The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-07
TRAIN COLLISION.
TWELVE KILLED AND THIRTY OR
FORTY INJURED.

L Freight Breaks IN Two and Collides
With a Passenger Train on the West
shore-The Scene of the Accidental
Wrecking Train Takes the Dead
and Dying to Syracuse-Names of
Some of the Victims-Of the Mum
Der Killed Ten Were Italians.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Aug. 6.-This morn
Ing a freight train on the West Shore rail-
road. going west, broke in two between
Port Byron and Montezuma, and the fast
train. No. 3, dashed into the rear. The
brakeman went back to warn the passenger
train, but the night was SO foggy that he
was not seen.
FIREMAN AND TEN ITALIANS KILLED.
The fireman Of the passenger train was
killed. Ten Italians ell route to Niagara
Falls. in the smoking car, were killed and
thirty or forty others in the same car in
iured. The sleeping cars were burned, and
it is supposed that nearly all the passengers
have been rescued.
The injured were brought to Syracuse
and are being cared for. The bodies Of the
killed have been brought here for ldentifi-
cation.
Among the injured is member of an
opera company, who died on the way here.
SCENE OF THE ACCIDENT.
The scene of the accident is
four miles from Port Byron and
two from Montezuma Station. The train
men say that there are more killed in
the wreck. Dense fogs prevailed over the
Montezuma marshes, and enveloped the
trains and tracks.
Physicians and other aid were sent from
Syracuse, Auburn, Montezuma and Port
Byron. The scene at the wreck is described
as terrible. At o'clock a wrecking train
brought the dead and wounded here, and
ambulances, police patrol wagons and hacks
made mournful procession through the
crowded streets to the hospitals and under
takers rooms.
SOME OF THE VICTIMS.
MICHAEL BERGIN of Buffalo, the fireman
Of the passenger train, was instantly killed.
ENGINEER PATRICK RYAN Of Buffalo
bad his chest crushed and he is in the hos
pital here.
THE WRECKED TRAIN.
The wrecked train was the Chicago and
st. Louis limited, on the West Shore rail-
road. stopping only at Newark and Roches-
ter between this city and Buffalo, and was
composed OF the engine, two express cars
baggage car, smoking car, day coach, and
Tour Wagner sleeping coaches. The
train was going at the rate
Of about forty-fve miles an hour
when the crash came. When three miles
west OF Port Byron the passengers who
were awake felt the application of the air
brakes, and the passenger locomotive buried
itself III the caboose of the freight train, the
day coach telescoped with the smoking car,
and, together with the three baggage and
express oars, was piled in heap, blockad-
ing both tracks. 1t being a through train,
the express and baggage men had gone into
the rear cars to sleep, and escaped injury.
Nobody in any OF the cars, except the smok-
ing car, was seriously injured.
The Italians were in charge of an inter-
prefer, who was taking them from Tomkins
Cove to Niagara Falls, where they we're to
be worked on a new railroad tunnel.
OF the twenty Italians in the smoking car
one only escaped injury, and he was on the
platform, usually considered the place of
greatest danger. Seventeen injured Ital-
ians were brought to Syracuse, some Of
whom will probably die. 1t is now said
nobody In the sleeping car was badly hurt.
All the passengers who were able to be
moved were brought here on the Central
train.
The bodies of the killed were held at Port
Byron, where Coroner Stewart will hold
an inquest.
The broken train had been coupled and
was just getting in motion TO 60 on siding
when the passenger train came along. A
hagman was sent back from the freight
train. but he says his signal was obscured
by the dense fog. There is disposition TO
lay the blame on the fiagmau.
ANOTHER DEATH.
Joseph NJ. Keeshan of st. Louis died at
the hospital here to-day. His death in
creases the number of fatalities to twelve.
One of the passengers. who escaped with
slight injuries, asserts that hes saw twelve
bodies taken out Of the wreck, but that
number cannot be accounted for.
VICTIM OF WEDNESDAYS WRECK.
CHAMPLAIN, N. Y, Aug. 6.-Henry La
Mountaime, one Of the passengers by the
excursion train wrecked here yesterday,
died to-day, making three deaths in all.
One more man, Sidney Williams of Moore,
is not expected to live. Another
victim, Henry w. SWEET of Ellenburg,
is very seriously hurt and Miss Lewis,
aged 40, of Irona, has an injury of the spine,
which will probably be permanent. About
thirty persons are injured. The coroner'S
inquest is in progress The engineer Of the
Inflated train claims the accident was due
TO the failure of the air brakes to work. He
has long g-established and excellent record
as an engineer.