Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-25

cars all right. they were drowned because
of the cold water cranIping them.
Col Cole said today that while the bank
may have given way. it was equally posi-
hIe that driving rod of the engine had
broken. and, knocking it off the track, mad
occasioned the disaster
If there are any more bodies in the wreck
or in the river they are believed to be in
the day coach. which lies in water up TO
its roof off Kings dock. The diver who
took six bodies out of this car last evening
said he could find no more bodies. good
many believed. however. that more bodies
will I've found in this car when 1t Is raised
Passengers who escaped from this car and
the crew have said that at least twelve
persons persisted in the day coach
The work OF searching for bodies, which
had been temporarily suspended at
O'Clock this morning, after the parior car
Glen Alpine had been ho.Sted, was resumed
at day break. As the occupants of the other
two sleepers in the RIVER have been ac-
counted fer by the conductor and porters,
it is to ne presumed that no Wagner pas
sengerS were killed. Chief Detective
Humphrey. who. with superintendent Nc
Coy. Assistant Superintendent Weeks and
Trafnmaster Slack. remained at the wreck
all night. superintend ng the search for
valuabes the Glen Alpine, this morning
sent the recovered property to the Grand
Central station. there to he claimed and
identified by the owners
Considerable Money Found.
There was found in this one car. in wal
lets and pocket books. $500 in money. in
sums ranging from SD TO 500. and eight
gold watches. one Of them being a lady
chatelaine. Some of the watches bear
mcnograms by which they can he identi-
fed. There were also found a variety of
diamonds. sleeve buttons studs and pearl
pin, ali kinds of wearing apparel. SatchelS
umbrellas and shoes. One vest contained n
l.. \. W. card made out to F. Parsons of
Brooklyn, and another card bore the name
Charles + Bingham"
S0undings Were made to locate the loco
motive. near which are supposed to be the
bodies of Engineer Foyle, Fireman Tomp-
kinS and a G.. Mackay. private secretary
TO Supt- Van Etten. The engine is sup
posed 10 be lying in fifty feet of water, I'M
der or near sleeping car Hermes and
Niobe. Half of the side of the day coach
from which many bodies have been taken.
has been torn away, and il is possible that
some bodies of those drowned fioated away
or else are at the bottom of the river
\ New York Central railroad train
plunged into the Hudson river three miles
south Of Garrison's just before daybreak
yesterday morning and twenty-eight per-
sons were killed
This village is summer resort in Put
ram county. fifty miles north of New
York city. 1t is opposite West Point.
The engineer and fireman plunged to the
river bottom with the locomotive, meeting
al express c.tr. combination car and
three sleeping ears, and these piled on top
OF the locomotive.
vail Hust Have Been Weakened
II is known that the atmosphere was a
trife togsy. and that the track was not
Clearly visible. but if there was any break
III The lines of steel when the accident oc-
CURED it must have been of recent hap
TeninG. for only hour before a heavy
passenger train. laden with human freight
had passed over it. This section of the
roat was supposed to be the best on the
entire division There was Il heavy retain
ing wall along the river bank and while
he tide was high, it was not unprecedent-
ed
VIVA, seems to have happened was that
beneath the tracks and the ties the heavy
'saI had given way, and when the great
weight OF the locomotive struck the unsup-
ported tracks il went crashing through the
Wt.A anu toppled over into the river.
sixty Saved on Deaths Hrink
As the train plunged over the enbank-
nlent the coupling pin that held the lest
three OF the six sleepers broke and they
niraculously remained on the torn-up
track In that way sixty lives were saved
Few Were in Reach of Help.
OF eye Witnesses there were none except
the crew of a tugboat passing with tow
came flashing around the curve, and then
saw the greater part of II go into the river.
Seine of the cars with closed windows
foated for time. and the tug whistling
for help. started to the rescue.
n porter Jumped from one of the cars
that rem aimed on the track and ran into
the YARD Of Augustus Cars house, near
the scene Of the accident. He shouted:
The train is in the river; all our passen-
gers are drowned.'
in a few minutes Mr.. Carr had dressed
himself. and, getting in a boat, rowed with
the porter to the scene As they turned a
corner il the bank they came upon the ex-
press car and the combination car floating
about twenty feet from shore, but sinking
every minute Several men were taken
from the tops of these cars, and efforts
were made TO rescue those inside. A few
Were gotten out, the passengers left upon
the track making a human bridge to the
shore to carry the wounded men.
Fought rs They Died.
The day coach and smoker had gone
down in deeper water, and rescue for their
occupants was impossible. In the smok-
iLg car the conditions must have been
awful. The car turned completely over,
and the passenger eEd of it was in the deep
water, while the baggage end stood up to-
ward tn surface. The men in the lower
end must have fought like fiends for a
were mass of wounds.
Ii Was the State Express.
The wrecked train was known as the
State express. II left Buffalo at pm
Saturday. ard was due in New York at Z
am. Sunday. Poughkeepsie was its last
stopping place before the disaster
AT 90 am, wher the train arrived at
Poughkeepsie. there were in the smoker. in
addition To the baggage agent Herman
Acker of PeekskilI. who was in his COM
pertinent, eight Cinnamon, on their way
from the Canadian border 10 New York
and a middle-aged man supposed to be
InoInas Reilly of 2stp Wisconsin avenue
81. Louis All of these except the baggage
master persisted
Inc day coach contained eighteen or
twenty passengers, many of wnom were
women and children. How many of these
escaped Is not known. but at least twelve
OF Ihem were drowned or killed
Behind the day coach were the six s,eep-
ers. Inc Glenalpine, with fifteen passengers:
the Hermes. with twelve; the Niobe. with
eieFen; the Diana with about fifteen: the
ANITA nearly full. and the Racket River