Stephen D. Peet
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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after all others have escaped something attracts the attention of those on the bank as if a coat were flapping in the wind next a man appears as if attempting to arise and then the man emerges from the region of the flames and is helped to the shore by others
many became so exhausted and faint that they fell senseless upon the snow and were drawn by others to a place of safety it is even thought that some were so bewildered that they wandered into the broken places in the ice and were drowned
it was but a very few minutes before all who could had escaped and the rest were still struggling to get out or were already dead chapter four
chapter v the startling crash the citizens were startled by a sudden crash those who lived near the bridge knew that the train was late
many of them were in some way connected with the road either as telegraph or baggage men or in some capacity of the railroad service for some reason there was an expectancy among them all
those who dwelt on the banks of the gorge could look from their rear windows and see each train as it came as the first awful crash was heard the whole neighborhood was startled
then as the ominous sound of car following car fell upon the ear crash after crash in quick succession the horrible consciousness came to all with appalling force
some started to their feet with alarm others rushed to the doors and hastened to the scene one lady mrs apthorpe exclaimed to her husband in terror and great alarm
my god henry number five has gone off the bridge as her husband seized his hat and coat and hastened out of the door with a woman's sympathy she put the camphor bottle into his hands thinking of the wounded and the suffering which must follow
but a few minutes had passed before a number were at the depot the engineer of the pump engine was standing on the depot platform as the train approached as he heard the sound he looked up and could see the cars from the middle of the train plunge off to the side of the bridge and fall into the abyss
the headlight of the engine was above the track but the passenger cars were falling behind it the head painter was also in his shop and heard the crash the saloon-keeper of one of the hotels and the foreman of the fire-engine lake erie also heard and saw the fall
these were the first to start for the wreck and reached it very soon mr apthorpe was also early on the ground these as they approached were appalled at the awful scene
the engineer seized an axe and pale as the first things which were at hand and hardly knowing what he was doing attempted to break the doors and windows for the wounded to escape
mr tinlay plunged into the water and swam to the other side to rescue those who were at a distance in the wreck the omnibus man began to chop to get an opening for those within but cut an awful gash into his foot and was obliged to cease
mr apthorpe more deliberate and self-controlled first thought of the bell and of giving the alarm but hastened to the train he went from car to car entering such as were open and could be reached and sought to help out those who might be left inside
others arrived and helped the wounded to escape from the water and ice and up the bank all were excited and hardly knew what they were doing and did not think of what next to do the engineer fluttered to and fro excited and uncontrolled
the saloon-keeper assisted a few and then disappeared some who arrived stood on the bank amazed and appalled but idle and passive amid the scene in the meantime the flames began to arise
it was only a little glimmering light at first so small that as the passengers pass they throw snow and a portion of it is quenched a few buckets of water thrown at this time would have sufficed to have kept down the flame but the critical moment was past
the fire began at both ends of the wreck and rapidly spread it was just a little flame on the east side underneath the sleeper it was brighter in the smoker and in the heap near the bridge but it spread from car to car and soon enveloped the whole no one thought that the fire could be prevented
the desire to rescue the wounded and save the living was more urgent it was too constraining for any deliberate thought it crowded out every effort to prevent the spreading of the flames every one was appalled and overwhelmed and did that which seemed most pressing at the moment
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