The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-10-26
A GRAPHIC STORY.

man, tells the most graphic story OF the
wreck and one which will probably be
found to be the nearest lucid explana-
tlon of how SO many sleeping people
wero miraculously saved from death.
He related the story to Col. Ashley w.
Cole, the president OF the state railroad
commission, who Is making an inVesti-
cation. He said;
Just before the accident was
awakened from doze by the slowing
up OF the train and / got up, thinking
we were nearing Peekskill. I looked
out OF the window, and Just as did so
there came a crash and the leap OF the
car towards the river was thrown to
the floor, but getting up in a hurry l
seized hammer and rushing outside,
broke all the windows on the shore side
and I'm a few minutes had gotten my
twelve passengers out. l am positive
every one got out, because there was
only foot OF water In the car at the
time. When all my passengers had got
ten out we began TO look out for the
others. The car Hermes was Just
ahead OF mine and had plunged into
deeper water, so that one end was COM
Hltktly hhG ONAlNA W Neh1
against the end Of ours and trife
higher. saw the people climbing out
of the high end and am quite positive
that before the car settled into deep
water we got everybody out Some OF
the people were scantily dressed. They
hurried away to the other cars and !
think went to New York.
After we had gotten out all the
-. xVns
people from the combination car SWIM
ming In the river and We helped them
to safety. / am afraid that though
some people were liberated from the
other cars all right, they were drowned
because of the cold water cramplng
them"
DEAD AND INJURED.
A revised list of the dead and injured
is as follows:
The dead: Thomas Reilly, of st.
Louis, Mo-; w. H. G, Myers, Passaic,
N. Y; E. A. Green, Chicago; Giuseppe
Paduano, New York; W. s. Becker,
New York; Samuel Williams, Buffalo,
N. Y; A. G. Mckay, private secretary
to General Superintendent Van Etten;
John Foyle engineer, East Albany;
John Q. Tompkins. fireman, East AL
bany; Mrs. Robert H. Hndsman, Utica,
N. T.; Lee Song Chin, San Francisco;
Fong Hop Chin, 20 years old, brother
OF Lee Song. San Francisco: Quong
Hong Chin, New York. father OF Fong
Hop and Lee Song: With Hoo, New
York; Tong Sing Lee, II Mott street,
New York. merchant.
The injured: ID. o. Parrish, conduc-
tor, severely bruised; Frank j. Degaa,
New York, badly bruised and face cut;
Herman Acker, baggagemaster, Peeks-
kill, bruised and head cut; - Shaw,
express agent, New York, slightly
bruised: John 3. Ryan, 294 Barrow
street, Jersey City, badly lacerated arm
and leg, in hospital at Peekskill; Clar-
ence Morgan, Aurora, N, Y, broken
shoulder, In hospital at Peekskill: w. S.
Langtord, Bayonne, N, j., body bruised:
Charles Buchanan, OF New York, 1acer-
alton of hand and arm: John Flood, la
borer OF LoclSport, N. Y, head and arm
cut: John Smith, American express
messenger, injured internally: three
Cinnamon, badly cut and bruised.
None OF the injured Is expected to
die. The bodies Of Mckay, Engineer
Foyle and Fireman Tompktns have not
yet been recovered.
The coroner's jury will meet on Tues
day night to conduct an investigation.
In the meantime the railroad commits
sioners and officials OF the New York
Central railroad are also investigating
into the cause OF the disaster.
T. Parsons, who was thought to have
pertshed In the railway disaster at Gar
risons yesterday, Is at his home in
Brooklyn. He sustained some painful
bruises but was not seriously hurt.
The injured from the wreck who were
taken to the Flower hospital in this
city are all doing we'll. There is no
probability that any OF them wifi die
from their hurts.
NO MORE BODIES FOUND.
At 3 o'clock this afternoon the wreck
ing crew made another search for the
bodies of the engineer and fireman aud
Superintendent Van DttIn's clerk, Mr..
Mckay When the diver came up. af-
ter twenty-five minutes, he said: II
could find no trace OF any OF the miss
ing mon, and / don't believe they are
near the engine. should say that II
they did not jump, ana II looks as II
they did not have time. that the rush
Of water through the cab was 80 fierce
that 1t fairly swept them out OF It and
drowned them quickly. l would not be
surprised II they were half a mile or q
mile beyond the engine"
Thousands OF persons. most Of them
women, visited the scene OF the wreck
to-day. standing for hours In the
drenehIRg rain.
The crowd became so large that II
was necessary TO rope In all the space
from which the tracks had gone into the
river.
Al 0 o'clock tonight but for few
burning emberB and twisted rails II
would be difficult TO detect any signs of
the wreck Division Superintendent Nc
Coy decided that none OF the cars would
ever be fit for use again and that with
the exception OF the cushions there was
nothing worth saving. The torch was
applied to the day coach and the COM
blnatIon smoking and baggage car.
The work OF raising the sleeping coach
Herine8 proceeded slowly, md II was
not until / o'clock that II was floatod
on n transport. While being raised the
trucks gave way and fell with a crash
into the river. The car was towed down
the river and deposited on the bank,
whore II was destroyed by fire. The
lnnt coach Of the III fatcd train, the
Nlobe, was gotten out OF the water ut
o'clock and also burned. The express
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