Show A EAILWAY ACCIDENT That at Hastings N Y Worse i Than at First Reported Eleven People Were Killed Brakeman Herrick Her-rick Kespoiislble Disappears Thieves Rob the Dead and Injured NEW YORK Dec 25The accident on the New York Central railway last night at Hastings has proved much greater than reports received last night indicated The official list of deaths numbered eleven people The dead areMrs A N Baldwin Bald-win New York Thomas W Pilloy New York of the firm of George Pilloy Co Boston Abram Knight conductor Mrs Van Ardale New York JVliss Slocum Lockport N Y Miss Little and Miss Lizzie Fork Brooklyn J W White porter por-ter Miss Lilian Baldwin New York one man not identified Burned and injuredSimon Homer Baldwin New York Anne Ford Brooklyn Brook-lyn D B Murphy lawyer New York Mary A Jacobson New York J R Bagnette Poughkeepsie N Y TUE TERRIBLE ACCIDENT was due to the carelessness of Brakeman AlbertF Herrick of the Buffalo express which was lying still below Hastings Herrick Her-rick lied and has not yet been found He left his uniform and put on citizens clothes From the official report given out today I train No 93 stopped at Dobbs Ferry to make slight repairs on the engine A distance dis-tance signal was thrown out and the fOllow ingtram the Buffalo and Niagara Falls special spe-cial leaving hero at 7 p m stopped three quarters of a mile soutn of Dobbs Ferry station The conductor of No 45 immediately immedi-ately sent Brake nan Herrick back to signal sig-nal coming trains At Hastings he went inside and talked with the station master who was wailing for the Cincinnati and St Louis express No 7 which left this city at 7 oclock While Herrick was standing near the door the St Louis express whizzed past at the rate of FORTY MILES AN lOUR Engineer Donahue of the express received re-ceived no warning of the presence of the Buffalo express on thetrack ahead until she was almost on the train He reversed the engine put on the air brakes and jumped The engine of No7 crashed into the rear sleeper the Gibraltar of Buffalo Buf-falo with terrific force There were twentytwo in the car The ballast of the New York Central is of stone Here and there between the tracKs arc great blotches of blood dried and clotted two and three feet in diameter All else that Al remains today to-day to lell the story of the frightful disas TAr io thA tin rnnf nf thra Worrnnv nlnn tn u b u car Gibralter This is still anluJH a smouldering mass at the side of the track where the disaster occurred The rest of the car was burned up When the St Louis express crashed into the sleeping car THE ENGINE WAS COMPLETELT LOST in the interior of lbs car The heavy woodwork wood-work and iron of tbeGibraltor was burne up The hiss of escaping steam and crie and groans of the wounded and dying passengers pas-sengers could be heard a long distance The appeals of the wounded and cries of the dying were heartrending A moment later the Gibralter took fire The crews of both trains quickly recovered from the momentary shock and rushed o their aid People ana passengers from both trains followed fol-lowed and soon a score of persons bad organized or-ganized themselves into a relief party One after another of the wounded wound-ed and dying was taken out Axes were torn from the cars and by the light of lamps and torches men began to chop away the burning wood work of the Gibraltar To add t the horror of the occasion thieves got to work anJ began to rob injured prssengers How much they secured is not known I was not known thieveswere among the injured at the time of the accident and the fact was not discovered dis-covered until thin morning A number of volunteers worked among the injured passengers pas-sengers and it is probable this was made a cloak for stealing by some The coroner this morning tooK possession of the effects of the dead and will hold them until they are claimed by relatives of the deceased THE SCENES ABOUT THE WAITING too at Dobbs Ferry were pathetic Little Homer Baldwin son of Mrs Baldwin was crying for his mother His arms were bruised but the child seemed anxious to know how his mother was He did not know she was killed The child had been sleeping in the same berth with his mother |