The record-union., 1897-10-26
While Almost as Many Were More or Less
Seriously Injured.
The Engine Located by a Diver
Thirty Feet From Shore Firmly
Imbedded in Mud Under Sixty
Feet OF Water, But the Bodies
of the Engineer and Fireman
Were Not Found.

GARRISON On. W, Oct. Z0.-Ine
gray dawn twenty-four hours after
the frightful happening of yesterday
broke upon a scene of greater life and
property destruction than in yester-
days sun and last nights torchlight
displays.
The weary gangs of workers were re-
lieved early this morning by the sec
ond gang. Then when the wreckers
got sufficient tackle on the sleeping car
Glen Alpine, there was much excite
ment and speculation, as it was be-
neved that there must surely be some
bodies in this car the most deeply sub
merged of the lot When the car had
been placed on the scow and the water
had run out of it the searching party
went through, and to the relief of the
railroad officials, not a body was dis
covered.
Some curious things were found,
however, which tends to make the es-
cape of the passengers in this car al
most miraculous. Not only We're the
blankets and curtains thrown down
and iammed into the front of the car,
but the seat bottoms, which at night
serve as the berth bottoms, the mat
tresses and pillows and every movable
thing in the car had been jammed
from side to side and from end to end
of the car in a manner that would
seem to preclude the possibility of any
person escaping.
1t is believed, however, that all in
this car escaped, and as there were
a full score of handbags and satchels
in the car there may have been that
number of passengers.
Some of the people in the vicinity
and the hotelkeeper ait Garrison say
that they helped dress some of these
people, but the supposition is that the
majority who escaped with their lives
and could not get their baggage We're
taken care of by the passengers in the
sleepers that remained on the track,
and went on to New York City, and
were provided with clothes by the rail-
road people. In the stateroom of this
car We're a bride and groom who es-
capped with the others
Just to the rear of the Glen Alpine
was the car Hermes, which, in the
plunge, left it's trucks on the track and
landed on its bottom in the river, but
only in about three feet of water. The
porter of this car, William Patterson,
an intelligent and cool-headed man,
tells the most graphic story of the
wreck To Colonel Ashley W. Cole,
President Of the State Railroad Com
mission, who is making an investiga-
ton. Patterson said;
"Just before the accident I was
awakened from a doze by the slow
ing up of the train. Getting up look
ed out Of the window, and just as
did so there came a crash and the
leap OF the car toward the river. / was
thrown to the floor, but getting up in
a moment I seized a hammer, and
rushing outside, broke all the windows
on the shore side, and in a few min
utes had gotten my twelve passengers
out. 1 am positive every one got out,
because there was only a foot or so
of water in the car at the time.
when all my passengers had gotten
out, we began to look out for the 9TH
ers. The car Glen Alpine was Just
ahead of mine. and had plunged into
deeper water, so that one end was COM
pletely submerged, while the other was
against the end of ours and a trife
hige@. I saw the people climbing out
of the hind end, and I am quite posi-
tive that before the car settled into
deep water we got everybody out. Some
of the people were scantily dressed.
They hurried away to the other cars.
and / think went to New York.
After we had gotten out all the
sleeping car passengers we saw some
people of the combination car swim
ming in the river, and we helped them
to safety. I am afraid that some peo-
pie who were liberated from the other
cars all right We're drowned, because of
the cold water cramping them"
Colonel Cole said to-day that while
the bank may have given way. it was
equally possible that a driving rod of
the engine had broken, knocking it off
the track and occasioned the disaster
If there are any more bodies OF mas
sengers in the wreck or in the river
they are believed to be in the dav
coach, which lies in water up to IFS roof
off Kings Deck. The diver who took
six bodies out of this car last evening
said he could find. no more. It is be-
lieved, however, that other bodies will
be found in this car when it is raised
Passengers who escaped from this car
and the crew have said that at least
twelve persons perished in the day
coach.
The work Of searching for bodies.
which had been temporarily suspend
ed at a. m, after the parlor car Glen
Alpine had been hoisted, was resumed
at daybreak. As the occupants Of the
other two sleepers in the river have
been accounted for by the conductor
and porters. it is to be presumed that
nn Wagner passengers We're killed.
There was found in the car Glen AL
pine in wallets and pocket books 5000
in money, in sums ranging from SIS to
5000, and eight gold watches. one of
them being a lady's chatelaine. Some
of the watches bear monograms bv
which they can be identified. There
was also found a variety of diamonds.
sleeve buttons. studs and a pearl pin,
all kinds of wearing apparel, satchels,
umbrellas and shoes.
Rcadmaster Otis. who is considered
one nf the most expert track builders
in the country. told representative of
the Associated Press that the sinking
Of the roadbed was due to some almost