Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-01-09
MANY DEAD IN TUNNEL
Rear End Collision Between PaSsen.
ger Trains at New York.
COMMUTERS THE VICTIMS.
EnHine of White Plains EXDress
PlowS Through Rear Car OF
Port Chester Local and
Wrecks Forward Cars,

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tunnel near Fifty-sixth street The
number of dead is estimated ut nine
teen. 1t Is thought forty people were
injured.
| The known dead are: William Brooks,
Mount Vernon, n. Y. h. ID. c. 'Foskett.
New Rochelle; A. Edward Hunt Mills,
New Rochelle: f.. +. Walton, Rochelle
Park. New Rochelle; ii. q. Dimon,
New Rochelle; Oscar w. Meyrowitz.
optician, Ne. York; Alfred n. Perrin
New Rochelle; a. Il. Miller, New York
| William Lees. member firm Il. Alt
man 4 Co., residence New Rochelle;
William Howard, New Rochelle; Frank
Washburn. fifty-five, treasurer Union
Bag and Paper company New York
Theodore Sogaro, thirty-eight, New Ro-
chelle; William Forbes, twenty five.
New Rochelle; II. Franklin Crosby,
twenty-five. New Rochelle.
The injured hail for the most part
from New Rochelle. 1t is feared some
of them will die.
A White Plains express of the Har-
| lem road plowed its way through the
rear car of the Port Chester local of the
New York. New Haven and Hartford
railroad. The engine of the express
ran into the rear car of the local train
and split it in two, wrecking the two
| other cars ahead.
Those injured were n these three
cars, which were packed with com
muters. A number of those in the rear
car were Scalded by escaping steam
which issued from the engines broken
pipes. One side of the car was crushed
| against the wall of the tunnel. pinion-
ing a number of passengers in the
debris.
Passengers of the rear train first be-
gan the work of rescue They got out
two men caught in the inside of the
car and who We're being scalded by the
escaping steam.
Few cries arose from the telescoped
car. The passengers were all either
dead or unconscious. The first man
on the scene was w. V. Hawkins,
Mount Vernon, a passenger on the
rear train. He heard the crash, and,
jumping from the second coach, ran
forward just in time to catch one Of
the wounded passengers as he fell
from the wrecked coach.
Firemen who We're summoned to the
burning debris had great difficulty in
fighting the flames, but extinguished
them by prompt and efficient work
The tiremen extended ladders down
into the tunnel broke open the tops
of the cars and lifted the injured to
the street with ropes. Others We're car
ried to an opening at Fifty fifth street.
One boy was carried. unconscious, to
and Lexington avenue by fellow pas
scngers. and an injured man was taken
to the same institution.
For over thirty minutes little head
way was made in removing the dead
and living. The engine had wedged
tile bodies of the victims against the
side of the coach and hurled on top
of them the interior furnishings, seats,
etc. Eight dead bodies We're in view,
most of them disfgured
Two New Rochelle girls, Sadie Scott
and Minnie Rice, We're found wedged
in the second car, which had been shat
tered. Many attempts We're made to
get them ont. but for a long time in
vain. Both women We're very coura,
geous and told those about them that,
though they We're hurt. they felt it was
not dangerous. They asked that their
friends and parents be told that they
were alive.
Statement by Official.
]. II. Franklin. manager of the Har-
lem division of the New York Central
railroad, said at his office in the Grand
Central depot that a thorough invcsti-
CATION would be made. He added
80 far as can be learned. the wreck
ed train was stopped by the block sig
nal system because of something wrong
ahead. | don't know or have not vet
found out what WAS the matter ahead.
4 f1agman jumped off the train tax
ing Il red lantern and railroad tor
pedo He put the torpedo on the track
and waved his lantern to signal any
train that might come up behind.
whether the engineer of the coming
train saw the hagman. saw the lantern
or heard the torpedo. if it went off, l
don't know. and the tlagman says he !,
does not know.
THE accident is awful. When the !
injured are cared for, we shall proceed !
with all possible expedition with a
thorough investigation"
District Attorney Jerome's attention
was called to the accident soon after
it happened. He said that it was an
appalling thing and of such importance
that he intended to look into it person
ally and would go up to the scene of
The fatality and make personal in
vestigatiOn.
A dispatch from Albany says that
State Railway Commissioner Baker
md Inspector Schultz of that commits
sion have started here to investigate
he disaster.
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