New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-12-28
FUNERALS or SOME or THE VICTIMS.
TRIBUTES PAID TO THOSE WHO DIED IN THE
NFw-YOEK CENTRAL DISASTER.


NFwYoEK CENTRAL. DISASTER.
Funeral services were held yesterday over four Of
the victims who Were killed and mangled In The col
lision Il Christmas Eve the New York Central ana
Hudson Ei"cr Railroad Tile funerals Of Mrs Anna
~ Baldwin md Miss Lillian Baldwin took rlac" ut
the Baldwin home. AT No. II Fast Eighty ffil-Nt.
and those Of Miss Elizabeth Van ArSdale and Mis-
Mabel >locumbc held ut the Van Ar-daie home,
at 40 10 lunf II. TO JlS Mr.. baldwin and her
daughter viii be laid side by in the family lot nj
Rivcrhcld. H. l.. where Mr.. Baldwin, the husband
and fn,hcr was buried ten ye.t, AGO.
At the Baldwin home In Eighty nth ST. tn sc"nc
Wa, q sad one. Mother and daughter, who three day
before ia Luf feet health, were now dead ana the
only Immediate N embcr OF The stricken family who
was left son. Yesterday llomer II.
Baklwn's friends could not Keep him calm during
the service, The words Of the minister greatly
affected him. and twice the Young man bowed his head
between tic two cu1h,. and with Ill arms ihiO"h
acroy the bodies of hi, mother aud sister gave vent
To hi, grief. Mr. Ialdwins wife !, IN dangerous
condition at the hospital In ionker~. and once ~ "A"
Outbuf,t u grief I've cried: Nv "'d non "he
my wife from me, tuO!'
The Moral decor,tlon, which bad been sent by
friend, we're beautiful and Numerous. The inscriptions
On the silver plate, Oh the collins were Nh" bhidWl'
aged Hfty --ix died December -. l-"l. Lillian
baldwin aged twenty SIX dIel December -, 1881
Tho Rev. DR.. Macarthur oi calvar' Baptist
S2uTth, pr'gcNru tue ~cIIlpn I'' N''li'' "'' '-''
members u his congregation and he had known them
,or wears. ~. word, most affecting
A,uu, the same hour. wt~n Dr. MAJ Arthur va, shS
Ing com ,orng word, 80 the RELATIVES and friends ~ the
ualdwins The Rev Dr. Greer. Of II. BarthoIome"'S
church the Rev DR.. Williams. Of the Thirteenth street
Prcs,yter.an Church aud the hey. Dr Reed, OF th'
led,oid Avenue Methodist church, were performug
The Ia, ,,crei ntes over the bodies Of Miss
Elizabeth Van Al >dac OF 80 10 Bank It.. this civ.
md Ms, Mabel sIrumbe. II LOckpOr y. !. The
,oung women were Oh their WAY together 10 Lock
port when they wcic hil"d They "rr" sitting SD"
by side when the chANh came and When found IN tho
ruins wci,, ugly embracing clch other. Tie services
were held In the HcdfoId Aycnue Church aud - MIS-
V,n Al,dnlc WAS born and raised lu that neighh ~
hood st, ~ her friend, crDwdsi the church. Tie
=. Mn, Containing the bOde, of the two friends were
plac.d side Ly side ia front ~ the altar, and " -
,l,nn,t buried 10 nOwer,. Chnuuory VI. D"pcW. .
friend 81 Mis-, Van Ai,dalc'S iniher fpl many years.
,eut several trbuics Ia Oee. l"- aud other Hover
Corlrllu, Vanderbilt and several of tie officials "f
the Sew York ttatiG Iuhd also sent many U'''''"i
rOrh tIbutc-.
Ther,. wa, 4 young woman, npulncr Al the funeral.
who had barely escaped being uuml cred among IN
.i.t ~ the Killed. Miss Ida H. trist ~ N'. ll'
Bank st. who had grown up to wOmnnhood With Mis-
Van AiSdalr had also been invited t. spend 'hr't =
at LockIOrt and had made all piar1tl lh' Ia 20 WIN
tl, Young women who met their d"at!L Ng"ut an
hour before Miss Van AI~dalc ana Ni'N >!orllhb'
started for the station. Mrs. fri-t Insisted upon her
daughter remaining home. The mother said ii hal u
pr monltlou that some Ming VA - happen. Inc Only
horl tributes npOn which thing ms i1bed were
from Mis- Cust. These tributes Wcr" lad % the
collins while the other flowers wci" placed iound Tue
bcr. The inscription, were simply Libb' ana
o pieI