The record-union., 1897-10-25
Terrible Accident on the Hudson
River Railroad.
Train Thrown From the Track Into the
River.
The Retaining Wall Along the
Water Had Been Undermined
by High Tides and the Track
Caved Under the Weight of
the Train-A11 the Deaths Re-
suited From Drowning.


the Train-AI1 the Deaths Re-
suited From Drowning.
NEW YORK, Oct. 24-Buffalo and
New York special No. 4 on the New
York Central and Hudson River Rail-
road, due to arrive in this city at 1:30
O'Clock this morning, was thrown from
the track into the Hudson River, one
and half miles below Garrison's Sta
tion. Twenty lives were lost The
retaining wall along the river had been
undermined by high water in the river
and the track caved under the weight
of the train. The train consisted of
the engine, a combination baggage and
express car, a smoker, two ordinary
coaches and four Sleepers. The engine
and two of the forward cars are sub
merged in fifty feet of water. Engineer
Foyle and Fireman TompkinS went
down with the engine. All the sleeping
car passengers escaped. A man named
Williams Of Buffalo died after being
rescued from the river, his arm hav-
ing been torn off. Up to 5:3O o'clock
ten bodies had been recovered Seven
or eight of the dead were Chinese who
were in the smoking car. A. G. Nc
Kay. Private Secretary of General Su-
perintendent Van Etten, is missing, and
is said to have been on the engine. =
number of wounded have been taken
TO hospitals in Poughkeepsie and Peeks-
kill
Following is the list of the bodies re-
covered from the wreck up to $50
p. m:
Thomas Reilly, about 80 years of age,
of 26SO Wisconsin avenue, st. Louis.
Five unidentified Chinese, one bear
ing passport in the name of Wong Gin,
and one bearing a letter addressed to
Hop Sing, II Springfield avenue, New
York.
E A. Green, about % years of age,
supposed to be employed by w A. Otis,
architect, 175 Dearborn street, Chicago.
All of those died from drowning.
Green's body was the first one taken
out of the car by the diver. who is
stm searching for more bodies.
A. G. Mckay, Private Secretary of
General Superintendent Van Etten, is
believed to have been riding on the en-
gine and killed.
Conductor Parish and eighteen others
New York.
Five other survivors of the wreck
We're taken to the Helping Hand Hos
pital at Peekskill. Two of these are
Americans and three are Chinese. The
former are: John f. Ryan, 294 Barrow
street. Jersey City. badly lacerated
arm. shoulder and knee and Clarence
Morgan of Auduray, n. Y, shoulder
broken.
Mr.. Morgan escaped from a car which
had fallen into the water through
hole in the end.
w. s Langford of Bayonne, n. j.,
was in one of the last coaches which
remained on the track. He swan out
to the sunken cars with an ak and
succeeded in chopping through one OF
them and rescuing four people.
The wreck occurred about six miles
above Peekskill.
A retaining wall, which supported the
track. slid out under the weight of the
rapidly moving train. OF late the tide
in the Hudson has been very high and
to this was due the undermining of the
wall. so the railroad officials state.
Herman Acker of Peekskill the bag
gagemaster of the train. who was in
the baggage car with John Shaw, an
express agent, had a narrow escape.
In a second compartment of the car
We're several Chinese. Acker felt a
heavy jar, and found himself in the
water The water rose to within
foot of the roof. The car had whirled
completely around in falling. and the
compartment which contained the bag
gage stuck up slightly, the end contain
ing the Chinese being completely sub
merged. Shaw and Acker kept them
selves afloat. the latter making his way
TO the tool box. He got out an ak
smashed through panel, and with
Shaw climbed to the roof of the car
Three of the Chinese also made their
e.scape through the same opening. Ack-
er's arm was badly cut and his body
covered with bruises. He was sent to
his home in Peekskill. Shaw was not
hurt The first man unknown, who
was taken out of the wreck by the
rescuers. was breathing when found,
but badly crushed. He died soon after
wards, his body being sent to Peekskll
also.
The sleeping car conductor says ne Is
able to account for all of his passen-
gers, except FIVE. and he is not certain
that these are lost.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
GARRISONS On. V, Oct 24.-F'rom
the sleep that means refreshment and
rest 10 the eternal sleep that knows
no wakening, plunged in the twinklinS
of an eye this morning twenty-elght
souls, men, women and children Into
the Shiny bed of the Hudson River a
train, laden with slumbering humanity,
ploughed, dragging through the waters
the passengers. There was nothing to
presage the terrible accident which so
suddenly deprived these unfortunatas
of life The New York Central train
left Buffalo last night. and had prog
ressed for nearly nine-tenths of the dis
tance towards its destination. The en-
gineer and his fireman had just noted
the gray dawn in the east and the
light streak of red denoting the suns
appearance when, with the great en-
gine, servant on the rails. devil off,
plunged into the depths of the river.
Neither the engineer nor the fireman
will ever tell the story of that terrible
moment for with his hand upon the
throttle the engineer plunged with his
engine to the bottom and the fireman,
too, was at his post. Behind them