New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-28

their appeals. McCaus!anG's voice inside the up
turned car could be heard imploringly crying:
Break in the skyights We are smothering In
here"
The skyights were smashed in and Mccoy was
the first to crawl out. lie was cut about the heau
but not otherwise hurt. McCausland was next
helped out and then rescueTs went into the car
and flung mail sacks out until they came upon
Mitchell! aud Conaty. They were pulled out IN
safety, There were piteOus cries heard IRON
Turner, Hart and Clark.
For Gods sake hurry, men / am dying" SAID
Turner.
Tho three men were jammcd down beneath
heavy iron-bound table such as is used IN mail
cars After much difficulty they were exTrlcated'
Turner was badly hurt, having been severely
squeezed between the table and tie side or the car
He was carried up the bank 10 the station. har1
and Clark were also InOre or less bruised.
II was still dark when all the wounded and
bru,scd men were gathered in the little nine-by-
ten waiting room of the station. The body OF the
dead fireman had been takento The house OF George
McGaleaD, mason who had been his 1rlenu III
life. All that could be done fer the injured inch
was done. Drs. Campbell, Nutting and Jones, oil
Mt. Vernon, were summoned over the telephone by
Station Agent Merritt. and they drove over Ill
bugpies. the distance being two and One-half miles
Before they came the passengers produced
n great many bottles of brandy, Win
liniment and reans of sticking plaster
and ministcred to the wants of those VINO nt necaot
Immediate attention or stlmuIant; hr. niciIlV
procured many cups of hot coffee ana thc VlIaPcis
who had been roused from their beds by the % hoSo
and the news of the accident, began 10 pes'lr tno
selves and add what they could To- the comfort "d
a9fer afs df5ayea tbe ow fVeiIg fan had struck The
platform the Adams Express train rolled into
Pehamyillc Conductor Holcomb of the owl"
in bad lkpd 1l
Rochelle and tagged the train there. lhe express
train was shifted to the nortl-bonnd uack anu
came to the scene of the accident. All the wounded
were put on the express, together WIN al T tno
passengers who ready aud Wiling 10 tIaVel.
lhe sacks of registered mail were so placcd tnaI
Chief Clerk AcCauSland was able to go TO the lhau
car and pull them out easily. Many OF them were
stained as If with blood. He sent them on TO thls
clty by the express. Many of the passengers were
not ready to leave Pelhamvil.e. They nad not re-
covered from the fright and shock oil the coiS'ou'
WHO BUILT The INSECURE PLATFoHMf
News of the disaster promptly telegraphec
to Superintendent W. II. Stevenson, who was nj
bridgeport. wrecking train was ordered down
from New-Haven. Ii reached Pelhamviile AT ~
O'Clock with Mr.. Stevenson and Train Dispatcher
Frost Oh board. Both these officials remained AT
the wreck all day and all night, IrdiuS from
the Fost were switched to the northbound track at
New-Rochele all day, and travellers Weic sehVoNer
the road TO them destination: .
Ii was truly miraculous" said Mr; stevenson,
i% Tello'S tbo3sand tlp1 tines without the
entire train going the bottom of that great EN-
Iaukment i do not believe that the engineer
could roll with his engine down tnat bank again
and not he killed. IL was due To the Gieihel'S.
Sirh an accident Will not occur agan proDdolS IN
n Thousand wears. lneSer remember III NY Who!e
railroad experience having seen 50 close shaVe
from great calamity" , a.,
responsibility for the insecure platform That lea 10
ne accident. lie replied; :, - I'LL,
- think the platform, station ahd al were punt
by the town in order to have the trains stop here
supposed II was secGtc. / think all the othGf
this had blown over five seconds aiter
If did there would have been no accldont; Ilc
engineer told me that as he reached the north SIDE
of the station twenty feet from the platform ms
tram ran into a cloud of dust. lie had no time 10
pGli the bell cord OF 90 any thlng DeIole lie was
Mail Clerk McC Cauaiand SAID that so much oil
from the broken lamps ran down ms b%ck
white he penncd up IN the mail car ihat
he thought he was III the creek
Mail Clerk Turner taken to the Grand Inlon
Hotel His wounds attended to ana last
night he said that he felt easier. Turner is irom
Maiden, Mass, Hart from Charlestownj Mass
NcCauslaud from Boston. Clark from Haddan,
Conn. Mccoy from Putnam. Conn, ana Conaty
from Worcester Mass. Mitchell /, from this city.
Tn. wreching force were hard at work last nPht,
hut they mad made little headway IN getting the
heavy siecpcrs back on the track Crowds OF Pe2-
pie went to look at the wreck nc & cnE,"o, md n
car and tender Law on the Dahh ana III
tSa ditch The actual loss. according TO
Mr. Stevenson can be replaced by $l,Ooo.
Coroner lice, of Mt Vernon went TO Pelham-
vile at noon and impanellcd a jury, who NleWeu
the body Of Fireman f'lakc. The WI meet again
to-day and hear testimony. After that the Coroner
will hermit the body to be taken TO his home III
New-lIaven.