The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-25

the locomotive that had wrought the dam
age was iammed into the telsscoped cars
and ali were in a blaze.
The smoke, heat and escaping steam In
the dark tunnel were confusing and ap-
palling. But it was known that there
were dead or dying men III those teie-
scoped cars amid tue flame, and the hre-
men worked with vigo~.
AS the water from theiG hose branches
put out the fire and they we.e able TO GEL
inside the cars, the picture presented was
fearful. Dead and roasted and broken
bodies in all sorts of pitiNble attitudes
were among the debris of the iuterlor. But
one was dead. Between the head OF
the locomotive and end of the car
into which 1t had smashed was suspended
by the shoulders the body of a man whose
legs had been torn off His clothing had
been al burned off and the body party
roasted. He was nude and swollen. but
he was still alive. \ fireman touched
him, and from the head above the end of
the car that iammed him AGAINST she loco
motive came a moan and the words: For
Gods sake leave me alone and let me
die"
1t took twenty minutes to extricate the
poor fellow and carry him TO the surface.
He was still alive in the progress OF tho
men who carried him up to the light, but
before he could be examined he was dead.
AS the men worked further forward to-
ward the middle of the car, aided by
policemen and t-ain hands, every now
and then sudden Hold on, easy, an
nounced that the hook or AK had struck
another corpse.
Every fresh body brought out steamed
as if it had been parboiled in addition to
being burned.
The dead were finally lifted through
the openings in the tunnel and carried
away. The injured men were sent to hos
pitals ana after ten hours work the tracks
were cleared.
The list of the dead is:
One man whose body is burned beyond rec
ognitiOn-supposed to be sleeping car por-
ter.
woman, supposed to be Mrs. NELLIE
SUPPLE. a car cleaner, forty years old. Her
son saw her body at the station. but il was so
badly burned that Identification was impOssi-
bic.
HARTSHORN KILIAN, & train boy, fifteen
years cd.
JOHN HACKE, a car cleaner, nineteen years
old. tie rescued alive. but was go badly
crushed that he stterward died in the hospital.
JOHN MURRAY. laborer, forty-nine years
old, burned to death and body badly charred.
JAMES b. FLYNN, q mnchinist, fifty years
old.
The list of the injured is as follows:
DANIEL n. CULBRETH, q coored cook, who
was injured internally.
WILLIAM d. BROWN, brakeman, badly
crushed
A Hudson River railroad fireman named
RANKIN, who was also badly crushed.
Engineer Fowler was arrested and COM
mitted without bail He and his fireman
each declare the clear signals were out.
Neither were seriously injured.
The accident happened on what is
known as the Harlem line, which is
operated and managed by an organization
known rs Grand Central Station"
1t concludes all track between
Forty-second-st. and Mott Haven
junction. (the junction north OF the Har-
lem river.) The management OF this line
is entirely separate and distinct from that
of New York Central. Harlem or the
New Haven roads. There is Il general
manager of the line selected by the three
roads above named. This general man.
ager has entire control of the operation of
the line between the points named.