The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1882-01-27

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Nrw YonK. january 10.
The Atlantic express LEFT Albany %
3:ao b. M. nearly three-quarters 81 IN hour
behind time. The train was = heavy
ore. comprising M, rtcen cars. Next 20
The locomotive were two mail cars
4 CAT. Behind them were three
ordinary passcnecr-cars. Five Wagner draw
i-nr-roon-cars completed the train. They
were the Red Jacket. sharon, Vanderbilt, Min
nchaha and Empire. Tho Empire was the
rear car. Al ~Grccnbnsh, on the opposite
side of the river from Albany, the Wagner
d~rnwina-room car IdlcaiId, from Troy, was
coupled 10 and became the last car q the
train. Two stops were male-~onc IT
Hudson ana the other al Pouehkeepsie. From
this last point the train began 70 make mp
SON III the lost time. A speed q AZ least
forfy miles an hour was maintained until tue
Spuytcn DuyyiI Creek Station was reached:
Here the engineer slowed down ana
tho train suddenly 4 M V q stop about
Kings6ridgc Station. Something. II was
said b. the train attendants, was
the matter with the air brake. For some rca-
son II failed 20 work. II was then 2 rev MN
ufcs past seven O'Clock. The delay must have
continued between five and Ten minutes. sud-
0|DIL IML <UIIII las I|AA - "W|
heard. when the sound ~ grinding wheels
from the rear grated harshiy On the ear. Tho
next instant there was q shock which Sliiyered
the Idlewild TO ~splinters, drove IL heavy frame
like d telescope into the Empire. and com
pleteiy wrecked that ear N an instant INC
stove m the forward end, which had been
thrown over by the shock. The ilamcs leapcd
upon the splintcrcd Empire, and that, too, was
filed with fire and smoke almost before the
occupants coulde~cnpe. A. least 4 dozen per-
sons who were in the ldicwild were cut on
from escape. cauuhf BY the Jagged iimbcrs,
and there heldto BE- slowly roasted alive
Three Tammany A~ssembIymen Ind Just LETT
q compartment az the rear ~ the Empire,
where they had been making merry. ana were
going toward the front q ne Gar when the
crush came. which splintered the very COM
partment they hal just abandoned. senator
Webster Wagner had passed them on bis way
10 the ldicwiid. lie was not ten feet from
the newspaper correspondent, and must have
Just stepped upon the rear platform OF the
Empire when the Idlewild shot forward aud
telcscopcd the Empire. Ihn nrst indication
that the Empires passengers had ~ danger
was the single whistle Of the locomotive ~
the local train. the Tarrytown express. Inc
shock hurled thcm from their seats: and they
were flung along the car moor ine swisei
thrown after them and lay piled On top "a ne
struggling occupants. A shower 81 elas:
came down from over head, and the roof Of
the Empire was crushed in upon them BY the
weight II the Idlcwild's roof, which seemed 70
have been lifted bodily and SHOT forward upon
that Of the Empire. To add 70 the confusion
the lights began TO glimmcr and the darkness:
TO deepen. Nearly al M occupants found
their was. out through windows whose sashes
had been shattered BY the shock. The ladies
were buried IN a heap Of debris and were ex'
tractcd without having received any severe
bruises. AseemblSman Monk was pinned 30
tween timhcrs close 70 the roof. The roo
was pried on. and he was with great difficulty
released.
Nearly ali of the Idlewild's passengers were
caught In the tImbcrs, and were unable x
move hand or foot. Their shriek~ we're ~
pailine. The flames we're gaining Roadway
ana there was neither hose, nor pals, no
water AZ hand to Quench them. Water Their
was enough In the creek not TWO hundred
feet distant from the doomed cars. but ~ ~
absence II vessels Of some description " Q
not be obtained. Finally some o. the nei4h
bors. whose dwellings frontcd on the faiiroa'
track, furnished a few wooden pals. Nalua
bic time had been lost, and the fiames wer
now beyond control. The villagers continue
Is throw water through the windows neafes
those spofs where a human voice could 2
heard. until the heat drove them far oeyon
Z point where the primitive fire apparatu
could be utilized