The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-10-30

cargo of human freight consisted Of
something over 100 people.
Just how the train met its awful fate
will never be fully known, for the men
who first felt the danger, Engineer John
Foyle and Fireman John Tompkins, lie
dead in the cab of their locomotive at
the bottom of the Hudson river.
General Managers Statement.
General Manager Toncy gives the
following statement as the cause of
the disaster:
"The accident was caused by the bed
of the railroad being washed out in
some ineNplicable manner. In this I'M
dermined condition the track sank as
soon as the weight of the train was
put on it, and the embankment giving
way, the train was of course precipi-
tated into the river. Such conditions
as this we have never looked for.
Trains have been running w this
spot for Years and wears without acct
dent or difficulty of any kind and this
piece of track was considered us good
as any section of the road. Not only
was the road bed the hardest kind of
an ~embankment but it was strength
ened by a strong water wall of solid
masonry three feet thick"
Other railroad officials were of the
! opinion that Ii quicksand foundation
of some kind below the water line was
responsible for the sinking of the road
bed. Among the railroad men it was
generally believed that A. G. Mckay,
OF Harlem, private secretary to Gem
eral Superintendent Van Etten, had
lost his life in the wreck. He was a
passenger on the train and was last
seen at Albany, where it was said he
boarded the locomotive to ride With
the engineer.
Before noon General Manager Tou-
cey had formed an estimate Of the
number of dead, which he placed at
twenty-eight, and no change in this
estimate was made during the day.
When Il diver arrived from New
York in the afternoon the first thing
he did was to go through the three sub
merged sleeping cars. He reported
that he found no bodies, but said that
one or more might be under the
berths. which We're in great confusion.
Recovering the Bodies.
1t was 3 O'Clock before the derrick and
hosting engine could raise the combina-
ton car. The body of a man came out of
the window as the car was being brought
to the shore. A passenger coach without
seats was close at hand and the body was
carried thither and deposited on the floor.
The man was about IS years of age. The
body rescuers did not have time then TO
make any inquiry as to who he was. but
simply tore off a slip of paper. wrote
Body No. H. and pinned it on his coat
and left him to look for others. The
searchers were only able 10 find eight
Cinnamon and they were also carried to
the morgue ear. They were laid in a row
numbered and were ready for identifica-
ton.
The derrick next pulled the day coach to
tine shore ana the searching parties were
able to reach it,. Although it is known
that there We're many more persons in the
coach. but SIX bodies were recovered and
two OF these We're women. They were
all placed side by side. The last body vas
recovered at 5:45. The coroner and his as
sistants searched tho dead bodies in The
hope Of finding some clue to their identity.
Non of the Cinnamon were identified.
Body No. ]. was identified as that of
Thomas Kelley of ST. Louis.
NO. II proved 10 De w. ii. Myers Oh Ire
mont. N. Y.
T.. A. Greene. of Chicago, was No. ..
No. u, that Of n young woman about 20
years old. and No. Is, another woman,
had nothing upon their persons by which
their Identification could be established.
Bodies Taken to Cold Springs.
the removal of the bodies to undertaking
roons at Cold Springs, where they will
be embalmed and held a day for identi-
t%ication.
Following Is a list of deal as far as ac.
certained up to midnight:
Thomas Kelley of ST. Louis.
Il A. Green, Chicago.
w. II. G. Myers of fremont, N. Y.
Two m unidentified.
Giuseppe Guadano of New York.
w S. Becker, Newark. N ].
Unknown man died while being rescued.
A. G. Mckay, private secretary to Gener-
al Superintendent Van Etten. body sup
posed to be in the wreck.
John Foyle. engineer, of East Albany,
bmody not recovered.
John q. Tompkins, fireman. of East AL
bany. body not recovered.
Eight Cinnamon.
The total number of known dead is nine
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ty- eight.
The injured:
Condusctor L. o. Parish Of New York.
knocked senselcss, severely bruised.
Frank began. New York city, body
bruised and face cut.
Hermann Aclter Of Peekskill, baggage
man, bruised and head cut.
John Shaw, express messenger, New
York. .light bruises.
John E. Ryan. 2s4 Barrow street. Jersey
City, N. j.. badly lacerated arm and leg
In hospital at P%eekskili.
Clarence Morgan of Aurora, n. Y, bro
ken shoulder; in hospital at peekskill.
w. s. IAngford. Bayonne, N. j.. body
bruised.
Charles Buchanan.
John Smith. g
John Flood.
All were taken to Flower hospital, New
York city.
A number of others were injured, blu
up to a late hour last night the list was
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