Evening journal., 1897-10-29
THE IDEA SECUTED.
Many People Deny Dynamite
the Cause of Wreck.
CLING TO THE THEORY OF WASHOUT
The Italian, PaduRno. Is Reported Safe
and Sound, and 1t Seems He Was
Not In the Great Railroad
Disaster at All.

GARRISONs, N. Y, Oct. 29.-The
road people that the embankment of the
New York Central railroad where the
State express was thrown into the riv-
er on Sunday was blown out with dy-
Mantle by train wreclxers is given lit
tie or no credence by the people Of the
surrounding country. The train wreck
ing idea is almost universally secuted.
and the popular explanation Of the
cause Of the disaster is that 1t was sim
ply washout Of the kind so common
to railroads that are built on made
ground alongside of large streams of
water.
Every day since the accident Jacob
Foyle, brother Of the dead engineer,
has been at the scene waiting and
watching for his brothers body to be
brought to the surface. He was there
as usual yesterday, and so great was
his anxious desire to have the remains
recovered that he engaged men in row.
boats to patrol the river north and
south to watch for the hody Jacob
Foyle was a railroad man fer 27 years.
but quit the work some time ago be-
Many a time / have coaxed John TO
give up his job. but he always refused,
saying that he would rather be on his
engine than any other place on earth.
although he himself predicted that it
would be his fate to be killed just In
this way
Coroner Woods has learned that a mis-
take has been made in the identification
of the dead Italian as Giuseppe Padu-
ano. He received a letter from G. w.
Gwynne. president of a quarry compa-
ny at Huriburtson, n. Y. which states
that Paduano is alive and we'll and in
the employ OF his company at that
place.
He suggested that the dead man was
probably Christanzo de Yulio, who was
employed by the same company and
who left Hurlbertson Saturday night to
go to New York on his way to italy,
where he has wife and one child. He
was going to bring them to this coun-
try. The coroner found tied around the
leg Of the Italian the sum of S140. De
Iulio's father, Michael de Yulio, lives
at Tuckahoe. n. Y.
The coroner also received a letter
from Adolph Becker of Canton. o., ask
ing for information of his brother. w
+. Becker. who he feared had been
killed. The coroner answered that w
S. Scheneck Of Newark was one Of the
victims, but that he had been identified
by relatives and buried in Yonkers.
A well dressed man OF prosperous ap-
pearance, about 60 years old, allghtec
from a western express at Garrisons
accompanied by little girl. He said
he was looking for his daughter and
also made inquiries about a young man
He refused to give his name and ap
peared to he very much troubled TIL,
conductor said he boarded the traiI
west OF Rochester. 4
The bodies of the Italian and the un
identified woman are the only ones re
naming in the Cold Spring morgue
The death list may reach d, as on'
more passenger. a Chinaman, is miss
ing. Conductor Parish saws that therl
were IL Cinnamon on the train, and
only ten have been accounted for.
Engineer Frank NJ. Tompkins, broth
er of Fireman John O. Tompkins, whit
was killed at Garrisons. denies the pub
lished statement that his brothers bod.
was on the front of the engine. H
says he was in a rowboat near wher
the engine was raised, and he saw hi
brothers body In an upright position
sustained by the mud that had settle'
about II. at the end of the engine near
est the tender, on the engineers side
One arm was extended above his head
The other hand tried to clutch the han
die of the long poker of the engine.