The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-12-26
CRIMINAL NEGLECT.
a Brakeman's Carelessness Cost
Eleven Lives.
FLED FROM THE SCENE OF CRIME.

he Stopped to Talk TO a Station
Master When Gent Behind TO Flag
a Train, and It Crashed Into q
Sleeper with Terrible Results-yan-
dais Rob the Dead.
TARRYTowN, N. Y, Dec. ga wreck
on the New York Central at Hastings
Thursday night caused the loss Of eleven
lives. 1t was at first reported that only
three were killed. The Buffalo express
train, which was compelled to come to q
standstill, was run into by the st. Louis
press train. The engine Of the latter
forced its way clear through the rear
cara sleeper-of the Buffalo express,
leaving death and destruction in its
path. The total number of those who
lost their lives by the accident now
reaches eleven. The eleventh victim
died last night The official list of the
dead is as follows:
Mrs. A. N Baldwin, of New York;
Thomas w. Policy, of the firm Of George
III. Policy 81 Co., Boston; Abraham
Knight, Wagner palace car conductor;
Miss Libbie Van Arsdale, school
teacher of New York city Miss Mabel
Slocum, Of Lockport, New York; Miss
Gertrude Moore, of Medina, New York;
Miss Lizzie Ford. of Brooklyn; J. w.
White, colored porter on Wagner car;
Miss Lillian Baldwin, of New York; DR..
S. E. Best, dentist, Of New York; Ed
win Wilcox, of the law firm of Johns Sc
Wilcox, New York.
The Result of Criminal Neglect.
The terrible disaster was due to the
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Herrick, of the Buffalo express, which
was lying still below Hastings. Her
rick fled and has not yet been found.
He left his uniform in the train and put
on citizens clothes.
From the official report given out by
Third Vice President Webb, of the Gem
tral road, train No. 90, which left New
York at 6:40 p. in., stopped at
Dobbs' Ferry to make some slight re-
pairs on the engine. The distant signal
was thrown out, and the following train,
the Buffalo and Niagara Falls special,
which left New York at 1880 p. ln., was
stopped about three-quarters of a mile
south of DobbS' Ferry station.
The conductor of No. 45 Immediately
sent Brakeman Herrck back to signal
the coming train. He proceeded as far
as the station at Hastings. He went in
side and talked with the station master,
waiting for the Cincinnati and st. Louis
express No. Z, which left New York at 8
o'clock. While Herrick was standing
near the door the st. Louis express
whizzed past, running at tho rate of
forty miles an hour.
Jumped for His life.
Engineer J, Donohue, of the St. Louis
express, received no warming whatever
of the presence of the Buffalo express ON
the track ahead until he was almost on
the track He rever ed his engine, put
on the air brakes anl jumped for his
life. The engines Of No. I crashed into
the rear sleeper "Gibraltar," of the
Buffalo special, with terrific force.
There were twenty-five people in the
sleeping car at the time, and the result
was a fearful mangling Of the bodies OF
the victims. Here and there between
the tracks are great blotches of blood,
dried and clotted. two and three feet in
diameter. The light is siclscning.
In addition - HE killed Ave persons
Were seriously hurnod and otherwise in.
jured. Two OF these, it is feared, may
die.
A disgusting fact was revealed during
the examination of the bodies of the
dead by undertalscrs. The pockets OF
several Of the victims were found to
have been either cut or torn from their
clothing and all their valuables. includ
ing pocket books, iewelry, eto., were
missing. Inquiry at the hospital. among
the injured, showed that several OF
them, too, had been robbed.