The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-02-07
TERRI Bile RAILWAY ACCIDENT
On The Hudson River Road.
Fearful Loss of Life.
Crushed, Burned, and Drowned.
At Least 25 Persons Killed.
To-day's Gable News.
Matters at Washington.
Income Tax to be Repealed.
Etc. Etc.. ETC.. Etc, Etc
Matters at Washington
DEATH on THE R.AIL.

Terrible Disaster the Hudson River Rail-
road - Collision Of Express Passenger
Train and an 0l Ttain-Occupants of Sleep
Ing Car Burned to Death, Not One Escaping
over 30 Persons Known to be Killed and
Many Others Wounded.
PoUGHKEEPsIE, N. Y, Feb. THE accident
on the Hudson River Railroad last night at New
Hamburg was caused by an oil train bound
north catching fire and setting the bridge at New
Hamburg also on fire. The Pacific Express
came up and ran into the oil train and caught
fire also. The bridge gave way under the weight,
when the train went down in a jumbed mass.
The locomotive, express car, baggage car, Pull
man car and coach, and a sleepng-car of the
express train, went down with the crash. The
engineer of the express train was killed. also the
conductor of the Pullman car and brakeman.
Several passengers on the Pullman and sleeping
cars were unable to get out when the crash oc-
Cured and were burned to death or drowned.
The scene at the track is fearful one. corps
of physicians is there from Poughkeepsie to
attend the wounded and dying, and search is
now being made for dead bodies.
Further particulars and the number of the
dead and wounded cannot yet be ascertained.
Doctor Simmons, Engineer Peter Vosburg, the
conductor of the Pullman car, and the brake
man are known to be killed.
Further Part,cuiars-1S Persons Killed Out
right md Many Others Injured Fatally.
New YORK, Feb. 7.-The following particu
lars of the railroad disaster are furnished by
the Western Union Telegraph Company
The train leaving New York at o'clock last
evening met an oil train on the New Hamburg
drawbrdge. The oil train jumped the track
and broke in two. The oil car tipped over on
to the passenger train and set it on fire, and the
locomotive, care and bridge were all burned up.
Three sleeping cars are among those destroyed.
| Eighteen persons were killed outright, and
many more injured who cannot recover. No
names have yet been obtained
stni Later Account q the Oisaster-Acc"rate
PoUeHKEEPsIE, Feb. THE despatch sent
! this morning incorrectly stated the cause of the
disaster on the Hudson River Railroad. An oil
train was bound south, and when passing New
! Hamburg an axle of the oil car br oke and
dragged along the ground till it reached the
drawbridge, when striking the timhers, it threw
the car off its track and upon the up-track in
face of the second Pacific express. An attempt
was made to stop the express train, but not in
time enough, and it struck the oil car, and frag-
ments of the oil car were scattered in every di-
rection, and at once ignited, enveloping the
entire express train in flames.
The express train was composed of loco
motive one baggage car, one express car, and
five or six sleeping cars. The locomotive was
at once hurled into the river and the engineer
killed, and the baggage and express cars were
piled on top of the engine. At the same time
the Chicago sleeping car was one sheet of flame,
and though desperate attempts were made to
rescue the passengers it is said not one got
out alive. Two of the other sleeping cars next
to it were also wrapped in flames, but the pas
sepgers in them all got outsafely, and then the
bridge took fire.
Tn less than ten fninufas Of ha NyhOla
structure fell, carrying with it the Chicago car,
and burying it and its inmates
Ont of Sight Under the Water
and among the ruins OF the locomotive aud eX-
press cars.
This terrible result settled all doubts as TO the
probability of rescung any one, dead or alive,
and then there was nothing to do till daylight.
Persons Known TO be Killed.
The names of the killed thus far known are
Simmons, the engineer, Peter Vsoburg, the con-
ductor of the Chicago car, and brakeman
named Bhrine. 1t lie also thought
the Rev. Dr. Deems, of the Church
of the Stranger, of New York city,
and his wife, are among the dead, as gentle
man stated that they occupied berth in the
Chicago car Charles Cossum, the
conductor of the train, states that there were
sixtv-five sIeepinE-enr Tickets,
and that ffty-two of them have found owners,
indicating that but thirteen persons are missing.
The passengers say, however, that the Chicago
car contained 25 or 80 persons, and
Not One Got Out Alive.
All the trains are stopped at the break this
morning, and the work of
ReeoyerinE Dead BOdies
has commenced. Coroner Andrus, oil Pough-
keepsie, N. Y, has been notified, and is walt
ing for train to convey him to the spot
Upon the ice near this wreck BODY was found
with the entrails torn out, and head and legi
crushed 1t has not been identified.
sixteen Bodice Recovered.
NEW HAMBURG, Feb. 7-ll A. Mp to thii
time sixteen bodies have been recovered, in
cluding two children. All the remains will bt
forwarded to POughkeepsie Immediately. Elk
J neriepeed undertakeTs are in charge,