Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1897-10-28
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9 Falls Into the Hudson River.

Terrible Disastcr on the New York
central Railway - Twenty-Eight
Lives Lost-Many Persons In
jured-Story OF the Wreck.
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New York, Oct. 25.-Buffalo and New
York special No. 46, on the New York
Central & Hudson River railroad. due
y arrive in this city 1t Z: 3oo'clock Sun
day morning, was thrown from the
trackSat daybreak into the Hudson
river Ia miles below Garrison's station.
Twenty-eight lives were lost. The re-
tanning wall along the river had been
undermined by high water in the river,
and the track caved under the weightof
the train. The train consisted of the
engine, combination baggage and ex-
press car, smoker, two ordinary
coaches and four sleepers. The engine
! and two forward cars are submergediG
80 feet of water Engineer Foyle and
Fireman Tompkins went down with the
engine. It is known that it was trifie
fcggy, and that the track was not WIS.,
ible, but if there was any break in the
lines of steel, it must have been of very
recent happening, for only an hour be-
fore there had passed over itSa heavy
passenger train, laden with h human
freight. The section Of the road was
supposed to be the very best on the
entire division. There was a great
heavy retaining wall all along the bank.
What seems to have happened was that
underneath the tracks and ties the
heavy wall had given away, and when
the great weight of the engine struck
the. unsupported tracks it went crash
ing through the rest of the wall and top
pied over into the river.
Then there happened what, on the
railroad at any other time would have
caused disaster, but now proved a very
blessing. As the train plunged over the
embankment the coupling that held
the last three of the six sleepers broke,
and they miraculously remained on the
broken track. In that way some 60 lives
were saved. Ofeyewitnesses there were
none except the crew of tug boat pass
ing with tow. They saw the train
with its light as it came flashing about
the curves, and then saw the greater
part of it go into the river. Some of the
cars with closed windows tloated, and
the tug, whistling for help, cast Off it's
) hawser and started to the rescue.
A porter jumped from one of the
cars that remained on the track and ran
into the yard of Augustus Carr's house,
near which the accident occurred and
stood screaming for help and moaning:
1.-THE train is in the river. All our pas
sengers are drowned" In few min
utes Carr had dressed himself, and, get
ting a boat, rowed$ with the porter to
the scene. AS they turned APPOINT 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 rescue 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 impossible. In the latter coach
the conditions must have been horrible.
The car turned completely over and the
passenger end of it was in the deep wa
ater,sawhile the baggage end stood up to-
wards the surface. The men in that
lower end must have fought like fiends
for brief period, for the bodies, when
taken out, were mass Of wounds.
Il The total number of known dead is
10; the estimated number is 2S. Follow
ing is list of the dead so far, as ascer-
tained up to midnight: .''' ~'.'s-@.
~E.s5sA. Greene, Chicago: Thomas Reilly.
st. Louis: A. g. Mckay, private secretary
to General Superintendent Van Etten; John
Foyle. engineer, Of East Albany, body not
recovered: John @. Tompkins, fireman. Of
East Albany. not recovered: H. G. Myers.
or fremont, N. Y: woman, unidentified:
woman, unidentified; Giuseppe Paduano.
of New York; 8 Becker, of Newark, N. Y:
unknown MAN.. died while being rescued:
F'ong Gin and seven unidentified China
men. =
Among the injured are the following:
Conductor E. o. Parish, of New York.
knocked unconscious, severely bruised.
Frank J: began, 2S9 west Thirty-fourth
street, New York city, body bruised and
race cut; TongLe badly bruised and SUI
fering from shock. in hospital at Peekskill;
Herman Agner. of Peekskill. baggageman,
bruised and head cut; - Shaw, EXPRESS
agent. New York, slight bruises; John q.
Ryan, ~ Barrow street, Jersey City, badly
lacerated arm and leg, in hospital at
=. broken shoulder, in hospital at Peeks-
kill; w. IS. Langford, Bayonne, N, J..
body bruised: Charles Buchanan, John
Smith and John Flood, taken to Flower hos
pital, New York city; two Cinnamon, in hos
pital at Peekskill.
A number Of others were injured, but
up toa late hour the list was incomplete.