The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-25

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. iiauIne ~ bassase stuck up slishtl,
~ "a. ~ end h which the China
U wsrs bslns conpaet<iy submereed.
kSNsr 81 out = *, sn,ashed through
~ ~ climbed 10 ~ roof d the car
Ihree q the Cinnamon made their escap'
inroush the same opening. Acker's arm
~ b4diy cut. ne wss ssnt " bis homs
u feskskili.
Tue flrst man (nafns unknown, who wa'
taken out * ths wreck BY The rescuers wa'
breathing when found. but badly crushed
No died soon afterward, bis body being
sent 70 Peekskili also.
Tue sleeping car conductor says he IL
able to account for all Of his passengers
except Ave, and IL not certain that these
are lost.
Many people saw the train with its light
= il came flashing around the curve. and
thsn saw the greatee part Of It tumble into
tho river. Some Of the cars with closed
windows floated and In response to the cry
for help tug cast of It's hawser and
started to the rescue. A porter Jumped
from one OF the cars that remained on the
track and ran into the yard OF Augustus
Caw's house, near where the accident oc-
CURED, and stood screaming for help and
moaning, "THE TRAIN IS IN THE
RIVER AND ALL OUR PASSENGERS
ARE DROWNED" In few minutes
Carr dressed himself aud rowed IN boat
TO tho scene. As they turned a point in
the bank they came on the express car and
combination car, floating about twenty feet
from shore, but before sinking everv man
was taken out from the top of the car A
few were gotten out through the windows.
the passengers on the track making
human bridge to the shore to pass tho
wounded along.
The day coach and amoker had zone
down in the deeper water and rescue IVES
impossible. In the latter coach the condl-
lions must have been horrible The car
turned completely over and the passenger
portion OF 1t was in the deem water. v lille
the baggage end stood upward. fhe men
in the lower end must have fought for life
like fiends for brief period foi the bodies
when taken out were mass OF wounds.
The closing scene Of the tragedy is
drawn around common car that sands
near the scene Of the accident where nesrlv
a score OF badly mutiated bodies, none O.
them yet claimed by friends, are lying In
long row, grewsomc evidences OF dis
astcr the greatest which ever occurred on
this road.
The wrecked train was known M the
state express 1t left Buffalo Mt o. lock
iast night and was due in New York at
I this morning. The train was hauIed hv
engine S72 and consisted of ono American
Express car. one composite baggage and
smoking car, one day coach and six
sleepers
Poughkeepsle was tho last stopping plnce
before the disaster. at $40 o'clock this
morning. At this point there were In the
smoker, In addition to the baggage man.
Herman Acker of Peekskill who was In his
eight Cinnamon on route
from the Canadian border 10 Now York.
and a middle-aged man, supposed 10 be
Thomas Reilly OF 2S60 Wisconsin avenue.
3t. Louis.
All of these, excepting the iasgaEe mas
her. persisted.
The day coach contained eighteen or
twenty passengers. many of whom were
women and children. How many O, these
escaped is not known. but at least tw,lye
we're drowned or killed In their car. re.
hind the couch was the six sleepers. with
about slxty-fvc passengers.
The total cargo Of human freight con.
asted OF something over hundred people
It Ffshkill the train lessensd It's spfe, a.
Its custom. to run from that point to
Iarrytown at the rate Of about twenty five /
niles an hour. Most Of the passengers wero
sleep, those In the sleepem being In their |
crths, while the occupants Of the coach
nd smoker were for the most part doubled
y In their seats.
Just how the train met Its awful fate
MI never be fully known, for the men |
rho INST felt the danger. Englnser John
'oyle and Fireman John Tompkius, to-
light I've dead In the cab Of their locomo. |
I've ct the bottom Of the Hudson river
CONDUCTOR Parish. who wss In charge Of
10 train and who was making up HIS re- |
ort In one Of the cars when the crush