The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-02-09
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A railroad accident-terrible to con-
sider-occurred on the Hudson River
Railroad, eight miles below Pough-
keepsie, Feb7.
NEW YORK, Feb. THE following
particulars in regard to the terrible ac-
cident on the Hudson River Railroad
have been obtained in this city from
eve witnesses: The freight train,
| which caused the accident consisted OF
about twenty-five cars, most of which
carried tanks filled with oil. Before
leaving Albany every car was care
fully inspected by the wOrkmen and
no defect was discovered. When the
train reached the wooden bridge over
Wappinger's creek, at Hamburg,
about eight miles below Poughkeep-
sie,a sudden shock passed through the
entire train, almost throwing it from
the track. Upon examination it was
| found that the axle on the tenth car
had been broken. The car had then
broken loose from its couplings, ca
reened on one side struck against the
| frame work of the bridge and lay q
total wreck upon the track. Almost
at the same moment, and before a sig
nal or note of warning could be
raised, the express train, which
had left the city at eight O'Clock,
came rushing at the rate of thirty
miles an hour. The engine struck the
wrecked car with terrible force, setting
fire to the oil, scattering infiammable
materials, and the burning fragments
of the car in all directions. The force
of the collision instantly threw the
engine over the bridge into the creek.
The ice was very thick at the time,
but unable to bear the weight of the
locomotive, which broke through the
ice and sank. The tender of the en-
gine also fell into the creek. Imme-
diately behind the engine were two
baggage cars, which were followed by
sleeping car full of passengers. The
flames from the oil tank soon set fire
to those cars, which after striking the
wreck fell into the creek, a burning
mass.
1t is said that some of the passen-
gers in the sleeping cars succeeded in
leaping from the car. in time to save
themselves from death, but the rest
were carried with the car over the
bridge, and were either drowned or
burned to death. The body of P. H.
Vosburgh, conductor of the sleeping
car, was afterwards found, with the
lower extremities burned away.
PoUGHKEEPsIE, February 1.-THE
following are the names of the per-
sons killed by the railroad accident, as
has been ascertained
David Simmons, engineer; DIR.
Nancreed, of New York VosbuIgh,
conductor of sleeping car; James Staf-
ford Of New York, baggage master;
Vosburgh, porter of sleeping car; Rev.
Morrill, Fowler, wife and two children,
of Batavia, New York; Mr.. George S.
Benedict, one of the publishers Of the
Cleveland Herald.
In the pockets of VOsburg, the con-
ductOr, was found q memorandum of
the berths taken, containg the names
Of Lowell, Fowler and Pease of Buffa-
10; Curry, SOrbis and Germanuel of
Rochester; DR.. Nancreed, Of n. Y.
and Rosenthal and Forbush. Nine
teen bodies have been recovered, but
none have been found since twelve
o'clock.
LATER.
NEW YORK, February THE fol-
lowing are additional names of the
killed in the accident w. c. Curry,
Of Erie, Pa; L. A. Rort, A. A. Gillett,
Lowell, Rosenthal, Manual and For
bush, and Mrs. E. S. Pease, of Buffa-
ly; Rollin Germain, George F. Thomp-
son, E. Lawrence and Mooney, q
hrakaDoan all Of thia aitv