The Voice Of Freedom

Railroad Accident. A sad accident took place last Sunday afternoon on the Lehigh and Susquehanna railroad, about three miles from Wilkesbarre. A letter from that place in the U. S. Gazette, states the particulars as follows:

Mr. Theodore Titus, wife and son, a lad about fourteen years of age, (the two latter of whom had been out on a visit to the husband at his mills, near the Lehigh,) were coming in their own conveyance, a truck car, to Wilkesbarre. They had, with the aid of a common BRAKE, simply come down the tunnel plane, and the first plane of Solomon's Gap, (to reach the level below, there are three planes.)

On reaching the head of the second plane, one mile and a rod in length, descent one foot in ten, Mr. Titus was requested to put on the shoes of the car, a safeguard beyond all contingencies. But unfortunately, feeling confidence in his power of control over the car, he neglected to take the advice given, and disobeyed the express and positive orders of the Lehigh Coal and Transportation Company, which are, that no car should pass the planes without the shoes. Husband, wife and son, started on the descent—it was but a moment before it was discovered that all command of the car was lost, and sweeping with a lightning-like rapidity, the doomed freight was scattered at the bottom of the plane—the wife, almost a mangled mass, life instantly extinct—the husband bruised, lacerated, senseless—the son with skull fractured, and dangerous if not mortal wounds, as the result.