The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-25
INJURED At 'PEEKSKILL
All the Patients Doing Well
Today The Struggled
Chinaman.

PEEKSKILL, N. Y, Oct. 25, 1S97.-All
of the patients at the Helping Hand Hos
pital, in this village, are doing well to-
day and the physicians stated that none
of the injuries will prove fatal. The
three Cinnamon, whom it was supposed
would die, are as clipper this morning as
if they had but slight shaking up. But
one can talk English, and he is Quang
Ding AS to whether they were smusr
gled into this country his lips are sealed,
but on other subjects he converses free
ly. He says that there were twelve
Cinnamon in the party. IL his statement
is correct, all the Cinnamon nave peen
accounted for, as eight We're found IN
the combination smoking car dead ana
one went to New York yesterday morn
ing and three are in the hospital here.
Clarence Morgan, of Buffalo, another
patient, positively refuses to see any one
but the nurses and the surgeons. dis in
;uries, although painful, will not prove Ia
tai.
John E. Ryan, of Jersey City, was feel
ing well, and to a reporter of the ASSo-
ciated Press said
II get on the train at Albany and went
into the day coach. 1 am sure there We're
ten passengers all told in this car, in
Guiding two women and a man, with his
son. Il boy about nine or ten years OF age
I was just doing when the accident oc-
Cured, and was awakened at once by the
jerk. The day coach went into the river
in an upright position and fioated down
the river a short distance, just as 1t
stood on the tracks. In a few seconds the
car got full of water. The water was but
six inches from the top of the car. Inc
lamps were all out and 1t was dark L
swan over to one of the small ventllators
at the top OF the car, and with my right
hand began smashing the glass. In dong
so 1 nearly severed two fingers from the
hand The cries of the other occupants
of the car were awful When l had
made hole 1 held fast A woman rose
above the water in the car but soon sank.
Presently the man whom I had seen with
boy my window and broke another,
which his father and I held on TO- A
man and a friend, whom he called Bill
ly' had occupied the seat in front mt Of me me
and | could hear him call out, Hold on,
Billy but Billy could not. l heard a
gurgle and I knew Billy was drowned.
While we were holding on we could see
a tug nearby; but although we called
as loud as we posibsly could, we could
not attract anyone's attention. Oh, 1t was
horrible! Every minute seemed an age,
and we thought we never could get out.
Soon we saw a man on the BANK with
an axe in mis- hand. He appeared TO be
calling ton some one, but was not ans
wered, for he jumped into the river and
hear him chopping away, at the root, and
made slow progress. After five minutes
work he gave this up; | called to him him
called to Billy gave up. and sank. In
about ten minutes the man with the axe
had chopped a hole in the side of the
car. car 1 Showed the boy ont first and the
rescuer caught him. The boys father
| tried to get out after him, but the, hole
was not large enough. The man with the
axe made it large. The father went out
and 1 followed him. I WAS the last person
| out of the car and we three were the only
| ones that escaped alive.
mo one escaped by breaking windows,
| for it was impossible to DO so. The car
was full of water and it came in before
| any one knew where we were or had a
| chance to help himself"