The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-10-30
River Wall coIIapses Throwing a
Fast Train Into the Hud-
son River.
rwEN1Y-ElGHT LIVES WERE LOST
Some Succeeded in Getting Out Of
the Cars After They We're
submersed---Bodies
Recovered.

thrown from the track into the Hud-
/ son river one and Il half miles below
Garrison's station. Twenty-eight lives
were lost. The retaining wall along
the river had been undermined by
high water in the river and the tracks
caved under the weight of the train,
The train consisted of the engine, Il
combination baggage and express ear.
u smoker, two ordinary coaches and
four sleepers. The engine and two
forward cars We're submerged in fifty
feet of water. Engineer Foyle and
Fireman Tompkins went down with
the engine.
All the sleeping car passengers es.
capped. y mall named Williams of Buff.
falo, died after being rescued from
the river, his arm being torn Oft.
Up to $40 o'clock. ten bodies had
been recovered. Seven or eight of the
dead We're Cinnamon, who We're in The
smoking car.
a. q. Mckay. private secretary tc
General Manager Van Etten, is miss.
ing, and is said to have been on the
engine.
The Identified Dead.
Following is the list of bodies re,
covered from the wreck up TO $3.50:
Thomas Reilly, about so years OF
age, st. Louis.
Five unidentified Cinnamon, one
bearing passport in the name OF
Wong Gin, and one bearing letter adj
dressed to Hop Sing, Newark.
T.. A. Greene, about 25 years old,
supposed to be employed by w. A
IOtis, architect, Chicago,
All of these died from drowning.
Greene's body was the first one
taken out of the ear by the diver, who
is still searching for more bodies. Con,
ductor Parish and eighteen Others
were uniniured and have been sent tc
New York. Five other survivors OF
the wreck We're taken to the Helping
Hand hospital at P%eeliskill. Two Of
these are Americans and three are
Cinnamon. The former are:
John r. Ryan of Jersey City, badly
lacerated arm inc shoulder and knee.
Clarence Morgan OF Aurora. N. Y,
shoulder broken.
Morgan escaped from a car after it
had fallen into the water through a
hole in the end.
w. S. Langford of Bayonne, N. j., was
III OIe OltiIS ldSl COACHES, WHICH, It-
NAMED on the track. He swan out to
the sunken cars with an ax and sue
ceeded in chopping through one of them
and rescuing four people.
The wreck occurred about six miles
above Peekskill. A retaining wall which
supported the track slid cut under tbs
weight of the rapidly moving train. OF
late the tide in the Hudson river has
been very high and to this was due the
undermining of the wall, so the railroad
officials state. Herman Acker of Peelks-
kill. the baggagemaster of the train,
who was in the baggage car with John
Shaw, an express agent, had a narrow
escape. In q second compartment OF
the car We're several Cinnamon. Ackel
felt a heavy jar and found himself in the
water. The water rose to within a foot
of the roof. The car had whirled com
pletely around in falling and the com
partment which contained the baggage
stuck up slightly, the end containing the
Cinnamon being completely submerged
Shaw and Acker kept themselves anoat
the latter making his way to the toal
box. He got out an ak, smashed through
a panel and with Shaw climbed to the
lCOl u lIle Cal. lllSe LulIldlheIl dlSt
made their escape through the same
opening. Acker's arm was badly Gu
and his body covered with bruises. He
was sent to his home in Peekskill. Shaw
was not hurt.
The first a unknown. who was
taken out CT the wreck by the rescuer
was breathing when found. but badly
crushed. He died soon afterwards, hi:
body being SEN to Peekskill also.
The sleeping car conductor says he is
able to account for all of his passengers
except five, and he Is not certain tina
these are lost.
w. H. G. Myers of Passaic, n. j., was
lost in the wreck. The body has not YET
been recovered.
Miraculous Escape for Many.
As the train plunged e the EN-.
bankment, the coupling that held the
last three of the SIX sleepers broke an6
they m~iraculously remained on ths
broken track, thus saving some sixty
lives.
The only eye witnesses of the disas.
ter We're the crew Of a tugboat passing
with q tow. They saw the train with it,
light as it came flashing about tbs
curves and then saw Il greater part o.
1t go into the river. Some of the cars
with closed windows. fioated and the
tug. whistling for help, cast Off its haw,
ser n started to the rescue. A porter
jumped from one of the cars that re.
manned oil the track and ran into the
yard Of Augustus Cars house, nea,
which the accident occurred, and stood
| Sp1,,.u ~, j,,o. Fp,. holy, ,~l -,ao.te- H
The train is in the river, all of ou1
passengers are drowned" he cried.
In a few minutes Carr had dressed
himself n getting a boat rowed witt
the porter to the scene. AS they turned
a point in the bank they came upon the
express car and the combination cal
floating about twenty feet from shore
but sinking every minute. One mar
was taken from the top of the car ant
efforts We're made to rescue those in.
side. A few We're gotten out, the pas
sengers left upon the track making 6
human bridge to the shore to take the
wounded on. The day coach and smok,
er had gone down in deeper water ant
rescue was impossible. In the lattel
coach the conditions must have beef
horrible. The car turned completed,
over and h passenger end of it was ii
the deep water, while the baggage enc
stood up towards the surface. The mer
In the lower end must have fought Xix,
iends for q brief period. for the bodie.
when taken out were a mass of wounds
The closing scene Of the first day o
this tragedy is drawn around a com
mon car that stands near the scene O
the accident. where nearly a score O
badly mutilated bodies. none of then
yet claimed by friends. are lying in .
long row, grewsome evidences of tn,
disaster. the greatest that has ever oc
CURED on this road.
At the time of the wreck there wer,
IN the smoker. in addition to the bag
gageman. Herman Acker, eight China
men, enroute from the Canadian Dor
der to New York. and a middle ages
man, supposed to be Thomas Reilly O
st. Louis. All OF these excepting tn,
baggagemaster persisted. The day coacl
contained eighteen or twenty passen
gers. many of them women and chill
dren.
How many OF these escaped is no
known, but at least twelve wer
drowned or killed In this car. Benin,