The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-09
White Plains Train PIunges
Into N0rWa!k Local.
HALF TIE REAR CAR TORN TO sPLINTERs
The Lights Are Extinguished and
From the Darkness Rise Heartrend-
ing Cries Of the Injured and Dying.
The Work of Rescue Begins at Once
Heroic Efforts. Defective Block
Signal System Said to Have Caused
the Wreck.
(By the Associated Press.)


New York. Jan. SIN the New York
Central Tunnel that burrows under Park
Avenue. this city, two local trains col
lided today. Fifteen passengers We're
killed and twice that number were in
iured. A dozen of the latter were seri-
ously hurt. and the roster of the dead
may be extended.
The dead:
ALBERT NJ. PERRIN, 43 years old,
recently from Chicago; Secretary and
second vice president of the Union Bag
and Paper Company, residence, New
Rochelle. N. Y.
b. d. C. FOSKETT, 40. New Rochelle
A. f. H. MILLS, 50 New Rochelle.
F.. G. HINDALE, 35 New Rochelle.
MRS. A. f. HOWARD, 35 New Rochelle.
FRANK WASHBURN, formerly of Chi
cago: president of the Union Bag and
Paper Company; residence, New Rochelle.
WILLIAM LEYS, 80. New Rochelle; !;
general manager b. Altman, New York.
THEO. FORGARDO. 80 New Rochelle.
WILLIAM FISHER, or FORBES, 20
New Rochelle.
WILLIAM HOWARD, 4S New Rochelle.
OSCAR MEYROWITZ, so New Rochelle,
optician in New York, and secretary of
the New Rochelle Yacht Club.
FRANKLIN CROSBY, 35 New Rochelle.
ERNEST f. WALTON, 80 New Rochelle !;
broker in New York.
H. G. DIAMOND, New Rochelle, as
sistant general manager of the American
Bridge Company, this city.
CHARLES b. MARS, New Rochelle,
employed by the New York Custom
House.
A list of the seriously injured follows:
Ernest Coffin, 10 years old. New
RocheIle serious wound on head. Taken
to Woman,s Hospital, 50th street and
Lexington Avenue.
Alfred Wadley florist. of New York
city; fracture of both legs, shock and
scalp wounds.
Albert w. Adams, q carriage builder
of New York city; left leg cut off below
knee
George NJ. Carter, of New York, leg
fractured.
George NJ. Fisher. 46 East Port Ches-
ter, severely injured.
Mabel Newman, New Rochelle: contu-
sions of body and hip fractured.
Mamie ]. Rice, New Rochelle, fractur-
ed nose, lacerated ear and sprained ankle.
Sadie Scott, New Rochelle, left hand
and left foot fractured.
Richard Millineaux, New Rochelle, COM
pound fracture of thigh.
Thomas T. Murphy, New Rochelle, both
legs broken and internal injuries, condi-
tion critical.
Winfield Schultze. New Rochelle, frac-
lures legs and burns.
A. McRae, New Rochelle, leg fractured.
Henry Keene, General Manager of the
Siegel Cooper Company this city, fractur-
ed ribs and internal injuries.
George Winter, New Rochelle. COM
pound fracture of left leg, the leg was
amputated.
William Brooks, of Erie, Pa, lacerated
face and possible fracture of skull, taken
to Roosevelt Hospital
A REAR END COLLISION.
1t was a rear end collision between a
south Norwalk local that ran in over
The New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad and was halted by block signals
at the southern entrance of the tunnel
and a White Plains local that came by
the Harlem branch of the New York Gen.
trail. The wreck occurred at 8:17 a. M
at which hour the trains were crowded
by suburbanites.
Most of the death, injury and damage
was wrought by the engine of the White
Plains train which plunged into the rear
car Of the motionless train and was driv-
en- through to the middle of the car,
smashing the seats and furnishings and
splitting the sides as it moved forward
The victims either We're mangled in the
mass of wreckage carried at the pilot
crushed in the space between boiler and
car sides, or scalded by steam which
came Kissing from broken pipes and
cylinders.
The engine in its final plunge of forty
feet carried the rear car forward and
sent twisted iron, broken timbers, split
ting into the coach ahead. Lights were
extinguished and from the wrcckage ano
darkness came the cries of the injured