Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-10-29
A SCORE OF VICTIMS.
APPALLING DISASTER ON THE NEW
YORK CENTRAL ROAD.


YORK CENTRAL ROAD.
a Fast Express Train Leaves the Rails
and Plungss Down an EmBankment
Into the Hudson River-N Nearly SCORE
Of Passengers Were Drowned.
Garrisons, N T.. oct. 2e.-AThe most
disastrous wreck in the history Of the
New York Central railroad occurred
hear this station ON Sunday morning.
rtain No. As, known as the Buffaio ex-
press. was wrecked short distance be-
low this station. with deafening
crash and the hiss Of escaping steam
the engine plunged down the embank-
ment, dragging with IL all but three Of
the sleeping cars into the Hudson river.
The engine was submerged in 50 feet
Of water. with the engineer at the throt-
tie and the fireman in the cab buried
beneath It, Twenty people lost their
lives, and several were badly injured.
The following is list Of the dead:
John c. Foyle. engineer, East Albany;
body still in the river.
John Q. Tompkins. fireman, East AL
bany.
Samuel Williams, 7s1 Best street.
Buffalo.
Thomas Riley. st. Louis.
W. II. G. Myers. fremont, N. Y.
A. @. Mckay, New York city; body
still In river.
p. A. Green, Binghamton, N. Y.
William Schenckenbecker, Newark,
N. j., otherwise known as william s.
Becker.
Isaac Rittenberg, Cleveland.
Giuseppe Taguana, 9s Park street,
New York city
Mrs. Robert Lindsman, Utica, N. Y.
Unknown woman, not yet identified.
Chin Lee Song, San Francisco, on his
way to make New York his home.
Chin Fong Hop, brother Of Chin Lee
Song.
Hoo wah, New York.
Lee Tong Sing, II Mott street. New
York.
Unknown Chinaman with letter tc
Hop Sing of Newark, N. ].
Wong Gin, residence unknown.
Two unknown Cinnamon.
The Ill Fated Train.
The train was hauled by engine s7s
and consisted Of one American Express
car, one composite baggage and smok-
ing car, one day coach and six sleepers
This was the makeup Of the train when
II left Poughkeepsie, the last stopping
place before the disaster At this time
there were in the smoker, in addition tc
the baggageman, Herman Acker Of
PeeksEdH, who was in his compartment;
eight Cinnamon en- route from the Ca
madam border TO New York and a mid.
die aged man supposed to be Thomas
Reilly Of 1850 Wisconsin avenue, St
Louis. All of these excepting the bag
gagemaster perished. The day coach
contained IS or 20 passengers, many oi
whom were women and children. How
many of these escaped is not definitely
known. but at least ~ were drowned Of
killed in this car.
Behind the coach were the six sleep
ers-the Glenaipine, with is passengers
the Hermes, with IL passengers, the Nj.
ODE. with IL; the Diana, with about 15i
Anita, nearly full, and the Racket Riv.
er, with no passengers. The total cargo
/ of human freight consisted Of some
thing over 100 people.
Conductor Parish, who was In charge
| Of the train and who was making uI
his report in one Of the cars when the
| crash came was rendered unconscious
by a blow on the head. When he re-
covered, he was three seats ahead oi
the one in which he had been sitting
One of. the few occupants of the coach
who escaped with his life was FRANK
| j. Degan, a wood finisher of 269 Wesi
Thirty-fourth street, New York His
left eye was cut with broken glass, and
his body was slightly bruised. Mr.. De.
gan makes this statement;
with w. H. G.. Myers of fremont
N Y, who was killed In the car from
which I escaped, had been to Pough.
keepsie. We boarded the train at thai
place and took seat in the coach
Three other people got on at Pough'
keepsie. One was a woman, and the
two others were men, one Of whom
| looked like a railroad employee. Al
near as l can judge, there were 1S peo.
! pie in the coach. most of them beinr
women and children, and nearly al
were asleep. Myers and l sat in the
middle OF the car. When the crasf
came. the car gave a great lurch and
rolled over on its side. The watei
| rushed in, and almost instantly this
lights went out / knew we were in tn,
river and the car seemed to plov
through the water for some time aftei
1t was submerged. The car tilted ovei
on one side, and managed to reach tn,
fanlight overhead and cling to 1t unit
help came.
Drowned Like Rats In Bucket.
ttT hoard raonla In 4ba hoolr ,oart =,