The herald., 1897-10-27
TWO BODIES STILL MISSING
wuME RECOVERED ARE NOT YET
IDENTIFIED
Reports of the Unsafe Condition of the
Track Emphatically Denied-The
Cause of Wreck Unknown
Associated Press Special Wire.

AAVCS aiC AOW hIOWu " nave Occu lOS'
in Sundays accident on the New York
Central road and eighteen bodies have
been found. The body of an unknown
man was recovered today, as well as
that of the fireman. The day coach
of the Inflated train was raised today
and in it was found a victim not hitherto
included in the tsliof dead. The engine
was also brought to the surface and with
1t the body of Fireman John @. Tomp-
kins, tightly wedged in between two
masses of iron.
Shortly after 8 o'clock the large der
rick brought up the day coach from the
bottom of the river. When the water
had drained from the bottom of the car
those watching the operation saw at
just beyond the feet sticking out from
under one of the seat tops The wreck
ers tore aside the debris and soon had
the body out. No more bodies were
found.
The body removed. the seventeenth
since the wreck and the twentieth
known victim, was that of man So
years old, with dark, short moustache.
In one of the pockets of the vest was a
wallet containing six $40 bills, a So bill
and a Casualty Insurance company
ticket, such as is sold at railroad sta
tions. 1t was made out for the sum of
$2500 in case of death, but very curiously
the name or rather the last names of
ing. The card read, so far as could be
deciphered, Ike r. as the purchasers
name and Mrs. E." as the person to
whom 1t was to be paid. The railroad
officials are Of the opinion that the man
boarded the train at Rochester.
The contents of the car, other than the
body, showed that the people had made
a rush for their lives. There were
women's hats, six men's hats, a womans
coat, eight gripsacks of various kinds,
two mems coats and many small gar
ments.
Another interesting event of the day
was the raising of the express car, from
which it was alleged that large sum of
money had been lost by the dropping to
the river bottom of a small safe. General
Superintendent Van valkenburg of the
American EXPIRES company was present
when the car came to the surface and
It was seen that it was the most badly
damaged of any that had yet been taken
up. AS soon as possible the car was
searched by inventory and then Mr.. Van
Valkenburg gave out this statement:
"None of the valuables in the car are
lost. The big dynamite proof safe was
intact and fastened to the wall in it's
proper place. The small safe, which it
was thought might have dropped out
Of the broken car was found in cor
ner and the only thing of value known
to be missing is a small package of
jewelry."
The engine was dragged out of the
river tonight just before dark, and
President Chauncey NJ. Depew and the
three railroad commissioners, with AS
sistant Secretary McLenoe, saw the
operation. The divers had located the
tender early in the afternoon and it
was brought up without it's trucks.
When, shortly after o'clock, the engine
came to the surface of the river, it
was seen that the trucks were missing
and that the front of the boiler and the
guards were smashed into an unrecog-
niZable mass.
The men on the lighter saw clothing
dangling from the front and when the
lanterns could be brought to bear it
was found that the rags covered hu-
man body. The body was wedged in
front of the boiler, where the engine
number plate is, and had to be dragged
out. There is much speculation as to
how Tompkins came to be on the front
Of the machine. The fact of the finding of
the firemans body in the position it lay
has led to the belief that the engineer s
body is somewhere in the locality. The
fact that the front trucks of the en-
gine are yet in the river precludes any
possibility until tomorrow of determin-
ing whether a broken truck caused the
accident.
Superintendent Mccoy of the New
York Central said that the story told
by a section boss to the effect that he
had left the road because of it's unsafe
condition was a falsehood and that the
man who told it had been discharged for
drunkenness. Mr.. Mccoy also denied
the statement that the roadbed at the
scene of the accident was known to be
In bad shape.
WHO HE WAS
CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 26.-The name
of the man whose body was taken from
the New York Central railway today
was Isaac Ruttenberg. He lived in this
city.
DONE BY DYNAMITE
NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-The Herald and
World this morning quote Chauncey M
Depew, president Of the New York Gen.
tral. as saying that the wreck at Garri-
sons last Sunday was caused by dyna-
mite explosion.
ANY one who is familiar with rail-
roading," said Mr.. Depew, Knows that
the continual pounding of trains over a
roadbed has the effect of beating it down
until it is like rock That roadbed has
been in use for forty years and the fact
that 1t was like rock is shown by the fact
that Immediately after the wreck, be-
fore the workmen had filled in any, the
break showed clean cut perpendicular
cleavage.
1.-THE popular notion that this was due
to q landslide is not borne out by this
When there is a landslide the bank takes
the shape Of an inclined plane. The fact
that this was found as it was shows that
the break must have been formed in an
unusual way. The only thing that could
have done it would have been stick OF