Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-20
WRECK HIGH IN AIR
Two New York Central Trains
 Come Together.
ONE DEAD; FORTY COMMUTERS HURT
Poughkeepsie Express and New Ha- ven Local, Both Running North Out of City, CoIlided, When One
 Was DerafIed.

NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-One passen- ger was killed and between forty and fifty injured, many of them seriously, in collision between two trains on the New York Central structure be tween One Hundred and Fourth and One Hundred and Sixth streets in Park avenue, this city. Both trains were filled with passengers, the majority of them commuters, and when the crash came there was scene of wild con- fusion
 Only one man-J. " Knapp of New Rochelle-is known to be dead When Knapp's body was taken from smash ed car of the New Haven train mob thousands strong made demonstra- tion that required the reserves from two police stations to suppress it.
 One train was raked by the other un- til most of it's cars were shredded like corded wood.
 Many of the injured were pinned in the wreckage and had to be extricated by firemen of hook and ladder con- panies. The shrieks and groans that came from the wrecked cars were heartrending.
 The collision occurred on part of the structure on which both the Cen tral and New Haven trains run, about fifty feet high. The trains in the crash were the Poughkeepsie express, going north, and a New Haven local, also go- ing north One of the trains was run ming on the middle track, and as it passed One Hundred and Sixth street it was to take a switch and run on an- other track.
 In taking the switch the train went of the track and hit the other with ter rife force Both were going at almost full speed. and several cars in both trains were demolished The wreck age was strewn along the track for four blocks.
 One of the engines upset The engine driver on the other locomotive brought his train to a stop quickly, but not be- fore several of the cars had torn through the other train
 The passengers in both trains were thrown in heaps and hurled in all di- rections. Some of them were buried under masses of wreckage. Many of them were pierced by splinters and cut by flying glass. There was terrific uproar immediately Those that were hurt so badly as to be unable to move cried wildly for help. Other passen- gers who were not so badly hurt tried to give aid to the unfortunate ones, while more tried to escape from the structure. Several managed to climb down to the street and were attended in nearby drug stores.
 One of the passengers on the New Haven train. Jeremiah Geraty of New Rochelle was hurled from the train clear of the structure by the collision. He picked himself up and ran as fast as he could to the One Hundredth street police station, where he gave the alarm. He was injured about the ab- domen and face.
 The following victims of the accident were seriously hurt: Emmet A. Scott of New Rochelle, dangerously; J. J. Dyer of Stamford, Conn, internal in- juries; Edward Kleist of New Ro- chelle. possible fracture of skull; Dan ieI Bella of Portchester. \. T.. both bones of right arm broken. left hand fingers crushed. compound fracture of jaw (Mr. Bella is a Hungarian clergy nam; Samuel Foster of NorwaIk, Conn, brakeman, both bones of left foreqrm fractured and right arm lacer- ated.
 The police arrested John D. Horn, engine driver of the Poughkeepsie train. holding him for a coroner on the charge of homicide.