Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-03

HOW THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED NrMEE
PERSONS STILL MISSING

HOW THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED NUMBER Of
PERSONS STILL MISSING.
The following persons are known to hay'
been killed by the terrible accident ON tn,
Buffalo, Cory and Pittsburg railroad neal
Prospect station, few miles from Brocktor
n. y, Tuesday afternoon: Mark Haight o
Broekton, banker, one of whose legs wa'
shattered and the other burned off at the
thigh, while he asalso badly bruised about
the head; Mr. Osborne of Westfeld, who
had the side of his head smashed in and one
leg burned off below the knee; Mr.. Ryan,
internal injuries; E. II. Bell. telegraph
operator at Sherman Mr.. Carleton, bruised
on the body and head Frank Taylor, bag
gage-master Of the train, and Con Maloney
track-master Of Brockton. The wounded
are ". II. Lee of Cory, slightly; Jacob
Bartlett of Irving, n. Y; Levi Briggs OF
| Angola, y. Y; John H. Hilton of ROches-
ter; Mrs. j. NJ. Carleton of Mill village,
whose child was saved, but whose husband is
| still missing Maggie Carleton of Titusyile;
| George Miller of Fredonia H. Miller, J.
}. Burtis and w. II. Ticknor of Titusyille /:
Eliza Il. Ripley j. Cowdry Of Cory, two
large wounds on the left eye, and bruised
about the body; ii. Cook, injured internally
and suffering great pain; John Dundas, OF
Hamilton, Ont, very severely. Fay Fland-
erS, the conductor. will probably recover, if
his internal injuries are not too severe; he
loses two toes on his left foot, and half of
his right foot, and his ribs were also broken
by being pulled out with a chain Earl
Bacon, at first reported dead, is only
slightly injured, having secured the regis
tered lpfterE nd owl ri. f.al bitnl.lf his n
jump.
OF the killed, twenty-one have been re-
covered, and fifteen are 50 charred a. to be
unknown. Four are in the Chautaqua
House, at Cory, Pa, awaiting relatives,
and one Is at Prospect. There are yet from
three to five bodies under the ruins, reduced
to ashes and only distinguishable by pieces
of skulls and bones.
The train was going on a down grade Of
eIghty-twO or eighty-five feet to the mile.
and was about sixty rods from Prospect de-
pot, and had the steam shut off 1t was
about three feet from the north end of the
trestle when the broken wheel of the tender
was discovered, and, being under the i'm
petus OF the down grade, stoppage was
impossible Every care is being taken of
the wounded, who are scattered around in
the farm-hOuses near by, and medical at
tendance was promptly furnished. The
conductors pocket showed thirty-seyen
through tickets taken up, and one to Pros
poet. There were, it IS supposed, about
fifty persons on the train, which consisted of
one passenger ear, one baggage ear, and the
engine and tender.
The New York Tribune publishes the fol-
lowing additional particulars Of the disas-
ter The cars turned completely over and,
bottom up, fell perpendicularly to the |
ground below-a distance of 20 feet. |
When the cars struck, the trucks crushed |
through the bottoms, and, As the stoves of /
the passenger cars were directly under the /
trucks. they were crushed to pieces, and |
the woodwork of the cars took
fire. of l6 people known to have been in
the two cars bat one escaped unaided. the
brakeman on the passenger car, who jump
ID clear of the cars a. they were falling.
The wood work of the passenger car, thickly
'oated as it was with yarniSh, burned free
y, and, before anything could be done by
he force ut hand TO prevent, the flames en-
'eloped both ends of the ear and crept rap
dly toward the center. Penned within it
It this time. with no possible chance to ex-
ricate themselves, were - adult pas>en-
,erS, the conductor and one child. OF those
Gated in the ends Of the car none escaped
.
NJ were taken out of he center of it. and
he flames were eXtinguiShed, or more
DIRECTLY speaking. went out for lack of
nything further to burn. The remains
f other passengers were then recovered
he roll i0ot~ up nS follows Sayed-all
lore or less injured-l9 dead - miss
~ eight. The dead, with four exceptions.
ere burned S0aS to be unreco.nizable by
ne features, and there are but three that
lud possibly be identified from the shred,
clothing adhering to the roasted flesh
i've We're headle>s and without limbs. and
le remaining ONES had the flesh all burned
their extremitieS The eight missing are .
opposed to have been completely consumed. +
ID there are also pieces Of skulls, watches. /.
ID the like, sufficient to partly Justify such \
belief Four Others are known to have =
en on the train, namely Catharine Kelly. {
tty Ryan, and Mr. and Mrs Wilbur +.
ce-all of Iitu>yille, Pa. Ii is thought
at they will be identified, to-day, as b
cir friends have arrived for that purpose n
The case of the two last named Is pocu- p
rly sad one. Mr.. Rice was the only son Of
james Rice, leading citizen If Titus q
le. and his wife the only daughter Of d
lstin jackson of Rochester, y \ Thoy 81
re married on the 9Th of December, and cl
re on their way to Rochester to spend yt
ri>tmas. Judging from the clothing,
sgage and appearance Of those coming to p,
nifty them. number of the dead be- Ia
ge1 to the lower classes. The bodies are ii
1 out in the freight house at Cory, and
] be kept several days for identification. ,,,.