The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-18
NORTHUMBERLAND
IW0WOTIVF avn FtNs IFsre
fHE fRtfN ~ Rgsf sgVFCI
rhs pmmsa tso Were ~ Fsmaaea, lw'
wsgs Sst stevtapwea emf Sewe "
the PASSENGERS Was s~re'gus,y isWes
-taUss NJ the Serhfaus n ~, lsasWa


-tsWse ~ th~ sertfHH' y S"'
pr,y.,o Iroa n Tbs fwentIe,h cen
o,y tIntteI. adpe m,a,, eaa dara,lai aaflv
ma ,,,,p,oe a. n sta eueeslna M yf,ls
., w., saeer.. The eu,les train len, ths
,ous s,J ran elera an ,be ties until }, caeca
:, a s,.ods,,i, Mons ~ tho cars waa oypV.
w,rrl No, Waa tba hpomoelva Tha twin
an. p,,,,os wosn than siS,v miles ~ hour
~, ,Lc Tins. and vben /, lsf, Tho rails tho
-. ..m. Ia. Al. ,s.l, .nl
w"
Mons oi 'he p@s~eng"fs WIS ~~er'o""'y W.
jured Some ~ them were thrown about
ly tho sudden stop and bruised aud bumped,
1,o, -.,. hro,,,h, into E,cha,sr .,r.r,
- -. 80. 81,
'"uo" """ y" ~ 49,
was ~inined'ste'y mace np N "eh' on 10
New York. Claim agents were put aboard
tho now train and did their work en- route.
Tho dslov vas abo,t Two hours.
100. -, g.. ~. ,r,in
w WI" ~ -,
The cars al fui"nahs' We'' u"nh"seu """
taken to tho Pullman shops at East BUFFALO
workmen were on the scene all night clear
,ro tho vreckaae and repairina the road
IA =. a.-u.., h.eor. An. road
was again open to traffic,
The point where the train left the rails
,iooo ~ ss., ,rack pra oticaIlv straiub,.
- -. a.. =.
II ~
and the fadge noau or'osos Oh '"o eae''
The passenger tracks are practically in
the freight yards there, but are laid far
enough nvav so that no added oomplica-
,ion waa caused NV the passenger train
coming in contact with standing freight
eors
No N n VERY fas, train. passed over the
same snot afeiv not more than a half hour
ahaod ~ the Twentieth Centurv. There ia
~ swi,ob near the snot and thu muse OF the
derailment ia vet unknown. ]. j. Bernet.
essistant general superintendent of the
IaLe shore came 10 buffalo thisa afternoon
to investigate the accident. s. W. Brown,
surarin,enden Of the road at Buffalo. and
M Tomnkins assistant superintendent,
we're on the ground all day to-day.
Tho fra in was oomnosed of Ave cars. all
heavy pullmans. and was dra wn by one of
the heaviest passenger locomotives eve
h,i,, II waa in charge Of one of the regular
T,went;eth Century engineers. who are the
most ablea and trusted on the road.
-
An emergency train made up at buf1alo
ifter the accident brought the passengers
Of the Twentieth Century Limited lnto the
Grand Central yesterday afternoon at
1890. They were three hours ate ana
pretty we'll shaken up, There was q crowd
Of anxious friends awaiting their ARRIVAL
unable to understand the delay.
A passenger who had been throngh the
wreck said hat the cause OF the aoooent
seemed to have been peculiar. Inc engineer
was making about sixty-hve miles an hour.
At q quarter after IL the Lamited mao
reached a point some six miles west OF
Buffalo. The train here runs on a track
called the cutoff, which takes a snort cut
through the outskirts OF the city and reloins
the main line some miles TO the
The train jumped his track while gong
ct full speed. The engine ana tenoer broke
loose from the forward car and went on hali
L mile Eefore the engineer could come 10
u stop. The engine held to the track, but
the truck OF the tender got on ana pumped
along behind, ploughing up the roadoeo
all the way.
All the six cars left the track, or rather
the first car carried the track along with
it. The train broke up into three parts,
The first car kept on by itself about 100
yards beyond the rest, Finally ~ came toa
stop, imbedded in a nest OF rails and ties
The other cars stopped IN TWO SECTIONS ho'
far apart, with trucks mostly
Nestibules crushed, steps wiped on M the
u~nderbodies ecraped clean OF noing tahHs'
pipes and every sort OF gear Inc cars
looked like total wrecks. fortunately they
did not roll over, and their stanch oonstruo'
ton kept them intact within saVng ior a
deluge of broken glass, The passengers
we're all in their berths and escaped being
thrown about violently or struck by hying
glass. They forced their way OUT win
difficulty through the shattered vestipules'
fearing that there might be q hre' Inc
women passengers kept quiet n acted
with remarkable GOODNESS.
The train hands searchea
the cars for injured passengers and dio
what was necessary to prevent hre. NO
employee would say ANYTHING ABOUT the
cause Of the accident. When they looked
at the roadbed. however. they shook their
heads. Il was soft, newly LAID roadoeo,