The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-10-27
ANOTHER BODY FOUND,
Making the Deaths Twenty in the
New York Central Accident,
ToMPK1Ns' BODY BEoovERBD.

Inc Nlieinhu llhu beeh w euNeu AhNo
the Mud Beneath His Englne-The
other Victim Carried an Accident
Policy For $4,000.
Garrisons, N. ", oct 27.-Twenty
lives are now known to have been lost
in Sundays accident on the New York
Central railroad, and is bodies have
been found The body of an unknown
man was recovered yesterday, as well
as that of the fireman. The day coach
of the IN fated train was raised yester-
day. and in it was found a victim not
hitherto included in the list Of dead.
The engine was also brought to the sur
face. and with it the body of Fireman
John O. Tompkins tightly wedged be-
tween two masses of iron i'm front
For some hours prior to the raising of
the day car it was believed that sew
eral more bodies would be found. Short
ly after o'clock the large derrick
brought up the day coach from the bot
tom of the river. where it had lain
completely submerged since the day of
the wreck. Slowly the great mass rose
out of the water, and it was seen that
but for the smashed in rear end aud
hole in the roof the car was intact, and
It seemed hardly possible that any
large number of it's occupants could
have escaped. When the water had
drained out of the car those watching
the operation saw at one of the win
dows a human head, and just beyond
the feet sticking out from under one
of the seat tops The wreclSers tore
aside the debris and soon had the body
out No more bodies were found.
The body removed, the 18th since the
wreck and the goth known victim, was
that of q man, 35 years of age, dark,
with a dark, short mustache. He was
dressed in a gray woolen outing shirt,
dark blue vest and trousers, a black
necktie and yellow socks. The shoes
had been removed and so had the coat,
and it is evident that the man had been
sleeping in the seat when death came.
In one of the pockets of the vest was
wallet containing six $40 bills, a 81
bill and a casualty insurance company
ticket, such as is sold at railroad sta
tiOns.
The insurance ticket was made out
for the usual sum of S2,5OO in case of
death, but very curiously the name, or
rather the last names of both payer
and beneficiary, was missing. The card
read, so far as could be deciphered,
ike r" as the purchasers name and
Mrs. o." as the person to whom it
was to be paid.
Last night the body was identified as
Isaac Rettenberg, of New York, 80
years of age, a dealer in eye glasses.
His insurance policy was payable TO
his mother in Cleveland. Rettenberg
was on his way to New York to attend
his brothers wedding.
The contents of the car other than
the body showed that the people had
made a rush for their lives. There
were women's shoes and hats, six mems
hats, a woman's coat, eight gripsacks
of various kinds, two mems coats and
many small garments.
Another interesting event of the day
was the raising of the express car,
from which it was alleged that a large
sum of money had been lost by the
dropping to the river bottom of a small
safe. One-half of the car had been
entirely demolished and washed away.
None of the valuables in the car were
lost. The big dynamite proof safe was
intact and fastened to the wall in its
proper place. The small safe, which it
was thought might have dropped out of
the broken car, was found in corner,
and the only thing of value known to
bG llllSSlllB 10 a sinai BdNhd5G VI Jew
elry OF course all of the merchandise
in the car had been destroyed.
The engine was dragged out of the
river last night just before dark, and
President Chauncey NJ. Depew and the
three railroad commissioners, with AS
sistant Secretary Edward McEntee,
saw the operation. The engine was
worked upon for several hours, the
divers finding it almost impossible to
get the heavy chains under it, as it
had gone so far in the mud. When 1t
came to the surface it was seen that
the trucks were missing, and that the
front of the boiler and the guards were
smashed into an unrecognizable mass.
The body of Fireman Tompkins was
wedged in front of the boiler, where
the engine number plate is, and 1t had
to be dragged out. Tompkins was
dressed in his working suit. There is
some speculation as to how he came to
be on the front of the machine The
theories are either that the first ter
rife lurch from the banks threw him
forward through the cabs window, and
that the head of the engine caught him
and carried him down into the water
and mud, or else that he was on the
front of the engine attending to the
headlight or oiling when the crash
came. The ponderous machine had
driven him into the mud so deeply that
he was not visible to the divers when
they walked around it.
If the raising of the trucks of the
engine and tender do not bring TO light
the bodies of Engineer Foyle and young
Mckay dredges viii be put to work in
the vicinity to see whether they are
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