The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-06-28
DEATH BETWEEN TWO TRAINS.

| uSS Will u iTISutlui ueatn near OOlu SprluS
Station, on the Hudson River Railroad, ut
0.3O o'clock this morning.
Lieutenant Totten attended the exercises
at West Point yesterday, and was present
when the diplomas were awarded to the
graduating class. Being relative of Gov
f ernor Kemble's family at Cold Spring, he
went to their house last evening aud spent
the night there. This morning, about 8
o'clock, he announced his intention Of re.
| turning to Wcst Point to see some friends
tQG and the young ladies Of The Kcmbie
family concluded to 20 with him to Cold
Spring dock, where he was to take passage
in u small boat for West Point. The party
was composed of Miss Maria T. Kemble,
who is about eighteen years Of age; Miss
Gertrude kemble, tiihc younger, and
Miss May kemble, aged twelve or thirteen.
The party went from the Kembc man
sion through the adjacent grove and down
the path leading to the Hudson River Rail-
road track. The steps leading from the
Kemble grounds to the track are about 500
feet south of the only rock cut between
them aud Cold Spring Station. When
they gained the railway all walked along on
the up track, laughing and chatting, till
suddenly u locomotive whistle was heard.
The party looked southwark and observed
the Poughkeepsie passenger train approach
ing. They were little bewildered for a
moment, WHOM q man ahead Of them told
them to hurry to an open space where they
could find safety. They either did not un-
derstand him or became more bewildered,
and all rushed across to the down track,
when, looking northward they saw the St.
7 Louis express coming at the rate OF forty
miles an hour and close on them, for there
fs sharp curve there. Miss Gertrude and
Miss May kemble, with great presence OF
mind, ran back across the last track again
and got out OF the way Of both trains.
Miss Mollie (MariO Kemble stepped off
the down track to a wall close to it and
clung as close to the wall as possible, with
her back towards the fast train aud holding
her skirts down with her hands. Lieuten-
ant Totten stood between both the up and
down tracks edgeways, with his face to the
sasxzue
poor young often was found lylng partly
ION the down track with the back Of his
head crushed in and his neck and an arm
broken and the b2od flowing from his
wounds. When the trains passed, Miss
Mollie, who had clung to the wall expecting
every instant to be killed, tainted from
fright and was carried off in an insensible
condition, but afterwards recovered The
remains Of Lieutenant Totten were picked
up as teuderly as possible, placed upon
stretcher and carried to the Kemble man
sion.
i The fireman Of the locomotive attached
lllakE fros IL, G>li
ing statement !: -<e.i,a4s---Es-,..-is1--5 =
We were coming into Cold Spring Sta
tlon this morning at 90, when saw three
ladies and gentleman on the up track
We blowed our whistle and rung our bell,
and they saw US coming and stepped over
on the down track Just then | saw the
st. Louis express coming south. The young
ladies appeared to see the train also, aud
two of them recrossed our track to the
east side. The other lady stepped to the
west of the down track and crowded her.
self close against the wall, and pulled her
dress Close around her, with her arms hang
ing close to her side. The man stood be-
tween the up and down tracks with his sides
north and south, his hands close to his
sides, wiSh his arms at fun length and his
'"eS AoonhS to"aiuS thc Slll SaW tudI
he had no earthly chance unless he laid
down, but you could not make him hear,
and the trains were too close to stop. l
saw the engineer Of the st. Louis express
motion the girl with his two hands to cling
as close to the wall as possible. just as our
trains were passing each other saw the
mans straw hat blow off and it struck the
front of my engine. looked to the rear
and saw the engine, mail car, baggage car
and two passenger cars of the St. Louis pass
tho man without touching him. but the third
passenger car struck him and Knocked him
against the last car of my train and he
bounded back under the wheels Of the ex-
press. The girl who was clinging to the
wall saw the engineer Of the st. Louis mo.
tionins to her and pulled her dress about
her more tightly. When we stopped Con-
ductor Lewis sent man back to look after
the people
Lieutenant Totten was the grandson of
General Totten, who was for many years
Chief of United States Engineers He
graduated at West Point in 1865, and for
several years after was Adjutant Of the