The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-02-18
WRECK In
new YORK
Crowded Central Electric Filler
DeraiIed.
20 DEAD MANY HURT
White Plains Commuters Express
Running Sixty Miles an Hour
Jumps Track.
20 DEAD MANY HURT

which left the Grand Central station
at 6:13 p. m. was wrecked just north
Of the woodlawn road bridge. which
spans the railroad tracks at Two Hun
dred and Fifth street. and twenty per
sons were killed, two fatally hurt and
probably i45 others more or less In
Jured. or the large number OF injur
ed fifty are, according to hospital and
police reports, seriously hurt, and the
death list may be increased within the
next twenty-four hours.
Most OF the others are suffering from
decorations or shock and will recover.
The dead are:
Mrs. Florence Brady, Golden,
Bridge, n. Y.
Miss LIME Elwell. Hawthorne, y. Y
Myron u. Evans, white Plains. n. y
Mrs. Katherine X. farrand, Pleas
antvllle, n. Y.
Miss Jessie NJ. Jubln, teacher. White
Plains, n. Y.
Mrs. Mary Kinch, Chappaqua. \. Y.
Clara l.. Hudson. Minneapolis, MINI.
Mrs. Annie II. McLain. widow, agc(
sixty years. sIster-in-law OF superin
tendsnt Lyons Of the Blcomingdal'
insane asylum.
Miss Annie Moorehsad. Briar Clir
Manor, y. v. reported 10 have former
~ been q resident Of Pittsburg.
r.. l. Page. white Plains. y. Y.
Cornelius Koily. North Salem. y. Y.
Robert 7. Rosborough. White Plains
y. Y. employee o. W. a J. sloane
New York city.
Julia W. Storm. Bedford Station
Ny.
Mrs Isaac I. Webster. White Plains
y. Y.
Miss Bessie See. Ficasantvllle. y. Y.
Miss Annie sievonl. servant. Whit
Plains. y. Y.
Elsie n. Warren. New York.
Three unidentified women.
Those badly injured are;
Mabel Smith. aged thirteen. ovcriou
y. Y. fracture Of skull; probably "a
tai
Elsie snlffcn. Englewood. y. ], skull
fractured: probably fatal
Unknown girl unconscious In Ford
han hospital. skull fractured
Ira J. Dutton. White Plains. y. y
both arms broken; win recover.
Emily Fendrock. white Plains. y. Y
serious
Miss Belle Fowler. Plcasantvill'
y. u. legs broken; probably not fatal
Sarah Merritt. Picasantville. y. y
arms and legs fractured: dangerous.
Margaret Mahoney. Purdy station
y. Y. legs broken.
Ernest Mol. Mount Kisco, \. Y. le
broken.
The train was a double header. Wit
two electric engines and Eve cars II
engines were o. a new steel type, IN
then came i've Of the old type passci
GER coaches. The motors and first q
kept upright on the rails. but the oil
ers were turned over and were wrecl
sd, being dragged along on their sides
The train was crowded. most Of a
passengers being women. Accordlr
10 tralnmen, the motormau. y.
Rogers. was trying TO make up 10
time when the accident happened m
was running. II IL said, sixty or ~
cnty miles an hour.
Just before tho Two Hundred ar
Fifth street bridge IL reached. there
well defined curve. Going NJ n nj.
rate OF speed. which some OF the pn
sengers estimated NJ more than seyc
" miles an hour. the train swul
!. around the curve. the cars rocking Vi
lently. As nearly as can be learnt
the rear car ~ the train was pull'
from the tracks by the excessive spec
and this In turn pulled the three ca
: In front Of II from the rails. Tho ca
r turned over on their sides and we
+, humping and smashing along. tearil
/. up roadbed and rails and themsclv
r being torn into klndling wood. 9th
/, theories were that spreading rails
q broken coupling started the trouble
or the passengers In the last 70
. cars not one escaped Injury. tn
: were piled In heaps when the On
;, overturned. Then the sides OF {
cars fell out. and dead ana inJur
we're hurled 10 the tracks.
The scene along the tracks was
fearful one. For 400 yards bod
wore strewn In heaps or singly. y
tons OF wreckagc. iron and wood J
about practically every foot OF =
was bent aud twisted. and ties We
. torn from their fastenlngs.
= Immediately before the accident I
train seemed 10 be Aging through I
air. All the passengers agree on u
point Fourteen feet north OF {
q bridge the electric engine seemed
r jump clear Of the rails. and II W
d declared that when II settled ON
}, track again one 81 the tires had
n come iaosened. When the last Goa
struck the spot whore the engine n
up the coach 1000 described a co
- pIstc revolution IN the air and sctil
I, bver on the right or INST side 81
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