New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-07
WRECK ON THE WEST SHORE
A SLAUGHTER OF ITALIANS.
THIRTEEN PERSONS KILLED AND A SCORE
OR MORE WOUNDED.

Ok MORE WOUNDED.
THE ST. LOUIS LIMITED CRASHES INTO A
FREIGHT TRAIN AT PORT BYRoN-CARs
TAKE FIRE AND BURMA DISASTER
CAUSED BY BROKEN COUPLING,
FOG AND CARELEssNEss.
Syracuse. Aug. 6-The Chicago and st. Louis
limited train on the West Shore Railroad, stop
ping only at Newark and Rochester between this
city and Buffalo, left the West Shore depot here
at :5S this morning, on time The train con-
sisted of locomotive No. 112. in CHARGE of Con-
ductor j. B. Kanaly, of Syracuse, with Patrick
Ryan, engineer, of East Buffalo, and Michael
Burgen, fireman. OF Macedon, and train of two
express cars, one baggage-car smoking-car day
coach and the four Wagner sleeping-cars Mara
thon Pearsall, Newfoundland and SANTIAGO. The
train was going at the rate of about forfy-five
miles an hour. When three miles west of Port
Byron the passengers who were awake felt the
application of the air brakes and in another
Instant came a terrific crash. The passenger
locomotive had buried itself In the caboose of q
freight train, the day coach had telescoped the
smskingc car, and, together with the three baggage
and express cars, was piled in heap on the
double tracks, which at that point were ele-
waited above the Montezuma marshes on a ten
foot embankment.
The awful extent of the accident was at once
realized by those unharmed, in the wild cries
of the injured and dying in the forward part Of
the train. The station-house at Montezuma was
broken into. and the news of the accident tele-
graphed to the train dispatcher at Syracuse, and
relief train was soon hurrying to the scene with
Drs. Jacobson, Fry, Didama, Mcnamara, Roberts
and Doyle, and Coroner F. w. Smith, with a num-
ber of railroad men.
In the meantime fresh cause Of alarm was
created by little coniagrations which sprang up
at several parts of the wreck, the principal fire
starting from the locomotive, which lad toppled
over the embankment and lay on its side, against
which the forward express car pressed closely
The trainnen and porters were hurrying out the
passengers in the day-coach and sleeperS, and it
was found that no one in the rear end Of the
train had been seriously injured The attendants
of the express and baggage cars had retired to
the rear coaches 10 catch little sleep, and the
entire fatality was, therefore, confined TO the
occupants of the smoklng-car and locomotive
In the former was party consisting of twenty
one Italian laborers in charge of an interpreter,
Saverio Scozzavava, who was taking them from
Tompkins Cove to Niagara Falls, where they
were to be worked on the new railroad tunnel.
Only one member of this party escaped death or
serious injury. Burgen, the fireman, was in
stantly killed at his post on the locomotive, and
the engineer, Patrick Ryan, was seriously in
jured. The flames, which started slowly, increased
in fury with great rapidity, and before all of
the victims in the smokng-car could be removed
from the wreck, the express, baggage and smoking
cars and day-coach were burning. The forward
end Of the sleeper Marathon had also taken fire,
and in order to save the three sleepers behind it,
which had not left the rails, they were uncoupled
md pushed By hand TO place Cf safety Ten
freight cars and the caboose were also in flames.
The death-list began to he appalling as body
after body was removed, until ten were laid along
the tracks in a row. The injured were twice as
many, and their applications for aid were heart
rending Here is a list of the victims, some dying
several hours after the accident:
KILLED.
Michael Bergen, fireman, OF East Buffalo.
Joseph NJ. KceShan, Of st. Louis.
Antonio Umbello.
Alfonz Caradh
- Coed Coco
Deauri Vincenzo.
RichOne DOmenicao
McrlinO TOmaso.
ROsia UGgharcs.
Suntella Dommlnico
ScOzZ1furo Antonio.
Granibllta BTavanne.
INJURED:
}Gsn EPsn Meyer No. Jo lo2S 5s7 SapE n9 ,,
p Ryan, engineer, East Buffalo.
}. II. saxIy, Hamilton, ont
John p shultz Easton, Penn
William ]. Wilsey, California.
Louis Dmar, Philadelphia, Penn.
A. K. LAWS Norway.
Cpdarcila Mickelc.
ACOstnO Runeo
CaISeOna Tomaso.
Carrlla Lippsi.
Agostlno Lipps
CralvOna ErcO
Masarelli Jesscpi.
Nivelli AgeO.
Agostine Rocco.
Antonio Umbello leaves wife and four
children in Italy. He was brought to this city
and died at the House of the Good Shepherd at
IL a. m.
Joseph NJ. Keeshan, stocIman, of St Louis, had
his leg crushed. He died at the House of the
Good Shepherd at II 80 to-day; leaves wife
and family in st. Louis
Patrick RYAN, engineer of the express, lives in
Buffalo. lie has serious internal injuries; has q
wife and family. Mr.. Ryan has been in the en-
ploy Cf the West Shore since the road opened and
never had an accident before.
John Z. Schultz member of Uncle Is1ac' farce
company, scalp wound, shoulders and clavicle
badly strained, hands and feet burned
John Preston, of Troy, N. Y, railroad man, back
ard shoulders strained and bruised and knee cap
dslocated
u. +. Pitts, musical director of Uncle Isaac
company. suffered from strain 10 Dacl; and
bad bruises about ankles and hips.
Many Of the injured Italians are married men
with families
r. K. ServiSs. Of Newark, N. Y. went to his
home Lewis Tailor of West Point. ~ Y. apd
Frank j. Setter. of this city, who suffered in
ternal iniurics, were removed to their homes.
The freight train which caused the accident
consisted of forty cars and was bound for the
West. 1t was to let the flyer pass il by draw
ing over on the Montezuma side track II had
started to leave the main track, and was half
way upon the switch when coupling broke ip the
middle of the train Realizing that there was no
time to lose the conductor of the freight, Thomas
Tobin, sent Edward Connolly up the track with
lantern TO check the" flyer" but whether he did not
get far enough up the road, or his signal was not
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