The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-25
TWENTY-EICHT DEAD
NEW YORK CENTRAL EXPRESS
PLUNGEs INTO HUDSON RIVER.
Out of Train of Eight Coaches. Five,
Including Three SIeepers, went
Under the Water.
SIXTY PASSENGERS ESCAPED
FEW MEN IN ROW BOATS.
Nineteen Bodies of the Dead, Many
Still Unidentified, Recovered
from the Wreck.
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AN OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
RIVER HAD UNDERMINED STONE
WALL PROTECTING THE TRACKS.
Scene of the Accident at a Point Near
GarrisOn's Station, Two Hours
Ride from New York.
RIVER HAD UNDERMINED STONE
WALL PROTECTING THE TRACKS.
Scene of the Accident at a Point Near
GarrisOn's Station, Two Hours
Ride from New York.

on the New York Central e. Hudson River
was thrown from the track and plunged
into the river about three miles south of
this place before daylight this morning.
Nearly a score of badly mutilated bodies,
none of them yet claimed by
friends, are lying in a long row,
grewsome evidences of a disaster the
greatest that has ever occurred on this
railroad. Following is a list of the dead as
far as ascertained up to midnight:
THOMAS REILLY, st. Louis.
CHINAMAN, unidentified.
WONG GIN, Chinaman.
CHINAMAN unidentified.
CHINAMAN, unidentified.
CHINAMAN, unidentified.
CHINAMAN, unidentified.
CHINAMAN, unidentified.
E. A. GREEN, of Chicago.
CHINAMAN, unideitfied.
w. H. G. MYERS, of fremont, N. Y.
CHINAMAN, unidentified.
WOMAN, unidentified
GIUSEPPE PADUANO, of New York
w. S. BECKER, Newark, N. J.
UNKNGzNE MAN, died while being res
cued.
A. G.. M'KAY, private secretary to Gen.
eral Superintendent Van Ettan, body sup
posed to be in wreck.
JOHN FOYLE, engineer, or East Albany,
body not recovered.
JOHN @. TOMPKINS, fireman, of East
Albany, body not recovered.
The total number of known dead is nine
teen; estimated number Of dead, twenty
eight
hn If1it al
CONDUCTOR E. 0. PARISH, of New
York, knocked unconscious; severely
bruised.
LORD PERCY DOUGLASS, son of Mar
quis of Queensberry.
CHINAMAN, bad scalp wound and body
bruised; in hospital at Peekskill.
CHINAMAN, face badly cut and leg
sprained; in hospital at Peekskin.
FRANK ]. DEGAN, No. 239 West Thir-
ty-fourth street, New York city, body
bruised and face cut
TON GLEE, Chinaman, badly bruised and
suffering from shock; in hospital at PeekS-
kill
HERMAN ACKER, of PeekskiI bag
gageman, bruised and head cut
- SHAW, express agent, New York,
slight bruises.
JOHN E. RYAN, No. 294 Barrow street,
Jersey City, badly lacerated arm and leg;
in hospital at Peekskill.
CLARENCE MORGAN, Of Aurora, N.
Y, broken shoulder; in hospital at Peeks-
kill.
W. S. LANGFoRD Bayonne. N. j.. body
bruised.
CHARLES BUCHANAN.
JOHN SMITH.
JOHN FLOOD.
The three last named were taken to
Flower Hospital, New York city. A number
of others were injured, but up to a late
hour tonight the list was incomplete.
1yl,
State express. 1t left Buffalo at O'Clock
last night and was due in New York at 1890
o'clock this morning. The train was hauled
by engine No. S72, and consisted of one
American express car, one composite bag
gage and smoking car. one day coach and
six sleepers. Poughkeepsie was the last
stopping place of the train before the dis
aster, at $40 o'clock this morning. The en-
gineer and his fireman had just noted the
gray dawn breaking in the east and the
light streak of red betokening the SUMS ap-
into the river. Neither engineer nor fire.
man will ever tell the story of that terrible
moment, for, with his hand on the throttle
the engineer plunged with his engine to the
river bottom, and the fireman, too BEHIND
them came the express car, the combina.
tion car and the sleepers, and these piled
on top of the engine.
1t was a trifie foggy, and the track was
not visible, but if there were any break in
the rails it must have been of very recent
happening. for only an hour before there
had passed over it a heavy passenger train
No explanation is ready. All is conjecture
The section of road was supposed to be the
very best on the entire division. There was
a great. heavy retaining wall along the
bank, and, although the tide was high yes
terday, it was not unprecedentedly so
What seems to have happened was that un-
derneath the tracks and ties the heavy wall
had given away. and when the great weight
of the engine struck the unsupported tracks
it went crashing through the rest of the
wall and toppled over into the river AS
the train went over the embankment the
coupling that held the last three of the six
sleepers broke and they remained on the
broken track. In that way some sixty lives
We're saved.
OF eyewitnesses there were none. except
the crew Of a tugboat passing with tow.