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CHAPTER XVIII.

THE EXPERIENCE OF SURVIVORS.

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VERY one of those who got out of the trainhad a different story. These are valuablebecause they bring before us a picture of thescene in its different features, t-oine one escapedfrom every car but one. From the second pas-senger coach no one was left to tell the tale.Every one perished in the fall or crash. Fromthe first and third and fifth, man}’ escaped; fromthe fourth, only one; from the sixth, three; andfrom the last, all but one. The story of Mr.Parslow, who was in the first, has been giventhrough the public press, and it is given here asdescriptive of the experience common to others,lie says:

The first intimation he had of the affair wasthe sound of the crash of the bridge. Them hefelt and realized the sensation of the downwardtendency of the coach. lie clutched one of the