Stephen D. Peet
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928 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Aug
Stephen D. Peet’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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others were taking their last smoke before settling themselves for the night even the sweet singer had just laid aside the sacred word and was quietly meditating with the song echoing in his heart
it was just the time when every one was seeking to make himself comfortable for the night notwithstanding the storm which raged a few thought of danger as they looked out into the darkness of the night
but the sense of security pervaded the train when suddenly the sound of the wheels was stopped the bell-rope snapped the lights were extinguished
and in an instant all felt themselves falling falling falling an awful silence seized the passengers each one sat breathless bracing and seizing the seats behind or before them not a word was spoken
not a sound was heard nothing except the fearful crash
the silence of the grave had come upon them it was the fearful pause before an awful plunge it was the palsied feeling of those who were falling into a fathomless abyss
the sensation was indescribable awful beyond description it seemed an age before they reached the bottom none could imagine what had happened or what was next to come all felt as if it was something most dreadful
it was like a leap into the jaws of death and no one can tell who should escape from the fearful doom chapter three
chapter four of the ashtabula disaster the wreck the cars lay at the bottom of the gorge that which had been such a thing of speed and a line of beauty
now lay wrecked and broken and ready to be burned it was indeed a beautiful train and was well known for its elegance and beauty at this time it consisted of two locomotives one named socrates and the other
two express cars two baggage cars two day passenger coaches a smoking car a drawing-room car called yokohama the new york sleeper named palatine
the boston sleeper named city of buffalo the louisville sleeper called osseo the bridge broke in the center the engineer of the socrates suddenly heard a sharp crack like the report of a torpedo and looked out and saw the engine behind sinking
with great presence of mind he opened the throttle valve an instant and putting on all steam drove his engine forward it was like going up hill but the socrates reached the abutment and was safe
the columbia as it was drawn forward struck the abutment and for an instant clung to its leader held by the coupling rod but as that broke it fell
the first express car struck forward and downward and landed at the foot of the abutment while the locomotive fell on to it completely reversed with its headlight towards the train which it had been drawing the other express and two baggage cars also fell to the side of the bridge
forming a line across the chasm with the rear baggage against the east abutment the heavy iron bridge fell in the same instant with an awful crash to the north and lay a great wall of iron rods and braces ten feet high across the gorge
singularly enough the track and top of the bridge remained long enough in situ for the bridge to sink and sway away beneath and then fell straight down and lay at the bottom of the stream
immediately below where it rested before but seventy-six feet down in the midst of the ice and the snow and water of the stream upon this the first passenger coach landed in an upright position in the middle of the stream and to the left
but close by the wreck of the bridge the second passenger coach followed but struck around at an angle and turning on to its side fell among the rods and braces and was crushed and broken in the fall
the smoker broke its coupling at both ends struck across and through the second passenger car smashing it in its course and then fell upon the top of the first crushing it down and killing many as it fell
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