The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-25
GARR|SONS HORROR
List Up to Date of the Vic
tins of the Rail
and River.
ALL TIE WOUNDED DOING WELL
Gangs of Wofkmen Hosting
the Wreekage from the
0oze to Dry Land.
MUCH ABANDONED BAGGAGE
Some Fears That 1t May Represent
Passengers Whose Bodies
Are Yet to Be Found.
MONEY AND VALUABLES FOUND
Railro.d Hands Laboring Hard to
Restore the Road for Traffic
Purposes.

GARRISONS, N. Y. Oct. %, 1Ss7.-That
run of the Buffalo special which started
from the Bison City at 7:3o o'clock Satur-
day evening has not yet finished its jour-
Hey to New York. Saturday nights trip
will never be finished. The engine that
pulled it and several of its cars, soaked
and sodden, lie in the river near here, or
rest on the shore to which they have
been lifted during the night by wrecking
crews
Tie last stopping place of the train was
at Poughkeepsie. When 1t drew out from
that city at 5:15 on Sunday morning it
was made up as foilows:-Engine and
tender express car, combination smoker
AID baggage car. day coach and six
sleepers, the Glen Alpine, which had been
taken on at Buffalo; the Herrnes, which
had come through from Niagara: the
Niobe. taken on at Utica; the Diana,
taken on at Rochester; the Anita, taken
on at Syracuse, and the Racquet River,
taken on at Albany.
The train was well filled and most of
the passengers were asleep. Just about
As minutes after leaving Poughkeepsie,
and when at a point near Garrisons, the
train plunged into the river. Only three
cars remained on the track-the last
three sleepers, Diana, Anita and Racquet
They were saved by the breaking Of the
couplings. The exact cause that threw
the engine and Its burden into the dark
water could probably only be told by the
engineer and fireman. And they are dead.
Today 1t is said by experts that the re-
cent high tides had weakened and insid-
uously washed away the road bed. But
whatever the cause may have been, the
disastrous result is known, though, it is
feared, not even in full as yet. Perhaps
the most NJ aFvellous of all things con-
nected with this accident is that SO many
escaped, and that only nineteen persons,
SO far as known perished in the quiet
waters of the, Hudson, which, for the
time being, were transformed into a
seething cauldron where Shrieking men
and women ffercely struggled in the dark
ness amid the swishing fragments OF cars
dying fires of timber and Kissing of the
steam.
Those known to have died, penned in
where they slept, or drowned while they
struggled to reach the shore, are as fol-
lows
Thomas Reilly. st; Louis, Mo; E. A.
Green Chicago; ". H: g. Myers; Passale, nc
S. Becker. Newark, n. r; Samuel vii
private secretary to General superintend-
Albany; John Q Tompkins, fireman, East
Albany; two unidentified women; Wong
Gin, Hop Sing, and six other Cinnamon
T. Parsons, who was thought to be dead,
escaped with only few bruises.
The injured
E. o. Parish, conductor, of New York,
Frank j. Degan, No. 2Ss West Thirty
fourth street, New York City, body
bruised and face cut
Herman Acker baggagenlan, Peekskill,
N. Y, bruised and head cut.
Shaw. express agent, New York,
John E. Ryan. No 2s4 Barrow street,
Jersey City, badly lacerated arm and leg;
IN hospital at Peekskill.
Clarence Morgan, of Aurora. n. Y;
broken shoulder, In hospital at Peekskill.
w. 8. Langford. Bayonne. N. j.. body
bruised
Charles Buchanan, No. 415 West Forty
seventh street. laceration of hand and
arm; at Flower Hospital, New York
John Flood, laborer, of Lockport, n. Y,
head and arm cut; at Flower Hospital,
New York.
John Smith, American Express messen-
ger; injured internally; at Flower Hospi-
tai, New York.
Three Chinamen badly cut and bruised
in hospital at Peerlskill; one identified as
Quang Ding.
None of the injured is expected to die
The bodies of Mckay, Engineer Foyle
and Fireman Tompkins have not yet been
recovered.
The coroner's jury will meet on Tuesday
night to conduct an Investigation. In
the meantime the Railroad Commissioners
and officials of the New York Central
Railroad are also investigating into the
cause of the disaster.