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The Angola Train Wreck. By Charity Vogel. Rockefeller was running late on the morning of December 1. When he climbed out of bed in his modest house on Cheshire Street in Cleveland that frigid Wednesday to catch the early morning express to Buffalo, he had business on his mind. Even though it was the holiday season—just a week before Christmas—Rockefeller had decided to make a quick business trip to New York City. He wanted to check on his East Coast operations, where his brother, William, managed the New York offices of Rockefeller & Company. But he got a late start that morning, which was not like him at all.

Perhaps it had been all the packing. Rockefeller planned to squeeze in some holiday visits with friends and family in New York before returning home for Christmas, so into his suitcases he packed the gifts he intended to give to his relatives and associates there.

That done, he sent his bags ahead of him to Cleveland’s Union Station, and bid goodbye to Laura, his wife of three years, and Elizabeth, their 1- year- old daughter. He then headed off to catch his train. Rockefeller was 2.

Cleveland and the oil refining industry. A disciplined man, Rockefeller prided himself on hard work and a demanding schedule. He kept a sharp eye toward his own advancement, demanded a lot of others and drove himself harder than anyone. He knew that if he caught the 6: 4. Lake Shore Express, due in Buffalo around 1: 3.

New York Central Express, which would deliver him into Manhattan by 7 the next morning, in plenty of time to make full use of the business day. Although his plans were meticulously arranged, Rockefeller pulled into Cleveland’s Union Station just a few minutes too late; his bags made the train but he didn’t, and it saved his life. Dexter Saison 5 Episode 12 Streaming Radio.

By missing the Lake Shore Express that morning, Rockefeller escaped one of the worst railroad accidents in 1. America—the “Angola Horror,” as newspapers subsequently dubbed it.

At a little past 3 in the afternoon, while crossing over a high railroad bridge in the western New York village of Angola, the last two cars of the Buffalo- bound express jumped the tracks and tumbled 3. Both cars burst into flames, trapping passengers inside and immolating them into blackened heaps of indistinguishable remains. Rockefeller, as a latecomer to the Cleveland station, would have sat in the end car. Nearly 5. 0 people died and many more were burned and badly injured in the disaster, which—coming as it did just before Christmas—gripped the imagination of a nation still reeling from the Civil War that had ended two years earlier. Accounts of the tragedy, replete with grisly illustrations, filled the pages of newspapers and periodicals across the country for weeks—and prompted calls by the public for safer trains, tracks and rail car heating methods. The news- paper offered the hope that “human foresight and ingenuity can prevent such terrible occurrences, in the future, whatever may be the verdict as to the cause of the present calamity.”Rockefeller came across the scene himself when the later train he had taken to Buffalo that day was forced to stop in Angola because of the wreck.

He immediately telegraphed Laura from the Angola railroad station. His missive to her was received in Cleveland at 6: 2. In Cleveland, Erie, Dunkirk and other stops along the Lake Shore Express line—a route that skimmed the Great Lakes—people climbed out of bed and prepared for their journeys. William W. Towner, 2. Erie, Pa., had decided to treat himself to a pleasure trip in advance of the holiday. He was leaving on the 1. New York with two friends, J.

Alexander Martin and Edward T. Metcalf, both young professionals from Erie. Jasper and Eunice Fuller, a young married couple, had recently opened a small general store in Spartansburg, a growing village of 4. Pennsylvania, and they were taking the express to Buffalo to buy new stock for their store. With the long war over, the reunited country was busily scrambling back to its feet.

People were relocating from one place to another, opening new businesses, setting up homes and generally getting established in life. The holiday season only accelerated this spirit of movement and activity. For his part, J. M. Newton, 4. 6, the daytime railroad agent and telegraph operator in Angola, rose early on December 1.

His office in the railroad station was the busiest spot in the bustling rural village, thanks to the trains passing by and the shoppers buying their dry goods, groceries, hardware, medicine and such at Lyman Oatman’s general store next door. At a little before 7, Newton settled down at his desk, ready to begin his workday. By midafternoon, the Lake Shore Express, now a couple of hours behind schedule, reached western New York, where two men waited on the platform in the small village of Brocton. Benjamin Franklin Betts, a 3.

Brocton on business, struck up a conversation with the other man—his identity since lost—and the two of them hit it off so well that they took dinner together. At 2: 2. 0, when the express finally whistled into the village and pulled up to the station, Betts and his friend said goodbye to each other and climbed aboard the train. Betts chose to sit in a forward car. Watch Loins Of Punjab Presents Download there. His friend boarded the train’s last coach car, packed full of people. The train once again began to move. It consisted of four passenger cars—three first- class and one second- class, each holding about 5.

It also contained several potbellied stoves to heat the coach cars, and kerosene lamps mounted on the walls to give light. Stephen W. Stewart was easily the most prominent figure on the express that day; president of the Oil Creek Railroad, he had founded a bank in Corry, Pa. Also on board were Charles Lobdell of La Crosse, Wis., an editor at the Daily Republican; Eliakim B. Forbush of Buffalo, an attorney returning from a case he had won in Cincinnati; and Isadore Mayer, a New York theatrical agent. At least one honeymooning couple rode the express: 2.

Granger D. Kent of Grand Island, N. Y., and his new wife were on their way home. Also onboard were two engaged men headed toward their betrothed and their weddings. The hours of the early afternoon slipped past uneventfully on the train. Betts, sitting in his seat in the forward car, sank into a reflective state as the train chugged through the winter landscape. He would later describe his mood as daydream- like, lulled by the muted scenery passing outside the window. At Dunkirk, N. Y., the express stopped for 1.

At the small village of Silver Creek, the train stopped again, briefly, only to take on wood and water. At 2: 4. 9, Silver Creek telegraph operator George P.

Gaston noted the departure of the Lake Shore Express from his station. He messaged ahead to Newton, the agent in Angola: The express was on its way. Ahead of the train lay Angola, with its small wooden depot, and just beyond that a bridge—a plain wood- and- concrete truss span—over Big Sister Creek. Only 2. 1/2 years earlier, this bridge had borne the funeral train of Abraham Lincoln as it traveled a stunned, war- weary nation on its way toward the slain president’s burial place in Illinois. Now, Newton, standing at the window of his Angola telegraph office, watched the express as it steamed through the village, 2 hours and 4. It was moving at about 2.

Newton later testified—well within a typical range of speed. On his routine rounds, Conductor Frank Sherman worked his way through the end car of the express. Sherman, a Buffalo resident, would later recall seeing Stewart, the railroad president, sitting in his usual spot in the last seat of the train. Watch Stagecoach Online Forbes.

At 3: 1. 1 p. m., Sherman opened the door of the end car, stepped through it and began making his way forward through the second- to- last car. At the same time, Dr. Frederick F. Hoyer, a country physician, walked from the second- to- last car into the one in front of it, a move that most likely saved his life.

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