The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-01-19
BURNED ALIVE.
Terrible Accident ON the Hudson River
Railroad.

Terrible Accident the Hudson River
Railroad.
A train from Albany, New York, while stand
ing in cut near spuyton Duyvl Junction, on
the evening of January Is, was run into from
behind by another train, and the two rear cars
of the Albany train telescoped and set on fire.
The train that was run into had number Of
members Of the New York Legislature on 1
board. The last car cQptained butt txelxa pasz
sengerss Nine persons We're killed outright or
burned to death, and thirty or forty wounded.
-Four bodies were burned beyond recognition,
one being that of awoman. The following are
among the dead ; Senator Webster Wagner;
z. L. Rawson, Of the Hoffman House;
Parke Valentine, of Remington, Vt; Mrs.
Valentine supposed to be from Phil
adelphiA- "A passenger makes the following
statemen: "When We were at Tarrytown," he
said, "the tram from Albany passed us. 1t
was running fast, and there seemed to be =
wheel on IRE. spoke to one of the men in
the depot, and he said, those brakes are
down After leaving Tarrytown, we ran along
smoothly for some time: The first intimaiionh
I had of the danger Was feeling the air brakes
something coming, and / braced myself
against the seat. Then came crash.
Men and women were thrown head
long over seats the stove was upset,
ana so was the WaL6f-COOl6f. Inc 6XclI6menb
Eas intense for few minutes. Women we're
screaming and men swore. Two or three men
were burned severely, although not danger-
ously. Some were cut by glass. Every one got
out Of the cars Immediately and went forward
to the Albany train. There we're three passen-
ger coaches on our train, and was in the
second I suppose . number of men in
the first must have been hurt. As ] went
forward I saw, that the rear palacs car,
'IdlsHild, + think, 'wss lbsdly dam
had apparently been telescoped by our engine.
Every one In the Albany train seemed to be
out Of It, except some In the back OF the rear
car. In some way ten or twelve persons seemed
to be held in the back part OF the car, which
was all In flames. I Isnppose the shock tore the
car all to pieces, and that they were caught in
between the broken seats. I could only see one
woman ct first, and she was lying down with
the stove on one leg and arm. Her shrieks
were horrible. The conductor on our train, who
was the only one around that, had his wits
about him, Immediately broke one Of the win-
dows of the car, and two men were helped in
! to try to get her out. None f the other pas
sengers who were held in the cars we're in such
effort was to get hsr out ,Some wooden bars
were handed the men, and they made one
| desperate effort to get the woman out. The
| flames swept around them, and two men
Jumped ont Of the windows Id the meantime
| every one In the two trains had gathered
| around the last cars, and all were looking at
| the scene. The conductor again shouted to the
| crowd to bring water, and roll snow balls and
/ to throw them upon the flames, and every one
on the train went to this work, and they checked
4 the flames for o time. Meantime the cries Of
! the poor woman under the stove had ceased.
/ Another party Of men had procured ladder,
! and this was put mp against the side Of the car.
/ on the flames others clambered to the windows.
! But the people were SO wedgedin in between pieces
| of seats that they had to be pried out. The
| first person taken out was the woman first
| alluded to. She seemed dead. Then with
| great difficulty two more women and two men
| were taken out, apparently fatally injured.
| There were several more in the cars. did not
| see how they we're got out. While was walk
| ing through the crowd, saw q woman with q
| cut by glass, and blood was dropping over her
| child. She had been in the forward part OF
the rear parlor car. One man standing on
| the rear of the parlor car saw the
| Tarrytown train coming and jumped
| OF Just in time to save himself. The
| accident was due to the carelessness of the man
| In charge of the Albany train. 1t had no signal
out, and the first intimation our engineer had
| Of danger was when he saw the lights Of the
| drawing-roo car about fifty feet in front OF
him. The New York Tribune adds: The
shock Of the collision was terrific. In
all of the cars of the Albany
train passengers were thrown from their seati
| and many injured. From both trains passen
gers rushed to the wreck and set to the work OF
| rescue. Water was carried from Harlem River
| and from the locomotives and dashed upon the
flames, but the fire apparently burned NJ
| brighter and stronger. Some of the rescueri
were burned about the hands and face.