The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-10-26
TWENTY-EIGHT KILLED.
A NEW YORK CENTRAL TRAIN
JUMPS INTO THE HUDSON.
Passengers browne Like Rats--hany In
jured-- Engineer and Fireman Both
KilIed--Cause Unknown.


lost is as follows:
Engineer John G. FoyIe, of East Al
bany; body still in the river.
Fireman John Q. Tompkins, Of East
Albany. body still in the river.
Samuel Williams, Buffalo.
Thomas Riley. ST. Louis.
w. II. c. Meyers. of fremont n. Y.
A. G. Mckay. Harlem, body still in the
river.
+. A. Green, of Chicago,
William Schenckenbeckr, Newark, n. ].
GuisseppI Taguana, New York city.
Mrs. Robert Lindsman, Utica.
One unknown woman.
Seven Cinnamon.
The number is nineteen as sent last
night by the Associated Press and there
is little doubt that this is the total list
of the killed.
The bodies Of the engineer. fireman ana
Mr.. Van Ettens secretary, are yet IN the
river, with small hope of their immediate
recovery.
The incidents and features OF the day
have a tinge Of the dramatic around
them.
Had II not been for the fact that tor
rents Of rain poured down all the after
noon, the New York Central would have
had an excursion on their hands, larger
than any for many years. As il was, train
after train load Of cars, filled with curios-
ity seekers, reached the scene to stand
and stare at the burning embcrs and mu-
tilated cars.
A STRANGE FACT.
OF the nineteen dead who lay in the
CoroDer's office at Cold Springs. eight
were heather foreigners, whose names or
identity mean scarcely anything to the
general public, yet those Cinnamon were
identified and claimed long before any
one had come forward to identify and
claim the white victims. In the morgue
they lie for fun days unclaimed and UNI
sought evidently while the other dead
are claimed and taken care or The six
teen bodies that were held at Cold Springs
for identification and the claim Of the
relatives were divided between the two
undertaking establishments
All day long these places were beseiged
by crowds OF the curious. but only those
who might in any way establish the iden-
tity Of the victims were admitted 10 look
ed upon them.
RAISING CARS.
At o'clock tonight but for n few
burning embers and twisted rails. it
would he difficult to detect any signs OF
the wreck.
Division Superintendent Mccoy said
that none Of the cars would ever be fit
for use again. and there was nothing
worth saving. The torch was applied 10
the day coach and the combination smok-
ing and baggage car. The work Of rails
ing the sleeping coach proceeded slowly
and II was not until 10 o'clock that II was
TO Oh
raised the trucks gave way and fell with
a crash into the river. The car was tow
ed down the river and deposited on the
bank, where ii was destroyed by fire. The
last coach Of the Inflated train. the
Niobe." was gotten out Of the water at
. O'clock. The express car is around the
little knoll OF the mountain. three hun
dred yards below. No attempt will be
made to raise il until tomorrow.
All day a large force Of men has been
AT work building the tracks. The north
bound track was moved over five feet east
n firm bed composed Of sand. gravel and
broken stones having been prepared for
It. The track has also been planned for
south-bound train Superintendent Nc
Coy thinks the two tracks will be In ope-
ration by tomorrow night.
THE ACCIDENT
GARRISON'S, y. Y, oct. PA New
York Central railroad train plunged into
the Hudson river three miles south of
Garrsons just before daybreak Sunday
morning, and twenty-eight persons were
killed.
This village is a summer resort, in Put
nam county, fifty miles north OF New
York city. II is opposite West Point.
There was nothing to presage the acct
dent which SO suddenly deprived the
twenty-eight unfortunates of life. The
train left Buffalo last night. II had pro-
crossed nearly nine-tenths Of the distance
toward its destination, and the first
streaks OF dawn were appearing when the
locomotive plunged into the muddy depths
OF the river.
Neither the engineman nor the fireman
will ever tell the story OF that terrible mo-
ment. for with his hand upon the throttle,
the engineman plunged to the river bot
tom and the fireman, too met death at
his post Behind them came an express
car, a combination car and three sleeping
cars and these piled on top of the loco
motive.
Ii is known that the atmosphere was a
trhe foggy and that the track was not
clearly visible, but If there was any break
in the lines Of steel when the accident oc-
CURED II must have been of recent hap
pening, for only an hour before a heavy
passenger train, laden with human
freight, had passed over IL. This section
Of the road was supposed to be the best
on the entire division. There was hea-
Wy retaining wall along the river bank and
while the tide was high. 1t was not UNI
precedented.
What seems TO have happered was that
beneath the tracks and the ties the very
heavy wall had given way, and when the
great weight OF the locomotive struck the
unsupported tracks 1t went crashing
through the wall and toppled over into
the river.
A LUCKY BREAK.
Then there happened what.on the rail-
road at almost any other time would have
caused disaster. but now proved bless
ing. As the train plunged over the en-
bankment the coupling-pin that held the
last three OF the six sleepers broke and
they miraculously remained on the torn-up
track. In that way sixty lives were
saved.
OF eye witnesses there were none except
the crew OF d tugboat passing with a tow.
They saw the train with its lights as It
came flashing around the curve and then
saw the greater part of IT go into the
river. Some OF the cars with closed WIN
dows fioated for time, and the tug
whistling for help, started 10 the rescue.
A porter jumped from one Of the cars
thar remained ~, the track and ran INFO