Show PLEAS OP Oi O THE DOOMED People to Stand by and See Men ten Burned to Si e Paul Faul uI bui Aug 31 A Pioneer Pas p al from front Kalls eU Mont say r Th wreck at t Nyack lest last night was the he worst In the of ot the tha tb Great Northern In that more lives were lost than ever before deaths have been reported up to the present time and In all probability more mOe will follow folIo Five dead were brought to peU thirteen L ir en wounded and seriously hurt one of ot whom has since died Of men In the day coach coch on the rear of the train only thirteen were saved and only five dead were gotten stten out of ot the burning ruins the remainder being completely con consumed It being impossible to find even their bones as nothing remained but ashes when the fir burned out The Ifie scenes at the catastrophe e were heartrending in the extreme there be being beIng ing lug many maIlY poor creatures pinned In iii un under under Under der the wreckage for whom the pas paz passengers passengers and trainmen were doing ding d all allIn allin allIn In their power to extricate from their frightful position The wreckage had taken lire tire Immediately after atter the col collision and it was vas with the greatest difficulty that the few saved were taken from the th ruins Several men were loud loudly loudly loudly ly calling for help begging that If they could not be gotten out they would rather be killed than suffer death by bythe bythe bythe the rapidly approaching flames People were compelled by reason of ot the intense heat to stand aside and see seethe seethe seethe the victims burned alive aliye powerless to lend aid or assistance Ten cars of ot shingles were on the rear of ot the freight that caused the wreck and as soon oon as it struck the standing passenger train the ca ones cas s burst and the shingles were thrown in all directions over the wrecked passenger cars In almost an instant the whole was a amass amass amass mass of flames flame and the work of res rescue rescue rescue cue was wa rendered dangerous It appears that the wreck was caused by an eastbound freight train of cars which was at and that the head Lead engine went forward leaving a helper engine in the rear to hold the train The helper engine set the air brakes and left the train stand standing standing ing lug on the track and went to coal up Conductor Matthews was In the office getting orders and both brakemen were ere with Wit h the engineer It Is believed that the air leaked and that the train jipp away without the train crew knowing it and dashed dulled down the mountain at a tremendous rate of speed 1 variously estimated at from sev to miles an n hour going down don the hill a distance of seventeen miles when it overtook the passenger This train was moving in the same direction as the runaway y otherwise the disaster would have been greater The men on the passenger train had hadnot hadnot not the slightest t warning wa rn inS of their dan danger danger danger ger There Is nothing of the wreck left laft but ashes and burnt and twisted twIst d iron rods and chains |