Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-12-26
Elcyen People Reported Dead aud Five
Injured; The Accident Dac
10 Carcles,uess.
rHE GUILTY BRAKEMAN HAS
FLED.
Fire Adds It's Horrors TO those Of the
Collision; Thieves 20 to Work
aud Rob The Wouud,d.
Robbers Tahe a d,aniNEe OF the oces'
sion.


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INV Yopr,, Dec. 25.-The accident
on the New York Central railway last
night at Hastings has proved much
greater than indicated by iltst reports
received last night. The official list
OF deaths number eleven people.
The dead are: Mrs. A. n. Baldwin,
New York; Tbos. W. pilloy, New
York, Of tho firm of George Pilloy a
Co., Boston; Abfam knight, conduc-
tor; Mrs. Van Ardalc, New YORK; Miss
slooum, l,ochport, N. Y; Miss Little,
Miss Lizzie Ford, Brooklyn; J. w.
White, porter; Miss LILLIAN Baldwin,
New York; one man not Identified.
The burned and injured are; Simon
Homer, Baldwin, n. T.; Annie Ford,
Brooklyn; d. y. Murphy, Laneyer, n.
"; Harry a. jacobson, y. Y; |. II.
Begnolle, Poughkoepsic, n. Y.
Too Terrible accident was due 70 the
carelessne.s Of Brakeman Albert +.
Herrick oi the Buffalo express, which
was laying still below Hastings.
nERBIcK HAS FILED
and has not yet bean found. He left
his uniform aud nut on citizan's
clothes. From the official report givon
ont today train No. D3 stopped nj
DObb's Ferry 10 make slight repairs on
the engine. Tho distance signal was
blown, mud the following train, tho
Buffalo n Niagara Falls special, lcRv-
Ing here az Z p. M, stopped seven and
thtes-quarters miles south OF DObhs'
Ferry station. The conductor OF No.
Immediately sent Brakeman Her
rick back 10 signal the coming
trains. lie proceeded "a far back
n. the station at Hastings. He
went Inside to talk with the station
master, waiting for the Cincinnati anu
ST. Louis express No. Z, which left the
city at : O'Clock. While Hurflck was
standing near the door the 81. Louis
express whizlrl past at the rate OF forty
mites an hour. Engineer Dln0hue VI
the express received no warning OF the
presence Of the Bulalo express ON tue
track nheni until lac was almost ON the
train. He reversed his engine, put on
the MO AMI jumped. The engine OF
No. crashed into the lear sleeper,
Gibraltar, Of til. Buffalo with terrific
force. There were twenty-five people
In the car The ballast OF the New
York Central IL Of stone. Here and
there between the tracks are
GREAT BtoToHEs OF BLOOD.
dry.d aud clottel, two or three feet in
diameter. All else that remains today
10 tell the story OF the lright'ul Disaster
h the tin roof Of the Wagner sleeping
car Gibraltar. This Is siill lying In
mouldering mas at the side Of tho
track where the disaster occurred. The
ro,i Of the car was burned up. When
the -. Louih express crushed into tue
sleeping car the engineer was couu-
plctoiy lost Ia the Interior Of the var.
Tho heavy woodwork and iron VI tho
Gibraltar was burn-d up, The hiss
N escaping ttcam aud tho cries aud
rroans of the wounded and dying
passengers could ba heard long
distance, The appeals Of tho wounded
and the cries Of thp dying were heart.
reudiug. A momeut later the Gibral-
tar took fire. The crews u both trains
quickly recovered from The momentary
shock ami rushed 10 the Nit VI the peo-
pie. The passengers from both trains
followed, and soon n score Of persons
had organized themselves into
a RELIEF PATTY.
one after another u tho wounded aud
ullnt WtlN lakNn OUT. me axes we're
torn from the cars and, by the light OF
lsmps and torches, tho mon began TO
chop away the burning woodwork Of
the Gibraltar.
To add 10 the horror Of the accssiou
Thieves got to work and bossn TO rob
the Injured passengers. How much
they scared Is not known. II was not
known that thieves were among the
Injured ut the time OF tho accident,
aud the fact was not discovered until
this morning. a number OF volu nteers
worked among The Injured passengers
aud II is probable that this was made a
cloak for stealing by some.
The coroner this morning took pos.
session Of tho effects Of the dead aud
VIII hold them until they are claimed
by the relatives Of the deceased,
The scenes about the wniting.room
NJ Dobb,' Ferry were pathetic. Little
Homer Baldwin, son Of HRS. Baldwin,
was crying for his mother. His arms
were bruised, but the child seemed
anxious TO know how his mother was.
He did not know that she was killed.
This child had been sleeping In tho
same berth with his mother.
The unidentified body has been rs.
certained 10 be that OF Edwin s. VII.
cox. Of the law firm OF Wilcox & Jones
Of New York.
Religious Riot. In Mexico.