Morning journal and courier., 1882-01-16
The spuyten Duyvil Horror.
Terrible Sfghts-ThOmas Burke's Story The Statement Of Melius the Brake man-Park Valentine and His Bride.
 From the New York Herald
OLIVER KEELER's DEATH.

The Statement Of Melius the Brake
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 From the New York HeraId-I
 OLIVER KEELER's DEATH.
 Meantime there was painful spectacle in the little room behind Kilcullen's bar Oliver B. Keeler, the Spring City stove merchant, who had been dragged from under pile of debris half roasted and with one arm com pletely burned of, was dying there. He had behaved manfully. When discovered in the rlined car with his legs crushed under him and forced back by the pile of debris into the flames, which were literally burning into his flesh, he had talked as coolly as though be were in drawing room. When the plueky lsds who extricated him were trying to carry him out of the car he found that his foot was caught and calmly directed them how to re- lease it. His left arm was burned to a mere stump. The flesh peeled from his back and shoulders in layers and he seemed the veriest hulk of a human being. But in spite of his dreadful agonies his mind remained clear and he talked with those around him almost peacefully. He was put in wagon which started for Kingsbridge, but which, being obstructed, returned to Spuyten Duyvil. When Drs. Smith and Parson found him stretched on the billiard table there with @ mattress underneath him they saw that the end was at hand. He spoke to them about his affairs at home, encharged them with some little offices and then gradually suc- cumbed. Only once he complained.
 "Can no one do anything to relieve me" he asked then, but that was all till the end came. His body was sent with the others to the police station.
 There was another sufferer in Kilcullen's Hotel who behaved admirably under the try ing circumstances in which she was placed. This was Miss Daniels, of the Sherwood House, who had been carried from under tangle of broken seats and whose arms and breast had been severely scalded. She had been removed to an upper room in the house and remained there till friends came to take her home.
 THE IDENTIFICATION OF SENATOR WAGNER.
 The scene in the wooden station house at Kingsbridge, where the bodies lay, was fearful one. The charred trunks the black ened limbs, she impalpsble features were elo- quept commentaries on the terrors of the night. It was here that the remains of Sem ator Wagner were identified. His body was the last taken from the ruins of the cars and, as on lockers said, it was Hike the trunk of charred tree" The arms were almost gone. the clothing was in most places burned from the body. The head was but calcined lump. The legislator and business man brimful of life a few hours before-was now little more than ashes. For a long time his death was doubted Some believed he had gone to the city and been missed in the con fusion; but when Detective Scanlan, of the Hudson River railroad, reached the station, the unhappy gentleman's demise was settled beyond a doubt. His watch, some frag- merits of trinkets and the like established his identity
 It was in the station house that the body of stout lady who had with difficulty been removed from the cars was recognized. Her husband sorrowfully viewed the remains. 'This is the corpse of my wife; my name is Brown, he said and he left bis card with