New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-25

BECKER, ". s, Newark, n. \.
FOYLE. John, engineer fifty years old. Albany;
married.
GREEN. l.. A., Chicago.
MEYEP, William II. G.. rassaic, \. ].
M'KAY. Algernon G.. twenty-three years olu,
New-york married: private secretary 20
Edgar Van Etten. general superintendent Vi
'te New-York Central Railroad
REILLY. Thomas ST. Louis.
THOMPSON John, fireman. twenty-five years
old. East Albany, single.
TAGUNA. Giuseppe, Albion. n y.
WILLIAMS, Samuel Buffalo.
Two women unidentified. one living in Buffalo
and one in Hudson, y.
Eight Cinnamon.
BUCHANAN, Charles. clerk in shop at De-
pew, y. Y
FLOOD. James, at Flower Hospital
MORGAN, Charles, at Peekskill
RYAN, John A., at Peekskill
SMITH. J.. American Express agent fio"er
Hospital.
Three Cinnamon, at Peekskill
NEARLY ALL DROWNED
Mos, Of the dead were drowned IN the cars
as they lay in the river not far from the trach.
The accident took place about two miles ana
half south of Garrson's. as the train was
speedinc rapidly toward New-iork, where IL
was due az the Grand Central Station ut 6:3o
O'Clock. The injured were not fataly hurt ana
most OF them will be about before long.
The cause of the accident Is a mystery IN
tho eyes Of the officials Of the road, who gave
ont the following official statement with regard
10 il:
"lhe cmbanknent supporting the track
slumped off into the river"
The only t6o men who could have told how
the accident occurred are John Foyle ana John
Thompson. the engineer and fireman, but they
are both at the bottom Of the Hudson with
their engine.
The train was made up Of engine No. 81 and
tender one express car one day coach' Que
combination baggage and smoking car ana SIN
Wagner sleeping cars. in the order named. Inc
train left Buffalo at o'clock on SATURDAY
afternoon. and pulled out OF East Albany few
minutes after o'clock this morning.
TRAIN MAKING Up TIME.
II was then few minutes late, and after
leaving Poughkeepse. twenty-five miles ABOVE
the scene Of the accident, was running at hlgn
rate Of speed, in order TO make up lost ume-
Passengers in the day coach say that the tram
was surely running at the rate Of forty-nye
miles an hour when II took the fatal plunge
The accident came withou. the slightest warn
ING There was a heavy lurch and then the
track seemed to give way beneath the train
THE AWFUL PLUNGE.
The engine passed over safely. but Tie cars
Immediately behind dragged it from the track
and into the river With a fearful crash the
huge weight of iron rolled from the emDank-
mept and disappeared into the river carrying
with it tho engineer and the fireman 10 the DOT
tom Of the river. where II now lies.
The express car the day coach. the comblna-
ton smoking and baggage car and three sleepers
followed in a wild tangle into the river. lhe
first two broke their fastenings and noated down
the river. one two hundred yards and the other
shout mile when they ran against the shore
The three rear sleepers remained on The track.
Their occupants were severely shaken up, as
rho cars were slightly crushed at the ends by
the shock.
SEEN 81 \ TUGBOAT CREW
Dawn was lust creeping through the gray OF
the East when the crash came. The track was
deserted for miles in either direction. The only
witnesses Of The disaster we're the crew or n
nossing tugboat, who say that after the crash
came the cries and groans of those who were
imnrsoncd in the floating cars or who had been
thrown from the cars by the shock.
The rasscngers OF the three cars that did not
leave the tracks rushed out in their night
clothes. calling for help as their eyes fell on
tho oppolliuC scene before them. The express
car and the day coach were already floating
away from the shore
SCENES IN THE DAY COACH
The dav coach bad turned on its side. and
some az ihc passengers who happened to be on
the upper side had struggled part way through
the broken windows. Some of them were
shouting for help and waving their arms toward
,h. shore Others. and cye-wtnesses say that
these we're in the majority. were trying TO drag
The less for; uuatc out Of the fast filling car to
the side that clear Of water.
II VAS i'm the day coach that the grntest loss
of life occurred. Most of those who met death
there were drowned while the car foated that
short two hundred yards.
THE WORK OF RESCUE BEGUN.
TIl, crew OF the passing tugboat cast loose
from their tow and wen; to the rescue. They
cut open the roof with axes and IN this way
rescued number of passengers.
one Of the porters of sleepngcar that
STAYED on the rails ran from the track to the
house of Augustus Carr. near the track, shout
ing for help Mr. Carr rose and threw on his
clothes. and getting into a boat, did what he
could to take OF the passengers who were not
drowned inside the floating cars.
HAULED OUT IN THEIR NIGHTCLOTHEs.
OF the other four cars that plunged from the
embankment, the nrst, which was the comblna-
! ton smoking and baggage car, lay with the