The San Francisco call., 1897-10-25

Following is a list of dead as far as ascer-
tanned tonight:
Thomas Reilly, st. Louis.
Chinese, unidentified.
Wong Gin, a Chinese.
Seven Chinese, unidentifis sd.
L. A. Green, Chicago
w. III. G.. Myers, fremont, n. Y.
Two women, unidentified.
Giussepps Paduano, New York.
w. >. Becker, Newark, n. j.
Unknown man, died while being res
cued.
a G.. Mckay, private secretary to
General Superintend ent Van Etten, b ody
supposed to be in wreck.
John Boyle, engineer, of East Albany,
body not recovered.
John Q. Tompkins, fireman, of East
Albany, body not recovered.
The total number of known dead nine
teen; es tim "a ed umbe of dead twenty
eight.
The injured: Conductor Il. o. Parish
of New York, knocked unconscious and
severely bruised; Chinese, bad scalp
wound aud body bruised; Chinese, face
badly cut and legs sprained; Frank j.
Degan, New York, body bruised and
face cut; Long Lee, badly bruised and
suffering from shock; Herman cker of
PeekskiIt, baggage man, bruised and
head cut; - Shaw, express agent, New
York, slightly bruised; John e. Ryan,
Jersey City, badly Iacerated arm and
legs; Clarence Buchanan, John Smith
and John Flood were taken to Flower
Hospital, New York City.
A number of others were injured, but
up to a late hour tonight the list was
in complete.
GARRISONS, n. Y, Oct 24-From the
sleep that means refreshment and rest to
the eternal sleep that knows no waking,
plunged in the twlnkling of an eye this
morning twenty eight souls. men, women
and: children. Into the Shiny bed OF
the Hudson river a train, laden with
slnm bering humanity. plunged, dragging
through the waters the passengers. There
was nothing to presage the terrible acci-
dent which so suddenly deprived these un-
fortunates of life.
The New York Central train left Buffalo
last night and had progressed for nearly
nine tenths of the distance toward its
destination. The engineer and his fire.
east and the light streak of red, denot-
ing the suns appearance, when the
great engine, a servant on the rails,
devil off, plunged into the depths of the
river Neither engineer nor fireman will
ever tell the tory of that terrible moment,
ior 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 combination car and the slee pers,
and these piled on top of the engine.
1t is known that it was trife foggy,
and the track was not visible, but if there
was any break in the lines of steel it must
have been of very recent happe ning for
only an hour before there had passed
over it a heavy passenger train laden with
human freight. Neither is an explanation
ready. Ali is conjecture. The section of
road was supposed to be the very best on
the entire division. There was a great,
heavy retaining wall all along the bank
and while the tide was high yesterday it
was not unprecede ented.
What seems to have happened was that
underneath the tracks a1d ties the heavy
wall had given way, and when the great
weight of the engine struck the unsup-
ported tracks it went crashing through
the rest of the wall and toppled over into
the river.
Then there happened what on the rail-
road at any other time would have caused
disaster, but now proved a very blessing.
As the train plunged over the embauk-
ment the coupling that held the last
three of the six sleepers broke and they
| miracuIousv remained on the broken
track. In that way some sixty lives were
saved.
OF eye-witnesses there were none except
the crew of q tug boat passing with tow.
They saw the train with its lights as it
came flashing about the curves, and then
saw the greater part of it go into the river.
Some OF the cars with closed windows