Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-27
ONE MORE VICTIM.
BODY OF UNKNOWN MAN FOUND IN
HUDSON RIVER WRECK.
NUMBER OF KILLED NOW TWENTY.
BoJy Of the Fireman Recovered, on
the Engines Being Raised-Loss
from Express-Car TriHing, II is
Said
Said.

| Twenty lives are now known to have
been lost I'm Sundays accident on the
New York Central railroad, and eighteen
bodies have been found. The body OF
an unknown man was recovered to-day,
as well as that of the fireman. The day
coach of the Inflated train was raised,
and in IL was found a victim not hith-
erto included In the list OF dead. The en-
! CINE was also brought to the surface
and with II the body OF Fireman John
Q. Tompkins, tightly wedged between
two masses of iron in front.
Shortly after 8 o'clock the large der
rick brought up the day coach from the
bottom of the river where 1t laid COM
pletely submerged since the day of the
wreck. When the water had drained out
of tho car, those watching the opera
tons saw at one Of the windows a hu-
man hand, and just beyond the feet
sticking out from under one Of the
seat tops. Wreckers tore aside the de-
bris, and soon had the body out. No
more bodies were found in the car.
The body removed. the seventeenth
since the wreck, and the twentieth
| known victim, was that of q man 80
years of age, dark, with a dark
| short moustache. In one OF the pockets
of the vest was a wallet containing $62,
and a Casualty Insurance Company
| ticket, such as is sold at railroad sta
| lions. This ticket was made out for the
usual sum of $3.50 in case Of death,
| but very curiously the name, or rather
the last name of both purchaser and
| beneficiary, was missing.
The card reads, as far as 1t could be
deciphered, ike r." as the purchasers
name, and "Mrs. e." as the person to
whom it was to be paid. The railroad
officials are of opinion that the man
boarded the train at Rochester. The
body was taken to the Coroner's Office at
Cold Spring.
EXPRESS SAFES RECOVERED.
Another interesting event of the day
was the raising of the express-car, from
which it is alleged that a large sum Of
money had been lost by the dropping TO
the river bottom of a small safe. General
Superintendent Van Valkenburgh, Of the
American Express Company, was pres
ent when the car came up. When the car
came to the surface ii was seen that IL
was the most badly damaged that had
yet been taken out. One-half of the car
ndu Deen tIllf6ly ueHlOilSHeu anu WdShNb
away. AS soon as possible the car was
searched by inventory and then Mr. Van
Valkenburgh gave out a statement to the
effect that no valuables, except small
package Of jewelry, had Deen lost. Both
safes were recovered, with their con-
tents.
The engine was dragged out Of the river
tonight Just before dark. The divers
had located the tender early in the after
noon. When, shortly after o'clock, 1t
came to the surface Of the river, it was
seen that the trucks were missing, and
that the front of the boiler and the guards
were smashed into an unrecognizable
mass. AS the great machine came In
sight the men on the lighter saw clothes
dangling from the front, and when the
lanterns could be brought to bear it was
found that the rags covered human
body-that of Fireman Tompkins. Inc
body was well wedged in front OF the
boiler. where the engine-number plate 49,
and had to be dragged out. 1t was taken
to a train at once and sent TO Cold
Spring, to the Coroner's office.
The fact of the finding of the firemans
body tonight in the position in which IL
Law has led to the belief that the en-
gineer's body is somewhere In the same
locality. probably under the engine. IL
the raising of the trucks of the engine
and of the tender in the morning do not
bring to light the bodies of Engineer
Foyle and young Mckay, dredges Will be
nut TO work in the vicinity TO see whether
they are buried in the mud.