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"

Because

you

look

at

the

past

,

and

not

at

the

present

,

"

said

John

Mangles

.

A

loud

whistle

interrupted

the

discussion

.

The

party

were

within

a

mile

of

the

railway

.

Quite

a

number

of

persons

were

hastening

toward

the

railway

bridge

.

The

people

from

the

neighboring

stations

left

their

houses

,

and

the

shepherds

their

flocks

,

and

crowded

the

approaches

to

the

railway

.

Every

now

and

then

there

was

a

shout

,

"

The

railway

!

the

railway

!

"

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Something

serious

must

have

occurred

to

produce

such

an

agitation

.

Perhaps

some

terrible

accident

.

Glenarvan

,

followed

by

the

rest

,

urged

on

his

horse

.

In

a

few

minutes

he

arrived

at

Camden

Bridge

and

then

he

became

aware

of

the

cause

of

such

an

excitement

.

A

fearful

accident

had

occurred

;

not

a

collision

,

but

a

train

had

gone

off

the

line

,

and

then

there

had

been

a

fall

.

The

affair

recalled

the

worst

disasters

of

American

railways

.

The

river

crossed

by

the

railway

was

full

of

broken

carriages

and

the

engine

.

Whether

the

weight

of

the

train

had

been

too

much

for

the

bridge

,

or

whether

the

train

had

gone

off

the

rails

,

the

fact

remained

that

five

carriages

out

of

six

fell

into

the

bed

of

the

Loddon

,

dragged

down

by

the

locomotive

.

The

sixth

carriage

,

miraculously

preserved

by

the

breaking

of

the

coupling

chain

,

remained

on

the

rails

,

six

feet

from

the

abyss

.

Below

nothing

was

discernible

but

a

melancholy

heap

of

twisted

and

blackened

axles

,

shattered

wagons

,

bent

rails

,

charred

sleepers

;

the

boiler

,

burst

by

the

shock

,

had

scattered

its

plates

to

enormous

distances

.

From

this

shapeless

mass

of

ruins

flames

and

black

smoke

still

rose

.

After

the

fearful

fall

came

fire

,

more

fearful

still

!

Great

tracks

of

blood

,

scattered

limbs

,

charred

trunks

of

bodies

,

showed

here

and

there

;

none

could

guess

how

many

victims

lay

dead

and

mangled

under

those

ruins

.

Glenarvan

,

Paganel

,

the

Major

,

Mangles

,

mixing

with

the

crowd

,

heard

the

current

talk

.

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Everyone

tried

to

account

for

the

accident

,

while

doing

his

utmost

to

save

what

could

be

saved

.

"

The

bridge

must

have

broken

,

"

said

one

.

"

Not

a

bit

of

it

.

The

bridge

is

whole

enough

;

they

must

have

forgotten

to

close

it

to

let

the

train

pass

.

That

is

all

.

"

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