INJURED IN THE DINING CAR.
In the unlucky St. James Prof. Henry W. Farnam was eating breakfast with Mrs. Farnam. They were thrown from their seats with terrific violence. Prof. Farnam suffered a fracture of the right wrist and many cuts and contusions. Notwithstanding these he managed to carry his wife from the car, which was beginning to burn.
St. Clair McKelway was seated at breakfast with R. M. Ogden, secretary to Robert C. Ogden. Dr. McKelway was caught under a heavy beam. Mr. Ogden, who was badly cut about the face and hands, saw the flames curling toward the Brooklyn editor. Aided by a colored porter, he managed after desperate struggles to release Mr. McKelway, the two men escaping through the broken flooring of the car.
Mr. Ogden later described his experience as follows:
“I was facing Mr. McKelway, who was seated with his back to the engine, when I saw a shower of glass curling like spray from a waterfall. I threw my arm in front of my face. I felt a ring torn from my finger, and as I flew with the debris I was aware the Mr. McKelway flew over me. I saw he was pinned down, and tried to help him. The next thing, an awful thing it was, was the flames creeping toward us, but John M. McIntyre, a colored porter, helped me, and we were soon free. When they set my broken hand I fainted. I had seen it all over again, even those flames with Dr. McKelway pinned down.”
The most remarkable escapes from death were those of Mrs. J. G. Thorp, the daughter of the poet Longfellow, and Dr. Julius D. Dreher, formerly President of Salem College, Roanoke, Va. They were speaking of the remarkable speed at which the train was running when there was a shock that threw them with a pile of broken glass, wooden splinters, and smashed tableware through the split bottom of the car to the track, whence they managed to crawl to safety.

WATER SAVES MRS. THORP.
Mrs. Thorp’s escape was the more extraordinary as she was thrown among burning timbers. The three great tanks of water carried by the dining car were broken by the collision, drenching her and saving her from the flames. Both she and Dr. Dreher were badly cut and bruised about the face and hands.
T. P. Baker, a colored waiter of Jersey City, who has made three trips with Mr. Ogden’s party, was waiting on Mrs. Thorp and Dr. Dreher and was thrown through the same hole at the time of the collision. He was unhurt, and joined the other employes (sic) and passengers who had escaped injury in a rush to rescue those whom they feared were imprisoned in the wrecked car. They could not get at the three negro employes (sic) who were burned to death, for immediately after the collision the gas tanks under the car had exploded and started a fierce blaze in the car.
Baker, the waiter, managed to make one creditable rescue. W. C. Kershaw, the chief electrician on the baggage car, was so badly bruised about the back that he could not move. The baggage care was already in flames, but the porter managed to carry the electrician to safety.
Bishop W. N. McVickar of Providence, R. I., was shaving in the rear room at the time of the accident. The concussion threw him face forward into a mirror, the razor being thrown from his hand. He was not even slightly cut, although his face was severely bruised. When he tried to get out of the wash-room he found that the door was jammed and it was impossible for him to leave. He kicked on the door and shouted and a porter with an axe smashed a way out for him.
There were only three passengers in the second dining car, the Waldorf. They were Dr. A. S. Draper, State Commissioner of Education, Albany, N. Y., and Mrs. Draper. They were seated talking with Stephen Baker, President of the Manhattan Company, and were all thrown to the floor. Notwithstanding the violence of the shock non was much hurt, and managed easily to get out of the car.
Several of the doors to compartment cars became jammed, and the occupants escaped through the windows.
A notable feature of the disaster was the calmness displayed by all on the train. Not a woman was heard to scream and everybody showed presence of mind.

SETH LOW AIDS RESCUERS.
Seth Low was among the first to leave his car and go forward to give such aid as he could to the injured. Neither he nor Mrs. Low was harmed, although they suffered a severe shaking up.
Among the first on the scene was the Mayer of Greenville, G. H. Mahon. He immediately called out the Fire Department. In the hurry to respond two firemen were pitched off a truck and badly hurt. They were taken with the more seriously injured of the passengers to the Earle Sanitarium. All the doctors of the city hurried to the wreck, bringing trained nursed with them.
The Committee of the Board of Trrade, (sic) who were on hand to welcome the visitors, formed themselves at once into a committee of relief. When they saw that all the injured had been cared for, they sent their carriages, and hired others, to take the scared and hungry passengers to their homes for breakfast or lunch, and gave orders to the restaurants that none of the passengers should be charged for anything.
Everything they could do they did for those whom they had hoped to entertain under more pleasing conditions. They send sent (sic) great bunches of flowers to the women who had been injured, and personally called to learn of their condition.
For a long time the passengers stood about the burning baggage car. Not a quarter of the baggage was saved from the fire, and that was so badly damaged as to be practically useless. The baggage was valued at $12,000.
Among the things saved in Dr. Dreher’s trunk was a set of pictures including the only ones of his father and mother. Almost everything else was destroyed, and the pictures were burned about the edges, leaving the faces untouched. Dr. Dreher is going to have these pictures framed. Mrs. Montague’s trunk was ruined, but a picture of her husband did not even have the glass cover broken.
Had the accident happened a little later the usual breakfast crowd would have been at the table. This would have meant not fewer than eighty persons crowded into the two utterly wrecked cars that were ablaze almost immediately after the collision.
Among Mr. Ogden’s guests were Mrs. Robert Abbe, the Rev. and Mrs. Ernest H. Abbott, the Rev. and Mrs. Samuel H. Bishop, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Bader, the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Bitting, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph N. Blanchard of Boston, John Graham Brooks of Cambridge, Dr. Wallace Buttrick, Secretary of the General Education Board; the Rev. Samuel M. Crothers of Cambridge, E. H. Clements, editor of the Boston Transcript; Mr. and Mrs. V. Everit Macy, Dr. James E. Russell, Dean of Teachers’ College; Mr. and Mrs. William R. Moody, Miss Nathalie Curtis, Dr. Edward T. Devine, Dr. A. S. Draper, State Superintendent of Instruction; John P. Emlin, Anderson Fowler, A. S. Frissell, the Rev. Paul R. Frothingham of Boston, and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick T. Gates, Charles E. Bigelow, Arthur Curtis James, Dr. William Jay Schieffelin, and Dr. and Mrs. Ernest M. Stires.

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