The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-14

Coach-DificuIt Work of Rescue.
Heroic Deeds by Members of the
Relief Party-Engfneer of Second
Train Responsible for the Wreck.
New York, January SIN the New
York Central railroad tunnel hat bur-
rows under Park avenue, this city, two
local trains collided today. Fifteen
passenger were killed and twice that
number were injured. A dozen of the
latter were seriously hurt, and the ros
ter Of the dead may be extended.
The dead are Albert NJ. Perrin, re-
Gently from Chicago, secretary ano
second vice president of the Union Bag
and Paper Company, residence. New
Rochelle, n. Y. B. d. C. Foskett. New
Rochelle; A. z. H. Mills, New Rochelle,
Mrs. A. F. Howard, New Rochelle
Frank Washburn. formerly of Chicago
president of the Union Bag and Paper
Company, residence, New Rochelle
William Levs. New Rochelle. genera.
manager for b. Altman & Co., New
York. TheO. FOrcardo, New Rochelle
William Fisher or Forbes, New Ro-
,chelle: William Howard. New Rochelle
4 oscar M~eyrowitZ. New Rochelle. optic
Tan in New York, and secretary OF the
New Rochelle Yacht Club; FrankliL
Crosby, New Rochelle; Ernest F. Wal
ton, New Rochelle, broker in New York
H. G.. Diamond, New Rochelle, assist
ant general of the American
Bridge Company. this city: Charles Is
Mars, New Rochelle, employed by the
New York custom house
1t was a rear-end collision between {
South Norwalk local hat ran in owe
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford railroad and was halted by bloch
signals at the southern entrance of tn
tunnel, and a White Plains local thai
came by the Harlem branch or the New
York Central. The wreck occurred al
S:17 o'clock a. m, at which hour tn,
trains were crowded by suburbanites
Most OF the death, injury and damag,
was wrought by the engine of the
White Plains train which plunged int,
the rear car of the motionleSS train
and was driven through to the middle
of the car, smashing the seats and
furnishings and splitting the sides as i
moved forward. The victims wer,
mangled in the mass of wreckage car
ried at the pilot, crushed in the space
between the boiler and the car sides, o.
scalded by steam which came Kissing
from broken pipes n cylinders.
The engine in it's final plunge OF
forty feet carried the rear car forward
and sent twisted iron. broken timbers
and splinters crashing into the cOaci
ahead. Lights were extinguished anC
from the wrcckage and darkness cams
the cries of the injured and calls for as
sistance by those who escaped.
Within a few minutes the work of res
cue, marked by heroism and sacrifice
began. Alarms hat brought every
nrnTInh1@ n M m nan on6 tho nnliR0 re
serves of five precincts and the firemen
of the central and eastern districts o.
Manhattan were sounded at once With
police, firemen N surgeons, came q
score of volunteer physicians and half
a dozen clergymcn.
Ladders were run down the tunnel air
shafts and the firemen and police at
tackled the debris with ropes and axes,
Passengers already had rallied anC
were trying to release those imprisoned
in the debris. Father Smith, and Rev.
DIR. Walkley, chaplains of the fire de-
partment, crawled in over the wreckag6
and ministered to the dying.
Lieutenant Clarke, of the fire depart
ment. forced his way to the point where
Miss Rice and Miss Scott lay and stood
In water hat scalded the flesh from his
limbs until the women were released.
t. NJ. Murphy, a passenger both OF
whose legs were broker and still held
by the timbers, volunteered to remair
rs he was until those around him Were
assisted.
Two policemen and chaplain WaIkley
reached Mrs. Howard, and the chaplain
gave her a stimulant. The policemen
were cutting away the seat which held
the woman down when a pipe broke
The sCalding steam drove them bach
and when the rescuerS returned Mrs
Howard was dead.
Injured persons in need OF immediats
attention were given temporary dress
ing by the ambulance and ~voluntnei
surgeons and then hoisted to the street
Many Park avenue mansions were
thrown open to the suffering, but Nos
of the - ~ ct Were at once Ike L