St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-01

oouS, FATALLY lnJurINg several others,
while at least score are badly hurt.
The wreck is the worst ever
known on the road. The bridge
was being strengthened for the
big locomotives and the workingmen
VINO were putting on the plates were
at dinner when the crash came. The
locomotive passed over the structure,
but was smashed, the water tank being
thrown long distance. The buffet, two
sleepers and dining car were smashed
TO klndling wood when they struck
the stream twenty feet below,
but the two day coaches and
a smoker in the rear did
not leave the track. There had been thir-
teen dead bodies taken out at O'Clock,
and twelve OF them had been identified.
Ii IS believed that there are two more
bodies in the ruins. The list of the
Identified is as follows:
j. L. DEWITT, of Portland, Me-, presi-
dent of the Union Mutual Life Insur-
ance company.
i. KELLY, of Boston.
MISS SUSIE COTTING, of Boston.
MRS. c. b. lsHAM, of Philadelphia.
Miss EMMA DELERTY. of Column
bus, 0.
ii. G. IVES, of Chicago.
FRANK SEDGEwICK, of Palmer, o.
JAMES MCMAsTERs, of Springfield.
brakeman.
y. ID. MURRAY, of Greenbush, n. Y,
baggagenaster.
GEORGE W. MORSE, of Boston. con-
ductor.
>: o. STAcKPoLE, of Hartford, Conn.
Mrs. j. c. WINCHELL, of Oneida,
N. Y.
R.C.HITCHCOCK, of Bellows Falls, Vt.
An unknown woman, twenty-five
years old.
There were about fifteen seriously in-
Jured, and five or SIX may die.
1he train was seven minutes late at
Chester, and the railroad hands say it
was going at the rate of twenty miles
an hour when it struck the first of two
spans across the Westfeld river. The
locomotive seemed to leap across the
bridge as the trusSeS collapsed and fell
over to the south. The conductor was
taking tickets in the day coach.
and, although thrown violently down.
escaped serious injury. There are
only limited number of houses in the
vicinity, and man driving by gave the
alarm through the village street. In
few minutes hundred were on the scene.
Inc shrIeks OF the imprisoned were ter
rlble, and scores of people looked on
completely unnerved. The heroes of
the hour were Dr.. George l.. Wood, of
Collinsville, who went to the train to
meet his wife, and the colored porters
and walters in the dining car, although
their faces were bruised and cut and
Covered With Blood
they did splendid work. The village
people soon recovered from the shock
and were hard at work. The hospital
was a group of apple trees in an ad-
joining orchard, where scores were
taken. Ok teams arrived with loads of
straw cushions, bedding and food. The
wounded were soon removed to the
houses. and all that remained on the
apple-strewn grounds were thirteen
bodies covered with red blankets from
an adjoining stable. The dead were,
many of them, horribly mutilated,
heads crushed in, limbs torn and often
only recognizable from the clothing.
Mr.. Scull, of Philadelphia, was with
his sister, Mrs. Isham, in a Wagner
car. She was instantly killed and he
was pinned down, but finally extri-
Gated. When her body was laid out
wrong name was affixed to the breast,
officials called him to see the mutilated
face which he had avoided.
Are you sure she is your sister?" the
official asked.
MY God, it is" he protested. while
the by-standers turned away and wiped
their eyes. The body of Miss Susie
Getting, of Boston, was identified by
Miss Andrews. daughter of Edward
Andrews, president of the Security Safe
Deposit Company of Boston. Mr.. An
drews was unable to get seat in
The Wagner Car
and so went into day coach with his
daughter and Miss Beal, of Boston.
They were not injured.
j. F. Dewitt, OF Portland, Me-, presi-
dent of the Mutual Life Insurance COM
pany. was reading a magazine.
Nj. w. Kirk, of Chicago, started to sit
with him, but seeing that he was alb
sorbed, excused himself and went into
the rear car and was saved.
Mrs. John j. Howard, Of Boston,
whose stage name is Hattie Blanchard.
was one of the five saved in the sleeper
next in front of the dining car, which
was the worst wrecked. She left
Albany, where the John l.. Sullivan
company had appeared the night before.
She says that she felt the car going
down and reached for her hat in. the front
seat. In an instant she was pinned down
by beam across her waist. A chande-
lier had crashed down over her. She
eXtricated herself and turned to Mrs.
lsham, who was CRYING for help. Her
head was wedged under car seat arm.
When she saw that it was impossible to
| eXtricate the woman, the poor victim
squeezed her hand with "God bless
you, good bye"
She pulled car seat off man and
| then started out. She stumbled over
the cook, pinned down near the kitch-
| en-, and. mounting the ruins of the next
| coach, was taken out safely.
| E. II. Talbot. for five years editor of
| the Iron Age. was in day coach. His
clothes were torn and he was
Badly bruised,
| but did splendid work in taking out the
dead and injured. He said they came