The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-11
JEROME IS
 HARDAT WORK Investigating the Wreck
 in Tunnel. BAIL FOR THE ENGINEER Wisch0 May Be Released Under $10,0O0 Bond. District Attorney Says He Can 1s Convicted of No Crime More e.
 rious Than Manslaughtsr
 in the Second Degree.
BAIL FOR THE ENGINEER

New York. Jan. 10.-District Attorney Jerome, State Railroad Commissioners Ba- ker., Assistant Attorney Garvan and su- perintendent Franklin of the railroad, made a trip of inspection through the tunnel today. The party left the Grand Central station on locomotive with no car attached. A thorough examinations of the tunnel was made, including the work ings of the block signal system. Tests were made also of the distance at which lights could be seen through smoke and steam in the tunnel. The signals of all their workings between Frfty-ninth and Fffty-sixth Streets, where the accident occurred. were gone over and closely ex- amined and tested.
 At the end of the District Attorneys trip through the tunnel. one of those who had accompanied him said they had found the atmosphere fairly clear most of the way, but at Ninety-sixth Street they were enveloped in a cloud of smoke and steam so dense that nothing could be seen. On the return trip the tunnel was clear At Sixty-third Street the green light showed plainly, that being the eau tionary signal before entering the block below, and the observation engine slowed up until the red danger light was seen at Fifty-ninth Street. The bell rang. but the torpedo did not explode. The engine was stopped and the railroad officials explained that the little mogul, or ob- servation engine. was not heavy enough. nor its wheels large enough to explode the torpedo us a big passenger engine would do.
 According to The Evening Post, tho torpedo went into position alongside the rail automatically the moment the red light was shown by the block system. and should have been cut and exploded by the
 fiange on the wheels of the engine Af- ter t consultations it FteS decided to bi-hsx
 up q heavier switch Nhgine of the same size as the passenger engines.
 The engine came up, the little observa-s ton engine was run out of the way and the larger engine was brought through the block. Again the torpedo failed to explode. Four more times the big loco motive was run through the block and not once did the torpedo explode. The railroad officials explained this by saying that the mechanism throwing the torpedo into place had pressed out of order SO that the fiange of the wheels did not touch the torpedo.
 After the inspection of the tunnel, Dis trict Attorney Jerome announced that ha would not oppose an application for fhs release of Engineer Wischo on $1o.000 ball. This action, he said, was the re- suit of the investigation which showed the authorities that a charge of murder in the first degree could not be made against the engineer. The gravest charge that could be made, he maintained. was
 sa.
 Mayor Low has sent the following let ter of sympathy to Mayor Henry s. Clark of New Rochelle:
 "In the name of the people of tho city of New York. beg to offer to your city our heartfelt sympathy. It may we'll be believed that an accident such as that which has thrown New Ro- chelle into mourning is deplored by ev- erybody. The duty remains with the iiv- Ing to see to it that the lesson of SO costly a disaster shall not be lost"
 The surgeons at Bellevue Hospital said today that Thomas P Murphy, whose leg was amputated last night as n re- suit of injuries received in Wednesdays tunnel accident, had rallied from the operation and had good chances of 
 Arthur Whitley. who was scalded and nurt internally. was in a critical condi- 1Qu LOQdy. ne IS Ib years OiuS anu was employed as clerk.
 Albert Wadley of New Rochelle, who mad both legs fractured. improved dur ng the night. His daughter has been with him constantly since he was hurt.
 John W. Whisker, engineer of the White Plains local, which ran into the Norwalk train. had recovered today from he nervous collapse which followed the wreck. He became more cheerful yester- GkA.. M 1RA As.Il 70 see him.
 Three of those hurt. George Winter, Sehultze and A. w. McCray, |, were not improved today. Winter was his left leg was fractured and le suffered from shock. He is not yet ,ut of danger. Schultze and McCray were badly burned and each has a broken, leg. A. w. Adams. the carriage of this cltys. was better oday.
 William R. Brooks of Brooklyn. bruised md scalded. is still in a serious condi- ion at Roosevelt Hospital.
 George J. Carter of New Rochelle right eg broken. scaided on the face and body. s at Roosevelt Hospital and will recover.
 Margaret Lambdon of New Rochelle. from fracture of the left leg md general contusions at Roosevelt Hospital. will recover.
 The Herald tomorrow will say:
 "The New York Central Railroad will hange it's motive power in the Park Avenue tunnel within a year. Electri- ity will be substituted for steam on all ocal trains and as sooh as possible runk line trains will be hauled into and ut of the Grand Central Station by less dangerous methods An extra force of xperts has been added to the large force if electricians and these have been at york within the tunnel since Wednes- lays accident trying to devise satisfaeto-. y plans for a speedy change"