The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-10-30
The DEAD NUMBER NINETEEN.
rew York Central Express Train
Piunges Into she Hudson River.

rcw York Central Express Train
Piunges Into she Hudson River.
New York, Oct. 25.-Buffalo and New
York special No. 46. on the New York
Central a. Hudson River railroad, due
10 arrive in this city at 1880 o'clock sun
day morning was thrown from the
track at daybreak into the Hudson river
IA miles below Garrison's station. The
retaining wall along the river had been
undermined by high water in the river
and the track cayed under the weight
OF the train. The train consisted OF the
engine, a combination baggage and eN-
press car, n smoker. two ordinary |
coaches and four sleepers. The engine |
and two forward cars are submerged IN |
so feet OF water. Engineer Foyle and |
Fireman Tompkins went down with the |
engine. IL is known that il was tribe
foggy, and that the track was not Wis
ible, but III there was any break in the
lines OF steel, IL must have been of very
recent happening, for only an hour be-
fore there had passed over il heavy
passenger train laden with human
freight. The section of the road was
supposed 10 be the very best on the
entire division. There was great
! heavy retaining wall all along the
bank. What seemed to have happened
was that underneath the tracks and ties
the heavy wall had given way, and when
the great weight Of the engine struck
the unsupported Notwithstanding
through the rest OF the wall and toppled
over into the river
Then there happened what on the
railroad az any other time would have
caused disaster, but now proved very
blessing. AS the train plunged over the
cmbankment the coupling that held
the last three Of the six sleepers broke,
and they tremendously remained on the
broken track In that way some 90
lives were saved.
The express ear and the combination
car noated out about 20 feet from
shore. but sank little later. One man
was taken from the top OF the car ana
J efforts were made 10 rescue those in-
, side A few were gotten out. the pas
I scngers left upon the track making a
human bridge to the shore 10 take the
4 wounded on. The day coach and
! smoker had gone down in the deeper
E water, and rescue was impossible ~
G the latter coach the conditions mus
< have been horrible. Thecarturnedcom
/, pletely over and the passenger end o.
n Ii was IN the deep water, while the bag
e gage end stood up towards the surface
Il The men in that lower end must have
d fought like fcnds for brief period, TO
e the bodies. when taken out were
c, MISS OF wounds
i Gnrrisons, y. Y, Oct. 26.-'The com
n plete list OF the killed in the New Norl
'e Central & Hudson River railroad wreck
10 list OF which the railroad Official
re believe includes all of those who conl
possibly have been lost. numbers j
In The bodies OF the engineer, fireman an
Is Mr. Van Etten's secretary are yet !
", the river with small hope Of their IN
y, mediate recovery. OF the 16 dead, wh
st law i'm the coroner's Office at Col
~ SPRINGS. eight were Chinese, who's
cr MINES or residence meant scarcely am
ne thing TO the general public, and yet 81
r., 4 those eight were identified an
ld claimed long before any person ma
come forward TO inquire or seek for tvs
'e- well-drossed and evidently very r
Is spcctable white women, the only won
# en- killed i'm the wreck. The 10 bodi'
nd that were held at Cold Springs Il
rd Identification and claim of relative
~ were divided between the two unde
elk taking establishments.