The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-14
EXPRESS TRAIN. KILLS EIGHT.
MEN JUMPED FROM ONE TRACK TO
MEET DEATH ON ANOTHER.

We're shOveIiDg Snow From n New
work. Central Track When a Slow
Freight Came AIOng-In Getting
ont of Its Way They Were Struck
nv n Fast Express-Bodies Fearful
" NanGIed, and Hardly Recognize
able.
buffalo. N. Y, Dec. 1S-Eight men were
t,fled and four injured at Winspeare
bridge. near Corfu, on the New York Cen
traI Railroad, to-day.
They were Poles, with the exception of
Jobn Warner. their foreman, who is
o,oong the killed. The men were engaged
In shoveling snow. of which there were
numerous drifts on the line.
Warner and a gang were working on
track No 8, near Winspeare bridge.
freight train was laboring its way ponder
oIslv up the steep incline. Its motion was
-, slow that the men continued their work
until the train was almost upon them.
They then jumped some to the right, 9th
ars 90 the left Those who jumped to the
north escaped. Most of those who jumped
to the south were struck by the express
train coming down track No. with fear
ful velocity.
There is a straight piece of track here,
and the engineer had a clear view down
the stretch. No snow was falling. AS
soon as he realized the appalling situation
he brought the train up with jerk that
threw the passengers out of their seats
II WAS TOO late, however, to avoid the ca
Iamity.
twelve mangled bodies were picked up
IN but six of which life was found. The
bodies were scattered over large area
same had been thrown a distance of sixty
feet Others were thrown against the
freight train. and their bodies horribly cut
and dismembered.
The body of one man was hurled on to
.ha moving freight train and carried near
" TWO mics
The more fortunate companions or the
doad and injured gathered up thea -em-
nants. put them together, and nearly as
tbev could Judge, in human form, and
placed them in the baggage car OF the
rain that killed them, on which they
were taken to Buffalo.
The wounded were all conveyed to the
Fitch Hospital, where the surgeons exam
med the injuries and dressed the wounds.
An were conscious and the surgeons said
oil would recover. No one of the men at
the hospital heard the whistle OF the eX-
press. Engineer Smith of the express IN
an interview, said:
Il could see nothing ahead OF me, put
I thought the place looked bad, and pew
nv whistle 1 had let up on the Whlstle
when heard my firemen give yell lie
did not cali for brakes, but I slapped on
the air the minute 1 heard him. He had
seen a man beside the track though ne
had not seen any one struck then A
moment after 1 applied the brakes l saw
a man shoot up into the air on my side
of the cab He was as high as the smoke
stack when / saw him. He came down
on the freight train which was cunning
along side on that side, and was carried
a mile before he fell off.
My train stopped in about two train
lengths, and the sight that l saw when l
got out was, the most horrible have ever
Witnessed The dead and mangied were
living on both sides of the track, just as
they had been thrown. l did not see them
until after we had struck them. 1 did
not see them come on the track and I'M
til my fireman yelled, I did not know
they were there"