Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-26
TRAIN IN THE RIVER.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT on THE NEW
YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD.
At LEAST NINETEEN LIVES LOST.
A Number Of People More or Less
Seriously Injured-Roadbed Gave
Cars Into the Stream.


| York Central and Hudson-River road.
| south bound, was wrecked. and most OF
| il was thrown into the river a mile south
| OF Garrison, and ffty-two miles north
| Of New York city. at ten minutes Of 6
| o'clock Sunday morning, nineteen per-
sons losing their lives, and nine being
| seriously hurt.
| The railroad men do not know how the
tragedy occurred. None of them can offer
| anything but a general theory Of why 1t
| occurred The river seems to have
| reached under a well Of rock. clutched
| great mass Of earth from under the
| tracks, and absorbed 1t along, with the
| engine and tender, a combination bag
| gage and smokng-car, and a Wagner
| car, which are submerged under the sur
| face. Nobody knows how long the pro-
| cess of undermining has been going on
| or how 1t began. So far as has been
| learned, nothing of the kind has ever
before happened along the river.
THE DEAD ARE:
w. S. BECKER, Newark, n. j., c5
| years old; drowned.
JOHN FOYLE, engineer of East AL
bany, n. Y, 56 years old; had been run
ming fast trains on the Central thirty
five years; leaves wife and family;
body not yet recovered.
A. II. GREEN, a young man supposed
to be an architect from Chicago, en-
ployed by w. A. Otis, of 175 Dearborn
street, Chicago. on his way to New York
on business; drowned.
GIUSEPPE PADUARUO. 35 years old
had in his pocket a photograph. taken
by Stillman, of Albion, n. Y, Of him
self and a woman and child in a group,
and a postal-card addressed to him to
Post-Offlce Box 147. Hulburton. N. Y,
from the Banca Tocci, 81 Park street,
New York; drowned.
A. G. MKAY, % years old. of 20 west
l12th street, New York, private secretary
to General-Manager Van Etten. of the
Central; married only six weeks ago;
body not recovered.
w. II. G. MEYER, of fremont, n. Y
THOMAS REILLY, Of ST. Louis,
elderly man, with bushy iron-gray
whiskers fairly well dressed. heavily
built. and little over medium height;
wore Grand Army of the Republic badge;
drowned.
JOHN TOMPKINs, fireman, 50. years
old, of East Albany had been on the
road seven years; leaves widow and
family; body not yet recovered.
SAMUEL WILLIAMS. OF Rochester,
n. Y; body taken to Peekskil ard then
to Cold Spring; one arm torn off and
probably died of shock.
WOMAN. unidentified medium height,
heavily built. dark hair and complexion,
and thick lips; apparently S5 years old.
Wore a gold wedding ring and rhinestone
ear drops; dark skirt and waist plaid
sack, plain leather belt; drowned in the
day coach
WOMAN, unidentified, apparently q
years old. rather slender, medium height.
dark hair anu complexion, good features,
dressed in mourning, belt with large,
gilt buckle: drowned in the day coach.
q Chinanan, supposed to WONG GIN
from letter addressed to that name
found in his clothing; drowned in the
combination-car
Chinaman. supposed to be HOP SING
from that name being found on a piece
of paper in his clothing; drowned in the
comDination-car
Six unidentified Cinnamon, all young
men, except one. who is apparently Is
or so years old, and strongly built.
THE INJURED ARE:
Buchanan, Charles. brakeman; broken
arm; taken to Flower Hospital.
DegaD, Patrick bruised and shaken;
taken to his home, at 200 west Forty
first street, New York.
Flood, John. laborer, of Stockport. ~
Y. cut and bruised and suffered from ex-
posure: taken to Flower Hospital.
Parson, Truman. 105 Hancock stree,
Brooklyn, cut and bruised about the body
fgly AA.1
Ryan, John e.. 26 years old and mar
ried, of Jersey City, ~ j., employed by
Stein e Co., druggists badly bruised.
left knee cut. and three fingers of his
left hand severed; Peekskill Hospital.
Morgan. Clarence, 2S years old. of New
York; left shoulder-blade broken; en-
ployed in the controllers office of the
Central railroad; Peekskill Hospital.
Three Cinnamon, in Peekskill Hospital.
A number Of others were hurt. but were
able TO continue their journey or go
home.
THE WRECKED TRAIN.
Train No. 46 was known as a State
train, because the cars came from points
within the State. When II left Buffalo
at 1880 o'clock on Saturday night il con-
sisted of an engine, an American Ex-
press-car combination baggage and
smoking-car, a day coach, and three Wag-
ner sleeping-cars. known as the Niagara
Falls, Toronto, and Buffalo sleepers. re-
spectively. At various other points along
the line were added three other sleeping
cars, known as the Rochester Canaan
daigua, and Montreal sleepers. making
the train of nine cars and the engine
For this time of year there were COM
paratively few passengers aboard the
train. According to the computations OF
the railroad officials, there were fifty-four
people in all when the train left Albany
at 3:4S o'clock this morning.
At this point Engine No. S72 was at
tached TO make the run to New York
On this engine were Engineer John
Foyle, Fireman John Thompson, and. il
is now decided A. G.. Mckay, private
secretary to Edgar Van Etten, general
superintendent of the system. Mr.. Nc
Kay had been on a tour of inspection.
and was returning home.
Back of the engine was the express
car. laden with packages and bundles.
and having in its safe over 100000 John
Smith, the messenger, sat in there,
wakeful and alone. Back of the express
car was the combination baggage and
smoking-car. In the baggage department
were Henry Acker. the baggage master,
and Melville Shore, agent for Westcott's
Express.
Adjoining this was the smoking COM
partment. and In IL were the eight
Cinnamon. sleepless and silent already
preparing to leave the train. They sat
together in the forward part OF the COM
partment, and back of them was Thomas
Reilly, tall, with "A bushy gray beard.
There were few passengers In the day
coach which followed next No more