Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1877 — A Thrilling Scene. [ARTICLE]

A Thrilling Scene.

, A thrilling scene occurred at Fishkill Landing depot Wednesday morning. The upward-boand passenger train, due here at ten a. m., had just arrived at the station, and forty or fifty passengers had started to get on and off when the St. Louis Express, bound south, and which does not stop at Fifehkill ' Landing, came thundering around thq ; cune just iWrih °f Ute station. No alarm of the approach of the train had been.,.given. It was behind time, and running-at the'rate of forty miles an hour. Its track in front of the station was filled with men and women. The men who saw the train coming ran shouting in every direction, women screamed and cried for help, and bystanders turned their heads, fearing to see at least a dozen persons cut *o pieces. One or two women grasped the iron-riffling attached to the platforms of the up train, and fainted as the men crowded them as close to the train as they could. One lady, Mrs. Frank Brown, fa Newburg, was crosslngthe track to get* oii the up train, but when she reached the centre of the down track the express was close upon her. With great presence of mind she turned and run back as the train thundered by, the pilotfa the angina just missing her dress. Men pn, the west side of the swiftly-speeding Rain were thrilled with horror, as thev expected that the people who were effacing to the railing of the upward-bound train had been drawn by the frightful suction under the wheels' of the passing express. Lfickily, however, no one was hurt. It was a terrible scene, and by those who so miraculously escaped will be remembered till they die. — Poughkeepsie (H. F») ftctgle.