New York Herald, "The Accident on the Erie Railroad," July 18, 1858

    Source citation
    "The Accident on the Erie Railroad," New York Herald, July 18, 1858, p. 4: 4.
    Newspaper: Publication
    New York Herald
    Newspaper: Headline
    The Accident on the Erie Railroad
    Newspaper: Page(s)
    4
    Newspaper: Column
    4
    Type
    Newspaper
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Don Sailer, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

    THE ACCIDENT ON THE ERIE RAILROAD. – It will be seen by a despatch elsewhere, that the Coroner’s jury in the railroad accident case at Port Jervis, have rendered a verdict entirely exculpating the railroad company from all blame. They were just two hours coming to a conclusion on the subject, taking the testimony, examining the construction of the rails, and all the other details necessary to arriving at a calm and deliberate opinion as to how and by whose action over fifty of their fellow beings were, in an instant, frightfully mangled and mutilated. They have pronounced the skirts of the company clear of blood – rather a hasty judgment, we think, but after all not without precedent in such cases. Thus we go from one railroad slaughter to another, with a verdict in each case of “no one to blame.” Our hope now is in the courts. Let every injured passenger bring suits against the company for damages sustained, and the public may derive some satisfaction from the result.

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