The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-03-13
TRAIN SMASHED.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT ON THE LAKE
SHORE RAILWAY-SEVERAL
PEOPLE KILLED.
HORRIBLE SCENES AT THE WRECK
Young Bride Killed and a Baby Found
Prattling in Its Dead Mothers
Arms.

DCFFALO, N. l., MdTCu IA COIISCIeOi
list of killed and wounded by the railroad
accident last night is as follows. There
were eleven people in the sleeper Salina,
and one of them, ]. Sway, colored porter,
was hurled from the car distance of
thirty-three feet and instantly killed. All
the rest were more or less injured. The
other killed were:
John w. Flynn, Canton, Ohio.
John 7. Power, Pittsfield, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. e. Stewart, Rochester.
Mrs. Joseph Baucus, Saratoga Springs.
AT o'clock this morning the railroad
people brought the bodies of those killed
into the Central depot, where Coroner
Tucker, who had been notified and was in
waiting, at once took charge of them.
Coroner Tucker will impanel jury and
hold thorough inquests. The railroad az
thorities have placed a special to take the
jury to the scene of the wreck. As far as
can be learned now the list of those in
jured is as follows:
J.. n. Nunck, Philadelphia, right arm
crushed and subsequently amputated.
l.. f. Haupt, Buffalo, wrist badly cut
Geo. L. Allen, general Northern passen-
ger agent of the Erie road, Buffalo, sprained
tissue of leg.
w. w, Branch, Charleston, w. Va, left
arm broken.
Charles Barch, New York City, ankle
sprained.
H. F. JAEGER, Rochester. ankle sprained.
G. A. Allen, st. Johns, N. B., left leg in
jured.
Henry Bulrich, Rochester, injury to
knee,
Julius siegel, New York City, injury in
left arm.
George s. Thompson, Rochester, spralned
leg.
Geo. F. Martin, Boise City, Idaho, bruised
chest.
Rev. Johnson Meyers, Cincinn att, cut in
the head.
W. H. Fisher, Boston, bruises on chin
and leg.
Julia Healey, Boston. injury to head,
fractured rib and fractured right arm.
J. 9. Armstrong, Rochester, cut in head
and neck.
Mr.. David, Los Angeles, CAL, slightly in
jured.
One of the saddest incidents of the Lake
Shore accident was that which befell
Joseph Baucus, bright young lawyer of
Saratoga Springs. 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 re-
turning home when the accident occurred,
The 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. Mrs. Baucus was brought into
| the sleeper and surgeons set about dressing
her wounds. Portions of the skull had to
be taken out The bridegroom was
stretched out on another seat and two
EUnrU
few minutes he jumped up to get look al
his wife. The doctor restrained him by
keeping him constantly informed of hel
| condition, but the suspense was too much
for him. He jumped up and pushing 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 disapproval from
the physicians who stood by.
mo, she is 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 chung to the
side of his unconscious wife, kissing her
bleeding lips and urging the doctors on TO
further efforts, but medical skill proved
unavailing. q. The wife died at $3.50 O'Clock
as the train was slowly rolling into Buffalo.
Mr.. Baucus is completely Frustrated. His
is badly cut and bruised and his legs some
what sprained.
Another sad, and one of the most pa
thetic incidents of the disaster, was the mi
raculous escape of Baby Stewart, - months
old, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. E. f. Stew
art of Rochester. Mr.. Stewart and wife
were in the telescoped passenger coach
with the baby clasped in its mothers arms
When the two sections came together the
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being discovered on the floor of the cal
covered with debris and crushed almost be-
yond recognition. In the arms of its
mother Baby Stewart was found
prattling and crying Mamma Mamma y
but it's mother was cold Ill
death and strong men wept while the wee
little thing was lifted from the embrace OF
the dead mother. The bodies of Mr.. and
Mrs. Stewart were removed to the baggage
car and the ladies tenderly cared for the
tiny orphan. Finally the baby became
tired calling for its mother and fell asleep
Frank Conger, vice president of the Grot-
ton Bridge and Manufacturing company OF
Grotton, N. Y, took charge of the baby
and on arriving in Buffalo went to the
Continental hotel, where he will keep pos
session of her until she is claimed by rela
tives. The kind hearted people on the
train took up a collection for the baby's
dement, anu p0U WAS TcdllItu.
The action of the railroad officials in re-
fusing to permit reporters to go to the
wreck on the ply sicians' train is severely
condemned. The man in charge of the
special train stated that the officials of the
road had given orders to allow no one bu
the surgeons to go out and two reporters
were forced to leave the car. The reporters
were obliged to drive along the desolatt
lake shore road with the thermometer dowr
near zero, and did not reach the scene o
the accident until after midnight.
T. H. Brown of New York who was on
the first portion of the tram says that thu
baggage checker was standing on the real
platform and was the first TO discover thai
| the seepers had broken loose, He in
formed the conductor who signalled the
engineer to stop and the front of the trail
came to stand still. The conductor ther
saw the sleepers coming down the grade al
a terrific rate of speed and shouted to thu
engineer to go ahead but it was too late ant
a second later the crash came. This sud
den stoppage of the front part of the trail
without ascertaining the position OF TIN
detached cars was what caused the COLI
| sion.