Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-17
TRAIN JUMPS i
THE TRACK
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| the cards on tables in the smoking car
| were swept onto the floor.
| The entire train with the exception of
| the rear car had cleared the curve
when this coach was snapped of the track
| like a feather. The car turned on its side
and went grinding along the outside
| hundred yards. Then the pull upon the
other three wooden coaches ahead of it
became so great that they also left the
| rails and turned over.
As these four cars were dragged along
! the rails they were literally ground to
pieces and passengers on them were shaken
to death like rat in the jaws of ter
rfer. Before the motorman couid stop his
train the two motor cars also had been
pulled of the fails. but remained standing,
as did the smoker
The dead and injured were strewn all
the way from 201st street under the Wood
lawn road bridge at 2O4th street and then
to 207th street, where the train finally came
to stop.
For a distance Of over 1000 feet the
tracks were strewn with parts Of the bodies
Of the dead. Many Of the bodies picked
UP along this highway. Of death were so
badly ground UP and so completely Invested
Of clothing that it is likely to be long
time before some of them are identified.
Cars Like Kindling Wood.
The four cars were reduced to kindling
wood when they came to a stop. Their
sides had been ripped out, floors ground
up. and roofs torn OF from collision with
an embankment alongside the track.
Right near the point where the train
came to q stop Is the residence Of Christian
Sherding, which looks down tho embank-
ment onto the tracks. Even before the
train reached there the screams of injured
men and women and the crashing Of wood
were heard from down the track When
1t was seen that the accident was enormous
sherding sent his fifteen-year-old son Ed
ward to the Bronx Park station five blocks
away, and sent out the first word of the
wreck.
Immediately word was sent around to the
hospitals, reserves were called up, the New
York Central notified, and the Bronx cor
oners summoned.
The next train to each the scene was q
White Plains local which had left the
Grand Central station a short time after
the Brewster train. 1t came to a stop
just in time to prevent running off the
torn tracks at 2O1st street. and 1t was in
stantly turned into hospital train The
train had been crowded and the passengers
many of whom had friends on the wrecked
train, hurried among the rescue party and
added to the confusion. Into the Sherdine
house and a number Of other detached
dwellings in the neighborhood many of the
injured were carried. Here the advance
guard of the surgeons found them and min
istered to their hurts.
Picking Up Dead Bodies.
The third rail. which had been ripped up
for many feet, had penetrated the wooden
cars In places. and the suffering which
followed threatened to burn the wreckage
before the dead and injured could be re-
moved. The first fireman to respond to the
call had little trouble quenching the flames
Fifteen dead bodies had been picked up
along the seven long blocks of track within
short time. They were quickly carried
into the many patrol wagons which had
been ordered from all the Bronx stations
and then sent on to the Bronx Park police
station, where they were laid out in the
rear room. A bureau Of information was
at once established to aid the relatives of
the victims. but on account Of the horribly
mutilated condition of many of them iden-
LITIGATION was very slow. Scarcely any Of
the bodies were whole. In many cases
arms and legs had been ground off, Sew
eral heads were found some distance from
the tracks.
Nearly All Killed.
A party of young women In the rear car
were students at a private girls school.
Nearly all these young women were killed
or mortally hurt In fact, scarcely any one
in the rear car escaped death or fatal in
jury.
The first official outline of the disaster
was given out at the Grand Central Station
at 10 o'clock. and was as follows:
TRAIN Is, known as the Brewsters local,
left the Grand Central Station at 6:13
o'clock. 1t was due to arrive at White
Plains at 6:57, and runs as an express to
White Plains. The train was made up of
two electric locomotives, combination bag
gage car and four passenger cars. The
passenger cars were wooden. The second
locomotive car was being towed to Wake
field and was attached directly. to the first
car. The train was In charge of Con-
ductor J. H. Williams and Trainman Ed
ward Collins
ION the front locomotive car were assist
rirta oF foa IIar1
F. E. Williamson, Engineer Edwin Rogers
and Operating Inspector c. o. Stephens. 1t
is the custom to have an operating in
spector on each train that leaves the sta
ton. The train was on time passing Mott
haven and ran we'll until it reached point
south of Williamsbridge between that place
and Bronx Park and three miles south of
Wakefield.
Passed Over All Right.
"At that place, where there is frog, the
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