Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-08
WRECK IN TUNNEL
Two Trains Collide and Then
 Catch Fire.
IS DEAD WERE TAKEN OUT.

11S1Ou OcClITGd uSL 1l ll4C HI U SAhNN to the Much Talked of Tunnel Fire Department and Ambulances Called Out-Many Physicians Imme diately Dispatched to the Scene of the Accident
 New York, Jan S.-A New York x Harlem local passenger train ran into the last car of a New York, New Ha- ven & Hartford train known as the Norwalk accommodation to-day in the New York Central tunnel between 56th and 57th streets, this city. The wreck occurred about a block and half from the mouth of lne tunnel. At Il o'clock the, number of persons killed was placed by The railroad otf1c- ials at 15 and the injured 20 or more. The first of the dead taken from the wreck were:
 \. c. Walton, New Rochelle.
 H. G. Diamond, New Rochelle.
 A. E. Mills, New York.
 George Potter, New Rochelle.
 Albert NJ Perrin, New Rochelle.
 4 man said to be Oscar w Meyro- witz, an optician of New York city.
 An old man. name not known, but believed to be an employe of Craft x Martin, of New York city.
 H. G. Thomas, New York city.
 A body believed to be that of E. D. c. Foskett, New Rochelle.
 All of the bodies were badly disfig- ured and nearly unrecognizable.
 On the body of A. E. Mills was a badge of the New York Athletic club, saying that he had won q single sculling prize in 1897.
 The number of injured was very large. Among those hurt were:
 Albert v. Adams, a carriage bu@%SS- CT of this city, with q residence at New Rochelle. Leg cut off below knee; seriously hurt.
 Albert Wadley, a florist of this city Both legs fractured.
 The shock of the collision was plain ly heard by people passing on Park avenue above the tunnel. Several of them ran to give the alarm. In ten minutes everybody at police and fire headquarters was at work to organ ize relief to be sent to the scene.
 From fire headquarters, dozen DlOcAS dWdHs d uOOh 61I1l A6AdNACA - oSAA was rapidly dispatched to the scene of the accident with several fire com panies.
 The reserves from East Fifty-hrst street and Grand Central police sta tions were turned out on the run. A hurry call was sent to Bellevue, Flow CT. the Presyterian and Roosevelt hos pitals. and in ten minutes dozen ann - balances were hurrying with g corps of doctors.
 When the rescuers reached the wreck smoke was pouring out of the entrance to the tunnel at Fifty n street and great columns of smoke roared out of the first ventilator half block north. Ambulances came in from the east and west. Ladders were put down from the street over the iron fence to the track, and the firemen, policemen and surgeons were immedi- ately at work.
 It was very dark in the tunnel. which was filed with smoke and steam, and the work of rescue was difficult The locomotive of the White Plains local was hidden in the rear ear of the South Norwalk train. The maimed and injured were calling from the wreck. Some, more badly injured than others, were being assisted by the more fortunate passengers.
 The work of rescue was further i'm peded by the enormous crowds which in splle of police vigilance swarmeo into the tunnel through it's many en frances or crowded about the openings at the surface
 The first of the injured taken from the wreck was a woman. She was car +1 %1,o r7sS hnc11ifa1 Hprn as well as at other points, prepara tions were hurriedly made to take care of the wounded as rapidly as they were brought to the railroad station.
 A passenger on the Harlem trai1 said:
 Our train was held at the Harlen end of tue tunnel for two minutes tC allow the New Haven train to pass us Then we proceeded. Suddenly there yves a terrific crash and we were hurl ed from our seats. The shock was fol lowed by the roar of escaping stean and the cries of the wounded.
 "A score of men passengers got ou of the windows and ran to the iron of our train. The confusion and nois, were awful Our locomotive haS ploughed half way through the las New Haven car. I saw several wo men taken out of the first wrecked car.''
 The trains in collision were an aC eommodation on the N. r., N. H. an H. railroad from Norwalk, Conn, an a local on the Harlem branch of tn New York Central. The last car o the Norwalk accommodation was ru into by the Harlem train and was te escaped. After the collision the wrec caught fire. Soon after the colliTp calls were sent to nearly all of D city hospitals for ambulances and tn fire department was called out A $40 several bodies had been take from the wrecked cars and a numbe of injured persons had been taken t hospitals. Great crowds gathered g the mouth of the tunnel, creating muc confusion and making it difficult obtain definite information as to th number killed.
 The train which ran into the Nol walk accommodation was known 2 the White Plains special. It complete ly wrecked two cars of the Norwal train. Many persons were killed ( injured. The Norwalk local consiste