The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-20
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hhu NAhdsh-up on Nhs New Aoch Gentrhi RalHoad-Two Killed, Ten Injured- Spikes Had Been Pulled and Fish, Plates kemoved-Three Arrests Made,
 Rome, N, Y,, Nov 19,-The deliberate wrecking of fast mail train No, S, east bound on the New York Central rail- road, was accomplished about three miles west of this city at 4:2O o'clock this morning. The wreckers had brok- en open the companSfs tool house near by and obtained a wrench and crow bar, with which all the spikes and fish 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 comprising four mail cars and three sleeping cars came along at the rate of about forty miles an hour the locomotive left the track, bounded over the ties and fell sideways into the twelve feet deep ditch on the south side of the track
 The first two mail cars shot over the engine, the first one landing fully sev- enty-flve feet from the point where the engine left the track. The second and third mail cars came together in V shape and the wreck of the engine lay in the open space between them. Un- der the second mall car, pinned down by pair of trucks and stone dead, was found Engineer Hager.
 The fourth mail car was toppled part way over. The first two sleepers were partly turned over and the last one re- mained on the tracks. Strange to say, the two loose rails had not been thrown from the roadbed, the last car remain ing upon them.
 There were about fifty passengers in the three sleepers, and not one of them was hurt. The passengers were taken east on another train shortly after the accident.
 The killed and wounded in the smash up are:
 Nathan N. Hager, engineer, Albany, killed.
 Billy Qast name unknown), from Syr- acuse, tramp, riding on platform be- tween first and second mail cars, died after being removed from wreck.
 F. Reardon, Herkimer, mail 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.
 F. N. Paddock, Syracuse, mail clerk. arm cut.
 l c. w. Sackett, Herkimer, mail clerk, arm cut and bruised.
 M. J. Mccarthy, Buffalo, porter, mail car, head cut and bruised His wounds were dressed at Rome hospital and he left then.
 R. B. Peck, Syracuse, mail clerk, head cut and bruised
 Conductor Charles R. Reynolds, Alba ny, injured in the chest.
 John R. Macy, tramp, 509 Oswego street, Syracuse, riding on platform be- tween first and second mail cars, right foot crushed and amputated.
 c. Wagner, Albany, fireman, head l cut, taken uO the HoIle ol d feldllVe III l Oneida.
 The body of Engineer Hager is in charge of Undertaken F. M. Orton of this city
 The tools with which the spikes were pulled up were found on the track after the wreck. l One week ago last Sunday night a fish plate was loosened near the point where this mornings accident occurred, Several trains passed over the place in safety. The condition of the track was discovered by the track walker on the l following morning and a watch was i kept there each night until last night
 Three young men, aged IS to 19 years, have been arrested charged with caus- ing the wreck.
 They are J. Watson Hildreth of New York, Fred Bristol and Herbert Plato of Rome
 FIildreth has made confession impli- eating the other two, and another man of the name of Theodore Hubbard, who has not been apprehended. Their ob- iect was robbery.
 The arrests were made by Detective Latham of the New York Central and Policeman Heating of Rome. They found Tfildreth's hat with his name in it in some bushes near the wreck.
 Upon confronting him with this evi- dence he weakened and told who his accomplices were and their object.
 Joseph Wilkes, aged eighteen, has been arrested. It is said he was taken into the confidence of the four other boys when they were planning the wreck, but that he refused to go with them. Confessions have been made by all the other boys of their guilt. One of the boys confessed that they had a number of revolvers hidden in the woods near the railroad track. District Attorney Klock was closeted with the prisoners nearly all the day, and detec tives have been Investigating. A large crowd is about the police station. The prisoners are closely guarded. There i. no evidence that others besides those apprehended were in the plot Coroner Mock to-day began an in quest on the bodies of Engineer Hagel and the tramp Robert Bond, who were killed.
 
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