The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-01-09
MOURNING IN new ROCHELLE.
FILLED WITH WEEPING
MEN AND WOMEN.


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To Now Rochelle the tunnel accident was
ocalamitv. All Of The dead and nearly all OF
,ho iniur,d lived there and when news of
H. ~coIision reached the station II produced
comes Of great grief and excitement. il
,osa little before 0 o'clock when the people
81 Nav Rochelle first heard of the accident.
1bo FIRST news OF It came into the telegraph
on,ca NJ the station. The station was
0llod with people who were going TO the
oi,v and who we're gathered indoors on
socount Of the storm. Manager Water
hnrv Of the telegraph Office got a message
which be could not understand. IL was
,,om n man who had been oil the tele-
sconed train, was addressed to his wife
and read:
Am all right. Don't worry. Was not hurt
a particle.
An instant later the instrument clicked
again this time with a message from the
officials NJ the Grand Central Station. This
message read:
Accident here to New Rochelle train, Sew
.,aI killed VIII furnish names later.
As soon as Mr.. Waterbury got the last
word he told those in the station nearest to
him and in a second it had spread through
the CTONus 1HtIt was a IA idCiA Wv
telegraph Office, agonized appeals from
people whose relatives had gone down on
the train and a general scurrying TO
telephones to try and get
from the city. Over a hundred persons
boarded the train that was wrecked every
morning at the New Rochelle station. To
accommodate them the rear car was kept
licked until New Rochelle was reachcd.
-. -l,t train haA mat with an accident
the people in New Rochelle did not know
until some time after the arrival OF the
telegram from the railroad officials: Some
who had gone to telephones soon found 1t
out, however. and when 1t became known
thai Is was the 7:4s the excitement increased.
Few of the people who had been waiting
AT the station boarded the train they had
intended to take. IL took over an hour
10 get this city on the telephones, and the
operators we're too busy with incoming.
messages from those who said they had not
been hurt to send any or learn particulars
When word as TO who had been killed ana
injured arrived, the streets were filled with
weeping men and women.
Waiting in the station at the time the
news Of the accident began to come In was
Horace Crosby, President of the Board OF
Education. He was there with his two
daughters to take he next train TO the
city. His son, Horace, left the house Tor
the rs train and when Mr.. Crosby learned
that it had been wrecked his anxiety FOR
his son almost made him crazy. Rushing
around the station, he cried piteously Tor
news. One Of the first he ran across was
Mr.. Whitley, father of young Whitley.
who was injured. IL was not known then
that young Whitley and young Crosby
had gone down together. MIR. Whitley
had Just received a telegram from his son
saving that he was badly scalded, but had
not been killed. Mr.. Whitley showed this
10 Mr.. Crosby and he rushed TO the teIe-
graph Office again, FOLLOWED by a score OF
others. The manages had just received
a list of killed then identified and the last
name on this list was that Of Horace Crosby.
There we're those who sought To keep 1t
from old Mr.. Crosby, but he tore the list
from their hands. He let the paper drop
when he read his sons name.
my boy, my boyl" he said and collapsed.
His Two daughters tainted beside their
father. All about men and women were
CRYING, some Of them were in Mysteries.
Three OF the ministers went TO the station
10 give comfort and assistance to the be-
reaved. The father and daughters were
sent home in a cab after the uastor Of the
Methodist church had received a telegram
confirming the death Of young Crosby
Mr.. Crosby's condition occasioned much
concern. After the death Of his son from
the EFF cot Of the Cuban campaign he had
to 60 TO a sanitarium.
NJ. Nrosby's grief was no more heart
rending than that Of some Of the women
left widows by the accident. Mrs. Fajardo,
who lives In the outskirts Of New Rochelle.
heard Of the accident from some Of the
tradesmen and ran through the snow to
the C1ice Of the nearest local paper to see
how her husband had Jared. II took over
IN hour TO get his Office, only to find he
had not reached there. Finally the Grand
Central Station was reached by telephone.
and when Mrs. Fajardo heard that her hus-
hands body had just been taken from
the wreck she tainted and had to b.
carried home.
Mrs. 4. {. Hinsdale heard Of the acci-
dent from the telephone central and. fail
ing 20 get New York by Telephone, went
around IN n carriage To other women whose
husbands had taken the same train. Most
81 them were rs distracted as herself.
Finally she went down TO the station To
take the 2ls train for this city A let ~
the dead then found was handed To her
there aud on i she cav her husbands
name Then she tainted When revived
~" insisted upon going o 10 the city
aud was put aboard the train.
Nearly all the bsreayed families Ia New
Rochelle got kilograms from the railroad
officials informing them - the death 81
'heir relative Many - them had either
gone down 90 New York o. were az the
station Nhru the kilograms were received
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