Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1882-01-16
EASTERN DISPATCHES,
Fatal Railroad Accldent-Cars TeIe.
scoped and Burned-List OF the
Killed-rhe Cause OF the Catas.
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tr0pne.
New YoRx. January l6.-Ths Chicago
express train, leaving Albany at $50
last Friday a~itsrnoen, with many mem.
bers OF the Legislature on board. WAS
run into by . Tarrytown special train
about q quarter Of . mile east Of spuy.
den Deyval junction with the Harlem
main line. The two rear cars. waansr's
draving.room cars. Of the Chicago ex-
uress, were tslsscopsd and set on ERE.
Nine persons were killed and many
others injured.
The facts OF the accident are these:
The express from Chicago to New York
reached Albany twenty-five minutes late.
| Owing to the great crowd OF legislators
and others who desired to leave the cap
ital, fifteen more cars were put on. eight
Of them being palace coaches. I've On.
zines were also attached, and the train
got under way. II was Allied with all the
men Of note and prominence Of both the
Republican and Democratic parties. The
Tsmmauy Hall delegation wal about the
last to arrive at the depot, and a. all the
other cars were filed, they took the rear
car. the Empire.
The train got under way. and when ct
East Athens q signal to stop was re-
ceived, and the palace car Idlswild, from
Troy, wal hitched ct the rear Of the
train. There were some ten passengers
on board this car. The run was made
safely until Spuyten Duyvil junction WAS
reached. at Z O'Clock. when . heated axle
made necessary . stoppsgs to give II
time to cool.
Conductor Branford ordered brake.
man Mslins to signal the Tarrytown
special, which left Tarrytovn ct G:35
p. NJ, and Spuytsn Duyvsl Station Of
TOT. The latter train was In charge OF
Conductor Evans. Mslins apparently
did not signal properly. and the larry.
town special. which was running twenty
miles an hour. came round the curve out
| Of Collins cut and struck the rear palace
car Idlewild. in which were twelve pas.
sengers. The engine ran under the plat
form into tho car, and drove the Idlewild
into the Empire with such terrific force
as to render II necessary to cut II out
with saw and AZ. The stoves and lamps
In the cars were upset, and isnitsd the
woodwork and upholstery. The psssen.
gers were jammed between the seats and
sides OF the car. and held while the
flames rose around and enveloped them.
| OF the twelve passengers 10 the Idlewild
nine are dead, and another 10 fatally In.
jured.
The corrected list Of those killed 10 as
follows: Senator Wagner; Park Valsn-
tine, Bennington, VT, aged 81; Mrs.
Valentine. aged 10, North Adams. Mass. /;
Oliver Kelley, Spring City. Pa; d. l..
Ransom, o guest at the Hoffman House;
Rev. F. Marichal, residence not given;
Miss Maud Brown, 443 West Fifty.third
street, N. Y, and q man unknown.
All the injured, with the exception Of
Miss Mary Daniels. q guest OF the sher-
wood House. were able to 60 to their
homes. aud no list was kept by the pc.
lice. Miss Daniels is seriously hurt,
but will probably recover.
George William Curtis. who was on
the train and who was reported killed,
Is safe and unframed.
Park Valentine, twenty-one years old,
his wife, nineteen years old, OF Ben.
nington. VI, and . lady supposed 10 be
from Philadelphia, were killed. Their
bodies are ct Kilkullsn's Hotel. They
were only married on Wednesday last.
Valentine Is Q nephew OF Trenor W.
Park, and was in business with his
father, A. b. Valentine, u Of the
wealthiest citizens Of southern Vermont.
His wife was Miss Gaylord, Of North
Adams, Mass. They were On route to
Florida. on their bridal tour. Both
might have been saved, were II not for
the desperate clinging Of the young
bride to her husband.
Henry s. R~ocksnbaugh. q passenger
on the Albany train, describes the horror
OF the collision ~ somsthing indescriba.
bly, dreadful. The train stopped for
some minutes, and he walked back to
look out Of the rear window In the last
car, In which be was. He saw the en-
CINE OF an approaching train laundering
around the curve, and turned 10 run
back 10 the forward end Of the car,
shouting ss he ran to warn his fellow
passengers OF their danger. All started
up from their seats. Before he reached
half through the car the shock came,
and be felt himself lifted up in the air.
Pitch darkness followed. On all sides
cries OF horror and despair went up.
Then . lurid glow wa cast through the
air from the breaking out Of the fire, and
be saw msa and women struggling to
get free from the wreck. He heard Q
lady wsdged In under q seat calling most
~piteously for help. He tried to aid her,
but she was held fast, and the fre COM
PEELED him to leave her 10 her terrible
fate. He recollscted seeing o stout lady,
who was identified as Miss or Mrs.
brown, get on the cars ct Greenwich.
Il. II. Stillwsll, Of Oswsgo. who was
on the Tarrytewn train, makes the fol.
lewipg statement: "When We were ct
Tarrytown the train from Albany passed
us. 1t was running fast. and there
seemed to be q wheel on fire. spoke
to one OF the men In the depot, and hs
said: Those brakes are down. After
leaving Tarrytown We ran along smooth.
ly for some time, and the nrst intina.
ton I had OF danger was feeling the air
brakes had been suddenly put on. 1 felt
there was something coming and bracsd
myself against the seat. Then came .
crash. Men and women were thrown
headlong over seats, the stove was upset
and so was the water tank. The excite.
ment was intense for . few minutes.
Womsn screamed and men swere. Two
or three men were burned severely, al-
though not dangerously. Some were
hurt BY glass. Every one got out OF the
cars Immediately and went forward to the
ether train. There were three passenger
coaches on our train. and I was in the
second. Isuppsss = number Of men In
the nrst car must have been hurt. As /
went forward / raw the rear palace car
was badly damaged. The back part was
on Are, and II had been badly t~sloscoped
by our engine. Every ono in the Albany