The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-03
RAILWAY STATION
SCENE OF PATHOS
Hystcrical Women and Children
Shrek for News of
Dear Ones.
GRAPHIC STORIES TOLD
Priest i'll Wreck Ministers to
Dying, and Is Thankful
EIc Was There.
GRAPHIC
STORIES
TOLD

New York. September 2.-Thc Grand
Central Station was scene OF riot
all day to-day. when hysterical women
and children, shrieling loudly for
news of their dear ones, thronged tho
great railroad terminal used by the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
The enormous crowds that Hooded the
place rushed wildly from the tracks
10 the waiting rooms and from there
10 the offices of the New Haven Rail-
road. on the third floor. Occasionally
Ia bulletin was given out, but no uues-
tons were answered nor interviews
with officials permitted. Each bulletin
was read. and the names of tho injured
ana dying were given to the anxious
ones. There followed scenes OF sorrow
Several women tainted and had to be
assisted out OF the building.
|. The survivors carried by incoming
trains told pathetic stories. Generally,
they were so hysterical and dazed that
accurate knowledge of the disaster it
self was understandable.
Tells Graphic Story.
one of the first 10 arrive in New
York was Robert Il. Spcer secretary
OF the Presbyterian board of foreig n
White Mountain Express He told "A
graphic story.
! When the crash occurred" he said,
II was pitched from my berth TO tho
noor, where 1 lay stunned IL minute
Then crawied out in naked condi-
| ton. My clothes had been literally
torn from me, Once out. 1 ran with
other passengers to the wrecked train
ahead. We gathered up blankets as
| we ran. and used these TO wrap the in
Jured in We gave them water and
placed car cushions under their heads.
Il saw priest ahead OF me work
| ing madly TO eNtriCate dead bodies OF
mutilated women and children from
! the sizzling steam pipes of the loco
| motive. He went from one to the
other, knccling beside the dead and in
jurcd alike, giving them the last rites.
! 81 cannot give details of the crash.
| had just awakened when 1t came.
| The compact threw me, as it did every
| passenger In the car, into the aisle.
| Instantly there was lighting and ours
| ing and shrickinr, as men and wo-
/ men fought to escape death"
Passenger Snw signal.
George l.. Warren, New York
broker. said:
The crash came just as dawn was
creeping in the car windows. The fog
was not very dense, for | could see the
trees some distance away. Suddenly
there was n grinding Of brakes and
then came terrific impact. AZ
sion, which was made more sinister
and frightful by the cries OF dying
men and women. l crawled out and
found dead people lying everywhere.
Many were twitching i'll agony. In
the shattered masses OF debris and
wrcckage. | saw many dead bodies.
MY first thought was to glance
backward, and in the light distinctly
saw the block signals of the road sixty
feet away. They were clearly set III
danger The engineer Of the White
Mountain Express had apparently run
past the block. Several passengers
told me they heard the explosion OF tor
two before the application of the
brakes"
Alr Warren declared that the last
three cars OF the Bar lIarbor train
were of wood and this statement was
corroborated by another passenger. l.
w. Sargent There were many con
flicting statements among those on the
White Mountain train as TO the firing
OF torpedoes. Several said they heard
the dctonation of the explosive danger
devices. while others denied they had
heard a sound.
Priest Was There.
The priest spoken OF by Mr.. Speel
was the Rev NJ. G. McWall. an elderly
Roman Catholic priest of Evansville. n
He was much overcome as he told
Of the scenes he had witnessed.
Il thank God | was there he said
rs the tears rolled down his cheek. Il
am an old man and couldn't get about
very quickly, but when | managed &c
crawl out of my smashed berth in the
White Mountain train, | saw dead
bodies everywhere. Everyone was
grooming, and dozens lay pinned be-
meath the twisted wooden cars The
faces OF the mutilatod dead. the cries
OF agony from the dying the wailing
OF little children, almost took my rea-
son. l don't know how it happened
but I was suddenly face to face with
the most needless and cruel catastrophe
OF my life"
Henry r. Mooney. of New York City
in charge Of scvcnty-fve boys return
Ing from = summer outing at Camp
| Cobbesscc. in Monmouth Me, told how
the lads, all thu, third car from the
last in the Bar Ilarbor train. had act
ed courageously following the crash
Two OF these boys were killed. The
third was badly injured. One OF those
prietor OF a department store In Nor
folk. Va.
KILLED by His Side.
t. II. Dclany, a student at Swarth-
more College. who was on the wrecked
II was in the car named Chisholm.
and had just risen. Near me sat n
man whose name was y. J.. Green. He
was killed by my side. Another man
named y. l. Daincttc, an attorney was
talking 10 me at tho time. When the
impact came we We're separated Tn,
: sight outside was frightfui hcar(
the cries and saw the agony of hun
drcds The car | was in seemed to b'
: suddenly lifted into space and ther
I hurled back onto the tracks"
Il. G.. Sargent, principal of n public
school in Paterson, y. j., was return.
ing from the Green Mountains Will
j. his two sons, Joseph. twelve years old
and Crosby. fourteen They We're or
the third car Of the White Mountain
: train.