Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-01-21

to the coffin lid aud the name ch ecksd
off on the list with as business.llks an
air as If the matter concerned ordinary
bales of freight handled daily.
A coarse, grim joke passed onse 10
while between the rough idlers, under
takers men. or whoever they were, who
had continued 10 gain access 10 the
place with the police, the coroner and
reporters, and in whose brutal minds
not even the horror OF that dreadful
scene was able to instill q sense OF re-
spect or deceucy. Side by side On .
rough floor stood two clumsy painted
boxes. The brief blue pencil mark on
the tag affixed to each told the
sADpEsr STORY or ALL.
The boxes held all that was lett OF the
charrod bodies OF Park Valentine and
his young wife, bride and groom only
the night before. Detective Dskin. who
was experimenting the cxamisation OF
tie personal effects, told Of the death OF
Oliver r. Keeley, OF Spring CITY, Pa.
in kilcullen Hotel, after terrible suffer-
ing. Keely's right arm was burned on
st tho elbow aud his body fairly roastsd.
He was conscious nevertheless through
the long struggle with death, and In
Detective Dakin, who came to his bed.
side. recognized q fellow mason. De
made himself known as brother
IN distress, and told the officer be was .
member OF Spring City Lodge. No. 66s.
at his home.
"Write to my wife," he said, grasp
ing the officers hand and pressing 1t.
'.and give her my love-" With these
words on his lips he expired. a.tI
T. h.
ever by newspaper, lay = mans hand.
torn from his arm at the wrist BY
force that had ground the bone aud ten.
dons to a Jelly. Mute. pleading, up.
turned. as if beckoning imploringly for
aid that came not, it was = most
horrible, aickenlug monument OF the
dreadful catastrophe. Whose hand It
was, was not known. 1t had belonged
to no one oi the bodies recovered by the
police so far as could be observed unless
1t might DO the missing stump OF Oliver
B. Keelly's body but fire had not scorch.
ed nor even touched it.
| The officials at Grand Central Depot,
when questioned by the reporters. ex-
hibited the usual exasperating official
Ignorance and indifference, constantly
referring questioners 10 some one higher
in authority who had nothing to say. A.
late as an hour before noon some Of the
officials in the depot had ''barely heard
OF the affair, rum0r like, etc." Assistant
Superintendent. Charles w. Bissell. had
at that hour received no other report
but Q mere verbal hearssy, neither from
say OF the officials OF the wrecked train
or the one that ran reporter. to Spuytsn
Duyvil for information. When pressed
| So ~ ,s>1 ho rasHllAA irvnVS - ff0nyV
that he was very busy and could not
ers) all day. The list Of dead 10 - fol.
lows: Senator Wagner, Park valen.
tine aud vile, North Adams, VI. Solver
B. Keely, Spring City. Pa. d. L. Ran.
som. guest Of the Hoffman House; Rev.
F. Marchal, residence not given Miss
Maud Brown. No. 443 West Fifty third
street, New York, and man unknown:
AL the injured with the exception OF
MISS Mary Daniels, a guest OF the Sher.
wood House, were able to 70 to their
homes, and no list is kept by the police.
Miss Daniels was seriously burned, but
will probably recover. i
Police Commissioner Nichols, who
was on the train, says: ''Ssnator Wag.
uer passed through the car In which !
was seated, greeting his friends pleas.
antly as he passed along. He passed
out on to the platform Of the following
car. and second latter. following I'M
mediately upon tie banging OF the door
) the senator closed after him, came Q
terrible shock and q deafeniDg crash oi
crushing timbers and snappiug iron.
How 1 escaped scarcely know. bul
when got out of the wreck turned to
look for Senator Wagner. The car al
the spot where I had seen him last Wal
burning aercely, and out Of the 6re
came q despairing cry:
FOR GODS SAKE HELP Me-"
, With axes and bars Commlssionei
Nichols and his company attacked the
: car. to free the Imprisoned man, bul
were driven back by FIRE, and the voics
, was stilled.
KELLY PHILADELPHIAN.
Oliver B. Keely, killed in the Spuytsr
Duyvil collision, was member Of the
Philadelphia firm OF Oliver B. Kssly 4
Co., No. 3Sl North Second street, and
proprietors of the Spring City Stove and
Hollow Ware works, Chester county
He left Tor Albany last Tuesday evening
. and nothing Was heard from him unti
word reached his wife this morning thai
= be had been killed. i