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           Everynowandthentherewasashout,"Therailway!therailway!"

           Somethingseriousmusthaveoccurredtoproducesuchanagitation.Perhapssometerribleaccident.

           Glenarvan,followedbytherest,urgedonhishorse.InafewminuteshearrivedatCamdenBridgeandthenhebecameawareofthecauseofsuchanexcitement.

           Afearfulaccidenthadoccurred;notacollision,butatrainhadgoneofftheline,andthentherehadbeenafall.TheaffairrecalledtheworstdisastersofAmericanrailways.Therivercrossedbytherailwaywasfullofbrokencarriagesandtheengine.Whethertheweightofthetrainhadbeentoomuchforthebridge,orwhetherthetrainhadgoneofftherails,thefactremainedthatfivecarriagesoutofsixfellintothebedoftheLoddon,draggeddownbythelocomotive.Thesixthcarriage,miraculouslypreservedbythebreakingofthecouplingchain,remainedontherails,sixfeetfromtheabyss.Belownothingwasdiscerniblebutamelancholyheapoftwistedandblackenedaxles,shatteredwagons,bentrails,charredsleepers;theboiler,burstbytheshock,hadscattereditsplatestoenormousdistances.Fromthisshapelessmassofruinsflamesandblacksmokestillrose.Afterthefearfulfallcamefire,morefearfulstill!Greattracksofblood,scatteredlimbs,charredtrunksofbodies,showedhereandthere;nonecouldguesshowmanyvictimslaydeadandmangledunderthoseruins.

           Glenarvan,Paganel,theMajor,Mangles,mixingwiththecrowd,heardthecurrenttalk.

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