The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1897-10-27
MANY BRAVE ACTS OF HEROISM.

with tow. They saw the train with
its light as it came flashing about the
curves and then saw the greater part Of
1t go into the liver. Some of the cars
with closed windows fioated and the tug
whistling for help, cast of, its hawser
and started to the rescue. A porter
jumped from one of the cars that re-
manned on the track and ran into the
yard of A gustus Cars house, near
which the accident occurred, and stood
screaming for help and saying: "The
train is in the river, our passengers are
drowned" In few minutes Carr had
dressed himself and getting a boat
rowed with porter to the scene As
they turned point in the bank they
came upon the express car and the COM
bination car floating about 20 feet from
shore. but sinking every minute. One
man was taken from the TOP of the car
and efforts were made to rescue those in
side. A few were gotten out, the pas
sengers left upon the track making
human bridge to the shore to take the
wounded out
The day coach and smoker had gone
down in the deeper water and rescue
was impossible. In the latter coach the
conditions must have been horrible.
The car turned completely over and the
passenger end of it was in the de eper
water, while the baggage end stood up
toward the surface. The men in that
lower end must have fought like fends
for brief period, for the bodies when
taken out were mass of wounds.
The wrecked train was known as the
State express Itleft Buffalo at z o'clock
Saturday night and was due in New
York at o'clock yesterday morning.
The train was hauled by Engine S72
and consisted of one American Express
car, one composite baggage and smok-
ing car, one day coach and six sleepers.
Poughkeepsie was the last stopping
place of the train before the disaster, at
10 a. m. At this time there were in
the smoker, in addition to the baggage
man, Herman Acker of Peekskill, who
was in his compartment, eight Chinese
en- route from the Canadian border to
New York, and a middle-aged man,
supposed TO be Thomas Reilly Of 1850
Wisconsin avenue, st. Louis. All of
these excepting the baggage master per-
ished.
The day coach contained Is or 20 pas
sengers, many of whom were women
and children. How many of these es-
capped is not known. but at least ~ were
drowned or killed in this car Behind
the coach was the six sleepers, with
about SO passengers.
The total cargo of human freight
consisted Of something over hundred
people.
At Fishlxill, the train lessened its
speed, as it is its custom to run from
that point TO Tarrytown at the rate Of
about 25 miles an hour. Most Of the
passengers were asleep, those in the
sleepers being in their berths. while the
occupants Of the coach and smoker
were for the most part doubled up in
their seats.
Just how the train met its awful fate
will never be fully known, for the men
who first felt the danger, Engineer
John Foyle and Fireman John Temp
kins, lie dead in the cab Of their loco
], motive at the bottom of the Hudson
Aiyer Conductor Parish, who was in
charge of the train and who was max
ing up his report in one of the cars
when the crash came, was rendered I'M
conscious by a blow ON the head.
When he recovered he was three seats
ahead of the one in which he had been
sitting,
One Of the trainmen who survived
the disaster made it his first duty to
run to the nearest signal tower to tele-
graph for help The place where the
wreck occurred is rather isolated. 1t is
just at the entrance TO what is known
as Kings Out, three miles south of
Garrisons and five miles north Of Peeks-
kill
Two other express trains were fol-
lowing close behind the Inflated state
express, and the engine of one of them
was sent to Garrisons for General Man
ager j. M. Toucey. who lives there,
while the other engine hurried TO
Peekskill for medical aid. Mr.. Toucey
was the first official of the railroad Of
the scene, reaching there at z 80. The
officials saw at once that the wreoking
cars would be of little avail in raising
the cars from their position in the river,
where they were almost completely sub
merged. 30 the Chapman Wrecking
eompanyof New York was notified TO
sendsA river derrick and floats TO raise
the cars.
II was 8 o'clock before the derrick
and hosting engine could raise the
combination cars consisting Of the
smoker aud baggage compartments TO
such a position that the top Of it was
out Of the water Slowly the big load
began to rise and in few minutes Il
had been turned over 30 that the win
dows were clear OF tho water The
body Of man came out Of a window ~
the car wa, being brooght TO the shore.