New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-14
THE NEF-HAMBURGH DISASTER.

TIE BRAVE FNGINEER-SCENRS AT THE WRECK
RAISING THE LoCOMOTIvE-A PITIFUL SIGHT.
NEw-HAMBURGH, Feb. 13.-The great rail-
way disaster is still the chief topic Of conversation, and
the history of Doc Simmons the expresstrain engineer
is generally discussed In all his conversations with
! railroad men, Simmons would never advocate jumping
from an engine in time of danger On one occasion he
said, al would squat" He meant he would squat
behind the boiler and trust TO going through with what
ever might obstruct the track That was undoubtedly
the course he took the fatal Monday night Nearly
all his comrades on River Road that he was
rashy brave They argue that after the patent brakes
were pulled his engine reversed and the throttle opened
he had done all his power to the train and that
then he should have jumped TO save himself
Heleft little child Poughkeepse his daughter by his
first wife. He visited here very Sunday regularly Inc
day previous TO the accident he called to her and
when they parted, as his custom, he kissed her
fondly and bade her goodby Having gone little way
be returned and again and again bid her good-by. All
the locomotives the road draped In morning in re-
spect to his memory.
To-day crowds OF people gathered about the fatal
drawbrdge watching the work OF raising the locomo
tive This afternoon all the arrangements were com
pleted and by means OF levers the locomotive
began 10 rise slowly but surely and safely and as the
drivers TO view all were conferred upon that
portion Of them next TO where the engineers house should
stand 1t there the body OF the enggeer ana the
friend who was with him expected TO be found.
Every one supposed that the dead engineer would be
found upon the foOboard but as the engine was raised
still higher all doubts removed the footboard was
clear This fact at communicated by telegraph
To SUPERINTENDENT Toucey who Mt Thrtieth-s and
he replied Search one hour more, then II you 40 not
find any bodies send the diver down again" -
The diver says there vast heap Of rubbish or DEBRIS
near where the engine lay and thinks that In that rub
hsb bodies NAV be found He, therefore, proposes to
gapple the whole heap with chains and hoist it, Just as
the locomotive was lifted. After consultation u was
concluded 10 postpone the exploration below the surface
Of the water tin "A O'Clock tomorrow morning.
Pieces Of gold chains, portion OF bracelet, ana
chain taken from the top OF the boiler OF the
locomotive this afternoon having probably fallen there
from broken trunks. State surveyors are mere to-day
from the Senate Committee, making surveys.
Mrs. Sarah Bennett who has been stopping mere 10
ascertain her husband ON the ilfated tram mas
inst returned from POukeepsie, where she has been 10
see if could identify any Of the loose clothing OF
which the undertaken took charge She identlied ms
hat and two pocket handkercnefs, and then tainted
She says her husband had with him gold watch and
hair chain, a lOcket with the babys picture In, ana
photograph OF himself and her one card She now
thinks that ne was the man on the engine with the
engineer, and that he secured ride there to save