The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-02-25
BURNED In ASLEEPING CAR
TERRIBLE DEATH or MIR. BIssELL
AND mrs SON
The Car Thrown from the Trnck by a Broken
Rail-RoIiiuR Down an Embaukmcnt and
Taking Fire A Woman's Herotsm.

The Car Thrown from the Truck By n BROKEN
Rail-RoIiinR Down an Embaukmcnt and
Taking Fire A Woman's Heroism.
PoUoHK EEPsIE, Feb. PA sleeping car
on the Harlem Railroad extension was burned
last nieht, and Mr. Bissel, tho proprietor OF the
sherman House, Chicago, and his son persisted
In the flames. Other passengers are reported a.
having been badly injured. The accident was
caused by the car running OF a broken rail, up
setting and then taking Gre.
Interviews with the paaseneers show that the
accident happened at midnight, near waliing-
ford' w. The train was posed of an engine,
baggage car, one passenger car, and a W aQner
sleeping car. There were ten passengers IN the
sleeping car which ran on broken rail uuaet
Tell down an embankment aud caught nre Mr.
Bissel's son, aged seventeen wears, was In the
centre OF the sleeping car. The father % OF ont
nrst, but bearing the cries Of bis son, went back
70 save MIN, and both were burned to death
Tteir charred bodies were recovered. Mr. UIa.
sell was found dead. with his feet out OF q win
dow and the body inside. burned to a crisp,
No other passengers In the sleeping car we're
burned, but all were more or less Injured in
Chicago, were hurt~Mrs. 1ierney on the lace a.
and her husband In the head. The Rev. II. Cum
bb mr, M %f Ipp1y, who was ~ the csr e not
Only one lady, Mrs. lierney, who was In the par
lor OF the sleepinR car, was injured, and she but
slightly. Both OF the conductors In the car are
unnjnred. The engine went 1--WE miles after
physicians. and all the injured are doing well.
unknown ia sliahtIv Siurea whose p p,ap,
philadelphia, Is slightly hurt. hut has gone on
her way. An unkuown man from Chicago was
the station south OF the scene OF the accident.
There were about fifty persona In the passenger
car behind the sleeping Car, none OF whom were
hurt
STATEMENT or PASSENGER.
:. ALBANY, Fec. A.-Mr. A. =. Pltkin, OF Pitkin.
brothers x Co., OF Hartford, Conn. who was
those bQ
burned sleeping car on the Harlem Extension
Railroad, was brought to this city from the
scene OF the accident, and IA now lying at the
Delavan House, under the care OF DIR. u X. Hun,
who attended to his wounds. Mr.. Pitkin made
the following ststement;
left Malone At 1i7 p. NJ on the Montreal train and
LEFT s. Adams on tune. At Essex Junction were
SoS S % minutes e SsS'ed % WAITING for The
train was endeavoring mako up Tor lost Tine was
thrown from The track Whit aoo ysrSs Of the depot a.
u ssf ed 5DsS aTw ou sH ysT
.ns was Literally rel wrsS,sd Aisrsso It t9os nre from
s i,om any per.n. snd 1 suppose this wound ON
Was c1used By striking large stone When s'G sSa
crushed 'hroush the car or upon which the car hsd
on, 81 the car made Io1r &c efforts 70
the cuts IN head M " chpan Uy Se Merhn
Bang Of Montreal had succeeded IN breaking out OF
out. climbed to the window, but owing TO wea ness
Shich had become ned 70 suoeatoS Win tnS
knoS ing the car would soon lsse re MADE one more
eettng out on the side Of the car Then after crawling
had nothing on but my night clothes Seeing light in
building about 100 feet distant which subsequently
proved TO be IN Tole mi endesyored TO reach IT,
Tut when hall way there was met by some gentlemen
who assisted me INTO the mill and procuring table
spread bound up my mead. Soon after Thomas Norton
brought me slipper pants and coat. and was moved
TO the deuot. II being AIRED that the mill would be
purned. The ensine by this time had come oacE win
DR.. Nhtpple OF Derby. who dressed my wounds. DE-
are to me, ton tue herosn OF Mrs Edward Palmer OF
Rutland, W.T. Nho stripped Oh her clothing cover
another lady who had been taken from the IN
her nlgt clothes and also the rendered by
Mime. PerrOt aud l.. r. Nerg Of Albany, who did not
leave me until he safe IN the Dclayau House.
occupied berth No. 4, Mr. Chapman Montreal bertn
No. 10, ana gentleman and wife berth No 7, which
TIM we're all that were In end OF the when the
hre took pace. Both conductors, Mr.. Bissel HIS
son OF Chicago, aud Mr.. Woodbridge were nearer the
end Of the car. What other per,ons ms hit come
In after retired know not. | suppose Mr.. Bssel
went back into the CIR to get his aud burned
with MIN. There was pair of pants found which
seemed TO belong to Que ing those saved or tne
Bissels but cannot whether the OF them
burned. tall, welldressed man. with sandy Lair anu
SIDE vhlskcrs, whom noticed passing w and down
the two times among the missing, but
| am not cure that he was burned.
Mr.. Pitkin was very weak from loss Of blood
end from the effects OF the really serious in-
irics he had sustained, and II was with much
dimculty that he could at times articul4te.