Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-10-27

to Tarrytown at the rate of about TWEEN
ty-five miles an hour. Most of the pas
Sengers were asleep, those in the sleepers
being in their berths. while the occu-
pants of the coach and smoker were Tor
the most part doubled up in their seats.
Conductor Parish. who was making up
his report in one of the cars when the
crash came. was rendered unconscious by
a blow on the head. When he recovered
he was three seats ahead of the one III
which he had been sitting.
Train Peculiarly Made UP.
There was a popularity in the makeup
of the train that is doubtless responsible
for the deaths of the Cinnamon IN the
smoker and for the rescue of Baggage
man Ackert and EXpressman Shaw.
Generally a combination car is run with
the baggage end toward the engine, but
in this case the car was reversed. Ihe
passenger end of the car was in 'front.'
with the baggage end opening upon the
day coach.
When the train swung through CARR
sons at 5:37, fifty miles out of New
York the gray of the dawn was just
showing through the trees and damp
mist from the river covered the track.
Two miles below Garrisons the train ran
out of Il low cut into a straight stretch
of track about half mile in length.
Half way down the straight stretch OF
track the engine struck an undermlned
spot in the roadbed. There was no lndl-
cation from the top that Il hollow lurked
underneath the rails. With sudden
twist the engine was thrown to the right
and plunged, roaring and sizzling, INTO
the waters of the river. Following the
line of the least resistance, the washed
out embankment slid into the water as
soon as it was struck by the pOnderous
! locomotive The track became a chute
down which the train rolled.
The engine went far out into the
stream, leaving one of the trucks from
the tender upon the bank, and became
twisted up itself. rolled over and over,
and the long train stopped. The impact
! broke the patent vestibuleS between the
heavy sleeping cars, telescoped the day
coach. and doubled up the combination
coach as though it were car of paper.
The three rear sleeperS remained on the
track because there was no room for
them in the river.
All passengers were thrown about or
from their berths. Out of the wreck
arose the screams of men and women.
awakened from sleeD with water tapping
the sides of the cars. The heavy trucks
were dragging the wooden bodies of the
coaches under the surface and the train
was steadily slipping out to where the
water was fifty feet deep. Couplings
broke and two cars foated out in the
stream--a day coach and the express car.
Through broken windows men swarmed
out into the water, attired in their sleep
ing clothes and waded to the bank. A
bridge of ties was made by which the
rescued were carried to the bank from
the cars.
Mangled. bleeding bodies were pulled
from the Glen Alpine. One man, with
his arm crushed. was dragged to the bank
by the rescuers and wrapped in blanket.
He died in the hands of those who were
attending to his wants. Out of the COM
bination coach appeared man swim
ming. He reached the bank, pulled him
self TO a safe place, took long draft
from a bottle of whisky, and then clam
bered out to help the rescuers. The wills
ky he turned over TO one of the survivors
and it was distributed among the shiver-
ing thr0ng on the bank.