The San Francisco call., 1897-10-26
No Trace of the Missing
Men Found in the
Hudson.
Victims Carried Away by the
Current After the
Disaster.
SplIntered Cars Taken From the
r YER Found 20 Be of No Use,
and Burned.
Special Dispatch to THE CALL

GARRISONS, y. y. Oct. 25.-The COM
plete lit of the killed in the New YORK
Central and Hudson River Railroad
wreck. . list which, il is believed, includes
ali OF those who could have possibly been
lost, is ss follows:
Engineer John Q. Tompklns of East
Albany, body still in river; Samuel Will
liams, 13I Best street, Buffalo; Thomas
Ryley of 81. Louis; ". II. G. Myers OF
fremont. y. Y; a. q. Mckay, Harlem,
body still in river; L. q. Green, Chicago;
William Schenckenbscker. So South Thir.
teenih street, Newark. y. j., otherwise
known as William S. Becker; Giuseppe
Taguana, 3s Park street. New YORK; Mrs.
Robert Lindsman, Utica; unknown
woman. not yet identified; Chin Lee
Song, san Francisco; Chin Fong H op,
brother of Chin Lee Song; Hoo Wuh,
New YORK; Wo Lung Sing. Il Mott street,
New York; unknown Chinaman with let
Ter to Hop Sing OF Newark, y. j.. Wong
Gin, residence unknown; two unknown
Cinnamon.
The NUN Der is nineteen, as sent last
night by the Associated Press. and there
is li;tle coubI that this is the total list oi
he kill d.
The body Of the engineer, fireman and
Mr. Van Etten's secretary, are yet in the
river with small hopes of their immediate
| recovery.
Had il not been for the fact that torrents
CT rain poured down all the afternoon, the
New FORK Central would have had an ex.
cursion upon their hands larger than any
for years As 1t was train after train load
OF curiosity seekers landed al The stations
near the wreck and walked through the
| drenching rain 10 stand and stare at the
! burn ing en- bers and mutiated cars. OF
/ the sixteen dead who lay IN he Coroner S
/ Office Cola Spr ngs, eight were heathen
! foreigners, whose names or residence
meant scarcely ANYTHING 10 the general
public. and yet six OF those eight were
! identified and claimed long before any
/ person had come forward 10 inquire OF
seek for Two well-dressed and evidently
very respeclabie white women. the on ly
| women VINO were killed in he wreck
The sixteen bodies that were neld at
| Cod Springs for Identification ana the
| claim of the relatives we're divided be-
| tween the undertaking establishments.
| All day long those places were beseged by
crowds OF the curious but only those no
| might in any way esta blish the identity oi
/ the victims were admitted 10 look upon
! them.
Early in the day the Cinnamon. who. ii
was supposed, would have TO be buried al
the county's expense. were for the most
part identified By ielIow-coutrymen from
| New York.
One OF the two women was iden tilted
his evening as Mary Lindsmsn of Utica,
! y. \. She wgs identified by her usband
] Robert L'ndsman, tai or, who said that
| his wife left home on Saturday night 10
60 10 Crotor on visit 10 her mother.
Aic lie Boyd, an actor, who was re-
! ported missing, was seen four hours after
! he accident occurred on a train that
/ passed this point. Stories current to.
night that sCme parts of the wreck caught
fire after the accident are declared to be
| untrne, as are also the rumors that two
! bodies had been found near Peekskill.
| None Of the jured are IN ser ols con.
dition tonight and all are doing well.
| At O'Clock this morning the wreckine
| company made another search for the
| bodies OF the engineer and fireman anc
Superintendent Van Etien's clerk, Mr.
! Mckay, Killed in the disaster on the New
York Central. When The diver came u;
after twenty minureJ he said: 81 could
| find no trace OF any Of the missing men
and l don't believe they are near the en-
! & ne. l should say that if they did no
iump-and 1t looks as ii they did not hav'
! lime - the rush Of water through th'
cab was SO fierce that it fairly swept then
out OF 1t and drowned them quickly.
| would not be surprised If they were half
mile or mile beyond tne engine
Thousands of people. mostly women
| visited the scene of the wreck to-day
standing for hours in the drenching rain
The crowd became so large that it wa
necessary to rope in all the space from
which the tracks had gone into the river
At P. N. but for the burning em bers NJ
twisted rails II would be difficult to fint
! any signs Il the wreck. DiyIsioa Super
| intend Mccoy decided that none OF III,
cars would ever be tit for use again and
that with the exception of the cushion:
there was no hing worth saving. Th,
torch was applied 10 the day coach and tn,
col bination smoking and baggage car.
The work OF raising tie slee pin O. coact
Hermes proceeded slowly, and 1t was no
until l O'Clock that il was foated upon ,
transport. While being raised the trucks
gave way and fell with a crash into tn,
river. The car was towed down the rive
and deposited on the bank where il wa
destroyed by fire. The last coach of tn,
dictated train, the Niobe. was got ou
of the water at 3 o'clock and was ais,
| burned.
Tne express car is 300 yards below. NJ
attempt will be made TO raise il until to-
morrow All day large force of men ha
been at work on the track. The north
bound track was moved over five feet east
firm bed, composed OF sand, gravel ant
broken stones having been prepared for il
The track has also been planned for south
| bound trains.