The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-13
Famous New York Central
Flyer Derai!ed Near Pough-
keepsie While Speeding to
Make up Time
Passengers Get Frigid Bath
When Three Great Steel Cars
Are Catapulted Into Water
Ten Hurt and Two Killed in
Wreck of Big Four Flyer at
Greencastle, Ind.
Especial from United Press.)

ceeding 60 miles an hour. the 2OtI
Century Limited from Chicago, or
the New York Central, due in New
York at $3.50, today, was wrecked Al
Hyde Park, six miles north of this
cars on the end of the train wer.
thrown from the tracks into the Hud.
son river when a rail under the trair
broke. Twenty persons were injured
eleven seriously, the worst hurt re
celvlng a broken arm and internal in.
juries.
The train was nearly an hour late
leaving Albany and the engineer wa:
trying to make up lost time. Part
Of the train had passed over the raj
when it broke and the remainder OF
the crack flier was catapulteo
through the air, breaking through the
ice in the Hudson river which, al
this point, runs alongside of the road
bed.
The rest of the train came to a
sudden stop and the uninjured train
men and passengers started the res
cue work. While working crews and
physicians and nurses were being
hurried here, first aid was resOrted
to and by the time the second sec
ton of the limited reached the scene
the sufferers were in shape to be
sent on to their destinations.
The second section was detoured
around the wreck and proceeded to
New York.
The seriously injured: A. H. Wet
tenerff, Milwaukee, ribs and right hip
broken; Mrs A. B. White, New York,
right arm fractured, cut and bruised;
H. Nj. Sweeney. Brooklyn, badly cut
about head and hands; DR.. +. c,
warmshius. Grand Rapids. cut BY
ribs broken, internal injuries; Carl
Riddin gton, Chicago. both hands cut
off; Amanda Gustuvusa, Chicago, left
arm fractured; Mrs. G. F. Forness.
New York, cut by glass; Mrs. G. 3.
Barouche, Brooklyn, right arm brok-
en-, cut by glass,
M Louise Bogg. Chicago, badly cut
and bruised and possible internal in
juries; Miss Alice Mikken, Auburn, N.
Y. Broken ribs, cut head and possible
internal injuries.
The train was late and many of
the passengers had purposely remain
ed in their berths to shorten the
tediousness of the trip. Some were
in the observation car attached to the
rear of the train while others were
eating breakfast in the dining car.
The wreck came without warning.
With crash that could be heard for
miles, the five cars turned over when
the rail snapped as though it was
made of glass. The coupling holding
the fifth and sixth cars together
broke as the rear of the train went
over and into the river. The parting
of the air hose set the brakes SO
tightly that the engine and other cars
slide along the rails for several times
their length before the wheels stop
ped. Passengers and tra1nme en-
swarmed from the standing cars and
went to the rescue. AS fast as the
victims could be hauled out of the
nearly submerged cars they were car
ried into the Pullman cars still on
the rails and cared for.
Women who had escaped unscath-
ed tore their endorsements and
nightrobes up, for bandage while DR..
Warmshuis, himself injured, gave
first aid to the other bleeding vic
TINS. That number did not bleed
to death was due to his efforts as it
was nearly an hour before doctors
and nurses from Poughkeepsie arriv-
ed.
The second section of the f1ier was
tagged near the wreck and switched
over to the northbound track. 1t was
then sent down to the wreck and all
of the passengers from the wrecked
train loaded on it and taken to New
York
The railroad officials declared that
if the cars had not been of steel, ev-
every occupant must have been kill
ed.
The train wrecked was the roads
pet f1ier, the Goth Century Limited.
Five of it's seven cars were thrown in
to the Hudson river when rail
broke under the bfs train as it was
speeding southwark, shortly after
o'clock, today. The great steel cars.
their couplings holding them in a
solid mass, catapulted down the bank,
breaking through 20 inches of ice in
the river until they were three-quar-
ters submerged. Their occupants,
many of them women and still in
their nightclothing, were plunged into
the icy water and held prisoners
there until they managed to break
the windows on the upper side and
crawl through. Uninjured passengers
and trainmen from the cars that had
remained on the track pulled them
out and assisted them to coaches
which had been hurriedly transform
ed into a temporary hospital.