Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-20
TRAIN WRECKERS CAUGHT One of Them Has Made a Full
 Confession. THEIR O SGT WAS ROBBERY They Rem z the Spikes and Fish Plates From
 q the Rails TO 2 c0MPLlSH THEIR PURPOSE ,s
 Thfe q s'aeor was Dashed to Death, but the Fifty TasseIgors Were Not Hurt.
 Several Mail Clerks Wore sss Badly 1njaeed.
2 c0MPLlSH THEIR PURPOSE

Rome. N. Y. Nov. 19.-The deliberate wreckng of fast mail train No 6, east bound, on the New York Central, was ac- complished about three miles west of this city at 4:S0 this morning. The wreckers had broken open the company's tool house near by and obtained wrench and crowbar. with which all the spikes and fish plates from two opposite rails on tho 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 side wise into the ditch 12 feet deep on the south side of the track.
 The first two mail cars shot over the engine, the first one landing fully 75 rect 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 laid in the open space between them. Under the second mall car, pinned down by a pair of trucks and stone dead was found Engineer Hager. The fourth mail car was toppled part way over. The first two slepers 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 rocking upon them. There were about fifty passengers In the two slepers, and not one of them was hurt. The passengers were taken east on another train shotly after the accident:
 The killed and the wounded in the smash-up are:
 Nathan Hagar, engineer, Albany; killed.
 a tramp; died after being removed from the wreck.
 E. Reardon mail clerk; head and body cut and bruised.
 J. E. Lavine. New York, mail clerk; upper arm bruised and sprained ana race cut. .
 H. B. Robinson, Syracuse. mail clerk; ankle sprained
 F. N. Paddock, Syracuse. mail clerk; arm cut.
 c. w. sackett, Herkimer mail clerk; arm cut and bruised. M. J. Mccarthy, Buffalo, porter mall car; head cut and bruised. Conductor Charles K. Reynolds, Al- bany; injured in the chest.
 John Macey, tramp, Syracuse; right foot smashed and amputated. He IS at the Rome hospital.
 e. Wagner, Albany; fireman; head cut.
 The body of Engineer Hagar is in charge of Undertaken Orton of this city.
 The tools with which the spikes were pulled were found on the track after the wreck.
 One week ago last Saturday night fsh-pate 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 until last night.
 Three young fellows, aged IS and l9 years, have been arrested for wrecking the train. They are J. Watson Hildreth of New York, Fred Bristol and Herbert Plato of Rome. Hidreth has made confession duplicating the other two and Theodore Hubbard. who has not been apprehended. Their object was robbery. The arrests were made by Detective La than of the New York Central and Po- liceman Heating of Rome. They found Hildreth's hat with his name in 1t in some bushes near the wreck. Upon con fronting him he weakened and told who his accomplices were and their object.
 Twenty-two persons unhurt were ta- ken out of the windows of the sleeper, the Inca.
 All of the mail and sleeping cars were lighted with gas.
 Theodore Hubbard, the last of the four train wreckers, was captured at p. m, and is now in custody with the others.
 A yellow-covered history of the ex- pIoits of the James boys was found in one of Bristols pockets.