The New York herald., 1871-02-17
TIE HEW HAMBURG SLAUGHTER
FURTHER EVIDENCE At TIE INQUEST
The Patent Brakes Not ApniieX
to the Train.
TWO MchE BODIES RECOVERED.

PoUdHELEraIE. Feb. 10, 1911
The idglest on the New Hamburg horror calIea
together today quite large number OF spectators.
who TOOK a tecp interest in tne examination. Tue
people begin 20 comment pretty freely upon the an.
parent effort q the Jury to whltewash the accident.
lit tue responsibility from the employees ana tbe
company and tlrow II upon the shoulders or the
supreme Belng Without whose WIN O sparrow can
not lail' out ~ yet nave not seen sufficient to s-
tify such sweeping, ,hargc.
EopiE9 RECOVERED
Mr.. Polk, the diver, Made n ooscent a. thd.,rocr
this morning. lie was ot of sight nrteen m,nu,ea
and then brought up th, englneer's cusn,on ua
thinks he saw part OF buy inbedded in a nile az
rubbish. He says she cushsn was buried lonr feet
deep IN tue mud, and that hesank in the mud to hi,
waist. He made another decent this afternoon
ana recovered two bodies. he features or ons
could not be recognizad. The Cher body was that
or Lawrence Mooney. The top oi the head ana ono
hand were burned, but the rest OF ue body was In q
good state OF preservation. The cothing was satu-
rated with OIL on the body was folad a gold watch
and chain and other articles. Decasea's parents
We're teiegraphed for ana the body vas taken In
charge by the undertaken ana brougu to Pough-
keepsie. The diver will go down again TO- morrow
TO look for the other bodies.
THE INQUEST.
A, two O'Clock Coroner Andns itconvened the
inquest IN tho Court House for the furA Aer examna.
ton OF witnesses. A lawyer from Btfao, named
Bacon, appeared ana watched the prcc&dng in the
interest OF the iamilioS OF some Of the ystns Tho
first witness sworn was
William II. Horton, FOR twenty-tEree yNrs a loco.
mouve engineer and now employed on ME- l,oston
and Albany road, gave evidence relative the rum
ming OF trains lie tcsied that iGw0ud rve longer
to stop an oil train than an ordinary freiht train,
and tliat ben cords were not used Oh freight
trains on bis road. LIN cold, frosS night
train OF twensg.six cars would rN three
Ii a hufA NJ aattf| hn qfn IyA
on freight trains on his road signal the engineer
with lanterns he b positive the oil train whch
reaching rhe drawbrdge. He once run on Tho Hut-
son River road and knew the locality where ae az
drawbrldge however, to be used Tor any other pur.
pose than TO signal when the draw was opened or
closed.
John j. Lester testified in relation to patent
brakes. He remembered once Of train oI thirteen
cars beng stopped IN ten seconds by tham and once
three-quarters of nile. He believed thar tbe ex-
press train on the night Of tue accIdent ought TO
have been stopped by them within TWO or three
minutes after they were applied.
Simon Graham, . former bridge tender at the New
Hamburg drawbridge testified III relation TO the du
ties to be performed there:It Is an order that the
bridge light to he turned unless tho draw
open: had he been employed at the bridge the night
oi the accident the first thing he would have don't
when the express hove IN sight would have been I'd
from tho drawbrdge to tho water iauk In two min,
utes; II there had been crank to turn the tower
light nc could nave turned cn1 II IN n minute
time table books and copies OF instruction from tue
superintendent TO the employees were handed by
him to tho jury for Inspection all OF which were IN
force on February o, 1871; these contain all tho
general rules; have copy OF other orders Issued.
Witness then read them-tney referred TO the Of
bc-corda and giving Instructions 70 conductors IN
regard to the manner of stringing them and
requiring cautioni; witness then stated that Mr..
John N. Flood IL In command OF the fourth division
OF the road, On which the accident occurred, and de-
scribed tho detcs OF roadmasters. part OF which
was the control Of the light at the drawbrdge. The
grade at the bridge continues half nile below IL;
lne object OF the tower light is TO indlcae the post
uon OF the draf; ] know OF no defect In that
light on the 9th OF February; 1t n
about twenty-five feet from the track; engi.
neers arc not allowed to have persons on
thcir engines without special order: Simmons
had no order thar nights train milo off would
get danger signal from the draw tower quicker
than from the track. but o half mile or the track
signal would be the best or, at least as quick;
we think patent brakes the most improved method
OF stopping trains the president OF the road gave
needed rebuilding TO build Iron ones In their stead.
Peter Dow swOIn-I was middle brakeman on the
second Pacific express my busness was to see that
the patents were in order before leaving Thrtieth
street and to watch the brakes in the centre OF the
train; was stationed between the dfth and sixth
from the engine. and always stand inside Of the
with brakemen; that night when the whistle
sounded for brakes ! was inside the door OF the
fourth sleeper; felt the enSlneer shut on
out and took hold or the brakes, when
a crash came; had not turned the brake; IL was
only three four seconds a'ter the engineer blowcd
before the crash came; we were twenty yards north
OF the water tank when heard the whistles one OF
the patent brakes was not applled all the patents
the sleepeIs We're connected with the nam cord:
We were going at the rate or eighteen or twenty
miles per hour when the crash came; the patent
brakes were not applied before the accident occur
red, because II they mad been We could not have
showed the cars back.
The inquest VIII be resumed nj TWO O'CLOCK t0-
morrow afierii0On.