Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-16
SATURDAYS NEWS.
Special { Iispatches to the. Record
Union"
The Hudson River Railroad Horror.

around the curve, and turned to run back ia
the forward end of the car, shouting, as he
ran toward his fellow passengers, their dan.
| ger. All started up from their seats. Before
| ne had reached half through the car the
shock came, and ne felt himself lifted up in
the air. Pitch darkness followed on all sides.
Cries OF horror, anguish and despair went up.
linen Iu'1d glare was cast through the car
from the fire breaking out, and be saw men
and women struggling to get free from the
wreck: He heard lady who was wedged
IN under seat calling most piteously for
help. lie tried to help her, but she was held
fsst, and the ire compelled him to leave her
to her terrible fate. He reeollected seeing
the stout lady, who was identified as Miss or
Mrs. Brown, get on the ears at Greenbush.
SENATOR wAGNER's REMAINS.
The body of Senator Wagner has been re.
covered, and was sent down to the city in one
of the dead Senator's own palace cars. Two
hours later the remaining seven bodies were
brought down in an ordinary baggage-car,
accompanied by Captain Yale and Coroner
Knox. Six of the bodies were packed in ice
boxes. and the charred remains of the seventh
were borne on stretcher, covered by the
fur lined cloak of Mrs. Valentine, the young
bride, whose wedding tour ended in such a
horrible death.
Senator Wagner was heard to say imme.
diately after the collision, and while the
flames were burning fiercely in the car he was
In. " For Gods sake help me; Pm under the
cars" Efforts proved unavailing to save him.
His friends were driven back by the fire, and
his voice WIS soon stilled in death.
MUTIATED coRPsEs.
The car was switched off upon the side
track. When it arrived it was run east of
the depot to the old freight station at Forty.
third street. Here the coffns were ranged on
the floor, and upon hastily improvised tables
were spread the draggled 1nd burned gar
ments and satcheis recovered from the wreck,
to serve as means of identifying uurecos-
nizsd bodies. Here a black fur muff and q
cloak, there broadcloth coat and hat bat
tered out of shape, charred and half
consumed satchels and bundles-lay scattered
about, and were examined and registered in
turn by the police officials. who took charge
OF all property. In one OF these were found
clews tbht led to the Identification of one of
the bodies as that of Rev. f. Marshall. The
clerical cut of the few tattered rags that we're
yet left Of the vest had attracted attention to
the mans probable profession. The name
was written on the binding and on the fiy.leaf
Of volume of sermons and a theolcpicsl
work, but without address. His body, like
all the Others, with the single exception of
that of Mrs. or Miss Brown, was burned SO
as to be unrecognizable. As identity was es-
tabiished, sheet of paper, marked with the
name and number, was tackled to the coffin
llG, and the name was checked off on the list
with business like air, as if the matter con-
cerned ordinary bills of freight, handled
daily.
THE VICTIMS.
The following is revised list of the killed
Senator Wagner Park Valentine. aged
twenty -one. Bennington, Vt; Mrs. Valen-
tine, aged nineteen. North Adams, w.;
Oliver B. Kelley, Spring City, Pa; D. L.
Ransom. guest of the Hoffman House Rev.
=. Marshall, residence rot given; Miss Maud
Brown. No. 443 West Fifty.third street,
New York; man unknown.
All the injured, with the exception of Miss
Mary Dauies, guest OF the Sherwood House,
were able to so to their homes, and no list
was kept by the police. Miss Daniels is
seriously burned, but will probably recover.
George William Curtis is unhurt.
Reminders of the wreck were seen on every
side, and were horrible and sickening in the
extreme. The officials at the Grand Central
Depot exhibited their usual exasperatiug eff
cial ignorance, and referred questions to
higher authority. Up to neon some of them
said that they had barely heard of the acci-
dent, by rumor, etc. The higher officers said
they could not bother with reporters, and
haughtily refused TO talk.
THE BRAKEMAN WHO DID NOT DO HIS DUTY
PoUGHKEEPsIE, January 14sh.-Leo Mel
lus, brakeman of the New York special train
run into last night, and who is charged with
beirg the cause of the disaster, arrived here
last night, and went south with his brother,
Conductor Mellus, on the Poughkeepsie
train. In conversation he said he went back
with red light far enough to see Spuyten
Duyvil bridge, and that when the Tarrytown
train passed hin it was running forty miles
an hour. and the engine using steam. Con-
ductor Mellus told him the train could not be
running that fast, as it had just left Spuyten
Duyvil Station. Brakeman Mellus replied:
"Anyhow it was going very fast" Train
dispatcher Cossum says if Mellus went back
far enough to see Spuyten Duyvil BRIDGE his
red light would have been seen by the watch
man in the signal tower. Brakeman Mellus
went as far as Fishkill this morning, returned
by the next train, and then left fer New
York, where warrants haveI been Issued for
his arrest.
MELLUs ARRESTED.
NEw YoRK, January 14sh.-Geo. Meiluz,
the brakeman charged with the responsibility
for last evenings 6isaster, was arrested at the
Grand Central depot this evening, and locked
up on q charge of criminal carelessness He
train stepped | got my lamps, white and
red, and walked to the back part of the
train. In about two minutes | started back
around the curve, about six or seven car
lengths from where | stood. | waved my red
lantern across the track, and l think that
there was time enough to stop the train. 1t
took noe about five minutes, perhaps less, to
walk the distance above mentioned, and |
stood there one or two minutes, perhaps
three minutes, when the Tarrytown train
came in sight. | stopped there, because l
considered the distance sufficient to stop anv
train. There was time enough to walk back
to Spuyten Duyvil station, which was about
quarter or half mile away, but did not
consider it necessary. I knew there was
train behind us, but l did not know whether
it was the Tarrytown or Poughkeepsie train"
THEIR FATAL JOURNEY.
TROY IN. Y J, January 14th.-R F. Mar
shall. whose body the dispatches state has
been found in the wreck at Spuyten Duyvil,
was a learned Jesuit priest, who had been for
two years pastor Of st. Michaels Church in
this city. He left Troy yesterday afternoon
on the fated Idlewild to assume charge at
Blackwells Island.
Park Valentines mother has been an iu-
valid for six years in Bennington. and fears
are felt that she will not survive the shock of
ner SOD q ueatn. 0uDg faientlDe was
graduate of Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute
in this city. His father had given him an
elegantly furnished house in Bennington, and
was intending when he returned from bis
wedding tour to give him an interest in his
extensive knitting mill buriDess. The bodies
of young Valentine and wife arrived tonight.
and were Immediately taken to Bennington,
in which village the funeral will occur on
Monday afternoon.
Deaths.
DETROIT, January 14th.-The mother of
the late General Custer died at Monroe this
morning.
RICHMOND Val January 14th.-Mme.
Caroline Richings-B Bernard died at half-pas
IL lsst night of smallpox, after an illness of
thirteen days. During the past three days
she was delirious, and before that her suffer
ings were intense. She had small pox of the
Llost virulent type.
DENVER tCol J. Janusry 14th. M. ].
Gavisk, the Governors private secretary and
q Journalist, died this afternoon.
Instructions Sent to Irkutsk.
WASHINGTON, January 14th.-Secretary
Hunt has sent the folio wing csblegrsm this
afternoon to Lieutenant Danenhoier and
Chief Engineer Melville, of the Jeanette, at
Irkutsk: Remain on the ground until the
remairdsr Of the expedition is found. Help
the search hy every neaps in vour powern