The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-05

Cars shot Over FencO Forty Feet
From Track Both thc Dead, Trainncn
None OF the Injured Passengers WIN
Die--Accident Probably Due 10 Lack or
Nater-HooiSer's Injuries Not seri-
ous-Odcn's Secretary Passenger
Property Loss About $4,000.
UTICA. Feb - Two trainmen were
| killed and thirty-three passengers were
injured in a wreck on the New York Central
NJ Whtesboro, three miles west Of here.
at 40 O'Clock this morning
The trainlnen were the engineer and
fireman Of the locomotive OF a westbound
train. on which an explosion occurred
| The passengers were in an eastbound train.
all the cars OF which were blown from the
track by the explosion.
| or the passengers injured all but fifteen
/ were able to resume their journey by night,
| The others are still confined to their beds
/ in various hospitals here. The most
seriously injured are Mrs. F. W. Everest
| OF Buffalo. wife OF the superintendent OF
! the Western Division Of the New York Cen
, trial. and Sidney j. West Of i37 West i06th
street, New York The recovery of both.
! however, is assured, though they may be
! confined to their beds for several weeks
I JUSTICE HOOKER AMONG The INJURED.
! One OF the injured Is Supreme Court
! Justice Warren b. Hooker Of Fredonia
The car in which he was travelling was
hurled some forty feet from tho track
( and one side Of II was torn away. Justice
I Hooker was wedged between the broken
I nd 10 ;tre. hisf, "a cf,tIA
( be released His hurts are not serious
! The trains were the Western Express
| drawn by En- CINE 27e5 and known as No.
! %. and tho cSstbound Buffalo special, No
/ 30 Both were travelling at n speed eI
{ oeed.ng fifty miles an hour. and wero rush
] ing through Whitesboro at l2o O'Clock this
I morning. Grove ding On full heads OF steam
in an attempt to make up lost time.
EAsTBoUNp CARS FLUNG FROM RAILS.
A tho westbound train reached the
third coach OF the eastbound train the
boiler OF the former exploded The east
bound train was s!.ched at once. while the
boiler left the trucks and went twisting
and turning in the air distance OF $50
feet 1t had turned in tho air before Ii struck.
/ and faced east when the wreokers began
work on It. The CINE trucks remained
on the rails and the tender was mot de-
tached
The coache, of the castbound train were
str,wn along the south side OF the-railroad
track, for a distance OF 200 feet. The engine
wa- only slightly damaged and will not be
put out Of service. some OF Ito coaches
were turned bottom side up, rhors were
ON their sides, while Others F,mained on
tho rails.
a. IL. -. A
train left the rails They were all dam
aged slightly, but not TO suoh an extent
that they could not be readily removed.
ONE COACH THROWN TDBrY FEET.
One OF the coaches II rho eas,bound
train was picked NJ aud ts,rown over forty
feet To the south by the eNpio don. clearing
four foot wire fence ;aad not touching a
wire Another car struck telegraph
pole, cutting it Oh cleaa while others struck
against wire fenco aud crushed it 20 tina
earth.
The four rear sleepers OF the eastbo,md
train lay together on their sides forty feet
from the Inc OF tracks and near barb wire
fence. These cars are ,pi course, battered and
broken upon the sides on which they lie
But the interior does not seem 10 be greatly
injured or disarraNged.
Just ahead Of the first Of this string Of
four cars wns day coach Of the Empire
state train service. and this, together with
the two heavy Pullman conohes. a sleeper
and buffet car which Immediately pre-
oeded it. was blown clear over the fence
and into tho field.
The Empire State coach was raised clean
from its trucks and rests fairly and squarely
on its flooring About ~ feet northeast
II -. a.. 4
side lies the sleeper which preceded e..
with hole chopped in ts roof like trap
door. through which many imprisoned
passengers we're liberated
Southeast Of this car. and about 30 or
rs feet Distance Ia the buffet car on it,
eide. with: It's. trucks facing almost due
west wide course Of hard packed snow
marks the COURSE slong which the buffet
car aid. None Of these three cars Is as
badly 9reoked as one would expect 10 find
VIEWS or AN EXPERT.
James McNaughton, superintendent OF
the Schenectady Locomotive Works. was
passenger on train 20, on his way 70 Dun
kirk on business. He says that the engine
whose boiler exploded came from the
Schenectady works just about year ago.
He also said that tho engine had been out
Of the New York Central repair shops only
about two weeks and was in first class
condition.
Mr.. McNaughton said that the disoolored
plates in the boiler showed that there WA
not sufficient water in the boiler.
II i. said that the engineer filed TIE tanl
at Uiica. II seems probable that the en-
gineer, although experienced, had failed to
realize that there was not enough water In
the boiler. Mr.. McNsughton said that hs
scarcely felt the shock. having been par