Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-15
7HB TBLESC0PED TRAIN.
FURTHER DErAILs OF THE sPUYTEN
DUYYEL RAIL DISASTER.

FURTHER DE FAILS OF THE SPUYTEN
DUYTEL RAIL DISASTER
Terrible TOrtures Of the Victims Caught
in the Wreck OF the Rear Car-The Air
Rent With Their Cries of Anguish and
Senator Wagner, Burned SO as to be I'm
recognizable-The Charred Remains of
the Victims In New York, Surrounded by
the Sickentng Mementos of Their Fear
full Fate-Revised List of the Dead-Pre-
tended Ignorance and HeArtless Indiffer-
ence of the Railway Officials-Brakeman
Melins Arrested for Criminal Careless
ness.
New YORK, JAM 14-The body of Senator
Wagner was recovered this forenoon from the
wrecked cars at Spuyten Duyvil and were
brought to this city accompanied by numer-
GUS friends and relatives and conveyed to his
residence. The body was burned SO as to be
unacceptable and was only identified by per-
sonal effects. Both hands were burned off
and his limbs drawn up in position that
showed the horrible agony the victim had
endured
HORRORS OF THE COLLISION.
Henry:L. Roekenbaugh,a passenger describes
the horrors of the collision as something in
describably dreadful. The train stopped for
some minutes, and he walked back to look out
of rear window in the last car in which he
was. He saw the engine of the approaching
train laundering around the curve and turned
to run back to the forward end of the car,
shouting as he ran, to warn his fellow passen-
gers of their danger. All started up from their
seats. Before he had reached half through the
car the shock came and he felt himself lifted
up in the air, pitch darkness followed. On all
sides cries of
HORROR, ANG UIsH AND DESPAIR
went up. Then lurid glow was cast through
the car from fire breaking out, and he saw men
and women struggling to get free from the
wreck. He heard a lady wedged in under a
seat calling most piteously for help. He tried
to aid her, but he was held fast, and the fire
compelled him to leave her to her terrible fate.
He recollected seeing stout lady, who was
identified as Miss Brown, get on the cars at
Greenbush.
SENATOR wAGNER's
remains were sent down to the city first in one
of the dead senator's own palace cars. Two
hours later the remaining seven bodies were
brought down in an ordinary baggage car, ac-
companied by Capt. Yule and Coroner Knox.
Six of the bodies were packed in boxes, and
the charred remains of the seventh was borne
on stretcher covered by the fur lined cloak
of Mrs. Valentine, the young bride whose
wedding tour ended in such hor-
rible death. The car was switched off
upon side track when it arrived and run
east of the depot to the old freight station, at
43rd street. Here collins were arranged on
the floor and upon hastily improvised tables
were spread, the burned garments and satch-
els recovered from the wreck to serve as
means Of identifying the yet unrecognized
dead. Here black fur muff and cloak, there
broad-cloth coat and hat battered out OF
shape.
CHARRED AND HALF CONSUMED
satchels and bundles lay scattered about and
were examined and registered in turn by the
police officers who took charge of all the
property. In one of these were found clues
that led to the Identification of one of the
bodies as that of Rev. F. Marechal. The cleri-
cal cut of few tattered rags that were yet
left of the vest had originally attracted atten
ton to the mans probable calling
The name was written on
the binding and fyleaf of vol
ume of sermons, and Theological work, but
without address. His body, like all others
with the single exception, that of Miss Brown,
was burned so as to be unrecognizable. AS the
identity of each body was established, sheet
of paper, marked with the name and number
was tackled to the coffin lid and the name
checked off with as business like air as if the
matter concerned the ordering bales of freight
handled daily. A coarse grin and joke passed
once in while between the rough idlers and
undertakers men, or whoever they were, who
had cOntrived to gain access to the place with
the coroner and reporters and in those brutal
minds not even the horrors OF that dreadful
scene was able to instill sense of respect or
decency. Side by side on the rough pine floor
stood two clumsy painted boxes. The
brief blue pencil mark on, the tag
affixed to each told the saddest
story of all. The boxes held all that was left
of the charred bodies of Park Valentine and
his young wife,
BRIDE AND GROOM,
only the night before.
Detective Dakin, who was experimenting
the examination of the personal effects, told of
the death of Oliver B. Kelley, of Spring City,
Pa, in Kelcullen's hotel, otter terrible suffer
lngs. keeley'S right arm was burned Oft at
the elbow and his body fairly roasted. He was
conscious, nevertheless, through the long
struggle with death. Detective Dakin, who
came to his bedside, recognized fellow Ma.
son. He made himself known as brother in
distress and told the officer he was member
of Spring City lodge No. 553, at his home.
write my WIFE" he said, grasping the Of
fcer's hand and pressing it., "and give her my
love-" With these words on his lips he ex-
pired. In pail between the collins, covered
over with a newspaper, lay mans
hand torn from the arm at the
wrist by a force that had ground
the bones and tendons to jelly mute plead
ing, upturned as if reckoning, imploring for
aid that came not. It was a most
HORRIBLE, sICKENING MEMENTo
of the dreadful catastrophe. Whose hand it
was is not known. 1t had belonged to no
one of the bodies recovered so far by the police,
as could be observed, unless it might be the
missing stump of Oliver B. Keeley's, but fire
had not scorched nor even touched it.
OFFICIAL IGNORANCE AND INDIFFERENCE.
The;oficials at the Grand Central depot when
questioned by the reporter, exhibited the usual
exasperating official ignorance and Indifference,
constantly referring the questioner to some
one of higher authority who had nothing to
say. AS late as an hour before noon some of
the officials in the depot had barely heard of
the affair, rumor like, and Assistant Superin-
tendent W. Bieselt, had at that hour received