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HISTORICAL 50CIETY MONTGOMERY COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA J\Rorris7x)WN BULLETIN HISTORICAL 50CIETY MONTGOMERY COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA J\rORRIS7X)WN S2MERY PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY AT IT5 BUILDING IdS^I DEKALB STRBET NORRISTOWN.PA. SPRING, 1971 VOLUME XVll No. 4 PRICE $2.50 •OB The Historical Society of Montgomery County OFFICERS Hon. Alfred L. Taxis, Jr., President Robert B. Brunner, Esq., Vice President J. A. Peter Strassburger, Vice President Hon. Robert W. Honeyman, Vice President Howard W. Gross, Treasurer Eva G. Davis, Recording Secretary Mrs. Willis G. Frick, Corresponding Secretary Mi^. William H. Smith, Financial Secretary TRUSTEES Herbert T. Ballard, Jr. Merrill A. Bean Kirke Bryan, Esq. Noeris D. Davis Mrs. Andrew Y. Drysdale Donald A. Gallager, Esq. Hon. David E. Groshens Howard W. Gross Theodore Heske Arthur H. Jenkins Ellwood C. Parry, Jr. William S. Pettit John F. Reed Hon. Alfred L. Taxis, Jr. Mrs. Franklin B. Wildman appalling DISiVSTEP ON THE NOUTirEUN PUNNSYLVANIA IIAILUOAD. I I » % CnU.UlON or THJ: VASSUNOCtl AMI It til. mc.VlltJN, WPUTLJ J>REAI)rUL COLIISIOX OF IIAIL^V TRAINS AT [of ears, and the welvliL of the tralit. there tv.tssome dehv, nnd qneneei. Tlie down train cseaped without serious damajse.but the i tlie ennduetor,Mr. Alfn*d F. 11on>ch ilndln? liimsclf loliind Ilmci •cencpresented by tho cxrnr«ion iroiu w-ns re;irriih II10 three CAW Hiti STATION,I'OL'ilTTKN>IUi^ FJUjU PIItLMJ)2.I1I!A. [puahcd forwardwith K^eat rapidity when towards ii\e end of his furwaru can of the Irain were vriisliedrouk]>leteh'to plcecs. and ihc At fivo Vclnek In Hie tnornlnit nF July 17. nn cxenri^Tontr&ln of I trip. The re^utar |iat«vni2er train for l)ie eicy IcA Owynedd at wreck, minjiliiu with that nf the locoinollvv, took (Ire. and the ten eafi*Icfl ilio Mnfttcr street tUiiot. Plikl&dvlnlilo.wUii iho sehools I lit o^loek, and readied Uamn lUII at "It oviook onU ei^rltienn flames eoiuiniinleaieil to iho oilier cim of the train. The tun next of St. MIcliael's Ilon\an Catltollo eliiircli. In KenslntttAn. Thp cx« minutes. Flndlnf; tho exenriiim train ]iad not yet arrlsed. Mr. ears after the tliren that uero w/eckcd outrlitht, took Hre, and wcro cursloii pntiy coni>l»tcd of Sctvkcn (Ivocindsic ]iUM«lred persons, ' Wm. Vonitavorea, tliv conduciur. determined not to wait fur It, entirely consnnicd. Tho inmates of tbo tlirco futwnrd ears ware the );reot mnJotlTv of whom veto children. They Intended pro- I and Ilia irola «ai movlnji slonir vbcn tlie exneeted train came eoiupletelymixedup witUtbo wreek, and a largo number of them ceedin]! to Fori WA>litnstonifuiirleen oiid ohsU miles front the ] thtinderinF{ on srottnd n curvei at tiio rato of tuUly*ilve miles an were killed. Tliero were prolahly flfty persons In cactt nf the (Ity, nhcro tbejp irerou enjoya ple*iilc. Oulngto the numbc: *jtour* A coUlsloa of eouraocniued trlth tbo taosi ^ppiSing <oasc« ibrcc can, and tUc lowest eitliaato S&ostbo number of UlUedst THE BULLETIN of the HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY Published Semi^Annually — Spring and Fall Volume XVII Spring, 1971 No. 4 CONTENTS Editorial 213 Moat Appalling Calamity! ! Edited by John P. Reed 215 Opening of the Philadelphia and Norristown Rail Road .. 282 The United States Census of 1850, Edited by Jane E. Burris Franconia Township 287 Reports 304 John P. Reed, Editor PUBLICATION COMMITTEE The Editor, Chairman Mrs. Leroy Burris William T. Parsons Mrs. Earl W. Johnson Mrs. William H. Smith Copyright, 1971, by The Historical Society of Montgomery County 211 EDITORIAL This issue of the Bvlletin might be titled "The American Railroad Issue," since its text entirely concerns that mode of transportation. True, the text mainly depicts the hazardous aspect of railroading. Nevertheless, that hazard is an integral part of the history of the subject; and it was railroading, with all its hazards, that first bound the distances of this nation into a whole, and thereby pointed the nation to greatness. This issue then is a tribute to the men and women whose foresight, determination and labor have fashioned the rail road system from its infancy nearly a century and a half ago into the giant it is today. Most of these men and women are nameless to human recollection, but their jobs, both great and small, are familiar to all civilized humankind. Founders, presi dents, officers, office workers, technicians, surveyors, build ers, engineers, firemen, conductors, brakemen, signalmen and their thousands of fellow workers—^they all have been and are necessary cogs in the great machine of railroading. Although other, and usually faster, means of transportation have extensively eroded certain values of the railroads, the latter are still the primary carriers of the nation's freight, and, with the increasing national population, must rediscover their earlierfunction as primary carriers of human passengers. What they may sacrifice in speed of delivery, they more than overcome in weight of carriage, and thus remain one of the principal communication bonds that tie the nation together, JOHN F. REED, Editor. 213 MOST APPALLING CALAMITY! ! Collision on North Pa. Railroad Terrible Loss of Life! ! Several Cars Burned. NAMES OF THE KILLED—INCIDENTS- TOUCHING SCENES AT THE RUINS. CORONER'S INVESTIGATION—EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES. (Thus blazed the headlines in The Norristown Register for Tuesday, July 22, 1856. Although short accounts have been published at various times concerning the "Great Train Wreck," as the incident is known in the annals of Montgomery County, the following eyewitness accounts that appeared in The Register on the above date, and in the issue of July 29, gave a definitive description of the unfortunate accident. The subsequent trial of a participant accused of negligence, which appeared in the November 25, 1856 issue of The Register, is appended to complete the story. The accounts, though oc casionally repetitious, are re-published verbatim, except for a slight juggling of the accounts in order to offer a more con tinuous narrative.—THE EDITOR.) (From The Register, July 22, 1856.) One of the most appalling and frightful railroad disasters on record in this country and probably in the world, occurred last Thursday [i.e., July 17], on the N. Pa. Railroad, in White- marsh township, this county, near Camp Hill Station, & about 215 216 BULLETIN OF HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY three-fourths of a mile below Fort Washington Station from a a collision between the regular morning train from Gwynedd, and an excursion train that left the city in the morning with a pic nic party of Sabbath Scholars, belonging to St. Michael's Church, (Catholic) in Philadelphia. [EDITOR'S note: the railroad line was at that time single-tracked, which bore the traffic going both directions.] The School was going to spend the day in a grove about one- mile from Fort Washington Station—and two minutes would have enabled the excursion train to have reached that point. The following appear to be the particulars as near as" we can get them. The excursion train left Philadelphia, at a few minutes after five o'clock, but owing to dew on the road and a heavy train, was delayed some time on the road up.—^When it came to Edge Hill, where there is a sidling (stc) the Conductor, Mr. Alfred F. Hopple, still thinking that he could reach Fort Washington,—^went on, and the train was moving with con siderable rapidity—at the rate of about thirty miles per hour. The regular passenger train for the city left G-wynedd at 6 o'clock, and reached Fort Washington about the usual time, 6 o'clock, 15 min. Finding the excursion train not there, Mr. Vanstavoren the Conductor of the down train ordered the engineer to go on—and as it went along the expected excursion train came up at a great speed & the collision took place just about 400 yards above Camp Hill Station, with the most appalling consequences.—There are two curves at this portion of the road which prevented the trains from seeing each other at any considerable distance, the one just below Camp Hill Station, the other perhaps 800 yards above—^the two curves forming something like the letter S elongated. The down train had passed the upper curve—and nothing was seen of the up train, until its shadow was observed at the lower curve on the opposite side of the embankment. When the lower train was observed by the down engineer, the two trains were within about one hundred yards of each other. The passengers in the down train, escaped with a single MOST APPALLING CALAMITY 217 exception; Mr. Edwards the baggage master, without any seri ous injury. The scene presented however by the excursion train, was truly terrible beyond human description. It was a wreck of confusion, full of death and destruction. The three forward cars of the train were completely crushed to pieces and to make it still more horrible were soon enveloped in flames. The next two^cars also took fire and were entirely consumed—^the inmates of the three forward cars were com pletely mixed up with the wreck and many of them were in stantly killed.—There were probably fifty persons in each of the three cars. The number killed at first was estimated at fifty, and the wounded at about one hundred. Intelligence of the accident was at once taken to Philadel phia. The excitement at the station house there of those who were enquiring for the news from the scene, & who had child ren and friends in the excursion, was beyond description. The following is a list of the killed as nearly as we have been able to get them.
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