St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-14
TALES OF SUFFERING
Told by Some of the Injured Pas
SenCerS.

JACKSON. Mich, Oct. 13.-Dr. Glen
ming, of Ithaca, n. Y, was standing on
the platform of car 1872 an instant be-
fore the crash came. He jumped, and
escaped with but few scratches.
Frank Faley, of Elmira, n. Y, was in
the teleScOped car partaking of basket
of peaches with a friend when the
crash came. A huge timber struck him
i'll the forehead, knocking him almost
unconscious. His friend was killed,
but he escaped by crawling out the
coach window. He was removed to the
Hurd house, and large piece CT board
was taken from ont his back. His in
juries, however, will not prove fatal.
James n. Hyde, of New York city,
was passenger on the forward train
which came over the Lackawanna road
to Buffalo. He said: 81 was standing
near the train inhaling the fresh air and
smoking when l saw the New York
Central train coming in. | supposed it
was on another track, and | heard the
whistle. Then l realized what was
coming. | cried to the passengers, but
my warning was too late. | saw the
engineer of the New York Central .rain
Jump Just before the crash came. The
most terrible agony was depicted OH his
face, and he stood bearing down on the
throttle in his futile effort to avoid the
accident. Some one has blundered,
but | do not think it was Whalen."
"When the locomotive crashed into
our train series of cries that froZe my
blood filled the air. Once before |
heard such cries. 1twas at Gettysburg
After the crash lost my head with the
rest end rushed wildly about doing
what / nnuI6 tn old no
hands and arms are cut, and legs hurt,
but don't know how it happened. My
wife and daughter escaped by miracle.
They were wedged in between two
seats. My daughters hand is slightly
scratched, bat my wife was not hurt at
ALL"
One passenger in the telescoped
coaches VINO escaped alive was
EATING LUNCHEON
when the collision occurred. In front
of him sat newly married couple who
were enjoying trip to the fair. They
died in each others arms, crushed to
death by the weight of coach which
fell upon them. How this gentleman
escaped he does not know. A beam
grazed his face, making a bruise.
George III. Keller. of Hammondsport,
n, y, was passenger on the Inflated
train. With him were his mother, Mrs.
j. II. Keller, sixty eight years of age,
and daughter and friend, of Elmira,
n. I. The daughter and her friend left
the car for a stroll, and were just re-
turning when the second special came
daShlng toward the station. Mr.. Keller
gave his daughter and her friend his
seat, and left the car for a short walk.
He hardly left the train when the crash
came. There was tremendous crash
and the two rear cars were teleScOped.
Mr.. keeler's mother was thrown through
window at his teet, mangled almost
beyond recognition. and he picked his
mother up and bore her away. Return
ing, he found his daughter in the wreck.
With the help ote trainmen she was
takens0ut seriously hurt. Her friend
was subsequently taken from the car
dead.
81 had been watching the train which
followed during the night" said Mr..
Keller, land at times it looked as if it
was not $40 feet away. do not know
whether 1t was running when it ap-
peared 50 close or not. | saw the train
coming before it struck the car from
which l stepped, but thought nothing of
it, as it had been so near us number
of times before during the night"
L. Ii. Beardslee, of East Canton, Pa,
toll sad story. He was not injured
himself, but his wife was killed in
stlntly. land his daughter was so severely
injured that she cannot recover:
II brought some coffee to my
We and daughter few
moments before the accident" Mr..
Beardslee said, land l went to the
smoker at the head of the train to have
a cigar with friend. had scarcely
got seated when the awful crash oc
Cured. | realized at once what had
happened and my first thought was for
my family. rushed to the rear of the
train. My wife and daughter were rid
lug in the third car from the end. The
cars were in such heap that | could
not see where the car was l looked for.
l looeed for Car No. IFS, and not finding
il in the train, L knew that my wife and
daughter were in the wreck. | cried to
the crowd that had gathered around to
make way for me
FOR GODS SAKE.
"They helped me crowd my way
through, and the first of the Injured l
discovered was my own daughter. A
few feet away from her l found my
wife lying dead. She had been struck
in the head and forced through the
front part of the car. found her lying
on the platform of the car forward and
fastened in the wreck. My daughter
was free, but was unable to help her
self"
One of the chastity phases of the acct
deut was the decapitation of Mrs ID. II.
Gibbs. She was accompanied by her
husband, who was out of the car at the
time of the collision. She was not
identified until tonight. Mrs. Gibbs
husband was one of the active searchers
for the dead, but did not recognize her
when she was taken from the wreck.
He made a trip through the different