The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-10-27
PASSENGERS PLUNGED 70 DEATH.
AWFUL WRECK.
Twenty-Eigh ght Lives Lost on Train Which
Ran Into the Hudson River.

Twenty-eight persons met death and
a large number were seriously injured
In a wreck on the New York Central
railroad near Garrisons, N. Y, Sunday
morning.
All of the victims were probably a.
sleep when they met their fate. The
train left the track and plunged into the
Hudson river. and most of those who
entered the eternal sleep from their re-
freshing slumbers were drowned In the
icy waters of the beautiful stream.
There was nothing to presage the ter
rible accident which so suddenly de-
prived the unfortunates of life.
The New York Central left Buffalo
Saturday night and had progressed
nine-tenths of the distance toward its
destination. The engineer and his
friends had just noted the gray dawn
breaking in the East and the light
streak OF red betokening the suns APP
pearance when the great engine-a
servant on the rails, a devil off
plunged into the depths of the river.
Neither engineer nor fireman will
ever tell the story OF that terrible mo-
ment. for with his hand upon the
throttle the engineer plunged with his
engine to the river bottom, and the
fireman, too. was at his post. Behind
them came the express car, the COM
bination car and the sleepers, and
these piled on top of the engine.
What seems to have happened was
that underneath the tracks and ties the
heavy wall had given away, and when
the great weight OF the engine struck
the unsupported tracks 1t went crash
ing through the rest of the wall and
toppled over into the river.
Then there happened what on the
railroad at any other time would have
caused disaster but now proved n
blessing. As the train plunged over
the embankment the coupling that
broke. and they miraculously remained
on. the broken track In that way
about 60 lives were saved.
A porter jumped from one of the cars
that remained on the track and ran in
TO the yard of August Kah's house,
near which the accident occurred, and
stood screaming for help. and moan
ing: The train Is In the river; all our
passengers are drowning"
In few minutes Kah had dressed
himself. and, getting a boat, rowed
with the porter to the scene. AS they
turned a point i'm the bank they came
upon the express car and the combin-
alton 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
inside. A few We're gotten out, the pas
| sengers left upon the track making n
human bridge to the shore to take the
| wounded on.
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 II was in the deep
water, while the baggage end stood
up toward the surface. The men In that
lower part have fought like fiends for
n brief period, for the bodies, when
taken out. were mass of wounds.
Following is a list of the dead, as far
as could be ascertained: Thomas Reil-
| ly. st. Louis, Il. A. Green of Chicago,
w. II. G.. Meyers of fremont, N. Y,
| Giuseppe Paduano of New York, UNI
known man, died while being rescued
| A. G. Mckay, private secretary to
General Superintendent Van Ettin
body supposed to be in wreck, John
Foyle, engineer, of East Albany: body
not recovered; John G. Tompkins, fire.
man of East Albany; body not recov-
cred; two unidentified women and
eight Cinnamon.