The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-03-26
FATAL RAILROAD WRECK.
One Section of an Express Train
CRASHES Into the Other.
More Than a Score of Persons
Killed or Injured.

Six persons have been killed and about
twenty injured in a railroad accident on the
Lake Shore road at Bay View, nine miles
from Buffalo, N. Y, by the Chicago Express
breaking in two, and the two sections then
coming into collision.
The killed were: Mr.. and Mrs Stewart, Of
Rochester; Mrs. ]. D. Baucus, Rome, n Y,
J. Swan, the colored porter; John W. Flynn,
of Canton, Ohio, and John T. Power, Of
Pittsfield, Mass.
The two sections of the wrecked train ar.
rived at Buffalo about o'clock in the morn
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 that the train had broken. He pulled
the air-brake cord and found that it 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 split, stopped, and the second sec
Jon, going down grade, crashed into it. BE
yelled for the por ter, and they went in and
Of the car Galena, and they helped them.
Their escape was almost miraculous, as they
got out with slight injuries.
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 in 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, tco;ored) of the Auburn,
and Conductor Fest got out the axes and
went to work to free the imprisoned passen-
GERS The Galena was split into Endling
wood, and nothing remained Of it except the
trucks and one side. The wreck started to
take fire, when Porter Waldron dashed into
the wreckage and at much danger to him
self succeeded in e1tinguishing two lamps in
the sleeper which were faring up ominously.
But for this timely action number Of per-
sons would have persisted in the flames.
One Of the saddest incidents of the acci-
dent was that which befell JOS D. Baucus,
bright young lawyer Of Saratoga. A week
ago Mr.. Baucus was married to handsome
young lady Of Rome N. Y. The happy
couple had spent their honeymoon in the
West and were returning home on 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 bs
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 the suspense
was too much for him. He jumped up and
brushing the doctors aside, folded his arms
about the dying woman's form. ''Shes
cold" he cried in despair, and he glanced
up for a look Of disapproyal 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 to be
led away, and clung to the side Of his uncon-
scious wife, kissing her bleeding lips and
urging the doctors on to further efforts But
medical skill proved unavailng. The wife
died as the train was slowly rolling into But
falo. Mr.. Baucus is completely Frustrated:
E. E. Stewart, of Rochester, with his wife
and eighteen-months-o! baby, was in the
day coach when the crash came. Mr.. Stewart
wss Instantly killed. The baby was unin.
iured. She was found prattling in the arms
of her dead mother, and crying Mamma
mammam The ladies took her away and the
little child fell asleep.