Stephen D. Peet
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Aug
Stephen D. Peet’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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the brakeman stone who had escaped unhurt thought only of another train which was expected soon he hastened to the telegraph office to tell of the wreck and to stop the coming train
the conductor was almost paralyzed with terror and became frantic with excitement and rushed to and fro calling for help and it is said was kept with difficulty from throwing himself into the fire the flames kept arising they spread far and wide they ascended high and still higher
they filled the valley a cloud of smoke ascended too it was black and dense and pitchy it came from the paint and varnish and the materials of that gilded wreck it was stifling to the breath and deadly to all who breathed it
it enveloped the ruins it even darkened the sky and rolled a thick cloud through the awful gorge the worst of fears began now to be realized horror seized the living for death now claimed its victims and man was powerless to deliver
within the awful canopy the flames shot up and from among them came forth groans and shrieks and cries of agony and despair then followed the most heart-rending scenes and incidents
those who were without but who had friends still left in the burning cars shouted loud and begged that the fire might be put out they even sought to go back to get their friends yells arose from the valley and were echoed in shouts from the top of the abutments and one wild scene of excitement pervaded the spot
a little child was heard to exclaim papa oh papa take me a woman cried from within a car oh save me for god's sake take my child a man had clasped a woman to carry her from the flames but her foot was caught and he was obliged to leave her and save himself
another saw underneath the floor of a car a man and a woman lying there and calling for help he tried to extricate them but as the flames arose he went to the fireman and begged them to put on water and save the living mr apthorpe saw a woman trying to get out of the window of a car
high up amid the ruins she was half-way out and called for help he hastened to the rescue but the flames arose between him and her and she perished there
two men were seen sitting in their seats surrounded by the flames but they perished and no one could save them one man stood by his berth and burned to death holding to its side a gentleman supposed by some to be mr brunner of wisconsin
and by others to be mr p p bliss the sweet singer was seen to emerge and then to go back saying that he will perish with his family a gentleman was seen in the midst of the flames standing as if surrounded by a wall of fire until he fell the most appalling sounds and sights shook
every heart and sent a shiver of horror through every frame the howl of a poor wounded dog echoes through the valley a woman whose children have already perished was seen lifting up her hands and beseeching help
and was at last rescued among the last awfully burned and died in a few days from her wounds the last one removed was the fireman and then this poor dog which had kept up its piteous howling the living were driven from the wreck and could only stand and look upon the awful scene
a cry arose a horrid cry it was not a shriek it was not a groan nor even a cry for help but it was a plaintive melancholy wail the despairing cry of those who knew that they must die it was a prolonged
an agonized a heart-rending moan it was the sound of oh then all were dead and silence settled down upon the scene the awful silence which comes upon the dead the parched lips were sealed for ever
the stifled breath could no longer send forth a cry or groan the carnival of death had at last silenced all its victims the slaughter was complete
blood and fire and vapor of smoke the flames leaped and danced and lifted high their heads and death was exultant in all its forces the canopy of blackness arched the snow-covered valley while the fiery billows rolled between
all that man could do was to stand and look upon the scene appalled chapter five
chapter six of the ashtabula disaster by stephen pete the alarm in town
the citizens of the village were sitting by their fires or at their tables or in their places of business a sound was heard it was a sudden startling sound to those who were living near the depot it was a succession of sounds first a crash then a fall then a distinct sound for every car
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