The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-26
WRECK ON THE N. Y. CENTRAL,
Eight People Killed and a Num-
Der Injured.
The Disaster tho Result of n Trademarks
Carelessness In Not Signaling a Traiu
Horrible Scenes at the Wreck-Thieves
Rob the Bodies of the Dead-The
Careless brakeman Disappears.

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be much greater than from the reports
received last night.
The official list OF the dead, as given
out last night, numbers eleven people
as follows:
MRS. A. N. BALDWIN, New York.
THOMAS w. Policy, New York. of
the firm of Geo. II. Policy & Co.,
Boston.
MISS VANARsDALE, New York.
ABRAHAM KNIGHT, conductor.
Miss SLoCUM, Lockport, N, Y.
Miss MOORE, Medina.
LIZZIE FORD, Brooklyn.
j. w. WHITE. porter.
Miss LILLIAN BALDWIN, New York.
DIR. ). Il. BEST, dentist, New York.
One man not identified.
The burned and injured are:
Mrs. Ill. K. BALDWIN, New York:
burned about the face and arms and
injured internally.
Miss ANNIE FORD, Brooklyn; slightly
burned
ID. Is. MURPHY, lawyer, New York;
leg and collar bone broken. face and
arms badly burned. He may die.
HARRY JACOBSON, Now York; slirht-
ly burned.
j. r. BAGNELLE, Poughkeepsie, N.
T.; badly burned about tho face and in
jured internally.
The disaster was due to the careless
ness of Brakeman Albert e. IIerricks,
OF the buffalo express, which was living
still below Hastings. Herrick fled and
has not yet been found. He left his
uniform in the train and put on citizons
clothes.
From the official report given out to-.
day by Third VceP President Webb, OF
the Central road, train No. %, which
left New York at 6:l0 p. III. last night,
stopped at Dobb's Ferry to make some
Slight repairs on the engine. A dis
tanG signal was thrown out and tho fol-
lowing train, the Buffalo and Niagara
Falls special, which left here at 1880
p. IN. was stopped about three quarters
of mile south of Dobb's Ferry station.
The conductor OF No. ~ immediately
sent Brakeman Herrick back to signal
the coming train. He proceeded as far
the station at Hastings. lilo went
infido and talked with the station mas
ter waiting for the Cincinnati and St.
Louis express No. Z, which left this CITY
AT o'clock. While IIerrick was stand
ing near the door the ST. Louis express
whizzed past, running at a rate OF forty
miles an hour. Engineer j. Donahue,
OF the st. Louis express, received no
warning whatever of the presence of
the Buffalo express on the track ahead
until he was almost on the track. lie
reversed his engine, put on air brakes
and jumped for his life.
The engine of No. l 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.
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porter, who died of his injuries this
morning, were shipped to his home in
Virginia. The coroner released the
bodies at the scene OF the disaster to-
day, and they will be brought to this
city by relatives.
All that remains to-day to toll the
story of the frightful disaster Is the tin
roof OF the Wagner sleeping car "Gib
raltar." This Is still lying a shoulder
ing mass at the side of the track where
the disaster occurred. The rest Of the
car was burned up. The trucks of the
car aud all other movable wreckage as
we'll as the damaged cars, have been
removed by wrecking trains on the New
York Central road. ~
When the st. Louis express crashed
into the 'Gibralter," which was in the
rear of the Niagara express, the engine
"N'S Sob PiOooAJ tOoU AZ luIeTlOr Oh
the sleeping car. The heavy wood and
iron work of the "Gibralter" was re-
duced to splinters. There were eighteen
passengers in the 'Gibralter'' and all
but three OF them were killed or in
iure,.
The hiss OF escaping steam and the
cries and groans of tho wounded and
dying passengers could BIO heard long
distance. The appeals4of the wounded
and cries Of the dying were heart
rending.
A moment later the Gibraltar took
fire. The hands of both trains quickly
recovered from the momentary shock
and rushed to the aid of the i'm prisoned
people. Passengers from both trains
followed suit, and soon score of per-
sons had organized themselves into a
relief party. One after another tho
wounded and dying were taken out.
Axes was torn from the uninjured cars,
and by the light of lamps and torches,
men began to chop away the burning
woodwork Of the Gibraltar. They we're
urged on by the cries of tho injured and
dying people within.
Some of the uninjured passengers
hurried back to the depot at Hastings
to summon help and stay any other
train that might be coming.
To add to the horror of the occasion
thieves got TO work and began to rob the
injured passengers. How much they
secured Is not known.
This morning Undertaken Wander
bilt, in preparing the remains OF MIR.
| Policy, one OF the dead for burial, dis.
covered that the body had been robbed.
| Upon removing the clothing from the
body, Vanderbilt found that the pockets
had been rifled and cut from the gar.
ments. All OF his iewelry. money and
his wallet are missing.
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