The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-10-02
F0UR WORD KILLED
In the Disastrous Wreck at Pala-
tine Bridge.
Narrow Escape of Two Railroad Pres
idents From Death-Scenes of
Horror After the Crash.

Sad Ending OF Wedding Trip. the Groom
d., Ing Few Hours Aftnr Being Injured
In the Collision.
CANAJoHARIE, N. Y, Sept. 80. -Four killed
and dozen or more injured Is the summary
Of the terrible railroad accident on the Cen
tral railroad, two miles east of Palatine
Bridge station, Friday night. The train to
which the accident occurred was the st.
Louis and Chicago express, bound west,
which, owing to the heavy travel, was run
In two sections. The first section left
Fonda at Il 30, ten minutes late The Sec
tions generally run ten minutes apart,
which order seems to have been disregarded
slightly. When the first section reached a
point opposite Brandywine Rift, in the Mo-
hawk river, engineer Weeks, Of Albany, OF
the first section, noticed giving out OF the
steam chest of his engine. He Immediately
stopped and the hind brakeman Of the first
section ran back.
1t was not over FIVE minutes before the
crash came. The engineer of the second
section says he made every effort 70 stop by
applying the air brakes, but they did not
work, and nothing was left for him to do
pitched out + the window Of his cab, and
landed in such Il manner as to break both
his legs and otherwise injure him. His fire
man, John Slater, went up twenty feet in
the air, and landed on top Of the Boston &
Albany railroads baggage car, which was
In the rear and which struck with such tre-
mendous force that It was more than half
way telescoped with the rear part Of the
engine.
Baggageman Wilcox, II Syracuse, was
thrown into one end OF the car and quite
seriously hurt about the head. He was the
first 10 come 10 the rescue Of the unfOrtu-
nate fireman on top of the car, and the lat
ter, though badly shocked, was not serious
ly injured. The first section was made up
Of baggage, mail, express and through
passenger car besides a Wagner sleeper,
the New Mexico, the private car Kankakee,
Of President ingalls,, Of the c., c., G. & st.
Louis railroad, and the private car Of Pres
ident II. b. Ledyard, Of the Michigan Gen.
tral road. The latter car was on the rear,
and is said TO be the strongest and most
perfect car ever constructed
In President ingalls, car, the Kankakee,
were his family, Mr.. johnson, his private
secretary, and Charles Franklin, a porter.
The latter was instantly killed. All the
others escaped serious injury The Kanka-
kee was next TO the big Michigan Central
car, and was showed with great force
through the Wagner sleeper ahead, which
was packed with people. The two cars tel
escoped, causing terrible crash and knock
ing out the lights and splintering both the
cars. The persons in the upper berths es-
capped with slight injuries, several crawling
out of holes in the top Of the cars.
The most terrible part Of the accident be-
fsl William II. Manning and his party. Mr..
Manning resided at Marquette, Mich, and
few weeks ago came east TO Westport N.
Y, where he married Miss Julia Davis, a
wealthy young lady. They had passed few
weeks of their honeymoon in the East and
started for their new home, where an ele-
gantly furnished house awaited them. They
were accompanied by Sadie Boyd, a maid
servant, and George w. Allen, man serv.
ant. Mr. Manning was injured internally
and badly dishgured about the face. He
was cut out OF his berth and removed TO the
Hotel Wagner, in this place, and died soon
after His wife was injured, but not IA
tally. Sadie Boyd never spoke after the
crash. Her remains were dug out and laid
beside the track and covered. The man
servant escaped injury.
In upper berth No. was Charles W.
Weed, liveryman at Newburgh, who was
on his way TO Michigan TO buy horses. Be
fore retiring he had chat with Rev. Prem
tiss Deveuve, Of Dayton, o., who was 10 oc-
cupy the lower berth. Mr.. Deveuve after
the crash was found with his head bent up
ward and dead He had evidently been in
stantly killed while asleep.
The next most unfortunate party were
Robert A. Fowler, William Mckay and II.
]. Lewis, Of the lumber firm OF Bennett,
Mcllroy g. Fowler, Of New York. They
were all asleep and are all more or less in
jured, but not fatally. Among the passen.
gers in the Inflated car was Mrs. Tate, of
Fredonia, N. Y. She wasseriously injured.
Also Harry H. Adams, county treasurer of
Brooklyn, and his cashier, T. J. Farmly,
and a friend, Peter Sinter also of that city.
Their escape was marvellous, but they have
only few abrasions TO show that they were
In the wreck.