New-York tribune., 1909-10-18
VANDERBILTS IN WRECK
W. K, SON, W. c. BROWN
AND ". III. NEWMAN.
ThrOwn from Berths but Not In
jured-One Passenger Killed
and Many Hurt.


tral Railroad Company; w. K. Vanderbilt and
his son. w K. Vanderbilt, Jr, and w. H New
man, former president of the railroad, escaped
injury in fatal railroad wreck on the Central
at Rhinecliff, N Y, early yesterday morning.
Mr. Brown was hurled from his berth. but was
uninjured, and, in company with the Messrs'
Vanderbilt and Mr.. Newman, at once took charge
Of the work of extricating the dead and injured
from an overturned day coach. which bore the
brunt of the accident. caused by broken rail-
The smoker was also overturned
The train, which left Albany at $40 a. m''
was due here at 4 O'Clock and was scheduled 10
stop at Poughkeepsie at a. m. IL had paSseu
through the yards at Rhineclif when the de-
fective rail was struck and the train including
two private cars one used by Mr.. Brown ana
the other the Idle Hour. used by the Wander
bilts, skidded along the ties for distance OF
several feet The fourth car, in which there
were fifteen passengers, turned on its slde' stop
ping the momentum of the sleeping cars ana
the private cars, which had been attached 10
the train at Lyons. n. Y
While the cars left the rails, the engine re-
nlained on the track The force Of the wreck OF
the day car threw number OF passengers from
their berths. but only the passengers in the
overturned day coach were seriously injured.
RETURNING FROM INSPECTION TOUR.
Mr.. Brown and the other directors of the road
who had been upstate on tour Of inspection at
once realized what had happened, and, leaving
the private cars, hurried to the aid of the in
jr-ed. at the same time ordering the trainmen
to search for any who fatally hurt
In the midst of the wreck Of the upset car
was found the body of James Korakoskie, of
No 20 Eldridge street, this city, who was re-
turning from Buffalo. In another part of the
wreck the searchers found Mrs. F. S. H. Teas
dale, of Brooklyn, who with several children
was on her way to the city. Mrs. Teasdale is
the most seriously injured and was removed to
her home, where she was reported as having
received internal injuries. which not ex-
pected TO prove fatal Nine others were taken
from the overturned car by the officials Of the
road, who ordered a special train hurried to the
scene of the wreck with number of surgeons
The list of injured, exclusive of Mrs. Teasdale
follows
chest injured.
CzECHowICo. Nick Depew. N. Y: right hip bruised.
FERGUSON John p, No, 615 Rugby Road Schenectady.
FRANCIS Argent watertown n. Y. scalp wound
HAMBURGER. Morris. Utica. N. Y: left slightly
LEVY. H. No. 81 Suffolk street. New York: face and
MERRIMAN. Celia. No 1863 Sheridan street. Albany: left
side injured.
oPPENHEIMER. Samuel Rochester: bruises on body
SCHOFIELD W. F. Peekskir N Y trainmsn. head
and back slightly injured
ENGINEER AND FIREMAN GIVE AID.
Moses Wright the engineer, had stopped his
locomotive soon he felt the derailed cars
tugging behind him. He jumped from his cab
with TORCH and found the wrecked cars in
darkness. In the day coach he found woman
with hve children, one a baby, pinned under a
seat. Before he could help her number of ex-
cited men tried to take the torch away from
liz, rrt,o
neer drove them back under threats, and extri-
Gated the woman. whose arm was torn, but not
broken
H. Schlemyer of New York. the fireman. dis
tinguished himself by dashng ahead with red
lantern and stopping an express from New York
which due on the nOrthbound track, on to
which the wrecked train had partly fallen.
At the point where the wreck occurred there is
a straight track. and it is believed by the rail-
road men that a defect in the rail caused the
break Immediately after the engine passed over
the spot. The train was running at a compara-
lively slow speed. as it was following two Sec
tions which had left Albany half hour earlier
When the special bearing the road directors
and the injured reached New York Mr. Brown
declared that he had been in several railroad
wrecks. but that this the first time that he
had been thrown from his berth
Albany Oct. lon receipt of a telegram
early o-day notifying the Public Service Com
mission, I'd District of the wreck at Rhineclir
Commissioners Decker and Sague and Inspector
Buchanan started for the scene of the accident
and began an investigation. which will be con-
tinued at Albany and New York.
The commission in a statement tonight says:
The pieces of broken rail which were the i'm
mediate cause Of the accident were shipped TO
the New York Central supeTintendents office in
New York after having been carefully examined
by the commissioners and the inspectors. The
investigation included close inspection OF the
cars in the derailed train and of in the train
Immediately preceding il. which were also in
iured by the broken rail and were set off at
Staatsburg the station next south of Rhine
cliffe
an through rail tickets between New York and
Albany accepted on Day Line steamers'-Adyt.