New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-14
1.-,;ble Accident on the Harlem Railroad
,.rn CARS BLOWN OFF THE TRACK
60. BY A HURRICANE.
ONE MAN x IL l E o.
SEVENTEEN WOUNDED.

1 n uo.d.v evsrip0 ore Of the moot wonderful acci'
..,,,ad .rhicb the annals Of railroad dis 4sters
- - s,o,v train Of four cars on the Harlem
- Ga IJovn If the tack bodily and relied down
aroh.nl oent some thirty feet high, the uroing
c., Orcnete come sets kiiDg 30 and mi ariDg
nanv Others. Only thirty passengers were on the
bsia and il is wonderful that any Of them escaped
The following is the statement Of the conductor Mr..
RI. Whi'e, who arrived in the city this morning.
1--WE eft Albany at $3.50 ?. m. and Chssham Four
Corners at 5:2e with three pesseDge cars aud bag
raee-ce About thirty passengers wee let out at Co.
make and ct 6:36, nesr as l can judge, the cars
went of tie track rhc whole train turned over four
Zines the coupling between the baggage car and tan
der being broken. No ether coupling was broken aud
the cara went together They rolled not less than sew
enty feet and were dashed in pieces. got out and
the frst perons found three ladies. Toe rain
was pouring in torrents, and 1T was so DARK nothing
could be seen. first found the foot Of Of the la
dies Gnd pulled the fragments OF her head took her
cut and laid her on the grass Then vent back and
found another thesde Of the ear lay her head and
sboulde's.
ga third was lying on her head with her feet up.
ward. and every thitg piled all about her. Then
thought Of an old lady, Mrs. Coburo Of Chatham; |
called out TO her, and some one whom knew, Mrs.
Brant answered She said she was not hart, and
came 10 me bat fell laid her With the rect and then
bspdseed up two men. l then thought Of my Old
friend Mr.. RathbOne, and called bat could get no
answer from him. NY bsgRagemaster, Shelley said:
81 am hurt in my back aud inwardly.' Then heard
something which appeared TO be the upper side Of
the cor.
81 got UP then and found Mrs. Coburn She had &
cash over her lef eye and the skin was hanging down.
Her face was covered with blood, which wiped
away. went back and called for my men. Barnes
told me he vas hurt. Then we f0una Gaylord, almost
dead the car had crushed bis ribs right in and his
entrsb were pushed out. He was taken to The farm
house Of a Mr. Pulver or Culver near by.
al then found the psper.boy crawling up the bank
with the back of his head Gu, open. He told me to
look after the rest, be could take care OF himself
then found Mr.. RsthbOne lying on his face under
truck The bearing of the truck lay on the small OF
bis back. We got the truck Off he was dead. His
watch was b oxen off by the ring, bat was still run
ming. / found Mrs. Cobun badly injured about the
bead aud slightly in her sde and MI. Coburn WITH bis
head cut.
CT got the ladies on the engine and took them to Boz
Son Corners then sent the eDginee' to Middleton for
a car and ply sicsns he brought two Physicians, Dr.
Wood and one from New York. we then went up and
got the DEAD and wounded ON board, all except Gay
lord and Barnes, who were at the farm houss. |
changed the car with one on the express train which
had stove in it, and then we brought the passen-
gers down TO Middleton, where we left them, and
arrived in New-York Tuesday morning at 5:45
g. IN. The car lay both my legs and they are con-
siderably bruised below thu knees. My engine wss
che Pilot my engineers name Lewis Elder, and my
fremans Giles Cspron. They were on the engine,
which remained on the track.
"My lantern 10y uncer lady and was not injured
everything else was torn in pieces but my vaIlse
never saw such sight in my life. There was nothing
left of the cars the saloons and everything were COM
petely ripped in piece. The train went over with
iust one movement like turning my hand; and had
lust been talking with MI Rathbone sitting by the
aide of him; when got up and turned, two LADIES' were
sitting together sndore them said; Mr. Conductor
twill you be kind enough 10 get us carriage when
eve erive 10 New-York ?" said [: with pleasure,
and had not than said pleasure before
felt that was going over went over the ladies and
the seats went upon them
DAT first everything as still for a momen. but the
bowling of the wind and the pouring Of the rain.
crawled out and began TO hear the screams Of the
wounded didnt think was hut then. The verymo'
ment begin to get in drowse now, THE conductor
WAS In bed see the whole thing night over again.
{ cant sleep. The road at that point is placed on a
high embankment in a valley between two mountains.
As we come down, the road from southeast TO
south, and at the place where we were blown over
there is a notch in the ndge on the east side.
"The wind swept thr ough the valley OF this notch,
which is the place where &Ornssey and Sullivan fought
two Yeas ago. 1t is thrse quarters of nile north Of
Boston Corners.'
OTHER STATEMENTS AND ACCOUNTS.
James l.. Duncan, young man, was IN the bag
gage car with the baggage master Jehn Shelley the
train was coming round the curve about half mile
north of Boston -Four Corners, all at once the front
door was bust open by the violence OF the gale,
which vas then blowing from asouth eastery direction,
and almost instantly the went wheeling down the
embsnke1t distance Of thirty or forty feet, aud was
smashed ID, tie coupling had broke from the tender,
and the locomotive went on. Duncan was bruised
about the head, and his neck was stiff from pitching
head first into the top o! the car. Alter Duncan
gathered up he heard Shelly swearing Justify and
ordering Duncan 70 get off him. II turned out that
Shelly was washed down under heavy chest con-
tanning coupngs and tools Ills ape wss miraculous,
and although he ives covered with bruises about the
head and body, and tjured in the spine, no bones
were broken. His injuries are not considered al AL
dangerous.
Jusson Barnes made the following ststement am
. brakeman ami was stan ing on the rear platform
of ,be haggace car when the accident accuued we
vere runnisg about tweatg or twenty-five miles an
hour OIL the curve IN a southerly direcion gale oil
wind Wa blowing through the valley from the south
east felt the raising gently at first and as cav
was going over attempted to gain the upper side 10
lump of, but could not mske any heed~ay agsiost