The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-26
Some Of the Injured Passengers Robbed
by Those Assisting in the Rescue.
Flight Of the Brakeman Who Was Responsible
for the Disaster-House Blown to Pieces
BY Natural Gas and Seven Persons Hurt.
NEW YORK CENTRAL HORROR
Eleven Lives Lost and Five Persons Seriousl
Injured-Ihe Sleeping-Car Burned.

ceived last night indicated. The official
list of the dead as given ont tonight num-
bers eleven people. They are as follows:
MRS A. N BALDWIN, New York.
THOs. w. POLICY, New York. of the firm Of
George II: Policy CO.. Boston.
MISS VAN ARSDALE, New York.
MISS SLOCUM, Lockport, n. Y.
MISS no ORE, Medina.
MISS LIZZIE FORD, Brooklyn.
J.w. WHITE, porter
MISS LILLIAN BALDWIN, New York.
DIR. S. Z. BEST, dentist, New York.
EDWIN s. WILCOX, of the law firm OF Wilcox
& Jones, New York.
The burned and injured:
MRS. HOMER X. BALDWIN, New York, burned
about the face and arms and injured internally.
ANNIE FORD, Brooklyn. slightly burned.
ID. b. MURPHY, lawyer, New York, leg and
colar-bone broken, face and arms badly burned;
may die.
HARRY A. JACOBSON, New York, slightly
burned.
j. r. BAGNELLE, Poughkeepsie, N Y. badly
burned about the face and injured internally.
The uninjured were j. c. Gould, travel
ing engineer New York Central; Mr.. Mo
Cormick and Miss Freyer. Poughkeepsie:
Homer X. Baldwin, New York: Mr.. and
Mrs. Ambrose B. Tremain. Brooklyn.
The terrible disaster was due to the care
lessness of brakeman Albert L. Herrick. of
the Buffalo express. which was lying still
below Hastings. Herrlck fed. and has not
vet been found. He left his uniform in the
train and put on his citizens clothes.
vICE-PREsIDENT wEBB'S REPORT.
From the offici al report given out to-day
by Third Vice president Webb. of the Cen
trai road, train No. 90. which left New York
at Gas last night. stopped at DobDs Ferry
to make some slight repairs on the engine.
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following train, the Buffalo and Niagara
Falls special, which left here at 7:30P p. NJ,
was stopped about three-quarters of o mile
south of Dobbs Ferry station. The con-
ductOr of No. 45 Immediately sent brake
man, Herrick, back to signal the coming
trains. He proceeded as far rs the station
at Hastings. Ho went inside and talked
with the statlonmaster, waiting for the
Cincinnati and st. Louis express. No. z,
which left the city at 8 o'clock. While
Herrick was standing near the door the st.
Louis express whizzed past, running at the
rate of forty miles an hour. Engineer j.
Donohue. of the st. Louis express. received
no warning whatever of the presence of
the Buffalo express on the track ahead un-
til he was almost on the train. He reversed
his engine, put on the air-brakes and
jumped for his life. The engine of No. z
crashed into the rear sleeper, Gibraltar, of
the Buffalo special, with terrific force.
There were twenty two people in the sleep
ing car ut the time.
The remains of j. w. White, the porter.
who died of his injuries this MOI ming, will
be shipped to his home in Virginia. The
coroner released the bodies at the scene of
the disaster to-day, and they were brought
49,. hxv< <h4 4tnHt hall na<
of the New York Central Is Of stone. Here
and there between the tracks are great
blotches of blood. dried and clotted, two
and three feet in diameter. The sight is
tell the story of the frightful disaster is the
tin roof of the Wagner sleeping car
Gibraltar. This is still lying in smolder-
ing mass at the side of the track w here the
disaster occurred. The rest of the car was
burned. The trucks of the car and oil the
other movable wreckage. as we'll as the
damaged cars, have been removed by the
wrecking trains on the New York Central.
SCENES AT THE WRECK.
When the st. Louis express crashed into
the sleeping-car Gibraltar. which was in
the rear of the Niagara express the engine
was completely lost in the interior of the
sleeping-car The heavy wood and IRON
work of the Gibraltar was reduced to splint-
Gibraltar, and all but three of them were
killed or injured. The hiss of the escaping
steam and the cries and groans of the
wounded and dying passengers could be
heard a long distance. The appeals Of the
wounded and the cries OF the dying We're
heart-rending Amoment later the Glbral-
tar took fire. The hands of both trains
quickly recovered from the mOmen tary
shock and rushed to the aid of the impris-
oned people. The passengers from both
trains followed sult, and soon score of
persons had organized themselves into q re-
lief party. One after another the wounded
and dying were taken ont. Axes were
torn from the cars, and by the light OF
lamps and torches men began to chop away
the burning woodwork of the Gibraltar.
They were urged on by the cries of the in
jured and dying people within. Some of
the uninJurcd passengers hurried BACK 10
the depot at Hastings to summon help and
stop any other trains that might be coming.
70 add to the horror of the occasion
thieves got to work and began to rob the
injured passengers. How much they Sc
cured is not known. Ii w0s not known
that thieves were among the injured ot
the time of the accident. and the fact was
not discovered until this morning. A num-
Der of volunteers worked among the in
iured passengers, and 1t IS probable that
this was made a cloak for stealing by some.
This morning undertaken Vanderbilt. IN
preparing the remains of Mr. Pollock, one
of the dead. for burial, discovered that the
body had been robbed. Upon removing
the clothing from the body he found that the
pockets had been cut from the garments.
All of his jewelry, money and his wallet
are missing. The coroner this morning
took possession of the effects Of the dead.
and will hold them until they are claimed
by relatives OF the deceased.
The scenes about the waiting-ro0m at
Dobbs Ferry were pathetic. Little Holmes
BALDWIN, a son of Mrs. A. Nj. 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 had been instantly killed.
The child lad been sleeping in the Same
berth with his mother. Two young girls
were among the injured Among the pas
sengers on the Gibraltar was Mr.. j. &.
Gould. travelling engineer of the New York
Central He was one of the three men who
escaped unhurt He said that no one in
the Gibraltar had any idea Of their danger
until they heard the roar of the st. Louis
express right behind them. The next IN
stant the crash came. In less time than il
takes to tell the locomotive had crashed
into the sleeper and the escaping steam wGs
scalding the passengers to death. For
moment there was most absolute silence,
aud q bay, ba n, at N I'm al nd Uvooua