The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1897-10-28
TRAIN IN THE RIVER.
Twenty-Eight Lives Lost and Half That
Number Injured.
High Water Injured the Retaining Wall
and Special Train Slips Into the Hud-
son River-MOst of the Dead Lost
Their Lives From Drowning.

NEW York, Oct. 25.-Buffalo and New
York special No. 46, on the New York
Central and Hudson River railroad, due
to arrive in this city at 1880 o'clock Sum
day morning, wasthrown from the track
into the Hudson river, one and a half
miles below Garrison station. Twen-
| ty-eight lives were lost The retaining
wall along the river had been under
mined by high water in the river and
the track caved under the weight of
the train. The train consisted of
the engine, combination bag
gage and express car a
smoker, two ordinary coaches
and four sleepers. The engine and two
forward cars are submerged in SO feet
of water. Engineer Foyle and Fire
man Tompkins went down with the
engine. All the sleeping car passen-
gers escaped. man named Williams
of Buffalo, died after being rescued
from the river, his arm having been
torn off. Up to $50 o'clock ten bodies
had been recovered. Seven or eight of
the dead were Cinnamon who were in
the smoking car A. g. Mckay. private
secretary to General Manager Van Et-
tan, is missing and is said to have been
on the engine. A number of wounded
have been taken to hospitals in Pough-
keepsie and Peckskill.
The first man, unknown, who was
taken out of the wreck by the rescuers,
was breathing when found, but badly
crushed He died soon afterwards his
body being sent to Peekskill also.
The sleeping car conductor says he
is able to account for all his passengers
except five, and he is not certain that
these are lost.
The wrecked train was known as the
State express. 1t left Buffalo at z
o'clock Saturday night and was due in
New York at Z o'clock Sunday morn
ing. The train was hauled by engine
S72 and consisted of one American Elk.
press car, one composite baggage and
smoking car, one day coach and six
sleepers. Poughkeepsie was the last
stopping place of the train before the
disaster at $40 a. m.
At this time there were in the smoker,
in addition to the baggageman, Her
man Acker. of Peekskill, who was in
his compartment, eight Cinnamon en-
route from the Canadian border to
New York, and middle aged man.
supposed to be Thomas Reilly, of 2s6O
Wisconsin avenue, st. Louis. All of
these excepting the baggagemaster
perished. The day coach contained Is
! or 20 passengers, many of whom were
women and children.
How many of these escaped is not
known, but at least 12 were drowned
, or killed in this car. Behind the coach
! was the six sleepers with about IS pas.
| sengers.
The total cargo OF human freight
consisted of something over 100 peo.
pie.
At Fishkill the train lessened its
n speed, as it is its GU LON to run from
that point to Tarry'o IN at the rate OF
1 about IS miles an huar. Most of the
s passen scrs were aT!,ep, those in the
1 sleepcrs being in tt ,r berths while
r the &C upants OF the coach and smoker
]. were for the most rart doubled up ir
. their seats. Just how the train met
r it's awful fate will probably never be
s fully known, for the men who frs
k felt the danger. En- yineer John Foyle
t and Fireman John Tompkins, Sunday
T. night laid dead in the cab of their loco
n motive at the bottom of the Hudson
d river. Conductor Parish, who was il
a charge of the train and who was max
n ing up his report in one of the car
/ | when the crash came, was RENDERED
t unconscious by a blow on the head
d Before 10 o'clock Sunday morning, ;
|. large number of curious spectator
/. had gathered at the scene, coming from
O the nearby towns and villages b,
v trains, wagons, bicycles and boats
=. The number of morbidly curious stead
Il lily increased as the day wore on, ant
:. excursion boats even came from place
d far up and down the river, all loade,
down to the waters edge, until at mid
afternoon there were fully 10000 abou
the wreck. 1t required the utmost eX
u ertion on the part of Chief Humphre.
's of the railroad police and his force O
n detectives, to hold these people ia
e enough in check to allow the railroa
g men to proceed with their work.
: Following is list of dead as far a
ascertained up to midnight: No.
; Thomas Reilly, st. Louis; No. 2, China
7, man, unidentified; No. 3, Wong Gin,
Chinaman;. No 4, Chinaman, unidenti
q fed No. S, (,hinaman, unidentified
y No. 6, Chinaman, unideptified; No. 7
u Chinaman, unidentified; No. s, China
'e man, unidentified; No. 0, E. A. Green
y of Chicago; No. 10, Chinaman, unidenti
a fed; No. II. w. Ii .G. Myers, of fremont
u N. "; No. 12, woman, unidentified
d No. IS, woman, unidentified; No. IA
Giuseppe Paduaano, OF New York; Nc
l5, w. S. Becker, Newark, N. Y; No lG
4 unknown man, died while being res
e cued No. II, A. g. Mckay, private sec
e retary to General Superintendent Va
'e Ettan, body supposed to be in wreck
t. No. Is, John Foyle, engineer of Eas
IS Albany body not recovered: No. l!
is John Q. Thompkins, fireman of Eas
,r Albany, body not recovered.
: Total number of known dead, 10: es