Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-27
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Still at Work on the Railroad
Wreck at Garrisons, N. Y.
Two Bodies Recovered, Tuesday, In
GLIDING Fireman Tompkins.
All But One Body Identified Others Sent to
Former Homes.

GarriSOnS, N. Y, Oct 26.-The event
Of this, the second day after the New
| York Central Railroad accident, was
was the raising of the day coach of the
| Inflated train. the finding Of an addi-
| tional victim there, and the haising of
the engine, with the body Of the fire.
man, John @. Tompkins, tightly
| wedged between two masses of iron in
| front.
1t was shortly after 3 o'clock when
the hugh derrick brought up the day
coach from the bottom of the river.
When the water had drained out Of the
| car, those watching the operation saw
at one end Of the windows a human
hand badly bloated. The wreckers
tore aside the debris and soon brought
| out the body. To the relief OF the
searchers and watchers no more bodies
were found.
The body removed, making the 18th
since the wreck and the Goth known
victim, was that of a man of 35 years
of age, dark, with a short dark NOUS
tache. He was dressed in gray wool
en- outing shirt, dark blue vest and
trousers, a black necktie and yellow
socks. 1t was evident that the man
had been sleeping when death came.
Whether he was killed by conclusion
or whether he was drowned, will never
be found out.
In one of the pockets of the vest
was the wallet containing six SO bills,
a 81 bill and a casualty insurance, COM
pany ticket such as is bought at rail-
road stations as an insurance against
10 ont
for the usual sum of $500 in case of
death, but very curiously the name, or
at least the last name of both payor
and beneficiary were missing. The
card read, as far as could be read, as
far as could be read. ike r." as the
purchasers name and Mrs. E" as the
person to whom it was to be paid.
The railroad officials are of the opin
ion that the man boarded the train at
Rochester The body was taken to the
coroner's office at Cold Spring.
The other interesting event of the
day was the raising of the express car,
from which it was alleged that large
sum of money had been lost by the
dropping to the river bottom of small
safe. This car was the most badly
damaged of any that had yet been
taken out. One half of the car had
been entirely demolished and washed
away. AS soon as possible the car was
searched by inventory. General Super
intendent Van Valkenburg could not
estimate the loss and could not say just
how much money was on the car, but
intimated that the amount had been
exaggerated.
The heavy engine was dragged out
of the river, tonight. The divers had
located the tender. early in the after
noon, and brought it up without it's
trucks. When the engine came to the
surface, it was seen that the front
trucks were missing and that the front
of the boiler and the guards We're all
smashed into an unrecogniZable mass.
AS the great machine came in sight,
one of 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 COW
cred the body of Fireman Tompkins.
The body was wedged in front of the
boiler where the engine number plate
is and had to be dragged out. 1t was
taken to train at once and sent up to
Cold Spring to the coroner's office.
If the raising of the trucks of the
engine and the tender in the morning
do not bring to light the bodies of
Engineer Foyle and Young Mckay,
dredges will be put to work in the
vicinity to see whether they are buried
in the mud.