Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-01-02
TRAINS COLLIDE.
Disaster on tho New York Central
Road In Which Eleven Lives We're


Road In Which Eleven Lives Were
Lost. |
New YORK, Dec. 25.-A frightful
collision occurred on the New York
Central & Hudson River railroad at
s45 o'clock Thursday evening 1 mile
north OF Hastings between the st.
Louis express and the Niagara express.
Eleven persons were killed and many
were injured.
This accident was directly the out
come of collision earlier in the tun-
mel at Sing Sing prison between
freight train and the Croton local.
The first accident blocked the
road with trains both north
and south of the suuaol, eod the
weather being thick it was diff
cult to run trains with any degree of
safety under the existing circum-
stances. The St. Louis express left
the depot at Sp. M, and forty five
minutes later the locomotive crashed
into the rear sleeper of the Niagara
express, which had been caught IN the
blockade.
A brakeman had been sent back
1000 yards to flag the train following.
He did not meet it and kept on down
the track until he reached the Hastings
station. The ST. Louis express was
not yet in sight. The brakeman went
into the station and stopped to take a
drink and talk with the station master.
He stood near the door ready to go out
and signal the train as soon as she was
sighted. He was still talking when
the express dashed by.
| II roipr ot tho rafa of 40 ni1pQ
an hour. Those in charge had no
warning that the track was not clear
until within few yards of the rear of
the stalled special. The engineer re-
versed the lever, turned on the air
brakes and jumped just as the crash
came. His fireman, too, tried to jump,
but fell and was seriously if not fatally
injured. The locomotive, with the
momentum of its speed and the great
weight behind, struck the rear sleeper
with terrific force. There was a crash
of broken glass, cracking timber and
kissing steam, followed by shrieks OF
, terror and groans of pain from the
panic-stri'ken and injured passengers.
Then the boiler of the locomotive burst
and hot water and steam added to the
horror of the accident. The sleeper-a
Wagner palacc-car-contained eighteen
persons. The car was telescoped and
| only three of its occupants escaped
serious injury.
The locomotive. when it crashed into
| the sleeper, exploded it's boiler. The
escaping steam did deadly work on the
5 poor victims who We're in the wreck
The trainmen lost their heads and rar
oh in, , FRO, 10 r,aarir,c inf
the wreck in search of those groaninl
: and dying. Physicians from Yonkers
, accamponied by Coroner Mitchell. wen
to the scene of the disaster with al
a possible speed. The dead and injured
S were taken to that city on a specia
0 train. Coroner Mitchell looked afte
4 the dead and the police sent their am
balances and patrol wagons to tn
S depot to remove the injured to the dit
ferent hospitals in Yonkers and vi
o cinity.
!. Superintend dent Mccoy telegraphe
!, from the scene of the accident at 2 q
+ m. that there were four unidentife
dead at Tarrytown and that tn
4 only man who could identify them
n the sleeping car conductor, was dead
One of the passengers on
o train which arrived in the city at 2 G
r M, after being delayed more than 81
,. hours, said that the depot at 1arrytow
looked like a military hospital after
;. battle. The dead were lying at on
r end of the room, while the rest of tn
n floor was covered with the il
q jured The groans and cries of tn
n injured added to the confusion whic
It prevailed everywhere. One of the frs
e dead bodies brought out was that c
q Mrs. Baldwin. 1t was terribly mangle
+ and burned. Homer, her son, fainte
% as he recognized his mothers body.