New-York tribune., 1911-12-12
ONE DEATH DUE TO FOG
"Bankers' and Brokers' Special
Crashes Into Freight Train.
FIVE PERSONS INJURED
brakeman on Central Prevents
Worse Collision-Ferries Are
Rammed, Liners Stopped.

What was perhaps the thickest fog o
the year spread over the harbor sud
denly on Sunday night and. with
tenacious grip, held up traffic Of al
sorts until the sun came out in the af-
ternoon and dissipsted il.
Incoming liners that had made port in
the clear of Sunday evening we're forced
L. anchor at Quarantine and off Sandy
Hook: outbound vessels did not leave
their respective piers. ferry service was
hapelessly disorganized; trolley cars and
elevated trains had TO move slowly dur
ing the rush hour. and railroad traffic
within the thirty radius Of tho fog
lrelt suffered from more or less conges-
ton and irregularity.
Had it not been for collision between
two trains at North White Plains, the
fog would have rolled away leaving no
fatalities behind. Commuters who gen.
orally find the ferries of more conven-
ience than the tubes were forced to the
underground routes yesterday, and thou
sands of extra passengers We're carried
the trains being operated under ninety
seconds headway.
one death and painful injury to five
persons were credited TO the fog yester-
day when two heavy trains came to-
rether at North White Plains. The ac-
cident happened in the morning, when
the Paving express. on the Harlem d.
vision Of the New York Central Rail
road. running at high speed, hit the
northbouud. slowly moving Golden's
Bridge freight. Fog made it difficult
for train crews TO sec signals, and the
express was practically on top of the
freight before their proximity on the
ono track became known.
The Pawling express. known as the
Bankers and Brokers Special. had six
cars filed with about four hundred per-
SONS ON their way TO business in this
city. It left Pawling at 1886 a. m. but
was late getting into North White
Plains The freight. which 1t is said
should have been on a siding, was hi;
hard and hurled TO one side. mass of
scrap.
Fred Girard, the fireman. was killed
instantly. and George Carson, the en-
ginoer. BADLY scalded and bruised. was
taken TO a hospital. Frank Wheeler and
Howard Worden, engineer and fireman.
respectively. Of the express, we're Sc
vcrcly bruised.
Among those injured on the express
we're John X. butcher, OF Pawling; Tim
othy Hartnett. Of Mount Kisco; George
Nichols. Of Katonah, and William j.
Doyle. sheriff elect of Katonah. Doyle,
who was playing whist in the smoker
was knocked unconscious, being hit in
the chest by a card board.
Frederick Reynolds. a brakeman OF the
express. displayed great presence of mind
i'm preventing another collision. He knew |
the Chatham express was coming south !
not far behind his own train. He |
climbed out of the wreckage, rushed |
north with red flag and a lantern. and
succeeded in signalling the Chatham ex-
press. 20 IT was brought to stop within I,
twenty-five feet OF the wrecked Pawlng /
express.
Not untn noon were the ferryboats
n
The fvrryboat Castleton rammed the
Richmond while the latter was in her
Zip At st George. There was slight
panic ou both boats but apart from
scmc broncu windows and a few smashed
tmbers. no great harm was done.
The ferryboat Redbank, bound from
Jorscy CITY to Liberty street. Manhattan,
was rammed by the tug Edward j. Ber-
Wind. In the North River. The ferryboat
Brooklyn, which left her slip in Brooklyn
IT $40 90. m. drifted about three hours
before she could md her slip at South
Ferry.
The steamships Carmanis, Cameronia-
fspland and la Touraine, which were
detained throughout the forenoon at
Quarantine. left for their piers, beginning