Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1858 — A Railroad Engrine on its Travels The Most Remarkable Leap on Record. [ARTICLE]

A Railroad Engrine on its Travels The Most Remarkable Leap on Record.

[From the Cincinnati Gazette, Nov. IS.

One of the most remarkable incidents which we have been called upon to record of late, occurred at the depot of the Little Miama Railroad yesterday morning, about' six o'clock. Ii certainly has no fe low, i, iri all its details, in railroad annals. 'The facts connected with it are as follows: About ii teeii minutes before six o'clock, the engine “Washington,” belonging to the Marietta and Cincinnati road, started down the track siting half or three-quarters of a mile, for the purpose of bringing the empty cars to the depot preparatory to making up the 6.15 train, the engine being under the control of a man employed about the yard, and not the regular engineer. About half a mile from tlie depot, the man in charge discovered an engine of the Little Miama road backing down to the depot :or the purpose ol taking out the morning train for Cleveland. Fearing a collision, the person in charge ol the Marietta engine, reversed, and jumped from the machine. A minute alter, the two engines came together, when th impetus given by the Marietta engine, together with the force of the reversed power, started it towards the depot with the velocity of a rocket. The down grade gave it additional headway, and it bounded along the track like fiend incarnate belching forth tire ami smoke to the distance of twenty or thirty feet, from the track, and literally bounding from the iniri rails, threatening destruction to every thing that impeded its progress. Experienced judges of the speed ol railway trains, who saw this engine on its lightening travels, say that it eould not have been going at a less rate than seventyjive to one hundred miles an hour! Its final bringing up shows that their calculations Could not have been far out of the wav.

track in the depot the morning train, consisting of some four or tiva cars, had been made up and about one hundred passengers had already taken tlieir seats. On came the engine with the speed of a dest'metive whirlwind, directly upon the track leaditig’to the train, until within four or five rods ol the depot, when the fortunate accidental change ol a switch dove it up m the the other track. Almost before the persons standing by con’d xpa!iz<> that an engine had eniered one end of the depot, the iron steed had bounded through the entire length, demolished an inch l>ri'-!x ictr/l, timbers ami all. at the rear, leaped! across two road . tracks-—one a bout ten leet below the other, without touc.hing either, and embeded its. 1; in a huge pile ol coal in the yard of J . f’oehtt.iu er! I lie dista nee k.*;: ped. Irom the wa 11 ol the depot to.the lamp ol the engine, con Id not have ben less than xev nty-jive fnt! Ail this distance, thro.tig'h the demolished wall of the depot, it dragged the tender loaded witlj Avood. v. ithout breaking the couplings. But lor the fortunate change o' the swteh, which threw the engine up.fit the opposite track to that on which the Cleveland train was standing, the loss of life must Im ve been terrible. The force which rent a brick wall, eighteen inches thick, for a circle of fifteen or twenty leet, would have smashed the cars upon the track into fragments, and a fearful destruction ol lite anil limb must have followed. Had the person in charge of the engine not have become frightened and jfimped when he reversed the machinery, t he accident would have been avoided, and the fact enforces the necessity of p-rmitting none* Imt. experienced men to hamlle'auachinery which possesses so much power. ,'l’lie regular. engineer would have known he was running upon the time which bel inged to the Cleveland train, and wotrd not have st art cd ou t. A. < 'liri.-topher Bonney, a car cleaffer at the depot, was also oft the “ Washington.’’ but jumped oil’ alter the engine got under good headway and was very badly injured. He was the only person who hurt. The engine and tender were damaged to the extent ol some four or five thousand dollars.

(K< A Mr. Wm. C. Ely, of Clyde, Wayne county. New \ ork, was dangerously stabbed a lew nights since, by a burglar, who first robbed his house of a quantity of silver plate. After carrying off the plate, the thief returned and ventured into Mr. Ely's room alter money, but Mr. E. happening to wake, grappled with him, and in the struggle received eleven -wounds from a knife. The thief escaped. The Member from Berks.—The Pliila'Z delphia A ryu.s enlightens us as to the antecedents of .Mr. Schwartz, of Berks county, Penn.,’who has b.een elected to Congress in place of Jehu Clancy Jones. He was atl original anti-Jackson man, supported Gen- [ eral Taylor lor President-in 1 S.',“ against Pieree. There seems to be but little rea-I son, judging from these antecedents, to expect that he will co-operate with the Democracy in the next. House of of. Representatives. '1 he ri tutr tamt or Dm otaii Oip:.i.mzi;p. ; A handfull ol adventurers have organized a new territo’y in Dpcotah, and established ! a provisional government. - As there are already ox er a hundred men in t lie territory. it is presumed they will proceed at once to elect two 1 nited States Senators, ami about hall a delegate to (’ongress, and semi them to Washington, to claim their seats. Buchanan's Triumph.—Though beaten | on almost every hand, our “venerated Pres- ; ident” can congratulate himself that of the | Democratic Senators that have defied him, I two have been displaced. Brdderick, ol California, will be displaced by an Administration man, and Stuart of Michigan by a Republican.

' ; -T - —-4—i —, Oty”A man m ined Dillon, in Philadelphia, who became jea lous of one pf his mistresres, attempted to satisfyjiis suspicions of her unfuithlulness by letting hithself down the , chimney flue to her room. He stuck in the flue ami was suffocated beftjre he could be . relieved from the chimney. Another mistress of Dillon’:;, hejirfng of his death, gave i away her wearing Apparel,j weiit to theDelj aware, took ofl her hoops, leaving them on I tht- walk, and jiimpiiig.j Oto tlhe river drowned herself. (fey”A rare collctibn of set ent v-se\ en L. S. cents, of ancienlt dat4, sold in Philadelphia on Monday for the aim of 8128,68. One Washington cent of ljF92, ofextremelv : rare-die, brought 828,60. Nineteen pieces s>ld tor 8106,03. The purchasers were chiefly antiquaries. j Messrs, Merrick &. Sons, of Philadelj pbia, have recieved the c -t tract for making I a new gasometer for the gas-wofks at Ha- : vana. ( üba,to replace the pne destroyed, by i the recert explosion,;: fgi/TAndrew Shannon, a well-known and respected citizen of Warren, Jefferson county, Ohio, died on Tuesday last from the bite iof a.rat, which he received a few dayes before. fr.g~A servant girl in Mew Haven Conn., ran ofl on Saturday night with nineteen dresses belonging to the family with whom ■ she had lived. ..... i —J - ffv~Eook out for Jives on tire 1 Oshkosh Commercial Bank, Wisconsin, altered from ones . oO~The United Presbyterian Synod of Ohio, have resolved to establish a college at Xenia. .1 ' A robb-T's cave Ims b um discovered in \ <•- , ntmgo co., Benn., wli-icft conta in<-d arms, clothing ami various other articles, probably the booty of the occupants of the cave.