The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-09
REAR END COLLISION
Engine PIoughed Through Coach
WreakIng Horrible Havoc.
VICTIMS GROUND TO DEATH
kaugled ID Mass OF wreckage, Crushed
Between Sides of Boiler and Car or
,caIded by Steam That Came Hiss
Ing from Burst tipe-Riany
Acts OF iieroism and
Daring.
VICTIMS GROUND TO DEATH
Ry Associated ress.l

NEW YORK, Jan. SIN the New York
Central Railroad tunnel that burrows un-
der Park Avenue, this city, two local
trains colliaed to-day. Fifteen passengers
were killed, and twice that number were
injured. A dozen of the latter were Sc
riously hurt, and the roster of the dead
may be extended
Dead: Albert NJ. Perrin, forty-three
years old, recently from Chicago. secre-
Sary and second Tice-presdent of Lac
Union Bag and Paper Company; resi-
dence, New Rochelle \. Y.
B. ID. c. Foskert forty. New Rochelle.
A. e. II Miles, twenty-five, New Ro-
chelle.
E. c. Hinsdale, .airty-ave. New Ro-
chelle.
Mrs A f. Howard. thirty-hve, New
Rochelle.
Frank washburn, formerly of Chicago,
president of the Union Bag and Paper
Company; residence, New Rochelle.
William Leyes, thirty-five, New Ro-
chelle, general manager of B. Altman u5
Co, New York.
I'heo Forgardo, thirty, New Rochelle.
William Fisher, or Forbes. twenty-five
New Rochelle.
william Howard, forty-eight New Ro-
chelle.
Oscar Meyrowitz, fifty, New Rochelle;
optician in New York, and secretary of
the New Rochelle Yacht Cub.
Franklin Crosby, thirty-fve, New Ro-
thelle.
Ernest f. walton. thirty, New Rochelle;
broker in New York.
IA. G.. diamond, New Rochellei assist
ant general manager of The American
I3riCge Company, this city
C.laries B. Mars, New Rochelle; en-
ploved by the New York Custom House.
SERIOUSLY. INJURED.
A list of the seriously injured follows:
Ernst Coffin, fifteen years old, New
Rochelle: serious wound on his head
Taken to Wonnan's Hospital, Fifueth
Street and Lexington Avenue.
Alfred Wadley, florist of New York
ritv. fracture of both legs, shock ana
scalp wounds
Albert w. Adams. a. carriage-buiider of
New York city; left leg cut off below the
knee
fractured. ro,..
Chester: severely injured
Mabel Newman, New Rochelle; con'u-
sions OF body and nip fractured.
Mamie ]. Rice, New Rochelle; frac-
tnre6 nose, fractured ear and spralneo
ankle. lao .,d
left foot fractured.
Richard MilleanuX. New f'ociieiie' eoAi-
7,ound fracture of thigh.
Tbomas 7. Murphy, New Rochelie'
both legs broken and INTERNAL iii!ut1es'
condition critical.
Winfield Schultze. New Rocheiiei lrac-
tured legs and burns
a McRae. New Rochelle; leg iracLuieu. iraN..-
Henry t<eene. general manager Oh the
Sierel Cooper Company, thls eltS' ~ a.
,,,a Internal INJURIES
c.oorcc Winter. New Rochelle: COM
,,o,,,,r fracture of lei. leg; the leg was
amputated. %, ,.cerated
face and possible fracture OIL ' sfoii 'a'> a
Ia roosevelt Hospital.
~ REAR-END COLLISION.
= raar-end collision between a
-l,-., Norwalk local that ran in over
s-ew York. New Haven and Hart
go Rai,road, and was halted by oioch
ir,,,,ie al the southern entrance OIL li'e
.,'.,,., and a White Plains local tila'
py the Harlem branch of the Ne%
LII, Central. The wreck occurred at
60 M at which hour the trains were
crowded by suburbanites Most OF t,ie
deaths. injuries and damage was "tousi.'
nv the engine of the Whte tiai'ls - 60.
which plunged into the rear car " IN
,notionless train and was driven throush
.,sa ,,,ia7ln Of the car smashing the
L n
.eats and furnishings and splitting the
sides as it moved forward,
The victims either were maNGled IN the
,nasa of wreckage carried at the Pii'S,
crushed in the space between bolier ANU
car side. or .scalded by steam whicn came came
Kissing from broken pipes ana cElinueiS ..
The engine in its final plunge OF loEts
feet. carried the rear car forward anu .
.ont twisted iron. broken timbers ana
y,,+N : No a.
Lights were extinguishcd and from 'lte
pr,eclxaec and darkness came the crles Oh
.ha injured and calls for assistance by
those who escaped
WORK OF RESCUE.
Within few minutes the work OF res
c,,e m. -tresi nv hcroism and sacrihc.
heran. Alarms that brought every avail
able ambulance in the police district, the
police reserves of five precincts and the
Srcnen of the Central and Eastern DIS
+,5cts OF Manhattan, were sounded at
orce With rolice. fremen and surgeons
ca-oo a score of volunteer physicians and
half dozen clergymen
ladders were run down the tunnel air
sharts and the ffremen and the police at
tocked the debris with ropes and axes.
Passengers already had rallied and We're
irving to release those imprisoned IN the
debris
Father Smith and Rev DR.. WaikleS,
chaplains of the Fire Department crawled
in over the wrecksge and minissered 70
the dying.
Lieutenant Clarke. Of the Fire Depart
rnent forced his way TO the point where
Miss Rice and Miss Scott lay and stood
IN water that scalded the fcsh from his
limbs until the women We're released.
T. NJ. Murphy. a passenger. both Of
whose legs were broken and still held