Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1897-10-27
o,oer Train on the New
Work Central Dashed Into
a Deep Cavein.
.o,,e and Two Forward Cars
submerged in About Fifty
Feet of Water.
Number of Dead TWenty-eight
and More May Be Added
to the List.

Nrw YORK, Oct. BUFFALO and
New York special No. 46, on the New
York Central and Hudson River rail
mad due to arrive in this city at 7:30a.
was thrown from the track into the
uudson river one and half miles be.
low Garrisons station. Twenty-eight
lives were lost. The retaining wall
along the river had been undermined
bv high water in the river and the
track caved under the weight Of the
train. The train consisted of the en-
zine, o combination baggage and ex-
press car, O smoker, two ordinary
coaches and six sleepers. The engine
and two forward cars are submerged in
80 feet Of water. Engineer Foyle and
Fireman Tompkins went down with
tho engine. All the sleeping car pass'en.
gers escaped. A man named Williams
Of Buffalo died after being rescued from
the river, his arm having been torn off.
Graphic Story Of the Wreck.
The New York Central train left
Buffalo and had progressed for nearly
une.tenths of the distance towards its
destination. The engineer and his
fireman had just noted the gray dawn
breaking in the east and the light
streak Of red betokening the suns ap.
earance, when the great engine.
servant on the rails, q devil off,
plunged into the depths Of the river.
Neither engineer nor fireman will ever
tell the story Of that terrible moment,
for with his hand upon the throttle,
the engineer plunged with his engine to
the river bottom, and the fireman, too,
was at his post. Behind them came
the express car, the combination car
and the sleepers and the',e piled ON top
Of the engine.
It's known that it wits q trifle foggy
and that the track was not visible, but
u there was any break in the lines Of
steel 1t must have bee1l of very recent
happening for only an hour before there
mad passed over it heavy passenger
naln laden with human freight.
Neither is there an explanation ready.
all is conjecture.
Heavy Wall Had Given Away.
Inls section of road was supposed to
q % the very best on the entire division.
tnere was great heavy retaining wall
" along the bank, and, while the tide
was nigh, 1t was not unprecedented.
, mnat seems to have happened was
'ua' underneath the tracks and ties the
isaVy wall had given away, and when
me ! great weight of the engine struck
ne unsupported tracks it went crash
" through the rest of the wall and
"ppled over into the river.
\ lnen there happened what ON the
abroad at any other time would
Ave caused disaster, but now proved a
'ery blessing.
As the train plunged over the en-
M the coupling that held the
s'' 'nree OF the six sleepers broke, and
aey I mlraculously remained on the
.uAen ;ua track. In that way some 60
Ives We're saved
VI eye witnesses there none except
ow. P""eins "'A Z"
oa. icy saw the train with its light as
hoa uie hashlng about the curves, and
h0l H. =. saw the greater part of it 60 into
~ Nv i'er' Some Of the cars with closed
y Uws ha,N Heated, and the tug, whisting
~ cast off its hs.user and
Started to the Rescue.
/. q porter jumped from one of the cars
aa' -. remained on the track and ran
~, .v 'ne W yard of Augustus Carr's house,
mo-. "nere the accident occurred, and
ar slieu Tor help. In few minutes
oa. .au "a. dressed himself and, getting a
: s y fowed with the porter to the scene.
ama ICY turned a point in the bank they
an upon the express car and combina-
bo,a noatlng about 20 feet from
,,n out sinking every minute. One
nj aty sas laken from the top of the Car
ps;dn .s We're made to rescue those
a iew were gotten out. the
NM. sers left upon the track making q
,orns Sridge to the shore to take the
n0LaU ea on. The day coach and
,ataS mad gone down in the deeper
IA la.. sua rescue was impossible. In
ava 'er S coach the conditions must
0m,, oeen horrible. The car turned
\ 1.siy ~s over and the passenger end
I" N@ ~ the dean ,vatav ,uhilo tha