Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1907-02-17
N. Y. CENTRAL
DEAD-STREWN
The WreCking of An fIeC-
trio Train
Sixteen Were Killed and
Many Mangied Beyond
Recognition.

New York, Feb. 15.-SiXteen passen-
gers We're killed outright. four others
had died of injuries up to midnight
and at least fifty more were more or
less seriously injured in a wreck Of the
White Plains and Brewster express on
the Harlem division of the New York
Central near WOodlawn road in Bronx
Borough this evening.
The White Plains and Brewster eX-
press a six car train on the Harlem di-
vision of the New York Central jumped
the track at a curve. At ten o'clock
the police reported that they had re-
covered sixteen bodies from the wreck
age and that there might be other 9TH
er victims. OF those removed to the
hospitals ii was said a dozen will die.
The train left the Grand Central sta
tion at 6.l3 drawn by two heavy cleo
tric motors and loaded with a matinee
crowd and commuters on their way
home from the city. Ii consisted of 4
combination baggage and smoking car
and five coaches. Stopping at 125th
street the train was scheduled to run
as an express to White Plains. At
Woodlawn road the four tracks run
through a rocky cut and take n sharp
curve. When the train reached the
curve it was running at 4 spped estl-
mated at sixty miles an hour.
Both motors and the smoking car
swung safely around the curve but the
other cars left the rails and plunged
over on their sides with a terrific
crash tearing up the track for a hun
dred yards before they collapsed. or
those instantly killed by far the great
er number We're women. Many were
mangled beyond recognition. Those
most seriously injured were hurried to
hospitals while the coroner took charge
Of the dead as fast as they We're re-
covered.
a fire started in the overturned cars
but the flames We're quickly eXtin-
gUished and the firemen lent their aid
to the injured. Special trains carried
many Of the injured To White Plains
and Mount Vernon while others were
brought 10 hospitals in this city. The
rear car containing more women than
others suffered the greatest as it over
tuInde and the breaking Of the coupling
released il from the cars ahead. II was
for hundreds Of yards across Woodland
avenue. Many passengers practically
uninjured were tumbled from the cars
and hurried to telephones thus sum-
moning aid. The dead:
MYRON EVANS, White Plains. civil
engineer.
ROBERT J. ROSBOROUGH. White
Plains
JOHNSTON ROSBOROUGH, White
Plains.
+. +. JOHNSTON. Briar Cliff.
9. y. PAGE. williamsburg.
MRS. MARY KINCH. Chappaqua.
MISS OR MRS. Z. 7. WARREN.
". :. LOANE.
MRS. EDWARD BRADY. Golden
Bridge. y. Y.
MRS. CATHERINE KEENE FER
RAND, Pleasant Valley. y. Y.
MRS. McCLAIN. sistcr-in-law OF
Superintendent Lyons Of Blooming
dale Asylum.
CLARA 5. HUDSON.
MRS. JESSIE TOBIN.
The unidentified dead include eight
women and one man.
The list OF the dead at the Grand
it-llAi al lllNluflt.
MRS. C. KINTZH OF Chatham.
ANNIE MOREHEAD, belonged in
Pittsburg.
She died at the hospital.
Superintendent Bronson Of the Har-
lem division stated n II o'clock to-
night that the cars had been cleared
and no more bodies had been found.
The cause OF the wreck was not Of
ficially stated tonight. At the Grand
Central station there was an incIina-
ton to blame the accident To spread
ing rails. but il is believed that the
axle of the first passenger car broke.
Dismembcred bodies were strung along
for a distance of 100 yards. one wo-
man was impaled on huge splinter
from a railroad tie. Although the