Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1859 — “’Tis the Survivor Dies.” [ARTICLE]

“’Tis the Survivor Dies.”

[W ashingtwn Correspondent oi the 5. Y. Courier

The tragedy at Wadi-ington. has been in all voices to-day. Be ond ail till? other features ot this case is the terrible truth, that a here a ma:i of fine ititellect' participates in such a scene ’tis the survivor dies ” It must be s .—dismissed suc|i scenes cannot be—-the red ray will be in ail the light of the future. A,n engineer on one of otir railway s had,.without taul! of his own. run the t emendous power umb r his control over a human being. The body was removed from the rail, death had done his dread work, examination Was made of the < i rcumst a nee.-. and the engineci ac p iited.the timnici le was not in him. Yet, a little ivhife afterward the engineer came to the superintend' !.? ami asked to resign his place—-he could not endure it. any longer. “VDhy do yon goi” said the superintend-ent—-“no one blamt » von.” •• A i." s.,id he, •• 1 n.u.-tg'. Every nightl tun on tiu> road, / ,s., that man standiinj 1,. - Jar: th ? en<jin< !'■