The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-25


At this time there were in the smoker
in addition to the baggageman, Herman
Acker of Peekskill, who was in his COM
| partment, eight Cinnamon en- route from
the Canadian border to New York, and a
! middle-aged man, supposed to be Thomas
| Reilly of 2S60 Wisconsin avenue, St. Louis
All OF these, excepting the baggage
master, perished. The day coach contain
ed eighteen or twenty passengers, many
! of whom were women and children.
How many of these escaped is not
| known, but at least twelve were drowned
or killed in this car. Behind the coach in
| the six sleepers-the Glenalpine, with ff-
teen passengers; the Hermes, with twelve
| passengers; the Niobe, with eleven; the
Diana, with about fifteen; Anita,-nearly
! full, and the Racket River, with no pas
| sengers.
The total cargo of human freight con-
sisted of something over a hundred peo-
pie. At Fishkill the train lessened its
| speed, as it Is customary to run from that
point to Tarrytown at the rate of twenty
five miles an hour. Most of the passengers
were asleep, those in the sleepers being
in their berths, while the occupants of
the coach and smoker were, for the most
part, doubled up in their seats.
Just how the train met its awful fate
will never be fully known, for the men
who first felt the danger-Engln John
Foyle and Fireman John Tompl1ins-to-
night lie dead in the cab of their loco
motive at the bottom of the Hudson river
Conductor Parish who was in charge of
the train, and who was making up his
report in one of the cars when the crash
came, was rendered unconscious by a
blow on the head,
When he recovered he was three seats
ahead of the one in which he had been sit
ting.
One of the occupants of the coach who
-r~ss, l. se
gan, a wood finisher of New York. His
left eye was cut by broken glass. and his
! body was slightly bruised. Mr.. Degan
| made this statement
with my friend, w. H. C. Myers, of
Passaic, n. j., who was killed in the car
! from which L escaped, 1 had been to
| Poughkeepsie We boarded the train at
that place and took seat in the coach.
Three other people got on at Poughkeep-
| sic, one was q woman and the two others
were men. one of whom looked like rail-
road emDloye. AS near as can judge,
| there were eighteen people in the coach,
most of them being women and children,
and nearly all were asleep.
Myers and 1 sat in the middle of the
car when the crash came. The car gave
great lurch and rolled over on its side. The
! water rushed in and almost instantly
| lights went out. 1 knew we were in the
| river, and the car seemed to plough
! was submerged.
''The car was tilted over on one side,
| and I managed to reach the fan-lght
| overhead, and crawled to it until help
came. I heard people in the back part of
| the car groaning as if they were pinned
| fast. 1t was so dark could see no one and
l think the passengers must have been
| drowned like rats. After awhile, it SEEM
| ed an age, I heard people on the top of the
! car and an ak crashed through the roof.
/ The noise Of that ak in the splintered TIM
| bers made the sweetest music I ever heard
| in my life. Soon they had a hole cut in
| the roof and pulled me through it. A man
and a boy Gather and som were also res
| cued in the same way, but L knew of no
| other occupants of the coach escaping.
| The car at this time was floating, but fast
| filling with water, and we were put ashore
| in a rowboat. I am sure that my friend
Myers was drowned
| The following is the list of dead, as as
| certained up to midnight:
No. Thomas Reilly of st. Louis
| No. 2-Chinaman, unidentified.
| No. 3-Wong Gin, Chinaman.
| No. 4-Chuaman, unidentified.
No. 5.-Chinaman, unidentified.
No. 6-Chinaman, unidentified.
No. 7-Chinaman, unidentified.
| No. S-Chinaman unidentified.
No. &c. A. Green of Chicago.
No. 10-Chinaman, unidentified
| No. 11-W. H. G. Myers of fremont,
| ". Y.
| No. 12-Woman, unidentified.
! No. 13-Woman unidentified
| No. 14-Guisseppe Paduano of New York.
! No 15-W. S. Becker of Newark, N. J.
No. 16-Unknown man, died while being
rescued.
No IA. G. Mckay, private secretary
to general superintendent, body supposed
to be in wreck.
No 1S-John Foyle, engineer, of East
Albany body not recovered.
No 19-John Q. Thompson, fireman, of
| East Albany body not recovered.
The total number of known dead is
19; estimated number of dead, 2S.
The injured are:
| Conductor E. o. Parish of New York,
knocked unconscious and severely bruis-
ed
Chinaman, had scalp wound and body
| bruised; in hospital at Peekskill.
Chinaman, face badly cut and leg sprain-
| ed; in hospital at Peekskill.
Frank J. Degan 239 West Thirty-fourth
street, New York city, body bruised and
| face cut.
Chinaman, Tong Lee badly bruised and
suffering from shock; in hospital at
! Peekshill.
Herman Acker of Peekshnl, baggage
| master, bruised and head cut
- Shaw, express agent, New York,
| slight bruises.
| John e. Ryan, No. 294 Barrow street.
| Jersey City, n. j., badly lacerated arm
and leg; in hospital at Peekskill.
Clarence Morgan of Aurora, N. Y, brok-
en- shoulder; in hospital a Peeksldll.
| w. S. Langford of Bayonne, N, j., body
! bruised.
Charles 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
] incomplete.
The wreck occurred about six miles
above Peekskill A retaining wall which
supports the track slid out under the
weight of the train, which was moving
| at a rapid rate.
OF late the tide in the Hudson river has
been very high, and to this was due the
undermining of the wall, so the railroad
| officials state.
Herman Acker of Peekskill, the bag
gage master of the train who was in the
| baggage car with John Shaw, an express
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