The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-01-21
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NEW YORK, January 14-1a.m m.

NEW \ DIRK, January Ill q. m.
A survivor speaking of the accident, says
the warning whistle had hardly effected a
brake, and when her engiue struck the Idle
wild, it cut through the car like knife, and
burst into the Empire, till the glare from its
broken headlight streamed upon the startled
and atfrighted passengers there.
The occupants of the last car were dashed
hither and thither; some made for the doors
and squeezed their way out; some burst
through the windows; some caught by the
crashing seats and struggled to eXtricate
themselves. A few were crushed to death at
the moment of the collision. But those who
were only disabled crawled to the openings
and strove-with what despairing efforts the
witnesses of that scene alone knew-to drag
themselves out of reach of the terrible death
that was coming upon them.
As the whistle of the Tarrytown express
sounded so fearfully close at hand, only one
person in the Empire gathered its significance.
"Sit still" he called The crash drowned his
words They had scarcely been uttered be-
fore the COVE catcher of the locomotive was
cutting through the timber of the car, and the
hot breath of the boiler was fearfully palpable
to the affrighted passengers.
The group of men that found themselves
scattered about on the soft ground in mo-
ment-dazed and bewildered every one of
them-were presently to be witnesses of
spectacle dreadful beyond conception.
In breath fire had added its horrors to the
other dreadful Accomplishments of the disas-
ter. The overturned stoves and the dropping
ashes from the engine furnace had done their
work, The wood and upholstery had burst
into flames, and a blaze was now leaping up
above the wreck, and sweeping along as If to
swallow it. Dreadful cries rang upon the air
The hoarse calls Of men were mingled with the
Mortified shrieks of women, and there was o
depth of agony about the tones that betokened
too well how keenly those who uttered them
felt the sense of the fate that was overtaking
them. All along the train the lights had been
put out by the shock of the collision, and now
the long line of forward cars lay dark and sui
len with the engine snorting in front, while
there emerged from platform and window a
throng of terrified and bewildered beings.
The glare of the fire brought all swarming
to the rear. Train hands hallooed and went
rushing wildly about in a futile quest for
buckets. The more cool-headed passengers
lent hand where 1t could be of service.
Assemblyman Robb crawled through win
dow and came out bruised and bleeding. Sem
ator Browning, shut up in a compartment of
the Empire, smashed the window-trame and
took out with him couple of ladies impris-
oned there.
1t was then learned that from nine to twelve
persons persisted, among whom was State
Senator Webster Wagner who was burned to
a crisp in one of his own palace-cars.
The following list of the dead is as complete
as it was possible to obtain last night:
Webster Wagner, Senator from the Eight
zenith District, aged siXty-fve years; burned
to death ID. /. Ransom, guest of the Hoff-
man House, this city. Miss Maud Brown,
Spring Valley, Pa. Mr.. Park Valentine and
wife, Bennington, Vt; married on Thursday:
-Four other bodies lie in the Kilcullen Hotel
at Spuyten Duyvil, and one other In the
/ Thirty fifth Precinct Station House, unidentt
| fed.