Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-03-21
FATAL RAILROAD WRECK
One Section Of an Express Trair
Crashes Into the Other.
More Than a Score of Person,
Killed OF Injured.

Six persons have been killed and about
twenty injured in railroad accident on the
Lake Shore road at Bay View. nine miles
from Buffalo, y. V, by the Chicago Express
breaking in two, and the two sections thcr
coming into collision.
The killed were: Mr. and Mrs Stewart. Of
Rochester; Mrs J. d. Baucus, Rome. Y Y
J. Swan the Colored porter; John ". Flynn
of Canton, Ohio, and John T. Power 81
PittSfield, Mass.
The two sections of the wrecked train ar
rived at Buffalo about o'clock i'll the Tl1rn
ing with the dead and injured. The bodies
were placed on trucks in the baggage room
and the injured were removed TO the hospitals
or hotels.
Pullman Conductor Fest said the steam
coupling broke in pulling out Of Dunkirk
leaving them without steam. When near
West Hamburg he made the startling dis
covery tina. the train had broken. He pulled
the air-brake cord and found that il would
not work. He ran to the third car and found
the air-brake there also useless. He WAS just
turning the brakes when the crash came
The first section had, on finding that there
had been a split, stopped, and the second sec
ton, going down grade, crashed into it. He
yelledfOr the porter. and they went in and
saw five persons pinned in the smoking room
OF the car Galena, and they helped them.
Their escape was almost miraculous they
got out with slight in uries
The collision jammed the Galena right
under the passenger coach In the rear. which
was thrown on top of it. OF those in the Ga
lena two were killed, nine injured and one
unknown man escaped
One man was killed i'll the passenger coach
an Italian, name unknown, and }. Swan the
colored porter of the Galena, was thrown
thirty feet into ditch and killed Both legs
and arms were broken, his chest stove in and
his head smashed.
Porter Waldron, (colored} of the Auburn
and Conductor Fest got out the axes and
went to work to free the imprisoned paSSeu-
gers. The Galena was split into kinCIling
wood, and nothing remained of it except the
trucks and one side. The wreck started 10
take fire. when Porter Waldron dashed into
the wreckage and at much danger to him
self succeeded in extinguishing two lamps in
the sleeper which were haring up ominously.
But for this timely action number of per
sons would have persisted in the flames.
One of the saddest incidents of the acc;
dent was that which befell JOS. D. Baucus. a
bright young lawyer of SaratJga. A week
ago Mr.. Baucus was married to a handsome
young lady of Rome, N Y. The happy
couple had spent their honeymoon in the
West and were returning home OH the Ga
lena. When the accident occurred the young
lady was piniOned in the wreck. Her body
was horribly bruised and her skull badly
crushed. Her husband was injured about
the legs and head. She was brought into
sleeper and the surgeons set about mending
her wounds. Portions of the skull had to be
taken out The bridegroom was stretched
out on another seat, two doctors working
over him. Every few minutes he jumped up
to get look at his wife. The doctors re-
strained him by keeping him constantly in
formed OF her condition, but tho suspense
was too much for him He jumped up and
brushing the doctors aside, folded his arms
about the dying woman's form. She's
cold" he cried i'll despair, and he glanced
up for a look Of disapprOval from the
physicians, who stood by. mo, she's living
yet" answered one of the doctors The de
VOtion of the broken hearted husband was
Touching in the extreme He refused 10 be
led away, and chung to the side of his uncon-
scious wife, kissing her bleeding lips and
urging the doctors on to further efforts But
medical skill proved unavaiIing The wife
died as the train was slowly rolling into But
falO. Mr.. Baucus is completely Frustrated.
E. E. Stewart, of Rochester, with hi, wife
and eighteen-nonths-Ol old baby was in the
lay coach when the crash came. MI Stewart
was instantly killed. The baby was uniu-
jured. She was found prattling i'll the arms
of her dead mother, and crying Mamma
mamma" The ladies took her away and the
title child fell asleep,
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