Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-06
DEATHS SHADOW
Reveals the Romance of Two
Young Lives.
SAD STORY OF A RAILWAY WRECK,

SAD STORY OF A RAILWAY WRECK.
1t Diyulges Secret Marriage at the Mo-
uicEt that the Grim Terror Is Claiming
His Own-The Earthly Happiness of
Two Young People brought to a Sud-
den End-A Fatal Outing on a Locomo-
tiye-Heroism of the Young Husband.
ELMIRA, \. Y, Feb. 6-James w. Nc
Gallery, who was one of seven injured in
an accident on the Oil Valley Lumber rail
road near jacksonville. Pa, on last Sunday
! afternoon, died on Tuesday and a young
woman who was another victim, and who,
up to a few minutes before McCaffery
died, was not known 10 be NIcCaffery's
} wife, died a short time afterward. The
girl was popular society woman of Brad
ford, Miss Sadie Irvine. She and Mccall
! fiery were known to be attached to each
other, but there was opposition to the in
! timacy. When the young man was told
| that he could live only a short time, he
| directed DIR. Russell, who was attending
him, to draw his will. He had an insur.
| ance OF $4,000 on his life. Il want it
divided equally between my two brothers
and my wife" he said my wife is Sadie
! Irvine. We We're married at Salamanca
on the Sth of November, 1891"
The Young Wife Also Dies.
These We're almost his last words, and
| that was the tirrt time that any one knew
! of the marriage. Mrs. McCaffery was not
! told that her husband was dead until it
| was plain that she could live only few
hours at the most. When she was told
| that he was dead she said that she was
glad that she could not recover She
made her will and bequeathed the money
that had been left her by her dying hus-
| band to her sister, Mrs. II. +. Mundy, who
! is another of those injured in the accident,
! and in critical condition. Shortly after
making her will the young wife also
passed away to join her husband in the
undiscovered country"
Went on "A Fatal Ride.
The railroad on which the accident hap
pened is one of the steep and crooked mar
| row-guage roads that are numerous in the
Pennsylvania lumber regions Mrs. Ne
Caffrey. then supposed 10 be Miss Irvine
had been visiting her sister, Mrs. Mundy
at WatsOnViile. On Sunday Mr. McCaffery
joined her. Mrs. Mundy's husband con-
trolls the railroad, and the two visitors
were invited to take a locomotive ride into
the lumber weeds. There were on the en-
CINE besides Mrs Nundy and Mr. and Mrs
McCaiIery, Contractor John Eyarts, En-
gineer Grant. and Fireman Martin.
Terrific speed on Curve.
There Is a grade in the road of 100 feet
TO the mile, and with a sharp curve in it,
Soon after the locomotive started down
this grade Engineer Grant discovered that
the brake world not work. The engine
got beyond control on the steep grade and
struck the curve at a speed OF more than a
mile minute. The engine was thrown
off the track. The engineer WAS thrown
clear of the wreck, but Mr. McCafTcry and
his wife and Mundy and his wife were
| caught in the wreck
Heroism of NcCaffery.
Engineer Grant succeeded in releasing
Mrs. McCaffery, and then found that he
had been standing on her husbands breast
all the time that he was eXtricating her
McCaffery was conscious. and, knowing
that the engineer was getting his wife out,
although the steam from the boiler was
playing full against him, and the weight
of the engineer upon his breast must have
added to his agony, never uttered a groan
When Mrs. McCaffery was released Nice af-
| fiery exclaimed: He has got her out; thank
God
Injuries of the Unrortunates.
McCaticry was held between the scald-
| ing boiler and a stump. Help soon ar
| rived, but it was an hour befory McCaffery
was released, and in all that time he never
| lost consciousness, but directed the work
| of the men with great GOODNESS. McCaf-
| fiery leg was crushed to pulp and he
was burned and bruised out of all recogni-
ton. Mrs McCaffery's leg was crushed in the
| same way, her hip wrenched out of its
| socket. and her body and face burned to
the bone. Like her husband she never lost
| consciousness until she died Mrs. Nun
| dy is badly burned and mangled, but hopes
| are entertained of her recovery. All the
| Others We're seriously hurt NcCafTely
was Sc years old. His wife was p