Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-29
TWENTY MEN KILLED.
THE WOMEN ALL sArE.

l.. .. Gurney. of Brooklyn, Had His Head
 Cut or and HIS Body Thrown Clear
 of the wreck-Of Nineteen Others
 One to Blame for the Dreadful Dis- l
 aster-List of the Dead and Wounded |
 HAMILTON, Ont, April 29.-The most | terrible accident that has occurred on | the Grand Trunk railroad for years took | place about two miles west of this city at | 2 o'clock yesterday morning.
 The St. Louis limited express from De- troit was wrecked and caught fire.
 Two men were instantly killed, and IS were burned to death. A large number were injured more or less seri- ously.
 The bodies of IS who were burned to death have not yet been identified. Of the two instantly killed one has been recognized as L. s. Gurney, of Brooklyn. His head was completely cut off and his body thrown clear of the wreck.
 The other was Rudolph J. Ederer, of Chicago.
 The following Is list of the wounded who have been taken to the City hospi- tai:
 James A. Palmer, Ilion, N. Y. head cut, but not seriously hurt.
 Hamilton Clark, 147 West Ohio street, Chicago, double fracture of the right leg, bruised badly, head cut and probably in- ternally injured. Of all the injured he is the worst but will likely recover.
 Anthony Moaz tor Martyr, an Italian, on his way home from Wisconsin to Italy, head cut, but not seriously.
 Edwin Chapman, fireman; head badly cut over right eye, not seriously hurt.
 Enoch Kenyon, of London, England, mining engineer; ribs broken, not seri- ously injured,
 c. c. Azbel, of Edwardsport, Ind, slight injuries.
 William Leipsey, 69 North Sangamon street, Chicago, ankle badly sprained. A. l.. Doney, Danville, Ill.,, cut over | the head, not seriously.
 George White, a German, on his way from Illinois to Union Hill, N. J., right ear cut off and scalp wound; not serious. Andrew J. Carpenter, Yankton, Dak., | injured about the head, but not serious. $. I. Young 2S4 North avenue, Chicago, very slightly hurt.
 Joseph Morris, East Sioux Falls, Dak., | on his way to Clark Island. Me-, scalp 1 wound, burned leg and shoulder, put not | seriously hurt.
 About ten others were slightly hurt, 1 but not so badly as to prevent them continuing their journey. The accident, as far as strict investi- | gation reveals, was the result of no neg l ligenbe or breach of orders. | The St. Louis limited express No. 52, which leaves Detroit about midnight, and is due to arrive in Hamilton at 6.55 a. m., was running fifteen minutes late | when the accident happened.
 Steam was shut off and the train was making about twenty miles an hour on down grade. On striking a frog after passing switch the engine jumped the track aud plunged into q huge tank. There 1t came to stand, and the cars in the rear telescoped.
 A baggage car went right over the top of the engine and lit on the track about 100 yards further on. The baggageman, James Welch, of Niagara Falls, was in | the car and so was Fred Dumas, the ex- | pressman, but neither of them were hurt. The engineer, Joseph Watson, of London, l Ont, and his fireman, Edwin Chapman, also of London, also had not time to es- cape. They were taken from under the engine, Watson being uninjured and Chapman having a slight wound over his | right eye,
 On the train were 115 people, besides the ten trainmen. Of these, fourteen were in the day coach, thirty-fve in one sleeper, five in another sleeper and eleven in third sleeper, leaving fifty per- sons inthe smoker and two coaches.
 Thirty or thirty-ive of these were In the smoker. This car and the second
 baggage car were telescoped completely
 and took fire immediately. The wreck ing of the tank cut off the supply of
 water, and the thirty or thirty-five pas sengers were at the mercy of the flames. Of this number, thirteen, as far as can be learned, got out safely. The remains of eighteen men were taken out of the wreck an hour or two later.
 They were cut to pieces almost to a 5 man and burned beyond all possibility of recognition.
 They were huddled together in a heap in the end of the smoker and were pinned in by timbers, which made it impossible . for them to extricate themselves. Nothing could be done for them as the t fierceness of the flames made it out ot , the question for men to rescue them.
 The only way in which it could be 8 ascertained that eighteen bodies had ; been taken out was from the fact that
 legs and arms corresponding to about
 that number were found.
 The remains were taken to the City
 hospital and placed in the morgue await /. ing Identification, and an inquest will be 2 held today
 It was six o'clock last evening before
 the tracks were cleared.
 None of the Detroit Light infantry
 were wounded and not a woman was !, hurt.
 : The wounded in the hospital are doing - we'll.
 PugilIst Drowned. l. IsHPEMING, Mich, April 29.-'sTom' j. Hinch, the Milwaukee pugilist, who was ;. to fight ''Jim" Mccormick, of St. Paul. a S Escanada next Sunday, was visiting f few miles from Iron mountain, on thu a Wisconsin side of the river. Returning s the boat capsized, and Hinch wa.