Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-12-25
WRECKED IN THE roc.
Many Lives Lost in Railway Disasters In Tits
Country and England.

Many Lives Lost In Railway Disasters In THIS
Country and England.
A shocking accident occurred last night On
the New York Central between the 81 Louis
express and the Niagara Falls special trains st
Hastings This accident Vas directly the out
come OF q collision which occurred earlier In
the evening in the tunnel at Sing Sing. This
accident blocked the road and trains were held
at both sides Of the tunnel. The weather vas
very thick and this prevented the trainmen ON
the ST. Loais express from seeing the blockade
In time TO prevent the collision The locomo-
tive OF this train crashed into the sleeper
Gibraltar, the rear coach OF the Niagara e.
press. and several cars. mostly sleepers. were
badly wrecked. To add TO the horror OF the
wreck the boiler Of tho locomotive of the 81
Louis express exploded and the escaping
steam did deadly work among the unfortu-
mates who were in the wrecked cara
The scene At the wreck was Understandable. The
trainrlen lost their heads and ran cut in Q
frantic manner, peering into the wreck ut thoss
who lay within grooming aud dying. but doing
very little work toward rescuing the victims.
Finally number OF physicians and citizens Of
lonkers reached the scene and the work Of
rescue began. The dead and injured were
placed ON q special train and taken 20 lonk-
ers Owing 10 the excitement il was impossi-
Die TO get anything like list Of the killed aud
injured.
There were eighteen passengers in the rear
coach OF the Niagara and Buffalo express
ohi! three OF them escaped uninlGred.
KILLED AND INJURED.
Seven persons in all were killed. three Of
whom have been identified. Their names are
A. NJ knight. conductor Of the Wagner car
Gibraltar; A. NJ. baldwin OF New York and
Thomas W. FOLEY OF Boston.
The injured are a. follows: Fatally
i. V. Murphy. a lawyer of New York:
u. b. Ford of New York. Mrs. E
ID. Ford OF New York and @. ". Holly. colored
porter OF the Wagner car. The seriously in.
jured are: Dr. r. T.. Best Of New ORR. Mr.. Il. n
Baldwin, Miss Lillian Baldwin, ion,er Bald
win, all Of New York
Train a, the Buffalo and Niagara Falls
special, drawn by engine 4O6. consisted of .
composite car coach the Wagner sleepet Bur--
side, for Buffalo. and the sleel,er Gibraltar for
Niagara Falls via Rochester. The train left the
Grand Central depot. New York. at $50. and
proceeded as far as Washington Hudson when
II was pioched by local ahead. II had been
NJ standstill Tor about twenty minutes when
| the ST. Louis express crashed into IL IN the
rear OF the train was protected by the usual
signals the fog and storm doubtless prevented
tne engineer OF the colliding train from seeing
the warning in time to prevent the disaster
The sleeper Gibraltar was well flied. but the
exact number OF persons ON board is most iiffi-
cult To learn, as Sleepng-car Conductor knight
was checking up" the car at the time Of the
crash.
Fatal Di~sster in England.
fatal railway accident occurred yesterday
at Earnby, near Becclcs. in Suffolk, England.
The fog which covered England was very thick
in that vicinity and was one cause of the terri
bic collision train from Beccles loaded with
passengers and running at considerable speed
on the small railway branch that connects with
Lowestoit collided with Lowestoft train carry
ing considerable number of passengers. The
two trains
went up from the wreck. the injured, owing to
the log, not knowing the extent of the disaster
and unable to see how the accident occurred.
AID was promptly forthcoming from the
neighboring places and the dead and injured
were dragged from the shattered carriages.
SAD cHRrsrNAsrIDE
Three had been killed outright and sixteen
were injured, some Of them likely to die.
Nearly all the passengers we're going TO their
friends or homes to spend Christmas
As many lived in the vicinity special trains
soon Brought relatives TO the scene aud the
spectacle as the dead and wounded were recoe-
nized, was most painful During the rescue tie
workers, even at a distance OF few feet had
to guide each other by their voices In Beccles
and Lowestoft the news threw a gloom over
the preparations for Christmas aud special al
fusion was made 70 the event at the evenings
church services.
Cause Of the Hastings Wreck
The Croton local train ON the Hudson river
railroad crashed into the rear Of q freight train
In the tunnel opposite the prison at Sing Sing
shortly after O'Clock last evening. badly
wrecking several freight cars and the locomo-
tive Of the local train. The passengers In the
Croton train we're badly shaken np and fright
ened, but no injuries beyon n few slight
bru:s es were incurred The train hands also es-
capped injuries. The tracks were completely
blocked and at o late hour had not Yet been
cleared.
Slight Disasters I'm Massachusetts
Two passenger trains Of the Old Colony rail-
road collided near Braintree station, Mass,
last night. Two or three passengers are said
| to have been injured, but il is understood that
no one has been killed.
The Providence express collided with freight
on the New York and New England road near
Malpole last night. A halt dozen cars we're
wrecked and the tracks were blocked for sew
eral hours. No one vas hurt.