The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-19
CRIME OF FIENDS
Rails Loosened and a Fast
Mail Train Hurled to
Ruin.
NEAR ROME ON N. Y. CENTRAL
Two Dead and Many Injured
Done With the Railroads
Tools-A Previous
Attempt.

ROME. N. Y, Nov. 10. 1S95.-The de-
liberate wa-ecking of fast mail train No.
g. eastbound. on the New York Central
Railroad was accomplished about three
miles west of this city at 4:20 O'Clock
this morning. The wreckers had brok-
en- open the company's tool house near
by and obtained wrench and crowbaf,
with which all the spikes and fish-plates
from two opposite rails on the southerly
track had been removed. The two
released rails We're 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 ditch twelve feet deep on the
south side of the track. The flrst TWO
mail cars shot over the engine. the trst
one landing fully IS feet from the point
where the engine left the track. The
second and third mail cars came togeth-
Ell in "V'' shape. and the wreck OF the
engine lay in the open space betWeeh
them. Under the second rail car, pinned
down by a pair of trucks and stone dead
was found Engineer Hager. The fourth
mail car was found toppled part way
ly turned over and the last one re-
mained on the tracks. Strange to say
the two loose rails had not been thrown
from the road bed The last one re-
manning upon them.
A FEARFUL LIST.
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 ante:-
Nathan N. Hager. engineer, Albany,
Killed.
.Billy" or '.Bobby," last name un-
known. from Syracuse, tramp, rldlng
on platform between first and second
mail cars. died after being removed from
wreck.
r. Reardon Harimer. 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 out.
C. w. Sackett, Herkimer. mail clerk.
arm cut ana brulSed
NJ J. Mccarthy, Buffalo, porter, mail
car, head cut and bruised. His wounds
were dressed at Rome Hospital and he
left there
II. r. Peck, Syracuse. mail clerk,
head cut and bruised.
Conductor Charles r. Reynolds, AL
bany, injured in the chest
John r. Macy, tramp,5O9 Oswego street.
rid nlatfOrm between
first and second mail cars, right foot
smashed and amputated. He is at Rome
Hospital
c. Wagner, Albany, fireman, head cut
taken to the home of a relative IN
Oneida. IS
The tools with which the spikes were
pulled were found on the track after
the wreck.
A PREVIOUS ATTEMPT.
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 matter was discovered by
the track walker the following morning,
and a watch was kept there each night
till last night
The perpetrators of the accident have
not been apprehended. The police rail-
road detectives are following up susplc-
ions, with the hope of obtaining clue
that may lead to the arrest of the
wreckers.
THREE ARRESTS.
UATER:-Three young fellows, aged
1S to 10 years, have been arrested for
wrecking the fast mail train this morn
ing. They are ]. Watson Hildredth OF
New York Fred Bristol and Herbert Plate
of Rome Hildredth made a confession
duplicating the two others and Theodore
Hubbard, who has not been apprehended.
Their object was robbery. The arrests
were made by Detective Latham, OF the
New York Central, and Policeman Keat-
ing, of Rome. They found Hildreth's
hat with his name in it in some bushes
near the wreck. Confronting him, he
weakened anG told who his accomplices
were and their object.