The Lamar register., 1897-10-30
TWENTY DROWNED.
TERRIBLE RAILWAY DISASTER.
Embankment on the New York Central
Railway Gives Way and Let. Train
Into the Hudson Riv.r-over Twenty
Lives Lost.

Garrisons, y. Y, Oct. 24.-There was
a terrible railroad disaster near this
place this morning. a passenger train
plunging from the track into the Hud-
son river. Nineteen persons are known
10 be dead and nine others are thought
TO have perished. About dozen were
injured.
Then happened what on the railroad
at any other time would have caused
disaster. but now porSed blessing
As the train plunged over the rmbank-
ment the coupling that held the last
three Of the six Eleepcrs broke and
they mirac1lously remained on the
broken track. In thar way some sixty
Ewes were saved
The wrecked train was known as the
state express. Ii left Buffalo at :
o'clock last night and was due in New
York nt O'Clock this morning. The
train WIS hauled by engine ST2 and
consisted OF one American Express
car, one eombina tlon baggage and
smoking ear one day coach and six
sleepers POuEhkeepsie was the last
stopping place OF the train before the
disaster, at 5s10 A. m
The section OF road was supposed to
he the very best on the entire division.
There WAS a great heavy retaining
wall all along the hank, and while The
tide was high yesterday. Il was not
unprecedented
What seems TO have happened was
that underneath The tracks and ties
she heavy wall had given away. anil
when the great weight Of the engine
struck the unsupported tracks Il went
crashing through the r,st OF the wall
and ioppled over into the river
At this tlIue there were in the smoker
"a aasfAfff.Et -. N
man Ackcr OF PeekSkiiL who was in
his compartment eight Chlnamen On
ronte from the Canadian border to
New York. and a middie-agsd man.
supposed 10 lee Thomas Reilly of ST.
Louis All Of these excepting the bag
"a geman pcrished. The day coach
contained eighteen or twenty passs-i-
gers. many OF whom were women and
children. How many of these escaped
: not known. but al least twelve were
drowned or killed IN this car. Behind
about slNty-five passengers
The total cargo uf human frriEh;
consisted uf something over a hundred
people.
Just how the train met rs awful fate
VIII never be fully known. for the men
who hrst felt the danger. Engineer
John Foyle and Fireman John Tomp-
KRIS tu-utEnt lie dead IN tMe CAD OF
their locomotive AZ tho bottom Of the
Hudson river. Conductor Parish. who
was In charge Of the train. and who
was making up his report in one % the
cars when the crash came was ren-
den-d unconscious by a blow on the
head
The work of rescue began with
promptness. IL was necessary 90 lift
the ears from the river bed With der
ricks before the bodies could be rec0S-
erred
Those known TO he dead are:
Thomas Reilly -. louis.
+. A. Green. Chicago.
w II G. Myers, fremont. New
York.
Giuseppe Paduano. New York.
W. $ Becker. Newark. New Jersey.
A. G. Mckay. private secretary 10
General Superintendent Van Etten;
body supposed to he in the wreck
John Foyle. engineer. East Albany:
body not recovered.
John Q. Tompkins. fireman, East Al
hany; body not recovered.
Two women. unidentified.
Unknown man. died while being res
cued
Wong Gun. a Chinaman
Eight Chinamea. unidentified.