The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-25
A Railroad III ! FILLED With Pass
seuaers Dashes lato the nsdsos.
wENTY.EIGHT LIVES WERE LOST.
Many Bodies Recovered. but Many
More Are Missing.
light cHlNAAEN FIND GRAVES
The High water OF the River Under-
mined the Track, Resulting n
the HORRIBLE wreck.

New York, October 2l.--The Buffaio ana
New York special on tho New York Central
and Hudson. due to arrive in this city at
1880 this morning. was thrown from tho
track into the Hudson river ono and a half
miles below Garrison's stat,on.
Twenty Eight lives were lost.
The retaining wall along the river had
been undermined by high water and the
track cavcd under tho weight OF the train.
Tho train consisted Of the engine. a COM
bination baggage aud express car n smoker
two coaches and two slecpers. The engine
and two forward cars We're submerged in
fifty feet OF water Engineer Foylc ana
Fireman Tompkins went down with the
engine. All the sleeping car passengers
escaped. One man named Williams OF But-
falo died after being rescued from the river.
his arm having been torn of.
Up to $3.50 o'clock ten bodies had been
recovered Seven or eight OF the dead were
Cinnamon who were in the smoking car.
A. q. Mckay, private secretary to Gem
erai Manager Van Ettan IL missing, and 10
said to have been ON the engine. NUM-
her OF wounded have been taken to hos
pitfalls In Poughkeopsie and Peekskill.
The following is the list OF bodies re-
covered from the wreck um to $3.50 n, MI:
Thomas Reilly, about so years old. Of
/ Wisconsin avenue. st. Louis.
| Five unidentified Cinnamon, ono bearing
passport In the name of Wong Gin. one
bearing a letter addressed to Hop Sing. II
Springfield avenue. Newark.
| A. Il. Green. 90 years old. supposed 10
BIO employed at It's Dearborn street. Chi
cago
| w. G.. Myers OF Passaic, N. j..
| All the others died from drowning
Green's body was tho first taken out, ana
a big force Is still searching for bodies.
A. O. Mckay private secretary. Is be-
lieved to have been riding on the engine,
and is believed to have been killed.
Conductor Parish and eighteen others
wsuo unln,ured and have been sent to New
| York.
| Five other survivors OF the wreck were
taken to the hospital at Peekskill. Two
OF these are Americans and three Chinss
men. The former are:
| city, badly lacerutod on arm, shoulder and
knee
Clarence Morgan Of Aurora. N. Y, shoui-
der broken.
| Mrs. Morgan escaped from car. after
It had fallen into the water. through .
hole In the end.
W. S. Lnngford of Bayonnc. N. y. was
In one OF the last coaches. which remained
on the track. He swan out TO the sunken
cars with an axe and succeeded In choppIng
through one OF them.
The wreck occurred about six miles above
peekskill. retaining wall which sup
ported the track slid out under the weight
OF the rapidly moving train. OF late tho
tide IN the Hudson river has been very high
and to this was due the undermining Of the
wall, SO the officials state.
II. AclSer OF Peekskill, the baggage mas
ter OF tho train who was in the baggage
car with John Shaw. an express agent. hfA
narrow escape. In second compartment
OF the car were several Cinnamon. Acker
felt heavy jar and found himself In the
water. The water rose to within foot Of
| tho roof. The car had whirled completely
Royal makes the food pure.
| vvholesome md doolcsoug.