The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-10-26
TRAIN IN THE RIVER.
Twenty-Eight Lives Lost and Half That
Number Injured.
High Water Injured the Retaining Wall
and Special Train Slips Into the Hud-
son River-Most of the Dead Lost
Their Lives From Drowning.

New YORK, Oct. 25.-Buffalo and New
York special No. 46, on the New York
Central and Hudson River railroad, due
to arrive in this city at 7;30 o'clock Sun
day morning, wasthrown from tie track
into the Hudson river, one and half
miles below Garrison station. Twen-
ty-eight lives were lost The retaining
wall along the river had been under
mined by high water in the river and
the track caved under the weight of
the train. The train consisted of
the engine, combination bag
gage and express car,
smoker, two ordinary coaches
and four sleepers. The engine and two
forward cars are submerged in so feet
of water Engineer FOyle and Fire
man TOmpkins went down with the
engine. All the sleeping car passen-
gers escaped. A man named Williams,
of Buffalo, died after being rescued
from the river, his arm having been
torn off. Up to $50 o'clock ten bodies
had been recovered. Seven or eight of
the dead were Cinnamon who were in
the smoking car. A. G. Mckay. private
secretary to General Manager Van Ell
tan, is missing and is said to have been
on the engine. A number of wounded
have been taken to hospitals in Pough-
keepSie and Peekskill
The first man, unknown. who was
taken out of the wreck by the rescuers,
was breathing when found, but badly
crushed He died soon afterwards, his
fn - oil
The sleeping car cOnduc tor saws he
is able to account for all his passengers
except five, and he is not certain that
these are lost.
The wrecked train was known as the
State express. 1t left Buffalo at z
o'clock Saturday night and was due in
New York at Z o'clock Sunday morn
ing. The train was hauled by engine
S72 and consisted of one American Elk
press car, one composite baggage and
smoking car, one day coach and six
sleepers. Poughkeepsie was the last
stopping place of the train before the
disaster at $40 a. m.
At this time there were in the smoker,
in addition to the baggageman, Her
man Acker, of PeekSkill, who was in
his compartment, eight Cinnamon en-
route from the Canadian border to
New York, and a middle-aged man,
supposed to be Thomas Reilly, of $3.50
Wisconsin avenue, St. Louis. All of
these excepting the baggagemaster
persisted. The day coach contained Is
or 20 passengers, many of whom were
women and children.
How many of these escaped is not
known, but at least ~ were drowned
or killed in this car. Behind the coach
was the six sleepers, with about IS pas
sengers.
The total cargo of human freight
consisted of something over 100 peo-
pie.
At Fishkill the train lessened it's
speed, as it is it's custom to run from
that point to TarrytOwn at the rate of
about 25 miles an hour. Most of the
passengers were asleep, those in the
sleeperS being in their berths, while
the occupants of the coach and smoker
were for the most part doubled up in
their seats. Just how the train met
it's awful fate will probably never be
felt the danger, Engineer John FOyle
and Fireman John Tompkins, Sunday
night laid dead in the cab of their loco
motive at the bottom of the Hudson
river. Conductor Parish, who was in
charge of the train and who was max
ing up his report in one of the cars
when the crash came, was rendered
unconscious by blow on the head
Before 10 o'clock Sunday morning, a
large number of curious spectators
had gathered at the scene, coming from
the nearby towns and villages by
trains, wagons, bicycles and boats.
The number of morbidly curious stead
lily increased as the day wore on, and
excursion boats even came from places
far up and down the river, all loaded
down to the waters edge, until at mid
afternoon there were fully 10000 about
the wreck. 1t required the utmost ex-
ertion on the part of Chief Humphrey
of the railroad police and his force OF
detectives, to hold these people far
enough in check to allow the railroad
men to proceed with their work.
Following is list of dead as far as
ascertained up to midnight: No 1,
Thomas Reilly, st. Louis; No. 2, China
man, unidentified; No. 3, Wong Gin,
Chinaman; No. 4, Chinaman, unidenti-
fed; No. 5, Chinaman, unidentified:
No 6, Chinaman, unidentified; No Z,
Chinaman, unidentified; No. s, China
man, unidentified; No. 9, E. A. Green,
of Chicago; No. 10, Chinaman, unidenti-
fed; No. II, WIG. Myers, of fremont,
n. Y; No. y. woman, unidentified;
No. Is, woman, unidentified; No. IA,
Giuseppe Paduaano, of New York; No.
Is, w. 5. Becker, Newark, n. Y; No.16,
unknown man, died while being res
cued; No. II, A. G. Mckay, private sec
rotary to General Superintendent Van
Ettan, body supposed to be in wreck:
No. IS, John Foyle, engineer of East
Albany, body not recovered; No. 10,
john Q. Thompkins, fireman of East
Albany, body not recovered.
Total number of known dead, 10; es-
timated number of dead, 2S. Eleven