The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-07-19

NEWBURG, NY, July 13-The West
Shore day express No. l. due here at
1904 p. m, was wrecked in the West
Shore freight yard today. The train
consisted of locomotive 200, baggage and
express car 60S, a smoking car, day
coach is II and 49, and parlor car 125
1.-THE Turbine" The engineer was Dan
iel Shelb and the conductor, Richard An
derson.
The train was a few minutes late at
Cornwall four miles south of here, and
was running very fast. When ii reached
the switch which connects the main road
with the West Shore freight yard, a
mile south of the station, the engine
picked up, it is supposed, a loose object,
which caused it to jump upon frog and
leave the track. 1t ran upon the ties
a distance equal to the length of the
train and then crashed into a freight
train standing in the yard. The crash
was terrific. The freight train was be-
ing made up to start southwark, and
was waiting for the express to pass.
The freight train had engine 206. in
charge of Fred Holland. The express
engine was evidently farther off the
track than the remainder of the train.
and when it struck the freight engine
it was thrown to one side and the ten
der torn from it,
Train Crew Jumps.
The engineer upon feeling the engine
leave the track shut off the steam,
which whistled for brakes and he and
the fireman jumped. The latter, Charles
Willis, burst blood vein and was
badly bruised. The engineer escaped
with very slight injuries. Fred Holland
engineer of the freight, had his skull
fractured at the base and was cut over
the eye. 1t is thought that he will re-
cover. No one else on the, freight was
hurt. There were about dozen persons
in the smoking car and nearly all es-
capped injury. Coach No. II was filled with
passengers, every seat being occupied.
Nearly all the casualties occurred in this
car 1t swayed to one side and struck
the projecting end of a box car stand
ing on a side track The entire side of
No II was roped off and the end nearest
to the smoker was smashed. All those
who were killed were on that side of
the car
Walter Berard assessor of Highland
Falls. was the only passenger in this
car who escaped injury. He said that
he occupied a seat behind three women.
| Across the aisle were several ladies and
children. He noticed little if any shock
when the car ran over the switch. The
crash came after the train had gone
several yards on the side track. There
was lull for a moment, then every
thing become a scene of the widest con-
| fusion and the air was filled with the
| cries and groans of the wounded. The
seat occupied by Mr.. Berard was broken
| into pieces, but he escaped as by mir
| acle The parlor cars trucks were
| broken, but the passengers, besides be-
| ing severely shaken up, were not in
jured. The railroad and coal dock men
| in the neighborhood at once went to
| the place of the accident and began to
| clear away the wreckage and to pull out
| the dead and wounded. The police and
| physicians of Newburg were notified and
| about a dozen of the latter hurried TO
the scene and began caring for the
| wounded.
| Victims of the Wreck.
The following were killed:
| Mrs. ELIZA KLEAIM, wife of An
| tone Klemm, of Highland Falls. N. Y.
| A two-year-old child, daughter of
| Burnham Eblerson of Setaukut, Ii.
| An unknown woman, apparently about
thirty-four years old, of Hebrew cast of
/ countenance.
| An unknown woman with gray hair.
stout, about five feet tall, broad face.
She had an arm torn off.
An unknown man. about thirty years
old, of medium hight and build.
In the confusion articles that might
have aided in the Identification were
separated from the bodies, and not I'M