The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-25

| qury as to who he was. but simply tore
| off a slip of paper, wrote Body No L." and
| pinned 1t on his coat and left him to look
/ Tor others. BY the time they had returned
| the derrick had drawn the car to the bank
! and the work of getting out the dead was
under way The searchers We're only able
| to find eight Cinnamon and they were also
carried to the morgue car. They were laid
IN row, numbered, and were ready for
The derrick next pulled the day coach to
the shore and the searching parties were
aDle TO reach it, Although 1t is known that
there were many more persons in the coach,
Dut SIX bodies We're recovered, and two of
lhese were women; They. were all placed
at 545.
Coroner Woods of Cold Springs. was on
the scene. and he and several assistants
We're soon at work at the task of Identify
ing the bodies. Before they had begun
man, weak and looking if he had been in
Jufed, staggered into the car. He said his
name was Frank j. DingenS of New York.
lie said his orother-in-law. w. H. Myers.
of fremont N. Y, had boarded the car at
Poughkeepsie and occupied a separate seat
from him in the day coach. Dingens was
asleep when the accident occurred. He was
awakened by terrible jar. He called TO
Myers, but before he received an answer the
car was rolling over and over. Before he
was aware of what had happened a window
was broken and water rushed in in torrents.
He made for the window and jumped out
and swan ashore. He made a dilgent
found him and concluded he was among
the killed. Dingens then walked down the
row of the dead. Four Cinnamon were the
first TO meet his gaze and he did not pause
to look at them. The fifth was mo. l,
and he was not the man sought for. Four
Cinnamon were on the other. side of No. |.
He wandered on until No. II was reached,
when he stopped and exclaimed: There
ne ISL He was deeply agitated, but after
away. A search was made of Myers's peck
cts and SIS in money was found. In his
| vest pocket found handsome OPEN
faced gold watch. The searcner cnanced TO
look at it and found that the hands pointed
| TO $40. The watch stopped at the minute
| of the accident.
| the dead bodies in the hope of finding some
| clew TO their identity. He began at No. 2,
q Chinaman,. without discovering anything.
| A quantity of money was found sewed in
| the lining of his clothes, but was not dis
turbed. In the pocket of No. 3, Chinas
man, was found a Canadian passport made
out to Wan Cling No other papers were
| found No. A. a Chnaman, was without
papers. In the pocket of No: . was found
q letter of introduction to Hop Ling, OF
Newark, N. j., but no other name could be
found. Nothing was found on the other
By letters and papers found in the pock-
cts of No. / he was identified Thomas
Ryley, of st. Louis. He wore gold set
ring, on the inside of which was the follow-
ing inscription: Presented to Comrade Ry
ley by his comrades, Post 10, G. A. K.
Some small change and e25 in English
IuOucy was lOuIu OIl tie bOOJ.
No 9 was a young man, about thirty
years old, and wel-dressed. A letter ad-
dressed to p. A. Green, care A. ". Otis;
architect 275 Dearborn street, Chicago, and
the business card of the latter were found
on him. Nos. IL and 10 were the two women
and nothing could be found on them 70
identify them. No. II was a woman about
thirty years old She wore black sKlft,
a checked waist, with black six front,
The only article of jewelry that she wore
was q gold band wedding ring which bore
no inscription. She was of light complex
ion with high check bones and light hair.
No 13 was a woman dressed in black,
about twenty-five years of age She wore
a belt with gold buckle about her waist.
She was a brunette. There was mourning ny
which she could he identified.
No. IA was evidently an Italian; A postaI
card was found in his pocket addressed to
written in Italian, and It was signed LOCI
Banca, 81 Park street, New York
The identity of No. 10, man, Is unset
tied A letter was found in his coat pocket
addressed to w. S. Becker, Newark, n. Y.
In his vest pocket was found PrescIip
n. Y.
ten, the fifteen dead forms on the moor OF
the car The face of each one bore cuts
or Commissions of some kind. The SUPPOSE
ton that the Cinnamon had been SNUG
eous as they were all dressed In clothes OF
American make. The Cinnamon boarded
the train at Malone, ~ Y, ana there mere were ere
still missing. From the time the pQul ts
were taken from the Inflated cars tnou-
sands of morbidly curious persons assem- S
bled about the improvised morgue. Many
gained admission, on the ground that tney
wished to Identify some one.
With two exceptions the eyes or all the
dead were tightly closed Rileys eyes were
wide open. At 9 p. m. the corner gave Or
ders for the removal of the bodies TO unqer-
taking rooms at Cold Springs. where they
will be embalmed and held day for iden-
tification. =,
Among the articles presented to the cor
oners Jury was letter found on the per-
son of the man supposed to be Thoma as
that name and was signed Your loving
mother, Rachel Reilly" 1t told that FL
len," who is supposed to be the writer writer's
the letter was written Oct. 16, and urged
Tom to meet her in New York; II IS
supp 3sed that the man, who looked TO pc
fifty years old was on his way 10 meet
the woman mentioned in the letter.