The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1891-07-04

the scene and eXtinguished the flames
but not before terrible havoc had
been wrought, Beside the victims
in the rear coach, four passengers
in the Pullman car next forward
were killed. Two men and one
woman were burned to death in this
car, while their bodies were partly
out of the windows, their attempts
to escape having been fruitless, one
woman was heard screaming while
being burned, but she could not be
reached. Two headless bodies of
men could be seen caught in the out
rigging of the locomotive inside the
telescoped car; and another dead
body was suspended from the cow
catcher. The brakeman who was
sent back, went only about fifteen
rods before he met tie freight train.
Capt. WaIlace's s,atemnt.
CLEVELAND, o., July 3.-Capt.
Wallace, of Warren, Ohio, was in
the third coach from the rear of the
train, asleep in his berth when the
shock came. His story Of the affair
is as follows: "The train was COM
posed Of vestibuled sleepers. 1t
was, as near as | can tell, about 3
a. m. when crash unlike anything
l ever before experienced came. /
was thrown from my berth and
nearly knocked senseless, but I
finally crawled from under
pile of debris and found myself
uninjured l looked about me and
the sight that met my gaze | will
never forget. The three rear coaches,
including the one | was IN, were
piled up in an indescrible mass and
flames shot up from two of them
like huge bonfire. The air vas
filled with the means and shrieks of
the imprisoned passengers and strong
men stood helpless with the knowl-
edge that before their eyes human
beings were being slowly burn
ed or crushed to death. My first
) thought was for the people in
) the rear coach. When | boarded the
train my attention was called to
them by remarkiug that there was
i. a party Of fifty-three men in the
rear car. When the freight crashed
2 into us, it crushed this car into a
: thousand pieces, and the flames
|. broke out almost Immediately. How
e many of the passengers in that cal
r escaped, if they did, is a mystery
| saw them take some eighteen OF
d twenty bodies from the wreck, but ]
: do not think that it is half of then
/ hat will be found to be missing
r when the last reports are in
/. am of the opinion tha
: every man in the rear coacl
/. was killed. The sight Of th'
l. corpses as they were taken from
IS under the debris was sickening
k Pieces of flesh, an arm or a le;
a. were found and in this way it wa
rs impossible to tell how many wer
II killed. Every piece that was take1
IN out was burned to a crisp; tha
ut Identification was impossible
N When / left the scene the wrec
ut was still smouldering and the al
p was fairly thick with the odor {
it burning bodies. Harry Jones {
IS this city saw some of the passer
n gers who came out of the wreck {
IS Leavittsburg.
he He came through from Young
d. town. He reached this city on th
'ir $50 n. Y. P. and 0. train, whie
he was an hour late. The Union D
nd pot was crowded with anxious pc
20. pie waiting for news of the acciden
lt, but only the most meagre detai
zee could be obtained. The story
l the way the accident happened
We almost incredible; showing tn
re there must have been gross careles
<e. ness on the part Of some of the Of
l cials. The No. 8 vestibuled lii
'ar tied from Chicago had pull
* up at Ravenn;r1 Gxt:A. sign
whistle which runs from the cars
lly the locomotive. This was out
ian order, and while it was being ]
ing paired fagman was sent back
nd. car lengths to stop trains conf
nat up in the rear. He claims to ha
in, gone back the proper distance, b
,ed a fast freight came laundering alo
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