Clarksville evening tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1890, 1890-03-08
SEVEN KILLED
And More Than a Score of Others
More or Less Injured.
A Lake Shore Passenger Train
Breaks in Two.

The Forward Section Comes to stand
still and the Rear Half, With Rapidly
Increasing Speed on Down Grade,
Crashes Into It-A Pullman and Two
Day Coaches Telescoped.
BUFFALO, N. Y. March Strain No.
on the Lake Shore road from the west,
due in Buffalo at 9:15 p. M, and running
very fast to make up lost time, broke in
two near Hamburg about s o'clock Thurs
day night. The front part of the train,
consisting of engine, tender, smoker and
two day coaches, was quickly brought to
a standstill. The rear half, composed of
five heavy Pullmans, came on down the
grade and crashed into the second day
coach. The Pullman, being the heavier,
lifted the day coach into the air, and
they fell one on top of the other, and
both having telescoped the first day
coach.
Seven are dead, six being killed in
stantly They are:
Mr.. j. E. Stewart and Mrs. j. E. Stew
art, of Rochester.
j. Sloan, sleeping car porter, of Sala-
manca.
Mrs. j. ID. Baucus, of Saratoga
Springs; skull fractured; died of in
juries.
j. Swain, a negro porter, of Cincin-
natl.
John T. Power, traveller for Collins &
Company, of Pittsfield, Mass.
j. w. Flynn, of Canton, o., travelling
agent for Lautz Brothers and Company,
of Buffalo.
Mrs. Baucus had been married but a
week.
Injured.
The names of the seriously injured
are:
Henry Bubrich, of Rochester; injury
to knee.
George E. Martin, of Boise City,
Idaho; chest bruised.
Rev. johnson Myers, of Cincinnati;
cut in head and leg.
L. H. Fishes Of Boston; right ankle
dislocated, head
F. A. Coomba philadelphia; side
and head cut
Julia Healy, of Boston; head injured
and collar bone and right arm fractured.
]. c. Armstrong, of Rochester; head
cut aud leg injured.
w. w. Branch, of Charleston, w. Va. !;
left arm broken.
Charles Barch, of New York city; left
ankle sprained.
II. r. Jaeger, of Rochester; ankle
sprained.
L. F. Haupt, of Buffalo; badly cut
George E. Allen, general passenger
agent of the Lake Shore; leg fractured.
Henry Ulrich, of Rochester; knee
j. d. Baucus, of Saratoga Springs;
face and leg cut
julius Siegel. of New York city; left
arm broken.
George S. Thompson, ankle sprained
in jumping from the train.
j. E, Minnick, of Philadelphia; arm
crushed,
j. E. Stewart, of Rochester, with his
wife and l0-months-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 unin-
jured.
The wreck occurred at a spot where
there is quite down grade, and as the
train was running at 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 ter
rible one. The telescoped cars were a
mass of twisted iron and broken timbers,
and along the track were strewn pieces
of iron, splintered doors and window
frames. 1t was nearly an hour and a
half before the bodies were all taken out.
a Holocaust Prevented.
The hero of the affair was Waldron,
one of the colored porters of the Wag-
ner cars. He was the first man to rush
into the wrecked car, and seized the
lamp, which was burning in the debris,
and threw it from the window, thus pre-
venting terrible holocaust.
Conductor Fest, of the Wagner car,
also distinguished himself for bravery
and presence of mind.
Relief trains were sent to the wreck
and all the dead and injured were sent
to this city.
OhiciaIs' Actions Cond demned.
The action of the railroad officials in
refusing to permit reporters to go to the
wreck on the physicians train is severe
ly condemned. The man in charge of
the special train stated that 1.-The officials
of the road had given orders to allow
no one but the surgeons to go out, and
two reporters were forced to leave the
car. The reporters were obliged to drive
along the hilly and desolate Lake Shore
road with the thermometer down near
zero, and did not reach the scene of the
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