New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-21
ANOTHER RAILWAY HORROR.
Continued from First Page.

b.en taking In the sights of the Worlds Fair
left the Sixtieth-st. depot of the road at
Chicago at s15 as the first section OF the night
express known as No. 6. The train was IN
charge Of Conductor Burt n. Scott and En-
ptneer Harry Woolley. both residents OF this
n,ace. All went well until the Battle Creek
depot was reached. This was at $3.50 From
here to the railroad yards. distance OF a miie
and a half, there is q double track. When the
Whitcomb special came to full stop III the
depot. the night operator handed to Conductor
Scott two copies of order for the tram TO
nroceed to the double track east of Main-st,
about half-me distant. and there await the
westbound Pacific Express. known as No. B.
This train, which was nearly three hours ia'e
was composed of thirteen day coaches and two
baggage cars Most Of the day coaches had
seen many years service and were in poor
condition to withstand a collision. Every
one Of the fated number packed with East
ern people, the majority of whom, taxing al
vantage of the low rates, were on their way
to take In the last week OF the Exposition Inc
Pacific Express was in charge OF conductor
John Bird and Engineer "Gil' Cranshaw both
OF whom had received orders at Lansing to
look out for the eastbound train on the double
track and were accordingly on the alert
After receiving orders at the Battle Creek
station, Engineer Wooley proceeueu up the
double track but instead OF stopping In ac-
cordance with his instructions until the west
bound express had passed he continued on.
and entered again the single track He
had hardly gone more than an eighth of a
mile when the headlight of the Pacific express
was seen coming around the slight curve be-
hind the telegraph office of the railroad yards
II was speeding westward at a rate of forty
miles an hour There no time to apply air
hrakes or reverse levers. The engineers and
fremen of both trains jumped for their hVes'
and a second later the giant locomotives came
together with a crash that could be heard a
half-mile away.
THE TRAINMEN ESCAPE DEATH
The engineers and fremen. when they sa"
that a collision inevitable, shut OF steam
reversed engines put on brakes, and all jumped
and escaped without serious injury. When
the collision took place the second ana
third day coaches on No. 9, the train going
west. were completely telescoped. 1t was IN
these cars that the horrible sacrifice OF HE
took place. The second coach cut through the
third like a knife, and the roof passed over the
heads of the sleeping people. and the lil-la'eu
messengers were completely entombed in merry
furnace The engine and baggage-car OF the
special were badly wrecked. but the coaches
being sleepers and the train moving slowly es-
capped injury.
All the passengers In four coaches OF the ex-
nress were more or less injured, and in one of
them. No. 49, called 'the unlucky COACH
which has been in several accidents before.
there were twenty-six dead bodies taken out
this morning by the fremen. They were pinoned
under the seats and damned up against the end
Of the car by the next car which had tele-
scoped It, and then they were burned like rats
IN a trap The accident occurred mile from
the fire station, and before water could be
turned on the cars they were all burned. No
one on the Raymond special was injured The
Pacific Express was made up or thirteen ola
coaches and four Of them were completely
burned catching fire from the lamps in the cars.
The bodies were burned so badly as to be un-
RECOGNIZABLE. Nearly all had their heads, arms
or legs burned off, and cannot be identified as
vet AS the second car was driven back through
the third II swept the people In mass TO the
north end of the latter car, in the vicinity OF
the stove where most of the bodies were after
ward found. The cars Immediately took fire. and
in an instant they were all IN blaze.
Henry Garfield, one of the night clerks at the
Chicago and Grand Trunk offices, heard the
crash and Immediately pulled the fre-alarm box
and then telephoned to the engine house and in
formed the firemen of the wreck. The firemen
responded promptly, but the wreck was over
a mile away. The distance Of the nearest n.y.
drant from the wreck and the difficulty OF dr1v-
ing the hose wagon between the cars and tracks
delayed them until the fire had gained consider
able Roadway.
The night yardmen and the neighbors in the
vicinity on the scene soon as possible.
One passenger escaped through the doorway.
Others who escaped smashed out the windows
and climbed through Only three escaped from
the left side. and not more than six from the
other side All the rest Of the occupants Of
the second coach perished
DEATHS OF MR.. AND MRS. VAN DusEN
Not until their dying day will some of the
people who were early on the ground forget the
scenes that they were compelled to witness and
HELPLESS to relieve. No pen can describe the
last moments of Mrs. Charles Van Dusen. She
had succeeded in getting halfway out Of the
window, but her limbs were pnoned by the
heavy framework Of the seat she had been oc-
cupying with her husband, and this had taken
fire. Thus held. roasting from the feet up, she
pleaded and begged for the help that those out
side were helpless to give. Despite her terrible
agony she retained consciousness to the last
and, as the flames crept up and surrounded
her, she called out her name and address and
that of friends to be told Of her fete.
II am a teacher in the Methodist Sunday
school at Sprout Brook. n. "" she cried; "say
I died like a Christian" Then the side Of the
car gave way, and she fell back into the flames
Her husband had meanwhile been rescued from
the next car into which he had been driven
by the force Of the collision Both limbs were
fractured. and he had also received internal In
juries He retained consciousness until his
death this afternoon, at the Nichols Home, but
was kept in ignorance of the fate Of his wife
In his last breath he asked the Rev. DR.. George
B. Kulp to send his love to the two children
that he had left at home, and also to give then
his watch. He was forty-seven years old. and
deacon in the Methodist Church Of bis native