The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-09
"A LOCAL PASSENGER TRAIN RUNS
INTO AN ACCOMMODATION IN
A TUNNEL
sICKEN1NG SCENES DEPICTED
Catholic and Episcopal Chaplains of
the New York Fire Department
Climb Over Burning Wreck
age to SuccOr Victims.
NEARLY TWO SCORE INJURED

NEW YORK, Jan. SIN the New.
York Central railroad tunnel that bur
rows under Park avenue, this city, two
local trains collided today. Fifteen pas
sengers were killed and twice that num-
Der were injured. A dozen of the latter
were seriously hurt, and the roster of the
dead may be extended.
The dead are: Albert M. Perrin. for
ty-five years old, recently from Chicago.
Union Bag and Paper company, resi-
dence New Rochelle, N. Y; B. D. G.
Fosett, forty, New Rochelle; A. E. Mills,
Is, New Rochelle; E. c. Hinsdale, thirty
thirty-five, New Rochelle; Frank Wash
burn, formerly of Chicago, president Of
the Union Bag and Paper company, resi-
dence New Rochelle; William Legs, New
Rochelle, general manager Baltman d
Co.; Theodore Fogardo, thirty, New Ro-
chelle; William Fischer or Forbes, twen-
ty-f1ve, New Rochelle; William Howard,
forty-eight, New Rochelle; Oscar Mey-
rotz, fifty, New Rochelle, opttcian in
New York and secretary of the New Ro-
chelle Yacht club; Franklin Crosby, thir-
ty-fiVe, New Rochelle; Ernest r. Walton,
thirty, New Rochelle, broker in New
York: H. G. Diamond, New Rochelle, as
sistant general manager of the Amerl =
can Bridge company, this city; Charles
B. Mars New Rochelle, employed In the
New York custom house.
1t was a rear-end collision between a
South Norwalk local that ran in over
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad, and was halted by block signals
at the southern entrance of the tunnel
and White Plains local that came by
the Harlem branch of the New York Cen
tral. The wreck occurred at S:17 a. M,
at which hour the trains were crowded
by suburbanites.
Most of the death, injury and damage
~ &c 41,A
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 were mangled in the
mass of Wreckage, crushed in the space
between boiler and car sides, or scalded
by steam which came Kissing from
broken pipes and cylinders. The engine,
in it's final plunge of forty feet, carried
the rear car forward and sent twisted
iron, broken timbers and splinters crash
ing into the coach ahead.
Heroic Work by Rescuers.
Lights were extinguished and from the
wreckage and darkness came the cries
of the injured and calls for assistance
by those who escaped Within few
minutes the work of rescue, marked by
heroism and sacrifice, began. Alarms
that brought every available ambulance
in the CITY, the police reserves of FIVE
precincts and the firemen of the Central
Eastern district of Manhattan island
were sounded at once. With police, fire
| men and surgeons came a score of vOlun-
| teer physicians and half a dozen clergy
| men.
Ladders We're run down the tunnel air
| shafts and the firemen and police at
! tackled the debris with ropes and axes.
! The uninjured passengers already had
! rallied and were trying to release those
| imprisoned in the debris.
Father Smith and Rev. DR.. Walkley
| chaplains of the fire department, crawled
| in over the wreckage and ministered to
| the dying.
Lieut. Clarke, of the fire department
/ forced His way to the point where Miss
! Rice and Miss Scott lay and stood in
1 water that scalded the flesh from his
! limbs until the women were release
/ t. NJ Murphy, a. passenger, both OF
| whose legs were broken and still held
! by the timbers, volunteered to remain
as he was until those around him were
assisted.
! Brave Men Driven Back.
Two policemen and Chaplain Walkely
reached Mrs. Howard. and the chaplain
gave her a stimulant. The policemen
were cutting away the seat which held
! the woman down when pipe broke. The
| scalding steam drove them back, anC
! when the rescuers returned Mrs. Howard
was dead
Injured persons in need Of immediate at
tention were given temporary dressing
by the ambulance and volunteer surgeons
and then hosted to the street. Man!
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