Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-10-29

TWENTY LIVES LOST.
Sleeping Passengers Wake Up
In Eternity. Tracks Un-
dermined By High
Tides.

The New York and Boston
express train No 40, over th'
New York Central & Hndsol
River road, was thrown from
the tracks into the Hudson rive.
at Corbins Basin, two miles be
low GarrlSons, at about sac
Sunday morning,
There were ninety>six pas
sengers and fourteen train hands
on board. No list was obtained
of those who were in the sleep
ing car. Twenty persons are
known to be dead, and the list
is not yet complete. The bod
les recovered are all at Cold
Spring, where the coroner has
his office.
The engine and express car
are in Fifty feet of water. The
com bination baggage and smok>
ing car and one day coach are
submerged.
OF the six sleepers, one is en>
tirely under water. two are only
partially covered. Three of the
sleepers did not leave the track.
The wreck is said to have
been caused by the tides wash
ing away the underpinning of
the track.
The engineer and fireman
went down with the engine.
Many passengers were rescued
through the car windows.
Among those in the smoking
car were eleven Cinnamon, who
had been smuggled in from
Canada. All save three OF them
were lost.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Maltby,
of Buffalo, favorite nephew of
41,o No., Vo~l- To,,t~o1be -1oc;.
dent, were among the rescued
passengers.
Another was all Englishman,
supposed to be Lord Douglas, of
Hawick, eldest son of the Mar
quis Of Queensberry and brother
of Lord Sholto Douglas.
It was a quarter past 3 o'clock
in the morning, when train 4o,
which now lies in ruins at the
bottom Of the Hudson, pulled
out of Albany and rumbied
across the bridge ON its fatal
journey south.
All the way from Buffalo and
even further west, its doom had
been making. Little delays,
things which are ordinarily of
no moment, had worked together
to hold back the trains which
should have led the way for this
one.
The Big four connection was
late from Cleveland into Buffalo,
and 46 started away from the
Lake city on the time of the
train chat should have preceded
it by half an hour.
Again the Montreal express
was delayed ir Troy to take On
the scenery and baggage of
James J. Corbett's show, and
again ill-fated 46 took the right
of way, and started OH with its
burden of sleeping souls
1t spun on with all speed
through the dumb hours that
come before the dawn. The
river villages slumbered as it
swept through them. The block
signals told off the distances with
mechanical precision. 7 h e
track was right as a trivet.
It was tWenty>three minutes
of 6 when Fireman Tompkins
sawed at his bell rope and the
changing announced the passing
of Garrison S station.
The doom was at hand.
Two miles, or a little less, be
low the town, there is great
curve, where the rivers eddying
has cut out a mighty lnouthful
from the hills that overlook it.
They call it Corbins Basin.
For years it has been known to
Central engineers as a danger
spot, and always the track hands
have been pottering away there.
braeirg up the loose, uncement-
| ed retaining wall which guards
the made ground on which the
track is laid from the eroding
action of the river.
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