New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-07


desolate sight met the gaze Of its passengers
Ministering TO the wants Of the injured and caring
for the dead victims were seen many brave help
ers from among the passengers and crew on The III
| fated train. They moved about silently in the
| early morning light and with scarce means az
hand they did heroic work more desolate place
| for wreck could hardly have been found. For
o quarter of a mile the single track runs upon an
| embankment about twelve feet high. On either
| side Of the tracks through the little valley eX-
| tend the widely known Montezuma marshes and
! the spectacle In the landscape as viewed from the
| railroad track dense waste of green flags
which rise from the swamp. In the distance be-
yond are TO be seen ow-lying hills but the helpers
on the relief train this morning saw nothing but
the dense fog which surrounded every object and
| rendered it almost impossible for any one to see
| the wreck of the freight train on ahead.
| The bodies of the ten men who were dead were
put board the relief train and the injured were
| disposed of as comfortably as the cramped seats
of the day coaches would allow. The dead were
laid in the baggage cars. The physicians did
everything possible for the comfort of the injured,
| and at 80 start was made for Syracuse. When
! Port Byron was reached the dead were taken
| off and laid in the freight-house, and the train
| continued slowly to Syracuse. But one stop was
| made, at Jordan, where many passengers who were
|
| TO train No. 5, westward bound, on the Central.
| No injured persons were taken out here, but the
train continued on to Syracuse where help awaited
| them. Between Port Byron and Syracuse one Of
the Italians who was terribly injured in the
smoker died. and was laid out in the baggage
| car As the train with the injured slowed up
| at the West Shore station in this city, O great
| crowd of people rushed to It's platforms. Some
| sought friends, but the larger number were drawn
by curiosity. The full day police force and other
| city officials were at the station to render aid.
| AmbuIances, the police patrol, carriages and other
vehicles waited to carry the injured to hospitals
| and homes. For quarter Of an hour consider
| able excitement prevailed, and then the injured
having been taken away and the dead removed
to the morgue, the were shifted to the yards.
Conductor Kenaly Of the Limited, said that
the accident occurred at exactly 2 40 o'clock. Il
was in the front end of the head sleeper Marathon,
he said and had just noticed that we were max
ing tho usual running time. We left Syracuse at
5s on time. The train heavily loaded,
| each of the sleepers having about twenty paSsen-
| gers. The day coach was well filled, and there
were between thirty and fifty persons in the
smoker. 1t was very foggy, and the engineer, of
course, expected that the Montezuma side-track
would I've all right for him. The first indicCtion
| / had of the accident was when felt the sudden
application Of the airbrakes moment later came
| the crash. That is about all | can tell, except
| that the engine went clear through the caboose
of the freight train and then rolled down the en-
bankment. The day coach teescoped the emok-
ing car, and when l got out of the doors they
! were all mixed up with the express and baggage
cars. The sleepers did not leave the rails"
| William J. Wilsey, dealer in securities, of San
| BernardinO, Cal was among the injured taken
| 80.
| lie was on his way home from Boston, and eX-
pected tonight to meet his wife and two children
ut Detroit, where they had been visiting. He
was injured about the knees and hips, with a
| severe wound in the groin. lie said
was in the end of tho smoker when the crash
occurred. had time to know what was happening
could see it bowling down the men like tenpins. I
just turned my back and waited to be crushed. In
an instant was up to my neck In debris, and felt
that was hlrt but managed 10 eXtrcate myself and
crawl out upon tue top OF the wreck found
manufacturer Of Boston, pinned down in a narrow
space at the end of the coach unable to move, he was
! further he would have been crushed TO Jelly. BY
this time the wreck was on fire and before We had
chopped away the timber that held BOwdsh the flames
were right upon Us. Then We crawied back into a
Thec the ne porter S GO %ere 1 all sa4SSg 81 S IDLE II
themselves many OF the injured would have been been
was on the train did splendid work. saw brake
Of the freight train standing by the side OF the
Gods sake, man. how did this happen?"
"Oh, my God" he fairly shouted, a. told them 30
go back. told them to go back"
What do you mean-back where1"
Back from from the the freight" ~. s..,u.. s,,n,.
back any light, but he would not say any thing
more. think that here may be clcw to the cause
of the accident.
WreclSing gangs are at work clearing away the
wreck The collision occurred about one-eighth
of mile from the switch. The track for
distance of twenty rods Nas torn mn
Fireman Bergen, who was killed, had been en-
ployed by the West Shore for long time. He
leaves a widow at Macedon. 1t is reported that
the engineer and fireman of the freight-train have
disappeared, but railroad say that they were
not responsible for the accident The cause was
the breaking in two of the freight train as it was
going on the switch. A fagmaa had been sent
back but the engineer, they say, did not see him
because OF dense fog.
At the West Shore station in this city pas
cenger who rode in the first car behind the smok-
ng.6ar, said: Efforts were made to release the
passengers who were pinioned within the coaches.
There was however, a lack of tools for that pur-
pose, and the efforts were not so successful as
they might otherwise have been. All the tools
saw were AN axe and couple of iron bars.
The conductor walked up and down beside the
train and said, Well, we have got them all OUT
But this was not true, for while he saying it
plainly heard groans coming from the wreck"
Coroner Stewart, of Cayuga County, impanelled
a jury, which began an investigation this after
noon.
Buffalo, Aug. They were killed all around
me" declared young man in the Central Station
this afternoon lie had just arrived from the
last on the West Shore train, which was fifteen
minutes late On board were a number of passen-
gers who had been transferred from the il-fated
train wrecked pear Port Byron in the log OF the
Montezuma marshes this morning. The young
mans story was that OF marvellous escape.
lie jumped from the jaws OF death Here Is his
story
IL was the only that got out Of the
hurt hc said, for don't count the little bumps
lie showed that he had been bumped all over the
head raising little Jumps Of bruised flesh. In
or TWO places there were In scalp rom which
blood had lowed and dried up. lie had also slight
cut over one eye.