Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-08-03
WRECKS KILL AND MAIN.
PACIFIC EXPRESS ON NEW YORK
CENTRAL RUNS INTO A LAND
SLIDE NEAR POUGHKEEPSIE.
BOYS SPIKE FRISCO RAILS.
Fast Train Sent Over an Embankment
South of Antlers Il. IT, and Sew
eral Casualties Result.
GOTHAM ELEVATED IN A CRASH.

GOTHAM ELEVATED IN A CRASH.
FISHkILL LANDING, n. Y, July
30.-Pacitic express train No. 81 of the
New York Central & Hudson River rail
road, which left the Grand Central sta
ton in New York at 9:32 O'Clock last
night, was wrecked shortly before mid
night, eleven miles below Poughkeepsie,
by running into a landslide which had
been swept down from a high embank-
ment by terrific rainstorm yesterday
afternoon.
Two Dead; Fifteen Injured.
The engine of the flyer was thrown
river, Fireman Mills was killed out
right and Engineer Wells. whose home
is in the Bronx, New York, was so
badly injured that he will die.
Fifteen passengers We're seriously in
jured and a score of others received
minor hurts. The most seriously injured
are:
Edward Kelly, poughkecpsie, will dc
Mrs. Herath arm broken.
Mrs Warren Reynolds, PeekSkiu, n y,
arm broken and legs lacerated.
oxford Peters. Schenectady, arm broken.
Henry Taylor, Poughkeepsie, leg broken.
\. II. Nichols, Elmra.
The injured We're taken to Highland
hospital at Matteawan.
Heavy Rains the Cause.
During the afternoon and night heavy
rains undermined the embankment on
the east side of the tracks and shortly
before the arrival of the train two score
tons of earth and gravel slid down, COW
,ering the north-bound track. The eX-
press train plunged into the mass OF
earth and stone. The locomotive turned
turtle and rolled into the river The
heavy trucks of the baggage car and the
first coach sank into the pile OF earth
and brought the remainder of the train
to sudden stop.
Send Out rained Nurses.
The passengers We're thrown violently
about the cars. The wrecked tram was
made up of four Pullman cars, SIX day
coaches, one baggage car, one mail car
and one combination baggage and mail
car. -Four of the day coaches were
wrecked.
Supt. Mccoy of the Harlem division
was in charge Of the relief train that
came from New York. On the train
were fifty or more trained nurses and
q number of physicians.
The wreck was the worst Oh the New
York Central since the tunnel disaster
but this morning all the tracks were
clear.
One Miraculous Escape.
\ southbound freight had Just cleared
the point when the slide came down III
front of the northbound express. Ii
seems miraculou that there We're nc
casualties or serious injuries among the
passengers, especially with regard to the
twenty or more men who We're III the
combination smoking and baggage car
which. when the locomotive turned over
after plOughing for forty feet into the
great heap of gravel which had fallen
down upon the track, shot upward and
then, turning almost at right angles
came down with crash across ali three
tracks.
Joseph Shine of Poughkeepsie, who
was IN the forward part of the smoker
felt the floor knocked out from under
him, and as the car landed, without
turning over. he was dropped into the
river and swan ashore, uninjured.
Country Boys Cause Wreck
ANTLERS, |. T., July 30.-A south
bound express train on the Frisco was
wrecked Sunday south of here. \ spike
had been driven between the rails on the
high side of the curve. and the engine
struck it and rolled down the embank-
ment. the tender and baggage car fol
lowing. John Harlan, the engineer, will
die Will Shelton, the fireman. was
caught in the buckle of the engine and
tender and instantly killed. The bag
gage and express messenger escaped
with severe bruises.
Detectives believe the wreck was
caused by country boys who wanted to
see the fast train stop in the woods
They say that they have sufficient evil
.dence to Justify several arrests.
The train carried POO eXcurSiOnists
who were returning to Texas
Elevated Trains in Crash.
NEW YORK, July 3O.-Three cars of
an elevated train on the Brighton Beach
railroad bound for Manhattan Beach
crashed at full speed into the rear car of
q train bound for Brighton Beach Sun
day. No one was injured among the
passengers and crew of the Manhattan
Beach train. The Brighton Beach train
was well filled with passengers. Almost
every one in the last car of the train
was hurt.
II II. Gentleman, rear guard on the
Brighton Beach train. and the ,ony one
not expected to recover from his injuries
had gone back q few hundred feet to FLAG
the following train the accident could
rot have occurred. A Short distance lin
the rear of where the last car of tie
brighton Beach train was standing is a
sharp curve that prevented the motor
man from seeing the other train
Fatal Crash IN Indiana.
L JSHN1LLE, Ind, July 3O-In a
head-on collision between 4 freight and
construction train north of this city sun
day Taylor Keith of Westport. Ind.
foreman of the Big -Four construction
gang. was killed and several of the crew
of the freight train received slight in
juries. misunderstanding Of orders is
said TO have caused the collision.
HIRE Z SEEK GALL owns