Rochester, Monroe, NY Rochester Republican May 4, 1848 RAILROAD ACCIDENT - The train of ca?? From this city for Buffalo, ran off the track before Bergen and Byron yesterday morning about 4 o'clock, by which the Engineer, Jeremiah GUILE and the baggageman, Henry BACKUS, were somewhat injured. The engine encountered a ???? head, which threw it bottom upward off the track, the remainder of the train with the exerp??? the baggage waggon and front end of one passenger car, remaining on the track. There was great apprehension among the passengers for the ????? the Engineer and Fireman, they being under the engine, but after half an hour they were ????ted, and we rejoice to add, received but slight ????ric? From the hot water, &c. BACKUS was taken home to Batavia, and GUILE arrived in the city on the afternoon train. ** TWO COWS KILLED BY THE RAILROAD - The train going west on Sunday ran over a cow past Attica, as did also the one coming east in the evening, near the same place. In the latter case, an open car was thrown off the track, the train being detained until after the regular night run had ???fot the east. The passengers were obliged to wait over until yesterday at 1 o'clock. ** BIGAMY CASE — We learn from the Syracuse Star of a bigamy case just developed at that place, John HILL, a carpenter by trade whose personal attractions are thus set forth "of middle age, bald head and one eye," came to Syracuse last July from Springfield Mass.; accompanied by a young girl, whom he shortly afterwards married. Recently the father and mother of the girl came on, and after attending to her wants, she having just become a mother, they had the man arrested, he having a wife and several children at the east.-- Two of his children are with the Shakers. ** MILLARD FILLMORE - The Michigan Expositor has placed the name of Mr. FILLMORE at the head of its columns as a candidate for the Presidency, subject to the decision of the Whig National Convention. ** TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT - TWO MEN KILLED The passenger train, with about one hundred passengers on board, which left this city yesterday (Sunday) at 12 o'clock, for Albany, was met at 1 o'clock one and a half miles this side of Herkimer, but a heavy freight train, at a curve where they could not see each other forty rods apart, and a powerful collision took place. Mr. James WELCH, a moulder employed at Higham & Co.'s Vulcan Works, in this city, was killed. He has left a wife and four children. His wife, upon being informed of the death of her husband was seized with fits, which continued in succession some hours. Mr. Wm SMITH, of Herkimer, was also killed. He leaves a wife and one child. A Mr. BENNETT, of Albany, had his thigh bone broken and driven into his body. It is deemed impossible for him to survive. Several others were injured, legs broken, &c. The postmaster and express agent, who occupy the car next to the passenger cars, taking the few seconds warning given by the reversing of the engines, leaped through the windows, breaking sash and glass — and thereby saving themselves from being literally bruised to atoms. The first passenger car was started from its track by the force of the concussion, and slid two thirds of its length into the express and mail car, the roof of which cut the top of the passenger car off, through the windows, just over the heads of the passengers, none of which were injured. One man threw his wife and child out of a passenger car window, without injury to them. Those killed and badly hurt, it is said, were on the engine, or standing on the car platforms. Both engines and tenders, and the baggage and mail-cars were demolished, and the other cars in both trains more or less injured. The cause of the accident is said to rest upon the Conductor and Engineer, who disregarded their running time. They should have remained at Herkimer until the down train arrived there. The track was cleared of the ruins, and the disabled cars in three or four hours, so that the night trains were not detained in their passage.-- Utica herald. ** MARRIAGES In Albion, on Tuesday, the 25th inst., by the Rev. J. N. MURDOCK, Joseph M. CORNELL, Merchant, of the firm of Swan & Cornell, to Jane M. COLE, lately an accomplished and popular teacher in Phipps Union Seminary, all of that village. In this city, on the 25th inst., by Rev. J. E. COLE, Mr. John DAVIS to Miss Abigail VOND, both of Pittsford, Monroe Co., N. Y. In Albion, on the 19th inst. Mr. Wm. J. DUNLAP, of Lockport, to Miss Jane M. BURHILL. In Barre, on the 18th inst. Mr. Calvin L. SMITH to Miss Challotte A. ISAACS. In Batavia, on the 20th inst., Mr. John LAPP, of Alexander, to Miss Christena REAMER, of Batavia. In Canandaigua, on the 13th inst, Mr. James E. ROGERS, of Burlington, Wisconsin, to Miss Gloriana BEALS. In Gates, on the 20th inst, by David MARSHALL, Esq., Dudley POPPINO to Miss Julia LOOK all of Gates. In Batavia, on the 16th inst, Mr. Isaiah J. SPENCER, of Alabama, to Miss Amy LANDON, of Newstead. In this city, on the 27th inst, at the Blossom Hotel, by Delos WENTWORTH, Esq. Mr. Charles DENSMORE, of Gates, Orleans Co., to Miss Mary Ann MURLATT, of Mendon, Orleans County. In Riga, on Thursday, the 27th inst, by the Rev. Mr. REMMINGTON, Mr. Jno BELKNAP to Miss Harriet RICHMOND, all of that town. In Oaks' Corners, on the 29th inst, Mr. Samuel N. ANTHONY to Miss Mary Ann NEWMAN. In Canandaigua, on the 24th inst, Mr. James GAYTON, of New York, to Miss Catharine SMITH. In Clarkson, on the (no date) inst, Mr. Francis A. BENHAM to Miss Hannah KETCHUM, all of Canandaigua. In Havana, on the 20th inst, Mr. Levi H. PORTER, to Miss Eveline MALLIMAN. In Mentz, on the 13th, Mr. John C. PINKNEY, to Miss Mary GILMORE. In Port Byron on the 20th inst, Livingston GOODELL, Esq., to Miss Martha MOTT. On the evening of the 27th of April, by the Rev. Mr. FINLEY, at his residence on Anson Park, Col. William CHARLES, Proprietor of the "Rochester Temperance House," to Miss Henrietta DIMICK, daughter of the late Horace DIMICK, of Vermont. In Wilson, on the 26th ult, by the Rev. Herman HALSEY, Timothy E. WETMORE, to Miss Elizabeth HALSEY. In Le Roy, on the 18th ult, Mr. Joseph NICHOLS, to Miss Emily WALFROM, all of Le Roy. ** -- Glenda Whitaker Subyak Monroe Co. & N. Y. 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