The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-20
WRECKED A FAST
MAIL TRAIN.
Fiendish Work Done on the
New York Central
Road.
ROBBERY THE MOTIVE.
Five Young Men Pulled Spikes
From the Rails and Caused
the Disaster.
THE ENGINEER WAS KILLED.
Eleven Other Persons, Principally
Attaches of the Train, Were
Badly Injured.

ROME, n. Y, Nov. 19.-The deliberate
wrecking of the fast mail train No. 6, east
bound, on the New York Central road,
was accomplished about three miles west
of this city at 20 o'clock this morning.
The wreckers had broken open the com.
pany's Toulouse near by and obtained a
wrench and crowbar with which all the
spikes and fshplates from two opposite
rails on the soutteriy track had been re-
moved. The two released rails were left in
their places on the track.
AS the train, comprising four mailcars
and three sleepers, came along, at the rate
of abount forty miles an hour, the Iocomo-
tive left the track, bounded over the ties
and fell sidewise into the ditch twelve feet
deep on the south side of the track. The
first two mailcars shot oyer the engine,
one landing fully seventy-tive feet from
the point where the engine left the track.
The second and third mailcars came to-
gether in a V shape and the wreck of the
engine lay in the open space between
them.
Under the third mailcar. pinned in the
trucks and stone dead, was found Engi.
neer Hager. The fourth mailcar was
toppled part way over. The first two
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last one renamed on the trucks. Strange
to say, the two loose rails had not been
thrown from the roadbed. the last car re-
naming 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 smashup
Injured: Billy or Bobby last name
unknown, from Syracuse, tramp, died
after being removed from the wreck; e.
Rardon, mail clerk, head and body cnt and
bruised; ]. E. Lavaince, 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; G.. w.
| Sackett, Herkhimer, mail clerk, arm cut
and bruised; n. ]. Mccarthy, Buffalo,
porter mailcar, head cut and bruised; r.
B. Peck, Syracuse, mail clerk, head cut
and bruised; Conductor G. r. Reynolds,
Albany, injured in the chest; John R.
Macy, tramp, Syracuse. foot smashed and
am putated, he is at the Home Hospital;
C. Wagner, Albany, fireman. head cut.
The tools with which the spikes were
pulled were on the track after the wreck.
One week ago last Sunday night a fish.
plate was loosened where this mornings
accident occurred. Several trains passed
over the place in safety. The matter was
discovered by the track walker the follow.
ing morning and watch was kept there
each night until last night.
Three young fellows aged IS to 19 years,
have been arrested for wrecking the train.
They are ]. Watson Hildreth of New York,
Fred Bristol and Herbert Plato of Rome.
Hildreth has made confession impli.
eating the other two and still another
named Hibbard, who has not been appre.
hended. Their object was robbery.