The St. Louis Republic., 1904-09-26
Mrs. Erb. Wife of Railroad Off
rial, Loses Life in Ac-
cidenr.
TWENTY PERSONS INJURED.
Mr. and Mrs. Stern of Kansas City
Among Those Hurt: Latter
Loses and Receivers Bag
of Precious Stones.
REPUBLIC SPH1AY.

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Rochester. y. Y. Sept .5-Mrs Newman
t.rb. wife Of the vice president OF the Pere
Marquette Railroad. was killed. and more
than score OF persons were injured as
the result of an accident on the New York
central Railroad Just east Of Lock Berlin.
near Lyons. at o'clock this morning
The western express. weStbound, nearly
an hour late. WAS derailed by a spread
ran After the engine and baggage cars
| rad passed over the defect the three
sleeping cars following left the track and
topped toward the south track as an
eastbound freight train passed.
Inc hrst sleeping car was cut in half
ionSitudinaily. and the sides of the others
were Torn out. All the sleeping car pas
sengers were in their berihs Mrs Erb's
legs were cut OF. and she died here al
noon.
Among those injured are. Newman Erb.
No as East Seventy fourth street. New
fork. cuts and bruises. Samuel Stern.
Kansas City. scalp torn off and other in
1uries. probably fatal: Mrs. Stern. wife
OF the former. shock and cuts: Sarah l..
owsn OF Detroit. cuts and disloca:ior.
Richard Hcany. San Francisco cut about
,ess' ID; X. Felt. Eureka. Cal. bruises;
MIS-. Felt and Mrs. Plavel r. Smith. Eure-
ka. Cal. bruises
The sleeping ears We're full. and the
passengers were thrown from their tsrth<
by The shock Of the dcrailment They
We're flst gathering themselves up when
the last freight rushed upon them. and
the shrek o: its locomotive whistle min
gled with the shrieks Of the injured and
frightened passengers
A special train from Syracuse took some
of the injured there
on WAY TO ST. LOUIS.
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the ST. Louis Exposition. They had come
from Boston to New York in an automo-
bile. They left tn. Grand Central Station
In a Pullman. intending to have their pri-
vate car hitched TO the train at Detroit.
irrieciateiy after the accident Mr. Erb
teieSraphed TO New York for a special
train TO bring his family physician. ills
son-in-iaw. J. NJ Dittenhoefer with Doc
tor Willy Meyer and two trained nurses.
left at 80 this morning. They made the
the time of the Empire State Express b.
almost an hour. but their race against
q, ,ath was In vain Mrs. Erb had died
tTshty minutes before their arrival.
Mrs. Samuel Stern. one OF the injured.
lost 4 lag containing diamonds valued at
SEQ. and left for Rochester in tears.
Later the bag and diamonds we're found
intact bv Lyons policeman
One woman lost her six-months-old baby
In the excitement and rushed wildly about
the wreckage- a conductor found the
cnlio roiieu N Diankets under Pile OF
debris. He stopped to rescue the little
one. when the mother flew at him like a
wild animal. scratching his face as she
tore the child away. IL was almost smoth-
cred. but later recovered.
Samuel Secrn of Kansas City. was able
tonight to make this statement:
The frss fntfmation ] had there was
anything wrong was the sudden jar when
the sleeping car left the track. The shock
threw both myself and wife from our
berths- I could see other passengers fall
ing about in their sections. Before We
could get to our feet and learn what had
happened. there was a shrek of a whistle
and a crash. The berths and car timbers
seemed to ny into the air. and something
struck me on the head. ] cannot ina gine
how anyone In the sleeping Cars escaped
with his life