New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-14
THE NEWS AT ALBANY.

FIRST INFORMATION OF THE ACClDENf-bSPAICH
FROM JOIN f. sMYTH.
IBY TELEGRAPH 70 TIE TEIBUNE.l
albany, Jan. 13.--Thc news ot the terrible acci-
dent 10 the railway train that usually leaves here
at 2:i0 D. ln on the Hudson River Railroad did not
reach this city till near midnight. A little
earlier private dispatch had been received from
John +. Smyth who was on The train, addressed to
his wife IN which be sad, d" Am not hurt Senator
Wagner Just taken out badly hurt" Inquiries at
the derot and at The hotels showed that nearly all
the New-York and Brookyn Senators and Assembly
men were on the tIan. II he following are stated
10 have been aboard: Senators Jacobs Fitzgerald,
Dslv Macllin, Herman, Covert, Browning. Jones'
Russell, and As-emleymen Ahcrn Began, Brodshy
Erastus Brooks, Catln, Chapin, J. J. Costello,
Crane. Cullen, Englp Gideon. Lindsay, McCleIland,
McManus, Maher, Monk, Morrison, Murphy, New
man. Ni.lutsch, Patgcn, Roosevelt Shanley, L. G..
Sheeby, Tghe aud Van Allen
The following New-Yorl, Senators and assembly,
men are still here: Senator'S Grady, Koch, Treanor
and Bovd, aud Asscmhlymen Brccn and Sheridan.
They were greatly shocked by the news OF the pos
Sible fate of their feow-meAberS. Among the
o her passengers on the train were George William
Curtis. who has been here attending the meeting Of
In. Board of Regents, Police Commissioner Sidney p;
Nichols. Edward Cahill, Maurice J. Holahan,
Charles Swan, John +. Smyth AugustnI
Snow. Hiram CalkiuS Edward kcarnoys
Hubert O. Thompson. Commissioner Of Public
Works. Thomas J. Creamer John Keenan, and eX;
Assemblyman Douglas. The time for ting
leaving of the train was 2:4O p. H., but
it departed twcnty-sX minutes late. The train
was composed of thirteen cars of which eight We're
drawingroom cars. There first came the baggage
cars. then five of The drawing-rOom cars and then
three more drawing-rOOm cars. These cars
were the Empire the Minnehaha and the
Idcwild The Empire was the last car,
the Ninnehaha the middle, and the ldlewild
the first. The Empire is said here to have
suffered the most. Who ITS occupants were Is un-
known also. There il testimony that
Police Commissioner Nichols and Edward
Eearney, twO of the Tammany Commis-
sioners were in it, In the Minehaha
the disposition was as follows: In large private
room there were Senator Wagner and Edward r.
Phelps and wife in one of the smaller rooms there
were Senators Jacobs and Herman and Thomas j.
Crcamer and Edward Carr II in another OF the
smaller private rooms there were Senators DAILY
and Browning. ex-A As.emblymcn Douglas and
Nathan Comsock In The large room there were
seated several Senators and Asscmblymcn whose
names cauno; be learned Among the occupants Of
the last car were Assemblyman Murphy and eX-
great anxiety felt by the members
Of the Legislature here to learn
the fate Of their friends. Few dispatches have been
received respecting the accident and none, except
from Mr. Smyth, regarding personal safety The
railroad officials declare that they have no dis
patches respecting even the number OF or names
of the killed and wounded The names of
the persons who were on the train were obtained
with great difficulty all Of the employees of the
railroad present al the time Of the departure OF the
train had gone TO their homes. 1t is sus-
pectcd that many of the Senators and As
semblvmen from the interior of the state
were on the train; some OF them had spoken of Their
intention of going 10 New-York and remaining over
Sunday. The Legislature had adjourned at 1890
D. M, giving tho members abundant time to eat
their dinner pack their carpet-bags and reach the
train. such an unusually large number
of ttem jourueyed to New-York by the train that
the Hudson River Railroad Company was compelled
10 put on three extra drawingrOom cars and two
dnary passenger cars Dispatches have been swiftly
passing between this cit and Newly IN Ieationio
the safety of the members. for the past two hours
Int no information of value has been received.
With the exception Of the little group of New-York
Senators and Assemblymen mentioned as having re-
main here there are few members of the Legislature
in the city. When the train departed
all the Senators and Assemblymen
aboard were in high spirits over their
release from their weeks work. The news Of tho