Port Tobacco Times, And Charles County Advertiser

Dreadful Railroad Accident. -- Intelligence of the late appalling collision of the cars on the Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad, on the evening of the fourth of July reached us Thursday. We regret that we have not room to give our readers a full minute account of it. The following is taken from the Baltimore Sun:

One of the most terrible and appalling railroad accidents ever witnessed in this country has taken place on the Baltimore and Susquehanna railroad at a point 9 miles from the city, about midway between Rider's Grove and the Relay House.

It appears that on Tuesday afternoon the regular accommodation train for York, consisting of 5 large 8 wheeled passenger cars left the Calvert station at 25 minutes past 4 o'clock, containing about two hundred persons, in charge of Mr. Wm. D. Scott, conductor, accompanied by Mr. R. S. Hollins, the treasurer, and other officers of the road, who proceeded out for the purpose of assisting in the management of the return trains from Rider's Grove, where nearly three thousand persons had been conveyed by the company for the purpose of celebrating the day. This large party of men, women and children, had gone out during the morning in three different trains.

The accommodation train, above referred to, proceeded out carefully at a moderate rate of speed until it reached the Relay House, where it was duly switched off on the Green Spring branch, to let the down trains pass.

The express train due to Baltimore at 12 o'clock noon then passed along, having been detained; also an excursion train from Rider's woods, which consisted of nineteen large cars crowded with the excursionists, on their return home.

The accommodation train then proceeded, but had not traveled a mile before it came in collision with the second excursion train from Rider's Grove, consisting of fourteen cars filled with men women and children, in charge of Mr. Jno. Scott, one of most experienced conductors on the road.

When the collision occurred the crash was of a most terrific character, the locomotive of the outward train, and the cars of the other being smashed beyond repair, whilst the groans of the dying, the heart-rending shrieks of the wounded, as well as the mangled bodies of the dead, presented a scene which defies faithful description.