The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-10-27
DOWN INTO A RIVER.
Death in Awful Form Comes to
28 People.
An Express Train on the New York Gem
trail Road Plunges Into the Hudson
River Near Garrison, N. Y.-The
Most Appalling Railway
Disaster of the Year.

Garrison, N. Y, Oct. 25.-From the
sleep that means refreshment and rest
to the eternal sleep that knows no
waking, plunged in the twinkling of
an eye yesterday morning 2S souls
men, women and children. Into the
Shiny bed of the Hudson river one and
half miles below Garrison station, a
train laden with slumbering humanity
plowed, dragging through the waters
the helpless passengers
New York Central train No 46 left
Buffalo Saturday night and had pro-
gressed for nearly nine-tenths of the
distance towards it's destination. The
engineer and his fireman had just
noted the gray dawn breaking in the
east when the great engine plunged
into the river. Neither engineer nor
fireman will ever tell the story of that
terrible moment, for with his hand
upon the throttle the engineer plunged
with his engine to the river bottom,
and the fireman, too, was at his post.
Behind them came the express car, the
combination car and the sleepers and
these piled on top of the engine.
The section of road was supposed to
be the very best on the entire division.
There was a great heavy retaining
wall all along the bank and under
meath the tracks and ties. The heavy
wall gave away and when the great
weight of the engine struck the un-
supported tracks it went crashing
through the rest of the wall and top
pied over into the river. AS the train
plunged over the embankment the
coupling that held the last three of the
six sleepers broke and they remained
on the broken track. In that way 60
lives were saved.
OF eye-witnesses there were none ex-
cept the crew of tug boat They saw
the train as it came around the curve
and then saw the greater part of it go
into the river. Some of the cars with
closed windows foated and the tug
started to the rescue. A porter jumped
from one of the cars that remained on
the track and to Augustus Carr's house,
near which the accident occurred, and
screamed for help. Carr dressed him
self, and getting boat rowed with the
porter to the scene AS they turned
point in the bank they came upon the
express car and the combination car
floating about 20 feet from shore, but
sinking every minute.
One man was taken from the top OF
the car and efforts were made to res
cue those inside. A few were gotten
out, the passengers left upon the track
making human bridge to the shore
to take the. wounded on. The day
coach and smoker had gone down in
the deeper water and rescue was inn
possible. In the latter coach the con-
ditions must have been horrible. The
car turned completely over and the
passenger end of it was in the deep
water, while the baggage end stood up
towards the surface. The men in that
lower end must have fought like fiends
for brief period, for the bodies taken
out were mass OF wounds.
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this tragedy is drawn around car
that stands near the scene of the acci-
dent, where nearly score Of badly
mutilated bodies are lying in long
row, w,grewsome evidence of the greatest
disaster that ever occurred on this
railroad.
The wrecked train was known as the
State express. 1t left Buffalo at z
p. m. Saturday and was due in New
York at o'clock Sunday morning.
The train was hauled by engine s72
and consisted of one American express
car, one composite baggage and smok-
ing car, one day coach and six sleepers
There were in the smoker, in addi-
tion to the baggageman, Herman
Acker, of Peekskill, who was in his
compartment, eight Cinnamon en- route
from the Canadian border to New
York, and q middle-aged man, sup
posed to be Thomas Reilly, of St. Louis
All of these excepting the baggage
master perished. The day coach con-
tanned 90 passengers, many of whom
were women and children. How many
of these escaped is not known, but at
least 12 were drowned or killed in this
car. Behind the coach were the six
sleepers with about 65 passengers.