The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-20
BAD WRECK ON
 N. Y. CENTRAL Stamford Local on COnsoIi- dated and Poughkeepsie Express on Central
 Crash. ONE KILLED, FORTY INJURED BOTH THE TRAINS LOADED WITH RETURNING CHRISTMAS
 SHOPPERS
ONE KILLED, FORTY INJURED

SHOPPERS.
 Collision an Extraordinary One-Run- ming Side by Side on Parallel Track the
 Local is Suddenly Switched in Frnnt
 of the Ezpress-Engine of Latter at
 Once Dashes Into Day Coach Follow
 ing the Smoking Car of the LOcaI-
 Partial List of the Injured-!About
 Equally Divided Between POiats in
 Connecticut and New York
 New York, Dec. 19.-In an extraordi- nary accident, two heavily crowded pas se11ger trains came together on the elevated tracks of the New York Gen. tral and Hudson River railroad to- night near 10th street in Harlem. One man, J. W. Knapp of New Rochelle, was killed and forty persons were more or less seriously injured.
 Both of the colliding trains were rorthbound and had left the Grand Central station at Forty-second street within 8 few minutes of each other. One was Stamford local on the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail road, which company uses the New York Central tracks. The other train was the Poughkeepsie express of the Central. Rushing along on parallel tracks, the two trains suddenly came together. The local was switched from the third track onto the fourth and in an ins tart the engine of the express had crashed into the day coach fol- lowing the smoking car of the local.
 The tracks at the point where the collision occurred are about Ithirty feet an the air. This made the work of res- cue difficult and hazardous and lent materially to the terror of the passen- gers, most of whom were commuters and residents of nearby points in Con- necticut and New York state, who had come to the city on holiday shopping tours Fire apparatus from several sta- tions was summoned and many persons rescued by means of the ladders plac- ed against the structure.
 Serious injuries befell most of those sin the car demolished by the Pough- keepsie express.
 John D. Horn, engineer of the express train, was arrested tonight on the technical charge of manslaughter, and later was released on bail.
 No one on the Poughkeepsie train, so far as can be learned, was hurt. The injured, many of whom were treated at the Harlem, Flower and Presbyterian hospitals, were for the most part from Port Chester and New Rochelle N Y, Greenwich and Stamford, Conn. The trains left Grand Central station at about 6:S0 o'clock, just at the height of the suburban rush hour.
 The following victims of the acci- dent were taken to Harlem hospital:
 Emma A. Scott, nineteen years old, Of New Rochelle, bruised about body, pos- sible fracture of skull, dangerously hurt.
 J. J. Dyer, forty-eight years old, Stamford, Conn.,, multiple contusions, right leg cut and bruised, internal in juries; serious. Edward Kleist, fifty-two years old, New Rochelle, possible fracture of skull and decorations; serious.
 David A. Lesperance, of Port Chester, N. T., cut about head and chest; not, dangerous.
 Mrs. Carrie 0ehler, thirty years old, New Rochelle, cut about face and hands by glass; not serious.
 Five others were taken to the llospi- tai and treated and then allowed to go home without having their names re- corded.
 .BOne of the Harlem hospital surgeons reported that two seriously injured pa- tients were taken to their homes in New Rochelle.
 E. G. Beckwith, of Greenwich, Conn.,, back sprained, not serious, was taken to Presbyterian hospital.
 The Presbyterian hospital sent two anbulances to the scene of the wreck, the surgeons treating many cases be- sides the ones which necessitated the removal of patients to the hospital. The cases treated on the scene of the wreck were for scalp wounds, shock, hysteria, cuts, etc.
 The following were taken to Flower hospital:
 Daniel Bella, thirty-two years old, of Port Chester, N. T., both bones of right arm broken, fingers crushed, compound fracture of jaw; condition serious. Mr. Bella is Hungarian clergyman.
 Samuel Foster thirtyfour years old, of Norwalk, Conn.,, a brakeman, both bones of left forearm fractured and right arm lacerated; condition serious. Flower hospital sent three ambu- dances to the wreck.
 , One of the Flower hospital surgeons estimated that the staff from that in- stitution treated not less than twenty eases of slightly injured persons.
 Rev. William B. Waller, of Green wich, Conn.,, sustained fractured rib, H-s
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