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a 1TRA'IN RtUN.NING INTO
OR CROWD.
HORRIBLE BUTCHERY.
Berlin was witness, om Sunday hight
Septnmnbelr 2, of an almost unexample,
atenl isophe-- , train running into a crow(
fi people as tk shy were crossing the railway
ine, and kiU ling about 40 persons. Th,
TPihes' correw pondent bupplies the followin
'facts':
"The sad. 'story'id'soon told. Steglitl a
the statioti ol "whichbthe accident happene
is a villia go or townlet about throswe
from Berlin, . on the Potsdam.Mhagdehur
Cologno ra uilWay line'; and the fin Sundj
weather h a.d tempted to tl.e place, as to al
other sub urban resorts, crowds of pleasure
scekers of thi 'poorer class, including'som
patriotic, socirties, to celchrate the anniver
sary of Sedan.. At the close -f the day th
station -was be seiged hy several' hundreds
the.ex.cursionints, eager to get l?ome by tbi
first t?.ain frona Potsdam. The; station a
Steglitz is furnished with insufficient wait
i g accomnmoaltion, and passenge Ts going t,
Berlin have to cross the rails in order t,
enter the up trains. Until the up train
arrive, it is usual to detain Beelin.bonni
passengers on the down platform, by men
of a movable 'barrier; and behind this bar
rier, towards 10'o'clock., an impatient crow,
of 200 or 300 ,people were waiting for te (
train that was to ta'ke them home to Berlin
The train arrived ; and eager to secur
seats, the ex un sionists either bunrt,
jumped, or putshi d back the barrier-pole
and began to'stre am across the rails like
flock of sheep, This they did inspitee
the shouts, Irel nonrseranosse and ln,,,
waving of thr , railway efficials ..
whom, howere. r, it is said there wa
an altogether i insuficient number--wh,
saw, to their hom ror, that thb Cologne expree
from Berlin wa a tearing 'own upon th
station. There was one heartrending an~
unanimous shrie] k, which silenced even th
thunder of the approaching. Wheels, th
heavy engine doa ihed in among thbr wedge
ned strugglig ..mass, and another inatan
the liri wa-s stterwn with the horribl)n muti
lated and dismenabered bodies. The cata
irophe Waas, as agpalling as it was u?liqOi
Words could ru.t describe the acese e'
carnage which p resented itself after t
express, its %v laels clogged with ghbill
pr-ois of the ruji it had worked, had p.as
the ft.al spot. Some of the corpses wei
maneled and noutilated boeyond all possibl
recognition. One poor T/oung mother har
both he, lgs cut offand, avebirthtoachili
inD ir lying agonlie. .T he fragments of th
derod wrre gathered toge ther and laid out i
one of th e waiting-roore ,, and a sort ofpani
teriot .pread over the 'place. Medical helt
was procured from -all iides, but maan
cases were beyondc. the reach of surgery
Towards mornir r he Pntdalm terarin
n ,oerlin was be.eeige d by an eager crow(
iuoh as used to wait the arrival of tt
wounded from the so :at of war in 1870. Ti
Eniperor sent two.of. his adjutants to inquir
nto the nature of t'ne disaster, with respot
sibility for whichb the Prussian Parliamne
hust ultimately :be saddled. The Berli
Cologue line.s 'no w a state railway, i
mnst others in ?PrLssia; and it was only i
April last thaft Herr laybach, the M?iniit
of Public VWorks, asked Parliament fi
422,000 mar-,s to build a proper station
teglitz, w nere the traffic is active, and
construct a tunnel under the line, so !a
obviate 'thin dangerous necessity for crossi!
over i*t. But the Chamber refused tb
Most reas, nable demand, and the pree,
oirrible cr itas^rophe is the result."
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