Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-10-29

nan about six feet tall weighing shout
1870 pounds.
Rescued From a Floating Car.
Five men were rescued from the TOP
,f floating car shortly after the acci-
dent They were put on train ana
taken to Peeksltill, about 10 miles down
the road. They were admitted TO the
Helping Hand hospital, where their
wounds were dressed. OF the five, three
were Chinamen, and none was fatally
injured. The Americans were: John E.
Ryan Of 2ei Barrow street Jersey city,
90 years old badly laeerated hand
shoulder and knee: Clare7ce MORGAN OF
4 Aurora. N. y. aged 26, Clerk In the Of
fee of comptroller Of the New York
Central railroad, broken shoulder The
three Chinamen were suffering from
bad scalp woun Is. Morgan ESCAPED
from a floating car through a broken
panel and swan ashore. Though badly
hurt. he helped another passenger out.
w s. I,angford OF Bayonne. N. j.,
was in one OF the last coaches, which
remained on the track. He secured an
ax. and. chopplng out a panel OF one
Of the partly submerged cars. he help
ed to rescue four people.
A. e Bracken. conductor OF the Wag-
ner cars. was able TO account for all OF
his passengers excepting five, and he
was not sure that they were In the
wreck, as they might have escaped and
gone to New York without his knowl-
edge. when a diver arrived from New
York. the frst thing he did was to go
through the three submerged sleeping
cars He reported that he found no
bodies. but said that one or more might
be under the berths, which were In
great confusion.
A passenger coach minus Its seats
was close at hand, and the body was
carried thither and deposited on the
floor. The man was about % years OF
age. He was dressed In cheap clothes
and his shoes were cheap ones. A @.
A. r. badge was fastened to the breast
OF bis vest. The busy rescuers did not
have time then to make any inquiry as
to who he was, but simply tore off a
slip of paper, wrote Body No. T. and
pinned IL on his coat and left him to
look for others. BY the time they had
returned the derrick had drawn the car
TO the bank. and the work of recover
ing the bodies of the other passengers
who had come to such an untimely end
was under way. The searchers were
only able to find eight Cinnamon, and
| they were also carried to the morgue
car. They were laid in row, num-
bered and were ready for identihca-
/ tion.
The derrick next pulled the day coach
to the shore, and the searching parties
were able to reach It. Although 1t is
known that there were many more In
the coach, but six bodies were recov-
cred, and two of these were women.
General Manager Toucey gave out
the following statement as TO the cause
OF the disaster:
"The accident was caused by the bed
OF the railroad being washed out In
some inexplicable manner. In this un-
dermined condition the track sank as
soon as the weight Of the train was put
on it, and the embankment giving way,
the train was, of course, precipitated
into the river. Such a condition as this
we have never looked for.
Trains have been running over this
| spot for years and years without acci-
dent or difficulty of any kind, and this
| piece of track was considered as good
as any section of the railroad. Not only
was the roadbed the hardest kind of an
embankment, but II was strengthened
by a retaining water wall Of solid ma
sonry three feet thick"