Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-07
TWELVE MEN KILLED.
A LIMITED EXPRESS pLUN0es INTO A
FREIGHT TRAIN.
Halt ofa Party Of Italians Wiped Out-A
Fireman Killed at His Post
Many Injured.
rBy telegraph to the Dispatch.l

70 SYRACUSE, N. Y, August 6.-This morn
ing freight train on the West Shore rail-
road going west broke in two between
Port Byron and Montezuma and fast train
No. 8 dashed into the rear section. The
brakeman went back to warn the passen-
ger trai1, but the night was so foggy that
he was not seen.
The fireman of the passenger train was
killed. Ten Italians en- route to niagara
Falls In the smoking-car were killed. and
O number Of Others in the same car in
lured. The sleeping-cars We're burned:
The injured were brought to Syracuse and
are being cared for. The bodies sof the
killed have also been brought here for
identification. Among the injured was
member Of an opera company, who died
on the way here.
The scene of the accident is four miles
from Port Byron and two from Montezuma
station.
DENSE roo
prevailed over the Montezuma marshes
and enveloped the trains and tracks. Ply
sicians We're dispatched and other aid was
sent from Syracuse, Auburn. Montezuma.
and Port Byron. The scene at the wreck
is described as terrible. At 3 o'clock a
wrecking train brought the killed and
wounded here, and the ambulances, police
patrol-wagOns, and hacks made a mournful
procession through the crowded streets to
the hospitals and undertakers' rooms.
All the passengers who were able were
brought here Ill Central trsln The bodies
of the killed are held at Port Byron, where
Coroner Stewart will hold an inquest.
THE WRECK or MATTER.
The wrecked train was the Chicago and
Gf tIn1. ltpntf.1 nn ha Wocf Shnra ra,l-
road. stopping only at Newark and Roches-
ter between this city and Buffalo, ana was
composed Of the engine, two express-cnrs,
one baggage-car, a smoklng-car, u day
coach, and four Wagner sleeping-cOaches.
The train was going at the rate Ot about
iOrty-fye miles All hour when the crash
came. when three miles west Of Port
Byron the passengers who were awake felt
the application of the ir-hrakes, and the
passenger locomotive buried itself IN the
caboose of the freight train, the day-cOacn
telescoped the smOking-car. and together
with the three baggage and express-cars
was piled i'll neap, blOckadlng both
tracks. II being through train the ex-
press ana baggage-men had gone into the
rear cars TO sleep and so escaped injury.
TIE FATALITIES
EObOd" in anv except the smoking car
was seriously injured. The entire fatality
was confined to the occupants of the
smoklug-car and the locomotive. In the
former was party Of twenty-onc Italian
labOrcrs. In charge OF an interpreter, who
was taking them from Thompkin's Cove
to Niagara Falls, where they We're To be
worked on the new railroad tunnel. Only
one member Of this party escaped death
or seyious injury. Fireman Michael Bur-
gen. OF Macedon. was found 20 have been
instantly killed at his post on the locomo-
tive and Engineer Patrick Ryan, of Buf-
faio. WAS seriously injured. Ten OF the
Italians were killed outright or died short
ly after being taken out ot the wreck.
Some Others are likely to die.
TIE DLAsiE EATHrR On TIIE FLAGNAS.
The broken train had been coupled and
was Just getting Ia motion TO 60 on q
siding when the passenger tram came
along. A Gagman was sent back from the
freight train. but he says his signal was
obscured by the dense fog. There Is q dis
position tO lay the blame ON tho hagman
sAvANNAH's FIRST BALI.
SAVANNAH, Ca, August 6.--The first bale
OF cotton If this seasons growth was re-
ceived here to-day. IT classed middllng
and sold for ten cents per pound. 1t
weighed five hundred and elghty-one
pounds. The second bale arrived this af-
trrnOOn.