Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-22
DIABOLICAL DEED.
Three Peys Wreck the New York
Central Mail Train.
Engineer Killed and Several Railroad
Men Hurt-Arrest Of the
Perpetrators.

Rome, n. Y, Nov. 19.-The deliberate
wreclling of the fast mail train No. 6,
east-bound on the New York Central
railroad, was accomplished about three
miles west of this city at 4:20 o'clock
Tuesday morning. The wreckers had
broken open the company's tool house
near by and obtained wrench and
crow-bar, with which all the spikes and
fisll-plates from two opposite rails on
the southerly track had been removed.
The two released rails were left in their
places on the track. AS the train COM
prising four mail cars and three Sleep
ing cars came along at the rate of about
40 miles an hour, the locomotive left
the track, bounded over the ties and
fell side-wise into the ditch ~ feet
deep on the south side of the track.
The first two mail cars shot over the
engine, the first one landing fully rs
feet from the point where the engine
left the track.
The second and third mail cars came
together in ~" shape and the wreck
of the engine lay in the open space be-
tween them. Under the third mail
car, pinned down by pair of trucks
and stone dead, was found Engineer
Hager. The fourth mail car was top
pied part way over. The first two sleep
ers were partly turned over and the
last one remained on the tracks.
Strange to say, the two loose rails had
not been thrown from the roadbed, the
last car remaining on them. There
were about so passengers in the three
The passengers We're taken east on an
other train shortly after the accident.
The Killed and Injured.
The killed and wounded in the smash
up are:
Killed-Nathan N. Hager. engineer.
Injured-..Billy" or Bobby" last name
unknown, from Syracuse, a tramp, died
after being removed from wreck; F. Rear
don, Herkimer, mall clerk, head and body
cut and bruised; j. e. Lavine, New York
mail clerk, upper arm bruised and sprained
and face cut; H. D. Robinson, Syracuse, mail
clerk ankle sprained: T. N. Paddock, Syra-
cuse mailclerk, arm cut; c. w. Sackett, Her.
kimer. mail clerk, arm cut and bruised; NJ. J.
Mccarthy, Buffalo, porter mail car head
cut and bruised; r. B. Peck, Syracuse, mail
clerk, head cut ana bruised: Conductor G..
II. Reynolds, Albany, injured in the chest;
John r. Macy, tramp, Syracuse, right foot
smashed and amputated. He is at Rome
hospital; c. Wagner, Albany, fireman,
head cut.
The tools with which the spikes were
pulled were found on the track after
the wreck.
Previous Attempt to Wreck Train.
One week ago last Sunday night
fish plate was loosened near the point
where Tuesday mornings accident oc
Cured. Several trains passed over the
place in safety. The matter was dis
covered by the track walker the follow
ing morning and a watch was kept there
each night till Monday night.
Tho Train 1yreckers Arrested.
Three young fellows, aged from 1s
to 10 years. have been arrested for
wrecking the fast mail train Tuesday
morning. They are: J.Watson Hildreth,
of New York; Fred Bristoland Herbert
Plato, of Rome. Hildfeth has made n
confession duplicating the other two
and Theodore Hibbard, who has not
been apprehended. Their object was
robbery.