The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-10-28
VOL. 80
NINETEEN DEATHS.
ML1HE WRECKED VICTIMS APPAR'
EMILY ACCOUNTED FOR.

Have Gone Down with the Locomotiv, |
victims.
II is reported that so far rs Is
Known that nineteen persons lost theii
lives in the plunge of the Buffalo Spe-
c,al into the Hudson River at Gar
r,son's. All save four have been identi-
eed. Twenty-Five passengers, whose
identity has been established, were in
iured more or less seriously. Two per-
sons supposed to have been on the
train are still missing.
The railroad officers declare that the
list of killed cannot possibly number
more than nineteen. Others say twcn-
tv-one have died. while still others,
who were on the scene at the time.
contend that perhaps thirty bodies will
eventually be recovered from the
water The disaster grows more hor-
rible as time passes.
The Death List.
The death list Is made up almost en-
tirely of passengers who were in the
combination car and day coach. which
was nearest the engine and plunged
with it deeper into the river than did
the sleeping coaches that followed.
Eight of these were Cinnamon. The
death list is as follows:
WILLIAMS. SAMUEL. 75l Best street. Buff
BEcHER, WILLIAM scHENCHEN. 50
South Thirteenth street, Newark, N. ].
FOYLE, j., egineer Of train, of East Albany.
GREER, H. A. (or Il. A. GREENE0 archi.
tect Of Chicago.
MKAY, A. c., OF 20 East 18th street. pri-
yate secretary to General Supt. f. Van Etten,
of New York Cenral tprobably).
MEYERS, w IL g.. OF Passaic' n. J.
TAGUNA, GIUSEPPE, Of Albion, N. Y.
THOMAS j., fireman of train OF East AL
bany. -. - . -
Woman unidentified from Hudson, y y
Eight Cinnamon of whom six were identified
The Injured.
The following is as complete a list
of the injured as can be obtained:
BUCHANAN, CHAItLES. motorman; broker
arm: taken to Flower Hospital.
DEGAN, PATRICK, bruised and shaken
taken to his home. 200 West Forty-hrst street
FLOOD, JOHN. Iaborer. of Stockport, ~ Y
cut and bruised and suffered from exposure
taken to Flower Hospita'
PARSONS, TRUMAN, 1O5 Hancock street
Brooklyn; cut and bruised about body an'
ss 2ke9 noY h9we r. in "a SarrssS oa and married
OF Jersey City, N. j., employed by Stein 4
Co. druggists; badly bruised, left knee cut AM
three fingers of his left hand severed; Peeks
MORGAN. CLARENCE, 2s years old. Of Ney
York; left shoulder blade broken; employed !
the Comptroller's office of the Central Kan
road Peekskill Hospital.
Three Cinnamon, in Peekskill Hospital
The accident was caused by the traci
having been undermined by the two
days unusually high tide. Within les
than an hour another fast train ha
passed over the same place on the sam
track That train was the New Yor
and Boston express, known to railroa
men as train No. 2S. No one on tina
train had noticed anything unusua
about the stability of the track.
gang of several hundred men ha
been at work ever since the fatal acci
dent occurred raising the cars, repair
ing the track and searching for tn
dead.
No Bodies I'm the Locomotive.
The locomotive was finally locate
yesterday afternoon. The diver Wh
went down, however, found no bodit
in or about it. 1t was therefore though
probable that they had fOated ava
and would not be recovered for SON
time. The locomotive was found
about sixty feet of water. 1t was abo'
thirty feet off shore, and about fort
yards to the south Of the spot Whel
the accident occurred 1t was Just
the front of the second Wagner CT
which went into the river.
The right side of the cab, the eng
neer's side, was torn away, and 1t
probable that the bodies of the eng
neer, the fireman and young Mckt
floated out through the aperture.
any rate, the diver, VINO stayed dow
where the locomotive was found +
nearly half an hour, could after tho
Ough search find no trace of the bodlt
The locomotive is so badly wreck
that it is doubtful If any attempt W
be made to raise 1t.
W. d. Otis, general roadmaster
the New York Central, after looki
over the situation, said: Until t
engine has been raised and examined
will be impossible to tell exactly WI
caused the accident. If a broken a,
is discovered it will be easy to accou
for the manner in which the ground
torn up. II a broken axle should
down a forty-ton engine going at
rate of forty miles an hour with nj
heavy cars behind 1t the momentl
would be enough to plow up hole
large as this one. The track is p
fectly straight, is from three to fC
yards from the river bank and tr'
OF equal magnitude went over
identical track with fifty minutes p
Vious. Whatever occurred must ht
occurred suddenly"
Mr. Otis was not inclined to belt
mat any one had tampered with
tracks by means of explosives. New
theless w. A. Humphrey, chief det
tive of the Vanderbilt system, was
the ground early with nine men. Ti
main work seemed to be in assist
the Wagner people to recover the '
uables from the sleepers. But two
The detectives were securing the vic
aty of the wreck for soEle cleW as
the use of explosives.
1t Is said by experrs that the rec
nigh tides had weakened and inside
iy washed away the readbed.
Whatever the cause may have been,
disastrous result is known, though
rs feared not in full as yet.
Perhaps the most marvellous of
things connected with this acciden
that so many escaped, and that {
twenty persons, so far as known,
1Shed In the Quiet waters of the II