Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-02-04
BOILER
 EXPLODED.
Car Was Thrown
 From Track.
Explosion Took Place as Trains We're Passing Two Persons Were Killed and a Number lnjlr d.

Utica, N. Y.. Feb 4.-One of the str; ngest wrecks in the history of rail reading in this section occurred at WEiteboro, three miles west of this ciry. al all early ho.r tI.s mornlns Train 25, the western express. on the New 1OrK Cen.r4l rdIrOau, was drawn by an engine known as the Pacific type. AS this engine was passing train ou. the Buffalo special east-bOund. the West-bOund engine exploded. The force of the explosion was felt in the second car of the eastbound train. as the west-bound engine was directly opposite that car when the eXp4us.o. occurred. Both trains were running at full speed, and. from the effects from the explosion and the upheaval of the wrecked engine the car which was op. posite at that moment was thrown from the tracks. Both trains were well filled with passengers and the west bound train is known as one of the best trains on the road for sleeping car passengers. It was supposed that score or more of lives had been lost, and that twice that number of people had Leen severely injured, but when the work of rescue had been accom-. plished and the wreck had been exam. med as carefully as possible in the daylight of morning on which the mercury registered 15 degrees below zero. it was found that hot d Siugle passenger had been killed or even fatal. ly injured, and that the injuries were really very few. Two railroad men Eilla1 fHhny hn and fireman on the west-bound Iocomo- uve, the one on which the explosion occurred. The engine had been acting well during the trip up the Mohawk valley from Albany, for though the night was intensely cold there had been no complaint or trouble about making time, and at the stop in this city, few minutes before the explos. ion, there was no word reported as to any trouble with the engine. The deld are:
 John Allen. engineer of the west bound train, of Albany.
 John Brennan, fireman of the W est bound train, Albany.
 The injured at St Luke's hospital are: Walter L. Brown and William ]. Robinson of Buffalo, and Robert Well and Sidney ]. West of New York, bruised and cut. but not seriously.
 At Paxton hospital, Dr Walsh of New York. scalp wounds and sufl lerinc | severely from shock.
 Mrs Bell of Buffalo, wife of super intendent of Pullman Car Co. arm broken and other injuries, but not dangerous.
 Supreme Court Justice Warren B. Hooker, severely bruised
 At Paxton hospital, Mrs F. W. Ever. est, Buffalo, badly sprained back.
 At Baggs hotel, Tulliom Giordano and vie. Rome, Italy. bruised.
 $. l.. COrtwright. Buffalo, ribs hurt. ]. C. Mcknight, Bayslde, L.
 James McNaughton. Schenectady.
 Mhl.am Keyno.ds, New. York.
 Il. W. Roseman. New York.
 C. l.. Terry, Csweso, all of whom have minor inJur.es, but will go home to-day.
 Justice Warren B. Hooker of Ere. donia, who was injured, went ahead on later train.
 DanIeI D. Lusk of Randolph. \. r.. is at the sanitarium at Whtesboro. He Is qui,e Dauis uurneL un the U.ck and has cut over one eye, but is not in d criIcal condition.
 The west bound train did not leave the rails. TLe knowledge that an ac. cident had happened came to the s.eeping passengers on this train when tle cars slowed down with d sudden. ness and a shock which threw the oc. cupants of tile berths backward with great force, in some cases tossing them out Of the berths to the floor. This shock was followed by a gradual slackening of the speed until half trains length ahead. the cars came to full stop. The crew of the west Bound tram demonstrated excellent discipline. Men were sent east to flag approaching trains. In the gloom of tie early morning the more serious plight of the east bound express was not obser, ei immediately but when the situation becane known the crew of the western express and many pas sengers hastened to the rescue. The long train of thirteen cars literally had been blown from tle rails as if it had been a string of toy coaches. The rear Pullman's had toppled into ditch to the sife of the track hut the forward cars had been hurled into an adjoining feli at distances varying from ten to forty feet Several flew from the supporting trucks and wheels and ploughel deep into snow banks. their ends being demolished by the impact
 Uncer these circumstances the res cre-s exne~tef to find narv deaI. An hour or more was devoted tn extricat- irc rassen~ers from the interior of the sleening cars hut while many were found to be cut and bruised m one was dead. Ire work of rplcbinc the -aSse-re-s v7s csrr'ef on in q freez- ing arr,osrfere which ben-mheI the feet ard bonds su5 vhi~h ~a--~oi greet distress ro srci of tHp reS~--c-s SC had reSn~-,s'e~1 ari- rsar-lv clothed. Tta -Da- of the ev-.'oSin-l rr -l,a --sSs I,o---d e-~+re auate-ef rns-h- resi- Se--z vHa a<SiSte1 in rn'ie-inc the 1-,-r-sSo-e1 rlsSo-~p-< S'n=ghS were n-nrt,rp-f and se-e-~I If the iniu-e1 were taken to vtitpSFn-o s7nitarium-