Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-03-08


A Lake Shore Train Telescoped and
Seven Persons Killed.
BUFFALO, March 7th.-Seven person were
killed and seventeen injured by the Ham
burg accident on the Lake Shore last night.
Several Of the injured may die.
Louis Fest, Conductor of the Wagner
cars, tells the following story of the wreck
in substance: "The train was made up
with through St. Louis car to New York
and another from Cleveland to New York.
The car back was second. class excursion
from Cincinnati. There were four sleep
ers, dining-car, three passenger coaches
and two baggage-cars. The sleeper Salina
from ST. Louis, had twelve passengers.
The steam coupling broke in pulling out
of Dunkirk. A brake didn't seem to
work in pulling out. and a sudden
lurch caused the break at some point
near West Hamburg. l was on the
front platform, and looking ahead,
made the discovery that the train was
broken. l Immediately pulled the air.
brake cord, but it would not work. l then
ran back into the rear car and pulled the
cord there, but it also would not work.
ran back to the third car and found the
air-brake there also useless. | was just
turning the mandrake when the crash
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smoking-room of the car Salina. Their
escape was miraculous. They got out with
slight injuries In the Salina two were
killed, nine injured, and one unknown
man escaped. One man was killed in the
passenger coach, an Italian, name un-
known. Swan, the negro porter of the Sa-
lima, was thrown nearly thirty feet into a
ditch and killed. Both his legs and arms
were broken, his chest stove IN and head
smashed"
The list of the dead so far received is :
E. E. Stewart and wife, Rochester, n. Y;
- Swain, car porter, Cincinnati Mrs.
Joseph Baucus three unknown. The list
of injured is: Henry Buhrich, Rochester,
knee hurt; George E. Martin, Boise City,
Idaho, chest bruised; Rev. Johnson Myers,
Cincinnati, cut in the head and leg; l.. Fl.
Fisher. Boston, right ankle dislocated and
head cut f. A. Coombs, Philadelphia, side
and head cut; Julia Healy, Boston, head
injured and collar-bone and right arm
fractured J. c. Armstrong, Rochester,
Charlestown, W. Va, left arm broken
Charles Barch, New York, left ankle
sprained; H. T. Jaeger, Rocheiter, ankle
sprained L. F. Haupt Buffalo, badly cut;
George E. Allen, General Passenger Agent
Lake Shore Railroad, leg fractured; Henry
Ulrich, Rochester, knee sprained; julius
Siegel, New York, left arm broken; j. d.
Baucus. Saratoga Springs, face and leg cut;
George S. Thompson ankle sprained J. (.
Minnick, Philadelphia, arm crushed c. J.
Rice. Newton Falls, Mass; - Davis, Los
Angeles, Cal; 0. S. Flewellyn, st. Johns,
NIB.
One of the dead proved to be J. W. Flynn,
a travelling salesman of Canton, Ohio.
Another, from the cards on his person, is
supposed TO be John I. Power, of Pittsield,
Mass, also travelling man. The bodies of
the dead are much mangled.
There were many sad incidents connected
with the wreck, one of the saddest being
the killing of Mrs. Joseph Baucus, Of
Saratoga She and her husband were on
their wedding trip, having been married
about week. The husband was terribly
injured, but his physical suffering was
nothing compared to mental agony. He
acted in a distracted manner, calling on
doctors to save her, and raving over her
broken and bruised body.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Stewart of Rochester.
were killed instantly, while their eighteen
months-old girl, in its mothers arms, did
not receive scratch.
Superintendent Couch Of the Lake Shore
road says the sleeping-car conductor first
discovered the break, and went into three
different cars, pulling the automatic brake
cords, and trying to stop the rear section,
but they wouldn't work. He was trying
to set up the hand-brakes when the crash
came Couch could not assign any reason
for the failure of the automatic air-brakes
to work. They are generally reliable.
When asked why the engineer with the
front part of the train did not run away
from the rear section, he said the break &C.
cured on the down grade, and that it gave
increased speed to the rear section.
The engineer claims that the brakes on
his section became set, and he couldn't get
away from the rear part in time. He didn't
discover the break when it occurred, his
attention being necessarily directed ahead
most OF the time.