New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-14

stances. Trainmen have been predicting such an
accident for several years
Fully dozen injured persons, after having
their injuries dressed, went away without giving
their names. Most OF the passengers were people
on the way to the mountain summer resorts
Conductor Anderson said: When the train
Jumped the track was in next to theiast coach,
was thrown violently between two seats and
when I recovered IL was all over. The coaches
lurched and bumped along like they were alive.
have no doubt that the accident was caused by
,he engine jumping the track, for if the switch
was open the coaches would not have left the
track. The engineer declares the signals were all
right II is ono of those things in ralroading
that will happen. The scene of the wreck was
awful. Coaches, freight cars and engines were
mixed together with rails and crossties, and the
roadbed was torn up for twenty-five yards. Coach
No. II was completely demolished. The engine OF
the express was mass Of broken steel and iron
The 'front.' of the freight engine was torn away.
The freight yard contains large number OF
tracks. all branching out Nom this switch. The
tracks were filled with freight cars. II was
into this mass the express plunged, The switch
has been tended ten years by Michael Donohnc
He Is corro6orated IN ms statement tnat ,ne
nous in their opinion that no one Is to blame,
that the accident was unavoidaele Assistant
Division-Supcrntcndent Watson is here, ana has
ordered that no expense be spared in caring TOT
the injured. bookkeepcIH of Mead a. Tart,
OF Cornwall, was on his way'to Newburg to make
a deposit of $4,000. The purse containing the
returned by Michael Flanagan, an cmploye of
the ~Pennsylvania Coal Company Many
persons were thrown twenty and thirty feet One
woman was thrown over a tenfoot fence ana
had her arm torn from its socket The tram
newsboy James Nelson. WIS thrown into a freight
car loaded with oats and was not found for
some time.
wreck. There is no delay in traffic.
st. I4ukes Hospital, which is of limited capaclty,
has done wonders in caring for, the injured
Miss Laura Henton, of Highland Falls, although
both logs are broken. was able TO talk She thinks
the UNKNOWN dead woman is a bride who sat
happily in the scat in front of her when tine
collision occurred Miss Heaton was on her way
20 Newburg TO buy pair of shoes. =, -,
Among those in the, wrecked train We're +. ".
Marsh wife. son and daughter, of bridgeport
Conn. Tho party were on their way 10 chicago
IL Is the most ieht," railroad wreck he ever
saw. One miraculous escape reported Is that OF
boy who was thrown through a winlow anu
landed twenty feet away. A mover, AwS,eiu.
10 =" Mrs Maylander, South Eiehteentn-st'' Brpok-
lyn," was found tonight 1t is Thought y De
Glow 10 the unknown woman. Inc town -
thronged with people looking Tor friends ana
Tho Michels were the family of Leopold Michel,
a wealthy retired dealer in diamonds, whose nome
to the country TO spend the heated term. 1t is
said that Mrs Wright, who was killed, was the
mother of Mi>. Michel. 20
Coroner Corwin empanncled the following jury:
James Hastings; foreman: John s. Wilson. Joseph
Hampson. Richard Samuel. James Fitzgerald,
Charles II. Van Gorden. William II. b. Sands
William II. Pope BoarJman s. Brown, The jury
ground at the wreck and adjourned until o o'clock
to- morrow morning.