The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-03-07
A BRIDE AMONG THE DEAD
Shocking Calamity on the Lake
Shore Railroad--Seyen
Fatalities.

BUFFALO, March Z. 1890. AT about nine
o'clock last night frightful accident
occurred on the Lake Shore Railroad, at
Hamburg, New York. 1t cost the lives
of seven persons and injuries to fifteen
more.
When the train was leaving Cleveland
there was trouble with the coupling be-
tween the last day ear and the first Wag-
ner sleeper. 1t came apart, and there was
a delay in putting it together again On
Hamburg it again broke. The en-
gine, baggage, smoking and day
cars shot swiftly ahead. but were
brought quickly to standstill--too
quickly, for before the passengers
had time TO save themselves the heavy
Wagner cars came down upon the rear
day car with u terrific crash. The day
car was lifted, splintered wreck. clear
on top OF the first Wagner car. A few
passengers in the day car managed to get
to the ground before the crash came, but
those in the Wagner car were helpless,
and many of them unconscious of the
impending danger.
A hasty inspection revealed this list Of
unfortunates:-
Mrs. ]. Z. Stewart, Rochester.
J. Swan, sleeping car porter, Sala-
manca.
Mrs. j. d. Baucus. Saratoga Springs;
skull fractured; died Of injuries.
Three persons who are as yet nnidenti-
fed
Total, seven.
One after another the mangled corpses
were taken out, laid on the trucks and
wheeled away to the baggage room
where they were TEN porarily place d. The
second body TO be taken out was hat Of
Mrs. Stewart, of Rochester. She wore a
sealskin sacque and lay with her hands
folded and ring showing upon one of
her fingers. Finally there were five
trucks containing dead standing side by
side in the baggage room. Then the sad
work was over for time and the crowd
who had been watching the scenes
dispersed.
A peculiarly sad case was that of Mr..
and Mrs. Stewart, of Rochester With
his wife and their eighteen months old
baby, Mr.. Stewart was seated In the day
coach. When the crash came Mr.. Stew
art was instantly killed and his wife so
terribly mangled that she died before she
could be removed from the wreck. The
bruise.
One of the saddest Incidents was that
which befelI Joseph ID. Baucus, a bright
young lawyer of Saratoga Springs. A
week ago Mr. Baucus was married to q
handsome young lady Of Rome. n. Y.
uc Htppy CuupAc tdtt 6poAu bhCiA
honeymoon in the West, and were
returning home on the Salina.
After the accident the lady was
one of the first pinipned in the wreck.
Her body was terribly bruised and her
skull badly crushed. Her husband was;
injured about the legs and head, but his
pains We're nothing to him compared with
the agony he felt for his wife, She was
brought into d 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 doctars working over
him. Every few moments he jumped
up to get look at his wife. The doctors
tried 10 restrain him by keeping him con-
stantly informed of her condition, but
the 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 in despair, and he
glanced up for look of encouragement
from the physici ms who stood by.
mo, she's living YETI answered one of
the doctors.
The devotion of the broken-hearted
husband was touching in the extreme.
He refused to be led away and clung to
the side of his unconscious wife, kissing
her bleeping lips and urging the doctors
TO further effort.