROBERT CRAWFORD, of Saltfleet.
MR. STURDES, of London.
HUGH McFLOY, of London.
TIMOTHY and PATRICK DOYLE, Dunbarton.
JOSEPH HARKNESS, Toronto.
CILAS BROWN, Galt.
ELLEN and MARY DOWNIE, of Milton.
JAMES FORBES, of Milton.
RALPH WADE, Cobourg.
CHAS. CALDWELL, Albion.
GEORGE McDONNELL, St. Catharine's.
MR. McFLOY, St. Catharine's.
It is intended to have a public funeral of the unfortunate sufferes of Monday. Committees have been appointed to wait on the friends of the deceased. Many of the bodies have already been removed by the relatives.
Fifty-seven bodies have been recovered up to tonight.

The New York Daily-Times New York 1857-03-14
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Researched and Transcribed by Stu Beitler. Thank you, Stu!