New-York tribune., 1907-02-17

was riding IN the smoking car Of the wrecked
train, said that he felt severe Jolt as the tram
topped over. He climbed out of the smoker
and for a short time, the space of perhaps re"
seconds there was hardly sound to be heard
and then suddenly he heard moans of the sur
fering in the wrecked cars and the screams OF
suffering and frightened women. woman, he
said, jumped out of one of the cars, hurried to
him. looked into his face for moment, and then
threw a satcheI which she held into his arms.
and before he could prevent her dashed away.
There were no marks on the satchel, and as he
could not the woman again he turned II
10 the police
Legard Walker of the McVickar Ciaillsrd
Realty Company. of No. AZ Broadway, after the
accident said: Il am that the train at the
time of the accident must have been travelling
at the speed of seventy-fve miles an hour.
was with a friend Edward Vandervoort on our
way home White Plains. We We're in the
smoking car. Suddenly came the grinding noise
of the wreck. We broke the windows of the
smoking car and climbed out the ground
There were a score Of persons out walking up
and down the track. apparently bewildered We
turned and did what could help the in
jured.
Il saw one man look at the wreck a moment
and then rush back toward the cars. He dashed
into one of the passenger coaches, just it
topped ard crushed him beneath it's weight"
HOW A HERO DIED.
we a heroic sight in one car we entered
hoping TO aid the injured. We saw a man
pinned beneath heavy seat haggard and with
deep lines of pain marking his face He called
the attention of the rescuers 10 a young girl
pinned down beneath a seat near him. He asked
the helpers to save her first The girl was
pried from her place after great difficulty but
bpfO ba had
turned to help him they found him growing
cold"
Mrs. George Lilley who lives in Webster ave-
nue. At 206th street, saw the accident from a
back window.
The train going at a terrific rate Of
speed" she said. Il don't think I ever saw
train going quite fast"
As the news OF the wreck was re-
ceived at the Grand Central Station last night
the officials of the railroad took measures to
provide news for the army OF reporters who
descended on the Offices
Telegraph and telephone wires were strung
into one big room and operators installed. and in
half an hour regular news bureau was work.
ing. AS fast details came in they were
ported. and J. c. Hammond. the roads press
representative. gave them out TO the newspaper
men. Everything possible was done 20 furnish
the news that the anxiety of friends and rel
atives of passengers might be alayed.
Early in the evening A. H Smith gave orders
for special Brewsters local train 20 be made
up, and II left the Grand Central Station at
1O45. There a big throng in the station
waiting for the tracks to be opened sufficiently
10 let Harlem Division trains through. Many
boarded the train when II finally left the station
Owing to the wreck. the New Haven railroad
switched its incoming express trains from the
East to the Harlem River branch AT New Ro-
chelle and ran them down to 129th street to
connect with the Third avenue elevated line.
Passengers on local trains bound to New York
were transferred to the Harlem River branch at
New Rochelle.
Ihe CentraIs new motor cars. two of which
were on the wrecked train, are constructed
wholly OF steel. They are Of the same type in
most essentials the steel cars built for the
subway. They contain cane bottomed and
backed seats. like those Of the subway The
cars are lighted by electricity in the electric
zone. but also contain Pintsch lights which are
used beyond Wakefield. The seats are not as
FAR apart as in the older type Of railroad cars.
and mora passengers can be carried A feature
or the type is the size OF the vestibuIes The
cars are all OF the vestibule type with locking