Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-26
DIVERS AT WORK
Searching for Victims Of New
York Central Disaster.
Now Known that 10 Perished- Six
teen Bodies Already Recovered.
Details Of the Accident Wrecked Cars Raised
and Destroyed.

Central & Hundson River railroad
wreck and which the railroad officials
believe, tonight, includes all of those
who could possibly be lost, is as fol-
lows:
Engineer Jonh C. Foyle, East A.
bany, body still in the river.
Fireman John o. Tompkins, East AL
bany, body still in the river.
Samuel Williams. Buffalo.
Thomas Kelley, ST. Louis, Mo.
w. H. G. Meyers, fremont. N. Y.
A. G. Mckay, Harlem, body still in
the river
E. A. Green, Chicago.
William Schenckenbecker. Newark
N. j., otherwise known as VIM. $.
Becker
Giuseppe Taguana, New York city.
Mrs. Robert Lindsman, Utica.
Unknown woman.
Chin Lee Song, San Francisco, on his
way to New York, to make it his resi-
dence.
Song.
Hoo Wuh. New York.
Lee Tong Sing. New York.
Unknown Chinaman. with letter to
Hop Sing of Newark, N. J.
Wong Ching. residence unknown.
Unknown Chinaman.
Unknown Chinaman.
The number is 10 as sent. last night,
by The Associated Press and there is
little doubt. tonight, that this is the
total list of the killed. The bodies of
the engineer. fireman and Mr.. Van
Etten's secretary are yet in the river,
with small hopes of their immediate
recovery
There was display of curiosity, to-
day. at Cold Spring. where the Is dead
bodies lay. OF those 16 dead. were
heather foreigners, whose names or
residences meant scarcely anything to
the general public and yet 6 of these
S were identified and claimed long be-
fore any person had come forward to
inquire or seek for two well dressed
and evidently very respectable Chris
tan women. the only women killed in
the wreck. In the morgue they lay for
the full two days unclaimed and I'M
sought, evidently. while the other dead
We're claimed and taken care Of
The first body identified. today, was
that of Samuel Williams of Buffalo.
who died after being taken out of the
wreck and while on his way to the
Peekskill hospital. The body was re-
moved from Peekskill to Cold Spring
last night, and, this morning, was
identified by the mans brother, H. c.
Williams. and Rev. August Goetz of
Buffalo. The body was sent to Buffalo,
this afternoon.
Early in the day, the Cinnamon, who
it was supposed would have to be
buried at the countys expense, were
for the most part identified by prom
inent Celestials from New York. All
but two or three We're identified by
Sam Ping Lee, vice president of the
Chinese Equal Rights League of New
York, and by Charles Sing, an Ameri-
canized Chinaman and court inter-
prefer of New York. Most of the
Cinnamon lived in New York.
Chin Lee Song and Chin Fong Hop
We're brothers. lived in San Francisco
and were on their way to New York to
live, being in charge of their father,
Chin Quong Hon of New York. who is
now among the injured in the Peekskill
for number of years a resident of
New York, was on his way home from
a visit to San Francisco.
During the afternoon, a number of
employees of Mott street undertaken
reached Cold Spring prepared to take
the eight dead Mongolians to New
York for burial. They were acting for
their Chong Wah Kulg Saw, a Chinese
benevolent society, which had planned
to have the victims buried in the
Celestials' plot in Evergreen cemetery,
tomorrow. The undertakes brought
with them eight collins. The New
Workers got the necessary burial per-
mits from the coroner. and, this even
ing, the Cold Spring undertakers took
the bodies to the railroad station to
turn them over to the friends of the
Cinnamon from New York city.
The local undertakers had already
placed the bodies in collins and the
other undertakers refused to take the
bodies unless they were taken out Of
the Cold Spring collins and placed in
the collins which they had brought
with them. No agreement of this kind
could be made, so the undertakers took
the bodies back to their respective
morgues. there to remain until tomor-
row morning, when the controversy
will probably be settled.
This afternoon, Geo. c. Green of
Buffalo, arrived at Cold Spring and
identified his nephew, Edwin A. Green
of Chicago. The body was, tonight,
sent to Binghamton, where Edwin's
mother lives.
The gray day dawn, "a hours after the
frightful happening Of yesterday, broke
upon scene Of greater litter and prop
erty destruction than yesterdays sun
and last nights torchlight displayed
The weary gangs of wreckers were re-
lieved early in the morning by fresh
ones and the work of getting the
chains from the derricks upon the SUBJ
merged cars was vigorously prosecuted.
AS the wreckage was pulled from the
bottom of the river and placed on the
shore. it added to the picturesque,
though distressing sight.
When the wreckers got sufficient
tackle on the sleeping car Glen Alpine
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