The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1895-11-23
BOY BANDITS DERAIL THE FLYER.
The Fast Mail Thrown From the New York
Central Tracks Near Rome. u. L.

The Fast Mail Thrown From the New fork
Central Tracks Near Rome, n. Y.
Rome, Nov. 19-The Central Hudson
detectives arrested two young boys
named John Hildreth and Frederick Brts-
toll this afternoon on charge Of having
been connected with the wrecking OF
train No. 6 this morning. After the ar
rest young Hildreth broke down and
confessed that he, in company with
Frederick Bristol Herbert Plato and
Theodore Hubbard, all boys, had broken
into the tool house during the night and,
securing tools, removed the fsh-plateS
from the rails.
All but Hubbard were arrested at
their homes.
He gave no cause for the deed, but il
is supposed among the railroad men
that the boys had been reading stories
of train robbers and bandits, until they
became fired with desire to emulate
them.
Hildreth is about nineteen, and Is the
son Of a wealthy New York lawyer,
who sent him into the country two OF
three years ago. Fred. Bristol, Herbert
Plato and Theodore Hubbard are all
about eighteen, and live in Rome. They
have all been captured save one.
Train No. on the CentraI-Hudson
railroad was derailed two miles west OF
Rome at 4 o'clock this morning. The
accident was caused by train wreckers,
who entered neighboring Toulouse
and unfastened the fish plates on the
rails, allowing them to spread.
Engineer Nathan N. Hager, Of this
city, whose home is at No. 17s Living
ston avenue, was killed.
Two tramps were killed and two postal
clerks were injured.
Christopher Wagner, of this city, the
fireman, was injured, but Is expected to
recover.
Postal Clerks Porter and Michael =.
Mccarthy were bruised about the head.
The other clerks escaped injury.
Engine No. SsS, which drew the train,
and is Familiarity known as the three
Fights" by railroad men, was consumed
by flames and all of the train, consisting
Of four mail and three sleeping cars were
derailed and the cars piled over the en-
CINE The cars were completely wrecked.
This is the second attempt within
three weeks to wreck the same train
near the same point, the perpetrators Of
the deed evidently being not only ia
miliar with the spot, but also with the
character of the train, which is one OF
the heaviest on the road
The killed and wounded so far as
known are:
NATHAN M. HAGER, engineer, AL
bany, killed.
BILLY BOND, of Syracuse, tramp,
riding on platform between first and
second mail cars, died after being re-
moved from the wreck.
E. 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.
c. w. SACKETT, Herkimer, mail
clerk, arm cut and bruised.
NJ j. MCCARTHY, Buffalo, porter
mail car, head cut and bruised. His
wounds were dressed at Rome Hospital,
and he 1T there.
r. D. Eek, Syracuse, mail clerk,
head cut and bruised
Conductor JAMES R. REYNOLDS,
Observation-Disclosures injured in the
chest.
JOHN r. MACY, tramp, No SOC Os-
form between first and second mail
cars, right foot smashed and amputated.
He is at the Rome Hospital.
C. WAGNER, Albany, fireman, head
cut, taken to the home of a relative in
Oneida.
The body of Engineer Hager is in
charge of Undertaken F. M. Orion, Of
Rome.
The tramp who was killed in the wreck
was identified as BILLY" Bond, of SYRIA
cuse. He and John Macy left this city
last night for New York, saying before
they went away that they intended to
beat" their paSsabe, and were in hopes
of reaching New York tonight. Bond
had been a bartender at Congress Hall
until last June, when he went to work
at the Hotel imperial, remaining there
until July /. His home is in Oswego,
where his mother lost her life in fire
last May. Macy is a shoemaker by
trade. He has not been working Of late,
and was going to New York.
The scene where the wreck occurred
is an ideal one for the commission of
the crime. 1t Is on q heavy down grade,
which extends from Verona into Rome,
and trains usually run down it at the
rate of sixty-five miles an hour. This
train, not stopping at Rome, generally
goes down the grade at a greater rate Of
speed, and it is believed that to-day it
must have been running close to sew
enty-five miles an hour in order to make
I'D a few mi~ utes' lost time. The coun-
try in the immediate vicinity is swampy
and a ditch from four to six feet in
depth extends along the side Of the rails,
and most of the time 1t Is filled with
water. The place is Of the widest, no
houses being within a half mile OF the
place.