The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-02-09

that three sleeping cars had gone then went
forward to see what was the matter; could
see nothing all the wvy up to the bridge for
the flames, which seemed to rise solidly twen-
| ty-fve or thirty feet; know nothing more
about the accident, except that did the me-
cesssry telegraphing; / have no absolute
knowledge as to the first car going off the
track, only conjecture; the first and second
sleepers were on the bridge, and the flames
were burning under the bridge on the ice;
l heard no sound of anything but
the roar of the flames; Peter Vos-
burg was conductor of the first
sleeping car; do not know whether patent
brakes were used; 1 am certain no lines we're
behind the first seeping-car; if the ropes had
been pulled my brake would not have been
affected after put it on; the engine was re-
versed after we had run about ten rods; we
were not trying to make up time; in cold
weather our orders are not TO make up time;
the engineer was considered a good man;
there is fiagman at the draw; the engineer
said be told him to put out red light as he
passed; the first signal we got was forty yards
from the bridge; the engineer of the oil train
had jumped off to give the signal; 1 think
the cars in the oil train which ran off were
rather back of the centre of the train; as a
rule we are on time; if we had not been be-
hind time the accident would
not have occurred the night
was perfectly clear; the curve south
of the bridge would prevent the engineer
from seeing car off the track on the bridge;
l had taken up all the tickets in the sleeping
car; you could put thirty passengers in a sleep
ng.car, but twelve could occupy the whole;
there were two state-rooms in the first Sleep
ing-car, but only one was occupied; l should
judge there were sixteen or seventeen in the
first sleeping-car; l made statement, which
appeared in the Poughkeepsie Eagle, relative
-, hn, -, ,lo
found one or two more persons, who said
they were in the first sleeper, but when
1 came to sift them down, they
could not tell; 1 had in my car forty-seven
passengers, who told me they were in the
sleeper; there were persons who went to bed
at New Hamburg, that made thirteen missing
there was one child somewhere in the sleep
ing car that got half ticket from; L got no
tickets from two small children; found no
one to respond to a half ticket; there we're
three brakes on the train.
Here the witness described the patent
brakes, but could not say whether they were
applied they might have been and he not
know it; trains run at full speed over all
bridges.
THE CONDUCTOR OF THE SLEEPING CAR,
James D. Scott, testified to his positive know
ledge of the fact that the passengers of all
the cars except the first sleeping car were
saved, and that the train was running about
thirty miles an hour.
Hammond V. Grout, conductor of sleepinp
car, testified that directly after the first
shock he saw the first sleeping car lying on
its side inclining to the east and parallel with
the track. 1t was in flames, and no help
could be given those inside.
The inquest then ad journed till Thursday
at p. M.
GRAPHING FOR BODIES.
Up to this time no more bodies have been
recovered, but graphing still continues. All
the bodies found, thus far, have been iden-
tilted. There are 10 of them, as follows
George S. Benedict, of Cleveland; A. A.
Gillett, of Buffalo; Arthur w. Pease and
wife, of Buffalo; Lucius A. Root, Of Buffalo;
r. Germann; Rev. Morrell Fowler and wife
and three children DIR. Samuel j. G.. Nam
crede; Robert Vosburg, porter of the Wagner
car; James Stafford, of New York; w. N.
Furbush, of Buffalo; George r. Thompson,
of New York; Peter Vosburg, sleeping-car
conductor; William G. Curry, of Erie, Pa;
and r. H. Lovett, of New York. Two more
bodies are yet to be recovered, that of Sim
mons, engineer, and Lawrence Mooney,
brakeman, which makes twenty-one victims
in all.
/ am told that child's underskirt was
found on the ice, marked ELLA Shields"
Edgar Underwood, conductor of the oil
train, says the accident was caused by a
broken axle on an oil car. 1t broke on the
switch at New Hamburg station, and as the
caboose passed some one at the station hal
looed. Everything was done that was possi-
BILE to stop the train. He saw the oil Car run
on the bridge, and saw it about to Cross on
the up track.
The train was then nearly stopped, when
he got off on the top track and his brother on
the down track, both looking for the up
train. His brother Immediately shouted,
''There comes the train" Every effort was
made to stop it, but it looked as if no power
on earth could do it. He saw the locomotive
strike the Car, when flames burst out in every
| direction.