Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-01-08
TRAINS COLLIDE.
FrighifuI Accident Near
New York City.
Trains Crash Into Each Other
in a Tunnel.
Fifty-Seven Persons Killed and In
lured in the Wreck.
TEXAS MERCHANT BANKRUPT.

Central railroad tunnel at Fifty-sixth
street and Park avenue. in which it Is
reported ten persons were killed.
The trains in collision we're the ac
commodation on the New York, New
Haven & Hartford road from Norwalk
Conn, and the local on the New York
& Harlem branch of the New York
Central. The last car of the Norwall,
accommodation was run into by the
Harlem train and telescoped After
the collision the wreck caught fire.
Calls were sent to nearly all the city s
hospitals for ambulances.
At 10 o'clock ten Uodies had been
removed from tne wreck and sixteen
bodies were in the hospitals. ana two
were to be ceen in the wreck. making
twenty-cight dead and injured as far as
could be ascertained. The train which
ran into the Norwalk accommodation
was known as the White Plains local.
1t completely wrecked two cars of the
Norwalk train. The Norwalk local
consisted of five cars crowded with
passengers. AT Fllty-sixth street 1t
was stopped by signal. The big en-.
| gine of the White Plains local crashed
into the rear coach, splitting it, and
| driving portions of II into the next
car. Steam from he engine scalded
| persons in the wrecked cars. The
| crash was heard by hundreds of resi-
i a % An ,,f.AlArAAAl
Gus crowds collected. Clouds of steam
arose from the air holes in the tunnel,
making rescue difficult. The injured
were lifted out by ropes or were car
ried through lIe tunnel to its mouth
just below Fifty-sixth street.
| Seventeen persons were killed. and
forty injured, twelve seriously. The
engineer and fireman of the White
Plains local and tower were arrested.
District Attorney Jerome visited the
wreck and will personally. direct the
| investigation. The list of the dead fol-
lows:
| A. G. Walton, New Rochelle II. G..
Diamond, New Rochelle; Albert NJ.
Perrin, New Rochelle: II. e.. Thomas,
New York City; ii. d. c. Foskett. New
Rochelle William B. Lee. of b. Alt
man g. Co.. New York City; II. Frank
lin Crosby, New Rochelle; Oscar L.
Meyerowitz. optician. New York City;
Meyerowitz lives in New Rochelle, and
was secretary of lew Rochelle Iacht
club: Theodore Forgardo. aged 80. New
Rochelle; William Fisher. aged 25.
New Rochelle: George Potter. aged 40.
New Rochelle; Mrs. A. +. Howard.
New Rochelle; william Howard, New
Rochelle; f. c. Hinsdale, aged 30, New
Rochelle; unknown man, believed to be
Charles Mars. employe custom house,
who lived in New Rochelle: george w.
Bearing. aged 25. New Rochelle; +.
Washburn. aged IS. New Rochelle.
| The seriously injured: Ernest Cof-
fin, aged Is, New Rocnelle; unknown
man. taken unconscious to hospital; (;
alfred WaduIey, florist, New Yora
City; Albert w. Adams, carriage build
er. New York City; George NJ. Carter,
New YORK Ci.y; George NJ risher,
East Port Chester; Mabel Newman,
New Rochelle: Mamie j. Rice, New
Rochelle; Sadie Scott, New Rocnelle;
Richard Millineux, New Rochelle;
Thomas T. Murphy, New Rochelle; ;
Winfield Schultze. New Rochelle; A.
McRae. New Rochelle; Henry Keene,
general manager Siegel Cooper com
pany. this city; George Winter, New
Rochelle; William Brooks, Erie. Pa.
Eugene Herond gave this account of
the accident
I'VE were sitting quietly in next to
the last car and there were only one
or two unoccupied seats.
| There were several women In my
car. also in the last car. We had been
stalled at Fiftyseventh street some
time. Suddenly there came terrific
crash and the lights went out. There
was a roar of grinding steel and wood,
and chorus of shrieks. ! looked back
and saw the car behind telescoping
over the rear of our car and through
that mix-up plunged the roaring loco
| motive.
II was thrown on my face by the jolt
and felt some blood splash over my
| forehead. Sitting smoke and steam
seemed to rise all around. Looking
back | could see mangled persons
crawling about through the mist. Then
suddenly the car took fire.
"Our one idea was to escape. | found
a friend of mine right in front of me.
| He cried: Open the windows, for
Gods sake turned to the window.
and found the glass all splattered by
the collision. We climbed out. | saw
/
| blood crawling about
Within an incredibly short time
| nearly ov0 firemen and ambulance sur
| geons and trainmen were in the smoke
| and steam-filleu tunnel working des
| perately to get out the bodies of the
| dead anu wounded. Above the scene
| of death on the driveway on both sides
of the tunnel were long rows of amhu-
| lances. Many uninjured and those
whose injuries were slight, rendered
| splendid aid. while others. bewildered
| by the shock and darkness, groped
| along the walls seeking an exit Some
| of the passengers walked through the
tunnel into Grand Central Station.
while others made their way to the
stairways below the south end of the
tunnel The bodies of the dead and
many of the wounded were hoisted
through the openings in the roof of
the tunnel. placed in waiting ambu-
lanCes and rushed to the nearest hospi-
tails. No attempt was made at identi-
GcatiOn.
| ]. h Franklin. manager OF the Har-
lem division OF the New York Central,
made the following statement:
| We shan investigate thoroughly
but We are first taking out the injured
and having them cared for. and untIi
that is done investigation cannot pro
coed As far as can be learned the
| wrecked tram was stopped by the
block signal system, because of some
thing wrong ahead don [ know what
was the matter ahead. A tiagman
Jumped of the train, taking red Ian
tern and a railroad torpedo. He put
the torpedo on the track, and waved
his lantern TO signal any train that