The age-herald., 1897-10-26
Which Presented Itself At the Morgue
 Where the Bodies Lay.
TIE FIRST BODY TO BE IDENTIFIED
Was That of a Man, and His Brother ec E. nized the Lifelcss Corpse-Two Wo- men as Yet Unclaimed
 Dcpew's Statement.

Garrison, N. Y, Oct. 25.-When nearly opposite this place yesterday morning an eastbound New York Central pas- senger train, which left Buffalo Satur- day night, plunged into the river
 Neither engineer nor 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 river bottom, and the fireman, too, was at his post Behind them came the ex- press Car, the combination car and the sleepers, and these piled on top of the engine.
 What seems to have happened was that underneath the tracks and ties the heavy wall had given way and when the great weight of the engine struck the unsupported tracks it went crash ing through the rest of the wall and tOppISu over illlO flN6T.
 Then there happened what on the railroad at any other time would have caused disaster, but now proved a very blessing. As the train plunged over the embankment the coupling that held the last three sleepers broke and they mir aculously remained on the broken track In that way some sixty lives were saved.
 List of the Dead
 The complete list of killed in the wreck, list which the railroad officials believed include all those who could possibly have been lost is as follows:
 Engineer Foster, of East Albany body still in river; Fireman John Tompkns. of East Albany, body still in river; Samuel Williams, of -7S1 Best street, Buffalo; Thomas Riley, of St. Louis; w. H. G. Myers, of Trement, N. Y; A. G. Kay, Harlem, body still in river; E. A. Green, of Chicago; William Schneckenberger of S9 soutl Thirteenth street, Newark, N. J., otherwise known as William S. Becker: Giuseppe Taguana, Of 3S Park street, New York city; Mrs. Robert Lindsnlan, of Utica; unknown woman, not yet iden- tified; Chinn Lee Sorg. of San Franc sco; Chinn Fong Hop brother of Chdnn Lee Song; Hoo Wuh. of New York; Lee Torg Seng, of IT Mott street. New York; un- known Chinaman, with letter to Hop Sing, of Newark, N. J.; Wong Gim, resi- d dent,e unknown; unknown Chinaman; unknown Chiaaman.
 The number is nineteen sent last night by the Associated Press and there is lit- tie doubt that this is the total number of killed. The bodies of the engineer fireman and Mr. Van Etten's secretary are still in the river. with little hope of their recovery.
 A Tinge of Romance
 The incidents and effects of the day have had a tinge of dramatic romance around them. Had it not been for the fact that torrents of rain poured down all the afternoon the New York Central would have had an excursion upon their hands larger than for many years. As if was train load after train load of curiosity seekers landed at the stations near the wreck and walked through the drenching rain to stand and stare at the burning embers and mutilated cars.
 The Unknown
 Of the sixteen dead who lay in the coroner's office at Cold Springs eight were heather foreigners, whose names meant scarcely anything to the general public, and yet six of these eight were identified and claimed long before any person had come forward to inquire or seek for two weli-dresssd and evidently very respectable Christian white women, the only women killed in the wreck Tn the morgue they lay for full two days unclaimed and unsought evidently, while the other dead were claimed and taken care of. The sixteen bodiss that were nheld at Cold Springs for identification and the claim of the relatives. were d. yided between the two undertaking es-