Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-25
A Passenger Train on the New
York Central
PLUNGEDINTOTHEBlG RIVER
The List Of Dead Numbers Twenty
Eight.
THE SLEEPING CARS ESCAPED.
The Engine and Two Cars in Fifty
Feet Of Water.

The Details Of an Awful Railway
Disaster The Accident Occurred
Early Yesterday Morning.
Caused by Retaining Wall Be-
ing Undermined by the River.
The Track Gave Way Under the
Weight of the Train-The Dead
and Wounded-Many Bodies Re-
covered.
BULLETIN:
New York, October 24.-Buffalo and
New York special No. 46, on the New
York Central and Hudson River rail-
road, due to arrive in this city at 1880
o'clock this morning, was thrown from
the track into the Hudson river, one
and a half miles below Garrison's Sta
ton.
Twenty-eight lives were lost.
The retaining wall along the river
had been undermined by high water in
the river, and the track caved under
the weight of the train. The train con-
sisted of the engine, a combination bag
gage and express car, smoker, two or
binary coaches and four sleepers.
The engine and two forward cars are
submerged in fifty feet Of water
Engineer Foyle and Fireman Temp
kins went down with the enigne.
All the sleeping car passengers es-
capped.
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
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a. q. McCay, private secretary to
General Manager Van Etten, is missing,
and is said to have been on the engine.
A number of wounded have been
taken to hospitals in Poughkeepsie and
Peekskill.
Following is the list of bodies re-
covered from the wreck up to $50
p. m.
Thomas Reilly, about so years old,
of No. 1850 Wisconsin avenue. ST.
Louis
Five unidentified Cinnamon. one
bearing passport in name of Wong
Gin and one bearing letter addressed
to Hop Sing, No. II Springfield ave-
nue., Newark
+. A. Green, about % years old, sup
posed to be employed by W. A. Otis,
architect, No. Us Dearborn street, Chi
cago.
All of these died from drowning.
Green's body was the first one taken
out OF the car by the diver. who is
still searching for more bodies.
A. j. Mckay, private secretary to
General Superintendent Van Etten, is
believed to have been riding on the
engine and killed.
Conductor Parish and eighteen 9TH
ers were uninjureG and have been sent
W ANCN VI VIE OllAtI SURVIVORS OF
the wreck We're taken to the Helping
Hand Hospital at Peekskill. Two of
these are Americans and three China
mer. The former are John S. Ryan,
OF No, 294 Barrow street, Jersey City.
badly lacerated arm, shoulder and
knee; Clarence Morgan, Aurora, n. Y,
shoulder broken.
Mr.. Morgan escaped from a car af-
ter it had fallen into the water,
through hole in the end.
W. S. Langford, of Bayonne. n. J..
was in one of the last coaches, which
remained on the track. He swan out
to the sunken cars with an axe 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 out I'M
der the 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 Peekskill, the bag
gagemaster of the train, who was in
the baggage car with John Shay, an
express agent, had a narrow escape
In a second compartment of the car
were several Cinnamon. Acker felt
heavy jar and found himself in the
water. The water rose to within a
foot of the roof. The car had whirled
completely around in falling and the
compartment which contained the bag
gage stuck up slightly, the end con-
taining the Cinnamon being complete
" submerged. Shaw and Acker kept
themselves afloat, the latter making
his way to the tool box.
He sof out N axe. smashed through