New-York tribune., 1903-08-24
THE NEWS IN THE DITCH.
WRECKED ON CENTRAL.
Engine Cre5o KIled-FiUe Injured
Three Tracks Blocked.


Little Falls N Y, Aug % (speciaD-One of the
worst wrecks ever seen on the New-York Central
Railroad occurred this morning, when the spe-
cial newspaper flyer jumped the track while
rounding Gulf Bridge curve, in this city. tore
up three of the Central tracks. and tied up all
freight traffic. Two killed and num-
ber injured. The killed and injured were;
KILLED.
CoNLEY. Peter fireman. Albany
LILLEY, Robert, engineer. Albany
INJURED.
DoRF. Edward. messenger 1.-The World; collarbone
DUTTON. Eddie messenger THE Sun scalp wounds
MASON Emanuel, Rochester News Company: bruised
NEWMAN. Robert The TrbuLe and ''The American
bruised.
AN UNKNOWN MAN.
The train left New-York at 1902 a m and the
run to Albany was made in three hours At
Albany a new engine was coupled on in charge
of Robert Lilley, Of that city, engineer ana
Peter Conley also of Albany, fireman. LlIiey
who had the reputation of being a careful
freight and local passenger engineer, was new
on the at Amsterdam time was lost
through passing the station, and back up was
necessary to throw off papers. At Fonda the
newspaper messengers say the same thing oc-
Cured through high speed and inability 10 stop
a light train quickly heavy one.
Ten minutes were thus lost, and the messen-
gers noticed the tremendous speed as they new
through the Mohawk Valley. At the CUR
Bridge, below this city, there is one OF the worst
curves on the Central system. Around this they
flew until about hundred feet beyond the
signal tower, when the tender of the engine
jumped the track carrying with it the engine
and front car, ploughed across two of the other
tracks. tearing up tracks and roadbed' ana
jumped the Gulf Bridge wall. landing on its side
in the road.
The engineer was thrown to the road and
crushed to death beneath his engine when 1t
turned over. The fireman thrown on his
head, receiving injuries from which ne died nj
teen minutes afterward. The engine boiler was
cracked, and the escaping steam tore hole
three feet deep in the roadway, leaving only
large rocks. The crown sheet of the engine
was thrown $50 feet by the explosion Of the
boiler. The first express car, carrying New
York papers to points west Of Rochester and
Buffalo, followed the engine tender. In it were
Edward Dorf. messenger for The World"
asleep; Charles E. Dutton, messenger for The
SUM-" and Emanuel Manson, brother Of Robert
Manson of the Rochester News Company
known to the messengers as The Mascot" who
had boarded the train at Albany.
Dutton who lives at No 206 West Eighty
! eighth-st., New-York City. was making his final
separations He gave the following account of
his experiences:
was in the centre of the car. when it left the
tracks. Ed Dorf in the end asleep and The
Mascot was in the rear l was thrown forward
thrown to the rear as the car rolled over on its
side. Only the bundles Of papers saved our lives
( when the final smash came.
THE Mascot had miraculous escape, As the
turned over on its side broken rail pierced
the top within foot of him, and threw him across
the car on top OF lot OF papers He was only
The final crash trene ndoUs, had lost
little of momentum Of more than sixty miles
1 Al
wrecked engine ard the retaining wall at the same
forty feet in the air and been completely turned
AROUND after Preahfag aMag IP0 0d @ Te 5n me
Dorf had broken co!larbone and had received an
from the car no one knows how. for the side bag
gage was in the toRWaS & one OF the hgst TO &c come me
Robert Newman Of The Journal ard The Trib-
were in the sef0nd sed car Though nc 69t5 Ire
and
The alarm was given through the village, and
soon many were on the scene to help in the
| work Of rescue. The bodies of the engineer and
! fireman were taken in charge by the coroner.
/ The injured were sent to the Little Falls Hos
pital. All will recover. Edward Dorf will be
laid up for about six weeks.
The second car, carrying papers for Utica and
points far Rochester broke from the first
| at the coupling. 1t went a hundred yards up the
track, where it spread across the other tracks.
The third car was uninjured- All the tracks ex-
cept No. l were torn up and all freight traffic
was stopped. Traffic will be resumed to-mor-
| row all the tracks.
Charles z. Dutton. messenger for THE Sum- "
arrived at the Grand Central Station last night
He was accompanied from Albany by another
representative of his paper, and went at once to
his home No 206 West Eighty-eighth-st
At the Grand Central Station last night the
superintendent said that the wreck not in
| his division, and that none of the officers at
| the station would know anything about it. He
| said that he entirely without information
| on the matter