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New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

NJ - lawyer. who had heard at the Grand
Central Station that his brother, Charles B.
Mars of New Rochelle. had been only slightly
injured. asked group of reporters for further
information. He told that his brother was
dead.
Early in the forenoon Officer Rafsky identified
John Maloney. an ex-convict who IN the con-
fusion had made his way 10 the rear room OF the
station. His actions were suspicious that
Officers Cassidy and Rafsky arrested him. They
charged him with attempting to steal valuabIes
from the bodies He said he was twenty-three
years old and that he lived at the Columbia
Lodging House, East Twenty-third-st, near
Third-ave. Magistrate Pool in the Yorkville
court sentenced him 10 the workhouse for three
months.
Henry Sampson Clark, the Mayor of New
Rochelle arrived at the station about o'clock
He was accompanied by several we'll known
citizens of that city. II am down to look after
the interests of those from my city in the
wreck" he said The car on the wrecked
train is kept closed until New Rochelle is
filled by the w-Rochelle people. That is the
reason that only New-RocheIle people were in
jured"
Mayor Clark introduced TO Coroner Scho-
Ter The Coroner opened of the numerous
packages wrapped up in white handkerchiefs on
the serSeants desk In this were the articles
taken from the body of Byron FOskett. Among
them was the communication book of FoSkett and
by that the body was identified.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

rites to sufferers who appeared to be dying.
News of the calamity spread rapidly, and soon
great crowds of people in Park-ave.
eagerly watching the work of rescue.
SURPRISED THAT ANY ONE WAS ALIVE.
To the fremen and policemen who first went
down into the tunnel where the two wrecked
cars lay it seemed almost impossible that any
body could be alive in the steaming and smoking
masses of tangled wood and iron AS they pro-
ceeded to search in the gloom they found dead
and injured lying together in the wreckage. At
one point. near the locomotive, were the bodies
of three men who had been scalded to death by
escaping apparently when they were
making frantic efforts to escape. The bodies
We're hanging partly out OF window opening.
Not far from those bodies were two badly in
jured women pinned under the body of a man.
1t was necessary to raise the mans body before
the women could be taken out The mans body
was that of A. z. Mills One of the rescued
women was able to tell her name, and said she
Miss Scott. of New-Rochelle.
The work Of taking out the dead and rescuing
the living went rapidly as possible, but
the fremen had to use axes in some cases to
release the bodies held fast in the wreckage
and other appliances into the tunnel, and as
fast injured persons were taken out of the
cars they were examined hastily and treated as
the emergency required. The injured people
carried to the stairway leading to the tunnel at
Fifty -nnth-st., where they were taken up TO
the street level and placed in the ambulances.
AS soon as an ambulance received patient 1t
dashed away the hospital The bodies of
the dead were taken out of the tunnel at Fifty
frst-st and conveyed to the police station in
patrol wagons The bodies were laid on the
stone floor of a rear corridor to await identif-
cation. By 10 A. m all the injured persons and
all the dead had been removed from the wreck.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09
PUTS BLAME ON MANA CEMENT
JOHN ID. CRIMMINS SAYS THE FAULT
WAS WITH THE FOUR TRACK
SYSTEM

John ID. Crmmns at his home, No.
40 East Sxty-eighth-st., by Tribune reporter
last evening. He said:
Such accident this of to-day was bound
to happen, sooner or later. For five years the
terminal accommodations have been increasing
ly inadequate. The tracks in a state of
chronic congestion. The management should
buy up the whole plot of land from Forty-sec-
ond-st. to Fiftieth-st., between Madison and
Lexington aves. The traffic increases daily, but
still we have the same four tracks. which Is an
equipment no larger than many cities of only
two hundred thousand inhabitants. / have sat
on two juries that condemned the management
of this road. Both times my friends tried to
persuade me not to place the blame, saying that
such and such a member of the board of direc-
tors of the railroad company a harmless
position carries with it responsibility
Manchester and London have their traffic
carried right into the heart of the city without
difficulty. If this road not penny wise il
could do the same. Electricity will not solve the
problem Too many trains on too few tracks is
the trouble, and expansion is the remedy. The
road officials -superintendents and trainmen-
do the best they under the present difficult
conditions. We have not the end of this
accident yet. There Is just thing that can
work change, and that is the force OF public
opinion
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09
SOME WHO MISSED THE TRAIN
THESE LUCKY PERSONS FAILED TO
CATCH THE "IAS" FOR ONE REA-
son OR ANOTHER

Many stories told in New Rochelle yes
terday of how people escaped being in the
wreck. Miss l.. Sanders. a New-York Normal
School graduate, who usually takes the fatal
car on the express. was about TO step aboard
mutatios ticket hai expired. While she was in
the station buying another ticket the train
moved out and left her. much TO her subsequent
delight.
Mrs. ID. l.. Dark had similar luck On her
way to the railroad station she met Albert Wad-
ley, New-York florist. who lives in Rochelle
Park He was on his way catch the 1:4S :"
They walked together toward the station until
Mrs Dark suddenly recollected that she had
forgotten to order meat for dinner and went
back The butcher long in cutting off
her roast that she missed the train and had to
wait Tor the next Her neighbor MIR. Wadley
hau potn ieSs broken and sustained other in
lures Whlch II is feared may be fatal
Because George Moore n Young clerk in tho
oinces OF the Central Railroad OF New-Jersey
VINO lives in New-Rochelle wanted To smoke
his life was probably saved Moore went TO the
railroad station with Peter Murphy a New
Rochelle builder. Moore wanted Murnbv 10 go
forward to the smoker and enjoy a cigar bnt
Murphy sald he would rather ride in the hack
coach, so they separated. Murphy was on his
way 10 sign contract to erect S40oOO build
ing for man in New-Jersey ~
me accident has ruined several theatre par
Ies' as the women residents of New Rochelle
Mount vernon and other laces are so nervons
that they do not care at present to rist a ti
through the tunnel. uiP
one or the missing passengers is Arthur Dem
n.y. young man of Huguenot-st Tba fir-,
which employs him in New-York has taia
all day. mas n0e seen MIN
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09
CROKER HEARD ENGINEER TALK.
FIRE CHIEF SAYS wISKER ASSERTED HE
COULD NOT SEE THROUGH
SNOW AND SMOKE.

Fire Commissioner Sturgis of the
early arrivals at the scene of the wreck
Il found that two of local train were
standing the tracks waiting to get into the
station when struck from behind by what is
said TO have been an express he said The
force of the collision must have been very great
as the two rear were totally destroyed and
the engine badly damaged The cars were ap-
parently of very light structure, and evidently
offered little resistance to the impact of the
locomotive"
Chief Croker. who also there. in speaking
OF the accident said:
In ell of my experience l never saw a more
terrible sight. Accustomed l TO seeing
fatalities, felt sick at the spectacle. Lieuten-
ant Ruch, in charge of engine No. 80 said his
company aided in taking fourteen bodies from
the wreck and in rescuing eight injured persons.
He said he had heard the engineer of the
train tell Captain Lantry that he five min
utes late, and that he could not anything
because of the snow and smoke"
Some passengers the White Plains train
declared that they had heard that the NOrwalk
train carried lights. one of the pas
sengers said he had heard the report of a signal
torpedo half minute before the collision.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09
A COLLISION ON TUESDAY.
PASSENGER ON NEW-HAVEN TRAIN
SAYS IT WAS RUN INTO IN SIM
LIAR WAY ON THAT DAY

f. n. Lockwood, a passenger the New
Haven train gives the following account of his
experience in the wreck:
THE most extraordinary thing in the whole
affair that exactly the same incident oc-
CURED the day before at the same time and in
the same way. AS came in on Tuesday we
received awful jolt. which shook the train
from end to end. When the same jar occurred
yesterday no realized that an accident had
taken place, and sat in seats for some
time. Only when / saw a man being carried
along the tracks, followed by a number of
wounded and bleeding people, did 1 realize what
had occurred"
Mr.. Lockwood declared that he believed the
accident wholly the result of negligence.
He said he had been informed that the block.
system mad been temporarily suspended and
torpedoes used instead. This would seem to
mean" said Mr.. Lockwood that either there
was negligence on the part of the trainmen or
not enough duty to handle the
morning rush of TRAINS
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09
THE INJURED.

ADAMS. Albert W. hftyone years old. Rochelle
carriage manufacturer. at No. 6S4 Broadway. this
city left leg OFF below the knee New-York
Hospital.
BROOKS. William. boarding No. 279 Carroll st
Brooklyn, whose home in Erie. Penn; scalded
bruised and possible fracture the skull; Roosevelt
Hospital.
BROWN. William. fifty old. -Rochelle left
hip and foot hurt.
CARTER, George forty-three years old No AZ Meadow
Lane Rochelle. a buyer Brothers
city; compound fracture OF both arms scalded about
head and face and right leg fractured; Roosevelt
Hospital.
CLARK, John E.. New-Rochele; epieptc nts from
shock; Flower Hospital.
COFFIN. Ernest. years old New-Rochee: uncon-
scious and wounds the head; Womens and Chill
dren's Hospital
CouDIthY. :. F. New-Rochele twenty six years old
struck on forehead and slightly scalded.
FEARING. G. w. No. 30 Echo-ave New Rochelle.
three fingers Of left hand fractured dislocaed Shout
Ger, cut about the head Presbyterian Hospital
FERRIS. Mrs. Eva, Cos Cob. Conn., slightly hurt
FISHER. George M. forty-six years old East Port
chester. custom House empcye; scalp Hos
ptal for liuptured and Crippled
HAIttl.lN. James T.. Port Chester. scalp wound and
bruises; not badly hurt; Hospital for Ruptured and
HAVIIAND, James E.. thirty-three years old PORT
Crippled FeN "''
HERALD; E.. nineteen years old. New-Rochelle: face
kEANE Henry T.. fifty years old New Rochelle man
ager or the Siegel- Cooper Company: fract,,rsd
internal injuriesi Flower Hospital.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09
PREVIOUS TUNNEL HORRORS
MANY PERSONS KILLED AND INJURED
IN COLLISIONS IN 1891 AND 1852

The last preceding serious accident in the
tunnel of the New-York Central Railroad oc-
CURED on the morning of February 20. 1891,
when a New-Haven local express train ran into
a shop train bound for the Mott Haven yards
at Eighty -fourth-st Six persons were killed and
eight injured. Several wera burned to death, the
car stoves setting the wreckage afire. Five dead
bodies were taken out of the wreck. and one
passenger died i'll the Presbyterian Hospital
few hours later. OF the killed, five were men,
one was a woman, and the sixth a boy.
The engineer of the shop train, which was
made up of nine cars, did not see the hghts
ahead at the Eighty-sixth-st station. and
hauled up Eighty-fOurth-st. Just at tnis
point the New-Haven express. going at the rate
of twenty-five or thirty miles an hour. struck
the shop train. The operator at Seventy-sixth-
ST. had warned the engineer of the shop train'
but the latter did not have time TO get out OF
the way of the express Efficient rescue work
was performed by the firemen and police re-
serves. To add TO the horror a switch engine
ran into the debris.
An investigation was begun the next day by
the New-York Central and New-fork, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad companies, and
the engineers of the two trains and the operator
at the Seventy -second-st. station were arrested.
A police inquiry followed. and on February "a
Coroner Levy began inquest. The jury was
composed of q number OF prominent ana IN
fiuential citizens.
The March grand jury took up the case and
found indictment for misdemeanoF against
the president. e-president and several di-
reetors of the NewHaven company. The basis
of the indictment was the use by the company
of stoves. and the penalty is extremely light,
being fine of from 81 to $500 or imprisonment,
at the discretion of the court.
On June 24 after a trial before Justice Van
Brunt, in the Court Of Oyer and Terminer, the
jury returned verdict of not guilty.
Another serious accident happened in the tun-
mel on September 30. 1882, when a commuters
train from Port Chester was run into and tele-
scoped by a special train from Tarrytown at
Eighty-sixth-st. Nearly score of persons were
killed injured. This wreck was the result of
another wreck, that of the Montreal Express
which broke an axle in the main tunnel and
blocked the road Following trains had to be
switched through the side or local tunnel. This
track was soon blocked by the additional traffic
Among the delayed trains was the one from
Port Chester. which standing at the station
at Eighty -sixth-st. The TarrytOwn special.
which daily travelled through the small tunnel.
came along at a high rate of speed. and the
engineer. not knowing that his track was not
clear, plunged his train into the darkness OF
the tunnel and teIescOped the Port Chester train.
The block system was not then in use in the
tunnel
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

KRAMER E New Rochelle; both legs broken bruises
OF hip. Flower Hospital
LAMBDEN Mrs. Monie. No So ILbsrty-ave New
Rochelle; fracture Of right leg; Roosevelt Hospital
right hand bruised
MCREA William a. F.. Rochelle. employed by
bruises. Flower Hospital.
MKENNA. J. H. Riverside Conn: right hand and
leg bruised.
MINISTER Wells Sound Beach, thirty-sIx years old:
bruises
Nd sF No ., IS b ss
about the head: Presbyterian Hospital
MrNZINGER, r. W, Hawthorne. Conn; head cut; Hos
ptal for Rupturet and Crippled.
MURPHY Thomas T. twenty-sx years old No. 20
kleave. New-RoehelIe: both legs broken internal
injuries and shock. Bellevue Hospital
NEWMAN, Mabel. No. Is LafayeJte-st. New-Rochelle:
Bellevue Hospital HR O'0NS" ana ''DS''' ""' ''0'N
RAYMOND Ds:. Harry, Harry c. No . Maynower ave. New
York Hospital. but left there after wounds were
RICE Fred NJ. twenty-one years old. Colonial Place
New-Rochee; scalp wounds and bruises.
sprained ankle; Presbyterian Hospital.
SAWYER. William a. thirty eight years old. No IO3
and
sCHULrZE, Winfield thirty-one years old No 30 Co
ium6ia Park New Rochelle; travelling salesman: leg
fractured and severely burned; Flower Hospital.
SCOTT, Sadie NewRochee stenographer: fractured leg
and foot and sprained left arm Presbyterian Hospital
STEWARD. Robert A. No. IL Rochelle Park: cuts on
back; New York Hospital and home.
WADLEY. Albert. Rochelle Park. florist at No 4e1
Bellevue Hospital
WHITLEY Arthur New Rochelle: dangerously scaided:
Hospital for the Ruptured Crippled
WINTER George b. tfty seven old. Rochelle
employed at No So Franklin st. this city; compound
fracture OF left leg. amputation necessary: Flower
WOODS Miss Jessie. Rochelle: scalp wound
WRIGHT Frederick w. No Coonnade- ave- New
Rochelle: scalp wounds New-York Hospital.
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who. with children. him. For a num-
Der Of years Mr. Walton manager of the Tink-
ham Bicycle Company of New-York. a few years
when the bicycle business began to wane he
purchased the New-York Stock Exchange
and doing a prosperous business broker
when IL killed His office n 30 Broad
He also member Of the Rochelle
Yacht Club.
NASHBURN, Frank vcep<esident of the Union Bag and
Paper Company. lived in the house OF the late Dr.
William II. Nelson, No. 1876 Centre ave, New
Rochelle. He friend Of Alexander NJ. Perrin
who also killed in the wreck The
officers in the firm and East together
Chicago whe.I Its offices to
Mr. Washburn and Mr.. Perrin the
Rochelle railroad station together in the formers
trap A widow several children survive. He
formerly a resident Of Evanston. H.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09
THE THREAT OF FLAMES.


Flames came near adding additional horrors
10 the wreck The fragments OF the car in
which the locomotive embedded took fire.
and smoke arose with the cloud of steam.
Fortunately the flames did not make much
headway before the firemen came 70 aid in the
work Of rescue. AS il was the panic In the
wrecked train became wild and uncomfortable.
Many men in the forward of the train
jumped through the windows in their haste to
escape. In the scramble several women tainted
Some had the courage and presence of
mind TO assist them TO get out of the cars. Some
who first escaped along the tracks in the
open cut south of the tunnel and climbed over
the walls to Park-ave. Other men and most Of
the women who left the train walked down the
tracks TO the Grand Central Station. They were
followed later by the uninjured but scared pas
sengers of the Harlem train.
The crash of the collision was heard at a dis
tance of several blocks from the tunnel. and in
few minutes hundreds of people were running
into Park-ave from the side streets to see what
had happened. A policeman sent out an alarm
of fire and to the police station in East
Fifty-first-st. to call out the reserves Police
reserves from several precincts were summoned
by telephone Immediately. The firemen who re-
sponded to the alarm sent out the signal 4-4-4.
which called every available ambulance the
scene OF the disaster From all directions police
men, patrol wagons, fremen and ambulances
were speeding to the tunnel. The work OF res
cue was begun in few minutes.
About the first thing the firemen did was TO
let ladders down through the opening in the
tunnel roof, drag down lines Of hose and make
sure that fire was not going TO spread in the
wreckage While some OF the firemen were thus
engaged, however. other firemen and many po-
hcemen were working to get out the injured per-
and bodies of the dead Police lines were
formed to keep back hundreds of excited men
and boys who wanted TO get down into the tun-
mel. When the ambulances arrived some Of the
surgeons Were admitted to the place where the
work Of rescue was being pushed. Two three
priests who appeared were allowed to enter the
wrecked cars to give consolation and the last
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

who lives at No. 46 Morris-st' ~ ~ with -
brses fs %oher ana Mrs. se Howard employs ~
the office of the STANDARD Oil Compan''
a commuter on the road .as a Ns
Previous to her marriage she a yidovs'
Hungerford and her husband va vsre mar
Each had one small child when they aten snd
ried. They were married in Wasii'"
moved TO Rochelle. -. souethinss y
II had a premOnitiOn all Gay ne mother !
SearS asp aSppt This I WreeK and then srssss
came over me- Ii seemed as tnousn. Va dess
daughter was on that fatal tram anu anrsnlsr
And so IL is true. . God tnls i
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

II won't say whether they were or were not
lit" said Fyler.
DO you mean to say if they were not lighted
you would not say 2" asked the reporter
Il tell you I will not say whether they
or were not lit. am not going to say who was
to blame" said the fireman
We'll, you were lucky to escape" said the
porter. changing the subject. Born under
lucky star. 1 guess" said Fyler, sadly smiling.
All efforts to get a statement from him failed.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09
IDENTIFYING THE DEAD.
THE EAST FIFTY -FIRST-ST STATION
CROWDED ALL DAY
AN EX-CONVICT CHARGED WITH SRFALING
FROM THE BoDIEs-MAYOR CLARK
OF NEW-ROCHELLE COMES
TO LEND HIS HELP

OF NEW-ROCHELLE COMES
TO LEND HIS HELP
The fifteen bodies fromsthe wreck were taken
to the Twenty-fourth Precinct station at No
lb3 East Fifty-first-st. IL was there that rela-
tVes and friends Of the victims called 10 identify
them. From 10 o'clock to In the afternoon
the main room of the station was crowded At
frequent intervals anxious inqurers made their
way to the sergeants desk and asked TO be con-
Quoted to the grewsome rear room where the
dead lay. Many returned from the Temporary
morgue smiling. while others were weeping for
IN some cases a terrible load of suspense had
been removed. and in others the most distract
ing fears had been confirmed
William Mills jr. brother of A. E III Mills NJ
No - Linden Place. New Rochelle. early in the
afternoon Identified photographs and a cigarette
case which had been taken from his brotber's
pockets. He said that the latter was n salas
man who had travelled in California for p
Locke & Potts No. 81 FrankIin-st linen inn,
porters. His father identified the dead man
earlier In the day. Mr. Mills said he had last
seen his brother at o'clock on Tuesday.
"A L. Stelgerwold of Norwalk Conn was ors
or the many callers at the station He u,as
searching for Mrs. Maggie Schultz his sister
who, he believed, was the train. and who was
missing. friend of Ernest f. Walton of the
stock brokerage house of Decoppet & Doren,us
identifed the body of Walton. Detective Moran
ol the Suo-Ireasury visited the station about
O'CLOCK lie was looking for a Sub Treasury
clerk named William McKenna who, he thought
n'ish' nave been one Of the victims. Edward H.
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THE FIREMAN WILL NOT TALK.

FYLER REFUSES TO SAY WHETHER OR NOT
SIGNAL LIGHTS WERE LIT
A reporter called Edward c. Fyler the fire.
man of the White Plains train at his boarding
house No. 15 Raiiroad-ave., White Plains, after
his return last night. When asked to make
statement of what he knew about the accident
he said:
"It will all out. 1 will make no state
rnent. The public not interested in the cause
of the accident. Let the officials make the
statements / am under $1,000 bail, and have
nothing to say
Were the signal lights lite" asked the re-
porter.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09
CROWDS At THE TUNNEL.

POLICE KEEP THEM FROM THE OPENING
WRECKERS STILL AT WORK.
Up to late hour last night thrOngs of curious
people loitered about the corner al Park-ave.
and Fifty -sxth-st., trying to get peep into the
tunnel a Gordon of police kept them at some
distance from the opening Wreckers were still
at work in the tunnel clearing away the evil
dences of the accident, and they fitted about
with red and white lanterns in the darkness
The trains entering and leaving the Grand Cen
tral Station were run at a SLOW rate of speed
at this point of the road.
ATCTnLvNFT
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

work
''There were no distinctions of rank there.
said he I'VE all worked for all we knew"