The record-union., 1897-10-27
The Body Of an Unknown Man Found in a
Coach Raised From the River.
The Engine and the Express Car
Also Raised From the Water,
the Body of the Fireman Being
Found Wedged in in Front of
the Boiler-Both the Express
Safes Recovered Undamaged.

GARRISON IN. ", Oct. 26.-Twenty
lives are known to have been lost in
Sundays accident on the New York
Central road, and eighteen bodies have
been found. The body of an unknown
man was recovered to-day, as we'll as
that Of the fireman.
The day coach of the ill-fated train
was raised to-day, and in it was found
victim not hitherto included in the
list of the dead. The engine was
also brought to the surface, and with it
the body of Fireman John O Tompkins
tightly wedged in between two masses
of iron.
Shortly after o'clock the large der
rick brought up the day coach from the
bottom of the river When the water
had drained out of the car those watch
ing the operation saw at one of the Win
doWs human hand, and just beyond
the feet sticking out from under one of
the seat tops. The wreckers tore aside
the debris, and soon had the body out
No more bodies were found.
The body removed, the seventeenth
since the wreck, and the twentieth
known victim, was that of a man 80
years of age, with a dark, short NOUS
tache. In one of the pockets of the
vest was a wallet containing six SO
bills, 50 bill and Casualty Insurance
Company ticket, such as is sold at rail-
road stations. 1t was made out for the
sum of ", 800 in case of death, but very
curiously the name, or rather the last
names, of both payor or beneficiary was
missing. The card read, so far as could
I. I l.
chaser's name, and Mrs. E. as the
person to whom it was to be paid The
railroad officials are of the opinion that
the man boarded the train at Roch-
ester.
The contents of the car, other than
the body, showed that the people had
made q rush for their lives. There We're
women's hats, six mems hats, womans s
coat, eight gripsacks of various kinds
two mems coats and many small gar
ments.
Another interesting event of the day
was the raising of the express car, in
which it was alleged that large sum
Of money had been lost by the drop
ping to the river bottom of a small safe
General superintendent Van Valken-
burg of the American Express Company
was present when the car came to the
surface, and it was seen that it was the
most badly damaged of any that had
yet been taken up. AS soon as possible
the car was searched by inventory, and
then Mr.. Van Valkenburg gave out this
statement:
None of the valuables in the car are
lost. The big dynamite-p proof safe was
nj f1c RI ha
proper place. The small safe, which it
was thought might have dropped out
Of the broken car was found in a cor
ner and the only thing of value known
to be missing is a small package of jew
elry"
The engine was dragged out of the
river tonight just before dark. and
President Chauncey NJ. Deoew and the
three Railroad Commissioners, with AS
sistant Secretary Edward McLenoe
saw the operation. The divers had To-
Gated the tender early in the afternoon,
and it was brought up without its
trucks. When, shortly after > O'Clock.
the engine came to the surface of the
river, it was seen that the trucks were
missing, and that the front of the boiler
and the guards We're smashed into an
unrecognizable mass
The men on the lighter saw clothes
dangling from the front, and when the
lanterns could be brought to bear it
vas found that the rags covered a hu-
man body. The body was Wedged in in
front of the boiler. where the engine
number plate is, and had to be dragged
out.
There is much speculation as to how
Tompkins came to be on the front of
the machine. The fact of the finding of
the fireman's body in the position it lay
has led to the belief that the engineer s
body is somewhere in the locality. The
fact that the front trucks Of the engine
are yet in the river precludes any pos
sibility until tomorrow of determining
whether a broken truck caused the ac-
cident.
Superintendent Mccoy Of the New
York Central said that the story told
by a section boss to the effect that he
had left the road because of its unsafe
condition was a falsehood, and that the
man who told it had been discharged for
drunkenness.
Mr. Mccoy also denied the statement
that the roadbed at the scene of the
accident was known to be in bad shape
CAUSE OF THE WRECK.
NEW YORK, Oct 26-The Herald"
and World" this "wednesday morning
quote Chauncey NJ. Depew, President of
the New York Central Railroad, as say
irg that the wreck at Garrison last Sun
day was caused by dynamite explo-
sion.
Any one who is familiar with rail-
roading," said Mr.. Depew, knows that
the continual pounding of trains over a
roadbed has the effect of beating it
down until it is like rock. That roadbed
has been muse for forty years, and the
fact that is was like rock is shown by
the fact that Immediately after the
wreck, before the workmen had filled in
any, the break showed clean cut per-
pendicular cleavage.
THE popular notion that this was due
to a landslide is not borne out by this.
When there is a landslide the bank takes
the shape of an inclined plane. The fact
that this was found as it was shows
that the crack must have formed in an
unusual way. The only thing that could
have done it would have been a stick of