New-York tribune., 1905-02-21

rlaces up the road TO their business in New
York every morning 1t passes Warren Point
at the rate OF sixty miles an hour. ana was
going at full speed when a beam on ore OF the
trucks broke For half a mile the humping OF
the loose beam could be plainly felt by the pas
sen-ers When the express reached the bridge
Of the Hudson River trolley line at Broadway
the broker beam smashed along the woodwork
OF the bridge tearing IT off in sections. This
cz:,sed the tender to leave the track. As the
tender struck She switch, five hundred feet be-
low Il was badly wrecked. the frog catching the
tender and throwing the ears behind from the
track. They ran short distance along the
cnnhankI,lent and then four OF them toppled
over.
GIRL TAKES FATAL PLUNGE.
Miss Mathews sat near window in the first
car 10 plunge down the embankment. She was
thrown through the :s;adow into the SNOW. The
coach then topplea ogeI and her head WAS pinned
between tbc ground and the She was
crushed 10 death instantly. At the first alarm
she rad arisen and opened the window, pre-
pairing to jump. 1t remarked by the pas
scEgels that fate against the young woman
SIC TOOL, the Tuxedo express every Gay. Yes
tcrday morning she was late but the conductor
saw her hurrying across the snow covered fields
and held the train for her two minutes.
The accident happened so quickly that few in
was a ba bel of screams and shouts. The screams
OF the women could be heard above the din.
Meanwhile Edward Van Houten, of Paterson,
had extricaied himself from the wreck, and with
blood gushing from his head and face he ran
10 the North Jersey Country Club and telephoned
10 Paterson for doctors and nurses. The ply
sicans found shrieking men and women lying
in the snow some held fast in the wreck and
others walking the tracks with clothes in shreds.
The more seriously injured were taken TO the
Warren Point station and given temporary
treatment. pending the arrival of the Erie am
bulance train and ambulances from Paterson.
The most seriously injured were taken TO the
Paterson Hospital. The others were sent to
Sufern where most of them live.
One of the most seriously injured Mrs.
Joseph Noonan. She was almost scalped, the
wound extending from the eye to the back OF
the head. Some sharp instrument caught her
just above the right eye
The train was composed Of J. y. Tay-
lor, conductor; Engineer Palmer and Frederick
Evans. fireman. None of them injured.
Coroner PelI, OF Ridgewood. viii hold an injuest
at Ridgewood Thursday afternoon.
GREAT EXCITEMENT IN TUXEDO.
Tuxedo Park " Y. Feb. 20-With the news
that the Mid6etoH-n Flyer had been wrecked
excitement was intense throughout the colony
eagerly sought to obtain information to its
seriousness as it was known that many of the
coIonists had taken this train for town. Not
until noon. however. were the anxious inquirers
ouieted when they learned from the scene of
the wrecked train that their husbands and
friends were safe The coach, il was learned,
which most Of the Tuxedo people were occu-
plying did not go down the embankment.
Among those who were slightly injured were
Edwin NJ. Post, a well known NewYork broker
and inancier who was taken to the Hotel Man
haitian slightly scratched: Carlisle Norwood.
New-York lawyer, who occupies the Small Garri-
son cottage at Tuxedo. and who returned to
Tuxedo; W. S Moore, who was spending Sun
day as a guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan Goet-
chius. and Miss Theresa Dugan. housekeeper in
the family of John Murray Mitchell who
taken 10 her New-York home. Others who were
on The train. hut escaped injury. were Eben
Richards Morgan Goetchus. George II. Hull,
president Of the American Pig Iron Storage
~ irrant Company; two guests who were spend
ing Sunday with Carlisle Norwood. and T.
W.man Porter
Il the main Office Of the Erie Railroad Com.
psny. in this city. Fl. D. Emerson. representing
Traffic Manager Maddy. said that the division
superintendent believed the accident was caused
hy The breaking of arch bar the front
truck of the first car. The general superntend-
ent had reported that he thought il was a brake
bean: that broke the same car Either one
OF these accidents would throw the off the
track and cause the rest of the train to follow.
When asked when and where the cars were
last Inspected. he said that il had been done
at Middet0wn, where the train was made up
We have men who carefully inspect the rolling
stock and do nothing else said he, but this
appears to have been one Of those cases where
even the best of machinery will break doyr
come time The fact that the train ran for
aoftE miles at d high rate OF speed before the
accident shows that it must have been III good
cch9luon, at least for that time. The surface
ol ile tles being torn up for = considerable dis
tance before the train left the tract, shows ta+
sol;stnHlg broke loose quite while before the