Show A horrible ROASTED accident oatlie erie N jan 23 the erie train no 12 from buffalo left el buia last night at II 11 or new bork tho train comi of one postal car one express car two baggage car and nine passenger coaches most of them pullman sleepers when miles west of owego near tioga centre one of the driving wheel axles of the locomotive broke cloe up to the wheel and the entire train going at the rate of thirty five miles an hour wae thrown from the track the accident occurred where there was no embankment and the engine kept its feet the engineer ap plying the air brakes as soon as he beuth chock the care were stopped very quickly but the forward one were turned and over two or three times some going on one side of the track and gome on the other the engineer and fireman escaped unhurt the postal car contained four clerks this car almost instantly took fire and burned like gunpowder the oil lamps used probably exploded and and added fuel to the fire from the stove all in the car were roasted to a cariap the remains of one man who weighed over were gathered up put in a box express car was the messenger brewer of elmira were made to re lieve him A hole cut inside the door that he got his head out but li legs were fastened by a piled up of matter the train men tried to pall him out but the flames drove them away they saw hie hr and whiskers burned off and then ho put his band up to his eyes and fell back into the flames fire men in all no passengers injured the men in the postal car buet have perished very quickly as not a sound came from the wreck except the crackling of the flames the name of the dead are joseph kedinger mail agent II 11 brewer express agent elmira seybolt mail agent of mount hope and fox mail of benr york NEW jan 24 the gers en the train wrecked at aioge station reached new york tonight to night among them was henry C vila ol 01 cleveland general manager of the south shore line one of the passengers in the forward sleeping car lie said to a tribune reporter the crash occurred at about five minutes of twelve I should think some time after I had gone to bed it was very severe and I awoke with a start hastily putting on my coat I rushed out and found SK the unfortunate people in the forward cars the scene that presented itself was terrible the postal car which was directly bound the engine had been thrown off into field at a rightangle right angle to the rack at a distance of nearly feet all to pieces flames immediately began to rise it doubtless caused by the fire in the elove and the explosion of se rosene lamps with which the car was lighted and in less than adva whole car was in blaze which lighted the fields around with ghastly glare it lay in a heap under i large tree which eoon look ire and was enveloped in flames nothing could be seen at first of the mail clerks who had occupied the car and no sound wag heard from them but when the roof of the car caved in three of the bodies could bo distinctly seen huddled up in one corner of the car where it is sup posed they were thrown and killed by tho first shock another body was found in the opposite end of the car and all were so charred and blackened that identification was almost impossible the which followed the postal car were not thrown from the roadway but were lying across the track in the utmost confusion the express baggage and smoking cars were off the track and tho first caught fire immediately the door to it was completely blocked by express matter in the and brewer the agent was imprisoned in the alamea a attracted attention and great effort were made to extricate him from his terrible position but in vain the bad by this time collected from all parts of the train and were supplied with hovels from the village they tried to extin the by throwing enow upon the burning cars they were soon assisted by abo hiyi of the fire department of oswego the three forward care were burning to gether and soon afterward the forward smoking car commenced to ono of these had been by pip troupe tho of which had been able to escape without any further injuries than this car wae turned on it aide and it was ome time before allcot out baggage matter perry dislocated die located big arm end I by two olber men pulled hi arm into joint M he lay on the enow after ho worked liko a trojan annj with th help of gone wa fable to every of bag coolness and discipline die played by the employee of the train wa remarkable it was by their ef forte A erious waa pre tented the passenger were at arst much frightened and many rushed from the cars half but when they that the danger waa over they became quiet and were very willing to lend their in wring the injured and in putting out the fire |