Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11
NIHILISTIC.
An Express Train Going Thirty Miles
an Hour Lifted from the Track.
Miraculous Escape OF ThIrty-one Passengers
from Instant Death-The Object was to
Wreck Freight Trains.

ALBANY, N. Y, Sept. 5.-Last night
train wrecking was made on the New
York Central about four miles south of
Greenbush. Luckily only one-hslf of
the attempt was successful and no loss
| of life or serious injury resulted. The
second section of the Montreal sleeper
out of New York, due here at 1880,
consisting of the engine and eight sleep
ers, was derailed, but barring the shak-
ing up of the passengers and the bruis-
ing of half a dozen or more, nothing
more serious than the wreoking of the cars
occurred relief train was Immediate
ly dispatched from here to the scene
bearing Superintendent BissilI, Chief of
Police Willard, three physicians and an
Associated Press reporter. The train
was twenty-five minutes late and was
running thirty miles an hour at this
point, and when the engine struck the
obstruction on the track it was lifted up
ward in the air and the whole train was
thrown from the track. The forward
part of the engine was suspended in the
air. The engineer and fireman both
stuck to their posts. The first sleeper
containing twenty-five passengers slid
down an embankment and came to q
standstill on its side. None of the pas
sengers in this car were injured outside
of a few bruises. The second coach
TURNED A COMPLETE soAIERsAULT,
landing in ditch bottom side up. In
this car were only two passengers, Mr..
and Mrs. Jenkins of Brooklyn, the CON-
ductor and porter. Mrs. jenkins was
found to be more frightened than hurt.
The third car was thrown directly across
the ditch at right angles with the track.
There were eight passengers in this
coach, making in all thirty-one
persons who were fortunately saved
from instant death. The other five
sleepers did not leave the roadbed, but
were lying obliquelY across the north
bound track, while the fourth coach was
suspended in the air over the ditch, held
in place by its coupling and the re-
sistanoe offered by the weight of the |
other three coaches. Conductor Maurice |
McAullffe was the first to appear out of
wreck, and arrangements were made to |
signal other trains which were due. |
When all the passengers had been taken |
out the cars it was found that Mrs. |
} Jenkins was the only one who needed |
medical attendance, she haying received |
a severe blow on the head. Superin-
teudent BIssell made On Investigation as
to
THE CAUSE OF THE WRECK
and found a Ieil damned into the cattle
guards weugeT with timbers and Sc
curely held by fishplates, while the ar
was placed IN a slanting posi-
ton SO as to lift the train clear off the
track. Mr. Bissell also found similar |
Instructions on the south bound track,
little way below where the distractions
had been placed on the north bound
track. The relief train returned here at
10 q. m. bringing all the passengers
back to this city.
The evident intention in placing the
Instructions on the track was to accom-
Dlish the destruction of valuable freight
trains which pass both ways ut that
time of night, the train wreckers evil
iently thinking the train that was
wrecked passed on time. Third Vice
President Webb has telegraphed Super
ntendent Bissell he has offered a re-
ward of $4,000 for the detection and con-
fiction of the person or persons who
placed the distractions on the track.
j. j. Howard of the general executive
BOARD of the Knights of Labor, arrived
lsre and had consultation with Messrs.
Wright and DeYlin as to the advisability
# offering $40 900 reward for the arrest
md conviction of the persons who placed
he obstruction on the track.