Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-03-07
DEATH ON THE RAIL.
The Awful Scenes at the Lake Shore
Collision.
A CONVICT'S DARING FIGHT.
A Knife at Prisoners Throat, He
Held the Warden at Bay.
THE LAKE SHORE ACCIDENT.

THE LAKE SHORE ACCIDENT.
Details Of the Disaster-Heartrendin
Scenes Of Anguish.
BrvyAIo, NY, March THE names Of the
seriously injured In last nights wreck on the
Lake shore road are: Henry Bubrich of Roches-
ter, injury in knee; George E. Martin Of Bois
City, Idaho, chest bruised; Rev. johnson Ny
srs Of Cincinnati, cut in head and leg; l. Il.
Fisher of Boston, right ankle dislocated and
bead cut; +. A. Coombs, $40 North 25th street,
Philadelphia, side and head cut; Julia Healy Of
Boston, head injured and collar bone and right
arm fractured; J. G. Armstrong, 1S6 Fulton
avenue, Rochester, head cut and leg injured
Mrs. J. d. Bauchus Of Saratoga Springs, frac.
turs of skull (hss since died); W. W. Branch OF
Charlestown, WA, left arm broken; Charles
Barch Of New York city, left ankle sprained
II. T. Jaeger, i61 South Goodman street, Ro-
chester, ankle sprained; L F. Haupt, 264 Sum-
mer street, Buffalo, badly cut; Geo. E. Allen,
general northern passenger agent Of Lake
Shore railway. leg fractured; Henry Ulrich OF
Rochester, knee sprained; ]. d. Bauchus oil
Saratoga Springs, face and leg cut; Julius Sic
gel Of New York. left arm broken; George 8.
Thompson, ankle sprained; J. E. Minick oil
Philadelphia, arm crushed
THE KILLED.
Z. E. Stewart Of $50 State street, Rochester,
with his wife and eighteen-mouths-old baby,
was in the day coach when the crash came
Mr.. Stewart was instantly killed Mrs. Stewart
died before she could be taken from the wreck.
The baby was uninjured. complete list Of
the killed cannot be learned, but it is positively
Ern hat. H. .sx -
instantly killed J. Swain, o negro porter Of
Cincinnati, has been identified among the dead.
The hero Of the affair was Waldron, one oil
the colored porters Of the Wagner cars. he
was the first man to rush into the wrecked car
and seized the lamp, which was burning in the
debris, and threw il from the window, thus
preventing q terrible holocaust. Conductor
Fest, conductor Of the Wagner car, also dis
tinguished himself for bravery and presence OF
mind Julius Siegal was buried for over an
hour in the ruins. pinned down by heavy tim
Der. He heard the groans of Mrs. Stewart who
had been sitting in the seat in front of him,
until death put an end to her agony. The
wounded we're brought to this city and taken
to the hospitals.
The relief train arrived in Buffalo at $50 a.
m with all the killed and injured. The
wrecked train, drawn by the regular engine,
but minus the shattered sleeping car Salina
and the wrecked coach, started from the scene
CT the crash at about 2:4e o'clock this morning
and arrived at the Central depot at about $3.50.
The sleeper Auburn was filed with injured
passengers and contained one corpse, Mrs J..
ID. Baucus OF Saratoga There we're four dead
bodies in the baggage car, which came in at
410 with the second section Of the wrecked
train-those of the colored porter Swan, Mr..
and Mrs. Stewart and an unknown italian. In
the sleeper Auburn the physicians were busy al
leviating the sufferings Of the injured, and at
times the groans of the wounded were heartrend-
ing. In the coaches the passengers were badly
frightened and not few we're nursing slight
injuries and all were recountirg their expe-
riences. On the arrival Of the train it was
with the utmost difficulty that the surgeons
persuaded Mr.. Baucus to leave the dead body
OF his wife. When at last they succeeded be
was put in a carriage and taken to the Firth
hospital and the remains Of his wife were
taken to the baggage room. One after another
the mangled corpses we're taken out, laid on
the trucks and wheeled away to the baggage
room, where they were temporarily placed
The second body to be taken out was that of
q
skin sacque and lay with her hands folded and
ring showing upon one Of them. Finally
there were five trucks containing dead stand
ing side by side in the baggage room
WHERE 1T HAPPENED.
The wreck occurred at a spot where there is
quite . down grade, and as the train was run
ming at 9 good rate Of speed it is remarkable
that the collision was not more serious and
that more Of the cars were not derailed. The
scene around the wreck Was a terrible one
The telescoped cars were a mass Of twisted
iron and broken tlmbers, and along the track
were strewn pieces of iron, splintered doors and
window frames When your reporter reached
the scee several men were hard at work irving
TO get bodles out Of the mass of timber. Through
large hole in the side of the sleeping car
could be seen the head, shoulders and one arm
OF dead man. Apparently he had been sit
ting In bis seat when the day coach fell on
him crushing him to death. 1t was nearly an
hour and half before the bodies were all
taken out
The following graphic account of1the wreck
was obtained from Pullman Conductor Lewis
Fest: The train made up Of a through
ST Louis car to New York, another bound
from Cleveland to New York, and the car back
wss . second-class excursion from Cincinnati
There were four sleepers-the Salina, Auburn.
Buffalo and Malone-and there was also DIM
ing car named the Cleveland There were also
three passenger coaches and two baggage cars
l was the conductor Of the four sleepers. The
Salina was from St Louis and had twelve pas
sengerA
THE CAUSE OF II.
THE steam coupling broke in pulling ont of
Dunkirk. The air brake did not seem to work
and IL was . sudden lurch that caused the break.
IL may have been Q defect in the coupling that
pulled IL apart and In that way the steam
pipes were broken and we were without steam.
At some point near West Hamburg l was on the
first platform, and looking ahead made the
startling discovery that the train was broken
l immediately pulled the air brake cord and
found that it would not work. ran back into
the rear car and pulled the cord there, but il
like the other would not work. / then ran
back 70 the third car and found that an air
brake there was also useless. / was just turning
the brakes when the crash came. The first
splt,ssopped, and We, going down grade, crashed
into it
The collision damned the Salina right under
the passenger coach in the rear, which was
thrown on top of it. OF those in the Salins
Two we're killed. nine injured and one unkno wp
man escaped One man was killed in the pas
sengef coach, an Italian, name unknown. j.
d swan the negro porter Of the Salina, was
tnrown 80 feet into q ditch and killed Both
legs and arms we're broken, his cheat stove in
aud his head smashed 49,
PORTER WAidron Of the Auburn and mvsel,
got out the axes and vent to work 10 frsa tbe
Imprisoned passengers As fast as We got them
out Ne put them In the Auburn The Salina
was split into kindling wood and nothing re-.
mains OF Il except the trucks and one side