Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-11-02
NINETEEN PERSONS KILLED
A Train on the New York Ger
trail Railroad Thrown Into
the Hudson River. =
WATER UNDERMINES 4 RETAINING WALL
~ - :. IN u1nl1er the Weight OF
the Cars-List of the Dea" oouae*
Recovered-Railway OmchaAs NaSe
Their Views OF the D1saster-s"S
the Roadbed Was Good.

New York. Oct. 25.-Buffalo and New
York special No. 46, on the New YORK
Central & Hudson River railroad, due
to arrive in this city at 1880 O'Clock sun
dav morning, was thrown from the
track at daybreak into the Hudson
river 1h miles below Garrison's station.
Nineteen lives were lost. The re-
tanning 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 ex-
press car, a smoker, two ordinary
coaches and four sleepers. The engine
aud two forward cars are submerged Ia
50 feet of water. Engineer Foyle and
Fireman Tompkins went down with the
engine. 1t is known that it was tribe
foggy, and that the track was not Wis
ible, but if there was any break IN the
lines of steel, it must have been OF very
recent happening, for only an hour be-
fore there had passed over 1t heavy
passenger train, laden with human
freight. The section of the road was
supposed to be the very best on the
entire division. i There was a great
heavy retaining wall all along the bank.
What seems TO have happened was that
underneath the tracks and ties the
heavy wall had given away, and when
the great weight of the engine struck
the unsupported tracks it went crash
ing through the rest of the wall and top
pied over into theriver.
Long Row of Dead.
Tho fo11ou-ipr is list nf the dead so
far as ascertained:
E. A. Greene, Chicago: Thomas Reilly,
St. Louis; A. G. Mckay, private secretary
to General Superintendent Van Etten; John
| Foyle, engineer, of East Albany, body not
| recovered; John Q. Tompkins, fireman, OF
| Of fremont. N. Y; woman. unidentified:
! woman, unidentified: Giuseppe Paduano,
| Of New York; S. Becker. of Newark, N. Y. !;
unknown man, died while being rescued :;
| Fong Gin and seven undermined China
| men.
Cause of the Disaster.
General Manager Toucey gave the fol-
lowing statement as the cause of the
Disaster:
1.-THE accident was caused by the bed OF
| the railroad being washed out in some in
| applicable manner. In this undermined con-
! dition the track sank as soon as the weight
| Of the train was put on 1t. and. the en-
/
course, precipitated into the river. Such
| conditions as this we have never looked foe.
Trains have been running over this spot
! for years and years without accident or dit
| ficulty of any kind, and this piece Of track
! was considered as good any section OF
! the railroad. Not only was the roadbed
| the hardest kind of an embankment, >but it
! was strengthened by a retaining watch wall
| Of solid masonry three feetthick.'
| Later News.
Garrisons, N. Y, Oct. 26.-The COM
plete list of the killed in the New York.
Central &, Hudson River railroad wreck,
a list of which the railroad officials
believe includes all of those who could
possibly have been lost, numbers 10.
! All the bodies but three have been iden-
tilted by friends. Only two women los-
their lives, one being Mrs. Mary Linds-
man, of Utica, and the other is not
known.
! Blown Up with Dynamite.
New York, Oct. 27.-Chauncey NJ. De-
pew, president of the New York Cen tral
railroad, is quoted as saying that the
wreck at Garrisons last Sunday was
caused by dynamite explosion He is
said to have expressed the belief that
an explosive was placed under the
roadbed by enemies of the New York
Central road, but he could not under
stand what object the guilty persons
could have had.
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