The sun., 1882-01-15
NARROW ESCAPES.
Mise Daniels's Awful Peril-The Last Out Of
the IdlewIld-Others' Experience.

car was lying in q critical condition yesterday
| at her rooms in the Sherwood apartment house,
| Fifth avenue and Forty fourth street. In the
same house Miss Daniels's sister Mrs. w. j..
| Hutchinson. and her brothcr-in-law. Mr.. w. J..
| Hutchinson. have rooms. Nh Hutchinson is a
| broker al } Wall street. Miss Daniels was on
| her way back to her homo in this city, when tho
| accident took place. from visit Of few days
| at tho home Of her father. A. c. Daniels. IL re-
| tired business man of Troy. She was sitting
on tho river side and in about the middle of tho
| palace car 1dlcwid when the crash came. Her
| body was held fast. but her arms were free.
| She says that the fire broke out almost imme-
| diately after the collision. II broke out below
| Mss Daniels. for she could look down the in
| cihed plane made by the tilted up floor of the
| car. Tho smoke arose and poured thro ugh the
| crcyicos in tho rubbish. She could hardly
breathe. Then she felt the heat Of tho flames.
| 1t was no uso to cry for helps she triod to
| push out the window glass. which remained
| unbrokcn in its broad sash. While pounding
| on it. three young men. the brothers ScarrEan
and James Fuliry of Kngsbridgc. saw the
| white hands through the window pane. and
| they quickly broke in the glass. Then II. W.
Roland of Yonkcrs joined the men. and they
tried to pull Miss Daniels out Of the wreck. but
they were compelled to desist because she could
not be stirred
idly approaching Miss Daniels. The men gath
cred double handfuls OF snow and threw it upon
the woman. who caught 1t In her hands and
threw it upon the fire. For many minutes the
fire was thus kept back. but flames darted
around her and burned her hands. arms. and
shou deIs terribly. suddenly some of the
burning % ti,nhers shifted SO th, Miss 1 Daniels h,
book S We're 3saISa. T She IVA Was iaRSn @ TO to tho
Mr.. Hutchinson and his wife went 70 Sruytcn
Duyyl and back twice. and sp"nt thS eitl,e
Mason Of SIS Lexington aycimc who sid yr9.
tcrdny that hc feared that Miss Daniels had IN
eaTc haTa 7 rcm & f hSaieH heat from r The S HGr- danger is
Commissoncr' dney Z. Nichols limpcd whom
he entered the Police. Central oHie,e about noon
Yesterday and lie extended his left hand to tiIo
friends Who cpn;rntulatcd hin on his escape
from death in tho e1lsion Both his l"fs Mere
Thc c@m'sioner nm Stone a said we had been stop
with whom we had been joking about his being
bloated monopolis,.' had lust left US togo to
now living whom he s,Clie to-. when VIZ heard
locomotive whistle IN the rear Of the trnin:
fGmIH9Iy nr Iy sda h ha I%n Ibcn ,b bbreak r
came ne crash. / was sitting with ny lace
and I ought IL to hayc becn IN abe s,H ''sis to see
the smash ur. as thr ldlcwili tGle9coped with
] realized was terrible noise. and we were all
flung into hcaap. lwa- thrown clean over the
10 me-. / con-iier my escape almost milGcu-
ors had n cnhap1gsd mY seat moyn to fon,s
crushing that which i had yacat61. In the
that part OF the Iilawlid where senator Wae-
nnr's body vas. subsequently found, crying
Hsp For God sake save me- hdyc nsor no
Indeed. thought l recognized his voice. 1t
was a miracle that we escaped as we did; The
held the car firmly, Had it not been for that
the lIlewild would probably have gone clean
Of the brakeman who was told to signal the
Tarry,9wn train He was afaid @f being IF.
William F. Lynch Of 50 lincoln street Jersey
in the parlor car Minnehaha, the third from the
rear. Hc il Il resol ute man. and. having been
Minnehahay|, he said, and was thrown into
the aisle. had my shoulder hurt slightly. but
out and went to the rear Of the train. When l
got there the fire had not started. There was
locomotive Of the Tarrytown train. ] saw that
the wreck ought to BE- torn apart and | asked
ing nothing, whcro l could get an axe q
crowbar. They gave me cv,siye answers, and
entered all the cars except the mail car Il. find
something 70 work with asked The engineer
Gto Of our train to all9W me to haSe the long
piled that he could not spare it. There
va. was neither an axe nor z piece OF iron
no doubt that il there had been an axe or n fire.
mans hook at hand tho wreck could have been
Grand Trunk road each ear has two sets Of
axes, SAWS, and tlrehooks, and if those par,or
cars had been fitted with them the persons Who
were not killed outright could have been saved.
But all We could do was to hreak down n fence,
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railroad and borrowed two pals ard an aye.
but the fire had extended sol far by that time
three seats from the roErol tho lil"Wild man =
caat .. Wa hansins near the WINDOW and it was
huistrd on our shoulders aud hold al the open
window, They sa,; the body .qf 2 woman be-
ed in getting hold of her dress Then they
drew her out and Passed her down T. ~. SIZE
Tai 5j b iasgn ee and n h3rd r aiGrTTd tha hit he
fora that pioket up an armand hind think
sight Of it shocked ne, and J dropr'd IT, The
mon who live IN lhc, i:"i hlar.!'1d worked
noi'y and il there iaI been seH, U&rs ti.ere
the wreck could haYe been pulled apart i'll Il
worry few minutes"
I,il@nrd Van sico a son q CaIt. Van Size,
- VrTY rnz II ,yiirI ia W.. l,'. .,,i., Ind
had haulnnr,i. he found ali-s Mary imriei;
lying in the saloon Of !. emali ho:eL owl,igh
Size had hrcrn removed IRON u. wr-S. She
VII VII o, .,,n I ] W. ~ HI M tr' il,
mii;ht bp torn from her. Mr., Nan sice. wrote,
despatch for her T. h"r friends at~'t" Si"rWooi
apartment house lut Tia. ~ r;.to:at ~" . i"-
graph station refused to foiV ard il. giving a. a
reason that he had received orders nom the
railroad ctiicaS NOT to send any mcssage'
MIR. Van sice says that hc suw Il man pick M p
human arm. on nGc of the fingers of whi,h
glistenel n diamond ring. 4 surgeon at The
hotel took the arm.
The eyes Of Conductor Hanford - the express
Were wet with tears yesterday as he described
the horrors Of the scene that were viewed us the
coaches burned up. lie and others tore boards
oil fence near 10y and used them n battering
rams against the windows of the parlor ears
but. even with three men 10 a board il was diff
hcult he says, TO break the glass. When the
windows Were broken snow was thrown through
them into the coaches.
The conductor says the telescoping was the
most peculiar he ever saw. Instead OF the last
ear telescoping the one ahead Of il. the second
ear was, raised above the last one. aud it tele-
scoped the coach behind it.
Another Wreck on the Central Road
ROCHESTER, Jan. 14.-A westward-bound
freight train on the New York Central Railroad
composed of thirty cars and two locomotives
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