The Meeker herald., 1897-10-30
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Garrisons, \. u, Oct. 2.-TherS vas
n terrible railroad disaster near this
place this morning, a passenger train
plunHing from the track into the Hpd-
son river. Nineteen persons are known
to be dead and nine others are thpuxht
to have perished. About dozen we're
injured.
Then happened what on the railroad
at any other time would have c3used
disaster. but now pOrved n blessing.
As the train plunged over the emtank-
ment the coupling that held ths last
three of the six sleepers broke and
they miraculously remained o. the
broken track. In that way some sixty
lives were saved.
The wrecked train was known - the
state express. II left Buffalo tat /
O'Clock last night and was due In New
York at I O'Clock this morning. The
train WIS hauled by engine 812 and
consisted Of one American Express
car. one combination baggage and
smoking car. one day coach and six
sleepers. Poughkeepsie was the last
stopping place OF the train before the
disaster. at 5:1O a. III. -
The section OF road was supposed to
be the very best on the entire division.
Ihere was great heavy retaining
wall all along the bank. and whHe the
tide was high yesterday, 1t was NOT
unprecedented
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 eagine
struck the unsupported tracks 1t went
crashing through the rest of the wall
and toppled over into the river.
AT this time there were In the smoker
In addition to the baggageman. Her.
man Acker Of Peekskill. who was in
his compartment. eight Chinamen en-
route from the Canadian border to
New York. and middle-aged man,
supposed to he Thomas Reilly of St
Louis. All of these excepting the bag
gageman perished. The day coach
contained eighteen or twenty passen-
gers. many of whom were women and
children. How many of these escaped
il not known. but at least twelve were
drowned or killed in this car Behind
the coach We're the six sleepers with
about sixty-five passengers.
The total cargo Of human freight
consisted OF something over hundred
people.
Just how the train met its awful fate
will never be fully known. for the men
who first felt the danger. Engineer
John Foylc and Fireman. John Tomp-
kins, tonight lie dead in the cab Of
their locomotive at the bottom Of the
Hudson river. Conductor Parish, who
was in charge of the train, and who
was making up his report In one OF the
cars when the crash came. was rem
dered unconscious by a blow on the
head.
The work Of rescue hexan with
promptness. 1t was necessary to 1ift
the cars from the river bed with der.
ricks before the bodies could be recov-
cred. 5sfg 81
Thoae known 10 Ne dead ases n.
J'homaa Reilly. At. Louis.
f. A. Green. Chicago.
". H. G. Myers. fremont. New
York.
Giuseppe Padunno. New York
w. 8. Rectnr. Newark. New Jersey
A. G. Mckay. private secretary to
General Superintendent Van Etten
body supposed to be in the wreck.
John Foyle. engineer. East Albany:
body not recovered
John O. TomDkiDs. fireman. East AL.
bany: body not recovered. a4
Two women. unidentified
Unknown man. died while being res
cued.
Wong Gun. Chinaman.
Eight Cinnamon. unidentified. l.