New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-17
FIVE KILLED IN THE WRECK.
HEAVY RAINS CAUSED THE DISASTER NEAR
DUNKIRK
THE FRIDGE HAD BEEN BROKEN BY THE FLOOD
WASHING OUT ITS sUPPoRTs-DETILs

THE FRIDGE HAD BEEN BROKEN BY THE FLOOD
WASHING OUT ITS sUPPoRTs-DETAILs
OF JHE ACCIDENT.
rurr,rk n Y. Dec. l6.-Five people were killed
and civ injured by the railroad wreck on the West
ern New-York and Pennsylvania Raiiroad' three
miles east Of this city, last night The DEAD are
Jesse Hodge conductor, Of Brocton william T..
Mccain baegageman. of Buffalo: Oscar Porter. OF
Drocton: Mrs j. n. Porter, mother OF oscar Porter
NJ Rrocton: George Ryman. Of Fredonia-
Tho injured are Charlotte Friedholm Dunkirk;
Manual Williams, daughter OF D. i. Williams DUN
kirk: Mrs Oscar Porter, Brocton; Byron H. Bar
ton. Mayville; A. W. McLane. Brocton' engineer
Barney Moss. Brocton. fireman.
The train went through the trestle that spans
Herrck's Creek Tn creek Is little stream but
owing to the heavy rain Of the past TWO days IL
rose rapidly and yesterday afternoon II poured
down a food of water against the trestle' Inc
force Of the flood so great that the rocks sup
rortng the under sills were washed away, ana 'he
tresie broken When hg rnnna forty miles
an hour. trestle gave way and the cars SraI
I i, was a made I'D OF three cars baggage smoker
and day coach, and carried not over noze peop, v
The engine had crossed the bridge when u gave
way The tender broke It's coupling and with me
cars fell twenty-five feet into the rusn"g @ ,he
beneath The engine rolled over and over down 'ne
emhankment The baggage car STOOD almost Oh
end it's lower end crushed into a distorted mass ass
tender and smoking car stretched across me me
stream The day coach was turned upward ItS
INNER extremity resting on the tracks above, anu
,ts lower buried in the creek There were seven pas
sengers in the coach, and all were either killed OF
injured. ., ,d wan with lanterns
and crow bars went TO work rescung tnose III ~, ~,
cara The dead and injured were taken from 'he
raS coach the wounded being carried to Mr.. Her
rick's house near by and the dead Tor the tiihe
aid ont on the bank. Then the search for the miss
Ing was taken up. At midnight an arm was seen
mot riding from the wreckage formed by the tender
baggage car and smoker 1t was the BODY OF on M
d,,cfor Hodge Tons of werckage VIII nave 10 DC
ufted before his body can be released. baggage
man Mccain has not yet been found lie mas etned
hnan buried deep in the wreck or washed
s seen by the food The engineer and fireman do
Cot know how they escaped alive Mcl>ane the
Engineer. found himself living beside the engine at
he hottom of the embankment. Moss. the hreinan
also went down with the engine and came TO MS
Nickel Plate engine up from Silver
crock with two doctors. and third came from
1unkirk They gave the wounded every attention.
hut George Ryman. who was sexton OF the ceme
terv at E2redonia died an hour after the accident
The others are expected to recover though Moss
the 6reman Is in great danger, his arm being nearly
severed Hodge, the dead conductor, leaves
widow and Ave children. Oscar Porter was n
nromipent merchant OF Brocton and Supervisor OF
the town Of Portland