The Portland daily press., 1893-10-14


| lowing list of killed and injured:
Killed.
Mrs. Charles Starr, Elmira.
Miss Maggie McMaster, Pen Yam, n. =
| Miss Harriet Breeze, Pine City. N. T..
George Hoffman, Saranac, N. Z.
Mrs. j A Beardsley, East Canton, Ny.
.J.H. Keller, Hammondsport, NY.
Mrs Lewis Woodbury., Bath, Ny.
James Woodbury., Bath, NY.
Mrs. J.L. Gibbs.
/ Infant child of Mrs. .Anson.
/ Unidentified man and woman whose
name passengers believe was BECK
Injured.
Following is corrected list of the in
| jured as far as known:
IN. Beardsley, Canton, Pa, slightly.
Miss Blanche Beardsley, Canton, Pa.,
fatally.
Edward Fay, Elmira, seriously.
Mrs. C. W. Fay, Elmira, seriously;
Miss Laura Fay, Elmlra, seriously; W.,
special. seriously burned, leg broken.
Mrs ) H. Gardner, Horsehead, N. T.,
slightly.
broken and bruised.
Frank Farley, Coolumbia Cross Roads
| Pa., Sllghtly. 60, ~
Mrs. j. A. Birmingham, Springfield, N.
Y, arm and shoulder fractured.
| LIE. .Ainsworth, slightly.
Robert Walsh, rear brakeman first
section,S slightly.
Johanna Healey, both legs broken
near ankle, right arm broken above
elbow; recovery doubtful.
+ jim. Anderson, New York. cut badly
about the face and back and legs; re-
I covery doubtful. Id
Miss Kate Healey, Morris Run, Pa,
right thigh fractured, bruised; Will
probably recover.
If. j Reid, conductor of the Oswego
special. sent the following despatch to
/ the officers of the road in Detroit:. : L
Twas stopping at jackson for breakfast
and had Just started when the Webb
special, going west, truck my train in
| the rear part and broke three coaches.
NY train was protected in the Jackson
yard by the semaphore."
Engineer Whalen was running the last
section. He says II saw the signal in
/ the yard to keep back, and had my
engine in hand, as l thought, but when
| / came down near the train which was
1 standing still my air brake would not
work and / ran into the coaches. The
| failure of the air brake made it impossi-
| BILE to stop. l never had sucn an expert
ence before" syr
Whalen is badly burned and one of his
legs is broken, but he will live, No less;
| than nine specials had already passed
| through jackson going west this morn
ing in addition. to the regular trains 4
Inside of twenty minutes after the accl-
| dent six bodies were taken out, and the
work had only begun. The wreck is ten
rods east of the Michigan Central rail-
road depot on the main track. ~ fs6s
/ Some Of the passengers were out on the
ground, some eating breakfast and many
asleep. All the undertakers, physicians
! and assistants were soon on the ground
| doing all they could.
At As O'Clock DR.. +. d North surgeon
! for the Michigan Central here, stated
that there were II killed and Ia wounded
| to his knowledge, but that he thought
| there were about five others wounded
and taken to the hospital.
At 11.S0 there were six dead at Webb q
| Crandall's undertaking establishment,
one of them identified.
Six were at another place, two of whom
were identified as Mrs. Lloyd Woodbury.
and James Woodbury. of Bath, N. T., Mrs.
| Woodbury's father-in-law. The husband
is here uninjured, and is almost insane
| with grief.
| Elmira was somewhat injured about the
| head, and Edward Fay, Mrs. c. w. Fay
| and Miss Laura Fay of Elimra, were also
| badly injurd.
| Miss Blanche. Beardsley of Canton.
| N. Y, whose mother is among the dead,
| lay in precarious condition, and while
| the doctors were working over badly
! injured limb she loudly protested to
| them to let her die. Her father stood
| uninjured by her side.
! The conductor Of the section which
was teles ;oped was f. J. Reed .of Dear
born, Michigan, aud Owen N. Webb of
S72 18th street, Detroit, was conductor OF
| the next section following. Ihe engine
pulling the latter section was NO. ESQ,
| and was known as ten wheeler" one
| of the heaviest on the road.
! 1t crashed into the forward train with
| irresistible force. The train was one of
a series of special excursion trains run
| from Oswego to the Worlds fair
| A lady from the East, whose name
could not be learned jumped from win
| dow as the crash came and ran away from
| the wreck and she has not been seen
! since.
Two cars that had been wedged into
each other so that they were unrecogniz-
able as such, were being taken apart at
about noon and between them were
| found many remains to swell the death
list.
Among the horrible sights was that of
a woman carrying head by the hair
around through the crowd and moaning
and weeping with all the appearance of
a raving maniac. She was taken.care OF
by the police and the: head which she
carried was sent to police headquarters.
While the official list tonight shows
only twelve killed, earlier estimates
placed the number as high as thirty, and
| the first report was that $50 had been
killed, 1t is probable, however, that the
latest list, printed above, includes all
the dead. The number of badly injured
| is thirty.
| The News in Detroit.
| Detroit Mich, October 13 3-The super
| intendent of the Michigan Central here
| says that ten dead bodies have been re-
covered so far and the number of injured
| has not yet been reported. The trains