Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-03-14
A TRAIN BRE EAKS.
ux KILLED AND SEVENTEEN sERI-
OUsLY WOUNDED.


Bride-Distressing Scenes--The Story of
the Wreck on the Lake Shore.
Telegrams Saturday morning from
BuFaso, n. y, say Train 10 on the
Lake Shore from the west, due there
Thursday night, snd running very fast to
make up lost time, RfGke IN two near
Hamburg at about $3.50 P. Nj. fpe front
part of the train, consisting OF fpg'pe'
tender, smoker, and two day coaches, "aS
quickly brought to standstill The rear
half, composed of 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, both having
telescoped the day coach. Both the day
coaches and the Pullman were full of
passengers and the number of killed and
injured is probably very large. Ten are
reported killed outright.
A wrecking train, with relief party of
surgeons, soon left for the scene OF the
accident. The railroad authorities and
employees refused any information what
ever to the press. The Associated Press
reporter went on the train as surgeons
assistant. No reporters were allowed to
20 if known to be such. The following is
the latest dispatch from Buffalo
BUFFALO, N. Y, March 7.-Distressing
.oonas uara xpitpacaad hare xhan tho vic-
tins of last nights disaster were brought
in.
The wrecked express traih, drawn by
the regular engine, but minus the shat
tered sleeping car Saliua and the wreck
ed coach, started from the scene of the
crash at about 2:40 o'clock this morning
and arrived at the Central Depot at $3.50
o'clock.
The sleeper Auburn was filled with
injured passengers, and contained one
corps, Mrs. J. d. Baucus, of Saratoga.
There wers four dead bodies in the bag
gage car which came in at 4:10 o'clock
with the second section Of the wrecked
train--those of the colored porters, Swan,
Italian. In the sleeper Auburn the ply
sicians were busy allevlating the suf-
ferings 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 were
nursing slight injuries and all were re.
counting their experiences.
On the arrival of the train 1t was with
the utmost difficulty that the surgeons
persuaded Mr.. Baucus to leave the dead
body of his wife. When at last they sue
ceeded he was put in a carriage and
taken to the Firth Hospital, and the re-
mains of his wife were taken to the bag
gage loom. One after another the
mangled corpses were taken out, laid on
the trucks and wheeled away to the bag
gage room. where they were temporarily
placed.
The second body to be taken out was
that of Mrs. Stewart, of Rochester. She
wore sealsking sacque and lay with her
hands folded and ring showing upon
one of them. Finally there were five
trucks containing dead standing side by
side in the baggage room. Then the sad
work was over for the time, and the
crowd who had been watching the scenes
dispersed.
The wreck occurred at 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 disastrous and that more of the cars
were not derailed. The scene around the
wreck was a terrible one. The telescoped
cars were mass of twisted iron and
broken timbers, and along the track were
strewn pieces of iron, splintered doors
and window frames. When the reporter
reached the scene several men were hard
at work trying to get bodies 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 a dead
man. Apparently he had been sitting in
his seat when the day coach fell on him,
crushing him to death. 1t was nearly an
hour and half before all the bodies
were taken out.
THE PULLMAN CONDUCTORS STORY.
The following graphic account of the
wreck was obtained from Pullman Con-
ductor Lewis Fest ''The train was
made up of a through st. Louis car to
New York, another bound from Cleveland
to New York, and the car back was
second-class excursion from Cincinnati
There were four sleepers, the Salina, Au-
burn, Buffalo and Malone, and there was
also dining car named the Cleveland
There were also three passenger coaches
and two baggage cars. was the Con.
ductor of the four sleeper. The Salina
was from St. Louis and it had twelve pas.
sengers.
g The steam coupling broke in pulling
out OF Dunkirk. The air didn't seem to
work, and it was a sudden lurch tnat
caused the break. 1t may have been de-
feet in the cOuDlnu that nuIIed If anart