Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-12-26
ELEVEN DEAD.
The Fearful Results Of the Big New
York Central Wreck.
A BRAKEMAN TO BLAME FOR IT.
He Stood in the Station and Chatted Instead Of
Waahing for an Approaching Train He
Was Sent Back TO Flag-He Has
Left the Country to Escape
Punishment


dent which occurred on the New York
Central railway last night at Hastings
on-ths Hudson has proved to be much
more serious than reports received last
night indicated. The official list OF the
dead as given out tonight number
eleven people. The dead are as fol-
lows:
Mrs. A. n. BALDWIN, New York.
THOMAS w. POLICY, New York, Of
the firm Of George II. Policy & Co.,
Boston.
ABRAHAM KNIGHT, conductor.
Miss VAN ARsDALE, New York.
Miss SLocUM, Lockport, n. Y.
Miss MOORE, Medina.
LIZZIE FORD, Brooklyn.
j. w. WHITE, porter.
Miss LILLIAN BALDWIN, New York.
DR. s f.. BEST, dentist, New York.
ONE NAN, not identified.
Burned and injured: Mrs. Homer p.
Baldwin. New York, burned about the
face and arms and injured internally;
Annie Ferk, Brooklyn, slightly burned;
ID. b. Murphy, lawyer, New York, leg
and collar bone broken, face and arms
badly burned, may die: Harry A. Jacob
son, New York, slightly bured; j. Is.
Bagtelle Poughkeepsie, n. V, badly
burned about the face and Injured In
ternally.
Uninilred:-J. C. Gould, Travelling
Engineer New York Central; Mr.. Nc
Cormick Miss Freyer, Poughkeepsie;
Homer p Baldwin, New York; Mr.. and
Mrs. Ambrose b. Tremain, Brooklyn.
The terrible disaster was due to the
carelessness of Brakeman Albert Z.
HerrIck, of the Buffalo Express, which
was lying still below Hastings. Herrick
fed and has not yet been found. He
left his Uniform in the train and put on
his citizens clothes.
THE OFFICIAL REPORT.
From he official report given out to-
day by Third Vice President Webb, OF
the New York Central road. Train No.
90, which left New York at $40 p. m.
last night, stopped at Dobbs Ferry to
make some slight repairs to the engine.
The distant signal was throw out and
the following train, the Buffalo and
Niagara Falls special which left here at
7:3O D. n. was stopped about three
quarters of a mile below Dooo's Ferry
station.
The conductor Of No. 45 immediately
sent Brakeman Herrick back to signal
the coming trains. He proceeded as
far as the station at Hastings, lie
went inside and talked with the station
master, waiting for the Cincinatti and
St. Louis express, No. :, which left the
city at o'clock. While Herrick was
standing near the door, the st. Louis
Express whizzed past, running at the
rate of for 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, until he was al
most on the train. He reversed his en-
CINE, put on the air-brakes and jumped
Tor his life. The engine OF No. :
crashed into the rear sleeper, "Gioral-
tar" of the Buffalo special, with terrific
force. There were eighteen people
on the sleeping car at the time.
The Coroner viewed the bodies at the
scene OF the disaster to-day, and they
will be brought to this city by the rela-
tives.,
GREAT BLOOD sPLoTCHES.
The ballast 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 siCkening. All
that remains to-day to tell the story OF
the frightful disaster IS the tin roof OF
the Wagner sleeping car Gibraltar.
This is still lying in smouderlng
mass at the side of the track where the
disaster occurred. The rest of the car
was burned. The trucks of the car and
all other movable wreckage, as well as
the damaged cars, have been removed
by the wreckng trains on the New
York Central road.
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 splinters-
There were eighteen passengers in
the Gibraltar, aud all but three OF them
were killed or injured. The Kissing Of
escaping steam ani cries and groans OF
wounded and dying passengers could
be heard long distance. The appeals
of the wounded aud the cries OF the dy-
ing were heartrending.
The Gibraltar took fire and the hands
Of both trains quickly recovered from
the momentary shock and rushed TO the
mid of the imprisoned people. The
passengers from both trains followed
suit and soon a score OF personS had
organized themselves into a relief
marty. One after another the wounded
aud dying were taken odt.
Axes were torn from the cars and by
the light of lamps and torches men be-
gan to chop away the burning wood
work Of the Gibraltar. They were
urged on by the cries of the injured and
diving people within. Some OF the un-
injured passengers hurried back to the
depot at Hastings TO summon help and
stop any other trains that might be
coming.
THIEVES ROB THE INJURED.
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. 1t was not
known that thieves were among the in
iured at the time OF the accident, and
the fact was not discovered until this
morning. A number OF volunteers
worked among the injured passengers,
and it is probable that this was made
cloak for stealing by some.
This morning U der aker Wander
bilt, in preparing the remains of Mr..
Policy, one OF the dead for burial, dis
covered that the body had been robbed.