The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-13
Four Cars on Twentieth Century Lin
tied go Throual, the Ice of
the Hudson in Morning
Wreck,
NOT A SINGLE DEATH
Had the Cars Not Been Built of Steel
There Would Have Been an
Appalling Death
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UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. March 1S.
In one of the most remarkable
wrecks in the history OF the New
York Central railway today, twenty
passengers were injured, eleven seri-
ously. The train wrecked was the
roads pet flyer, the Twentieth Gen.
tury limited. Five or Its seven cars
were thrown into the Hudson river
when rail broke under the big train
as it was speeding southwark shortly
after o'clock today.
The great steel cars. their couplings
holding them in solid mass, cata-
puted down the bank, breaking
through twenty inches Of ice in the
river until they were three-quarters
submerged Their occupants many
If them women and still in their night
clothing, were plunged into the Icy
waters 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 assist
ed them to coaches which had been
hurriedly transferred into a temper
ary hospital.
The seriously injured:
A. II, Wellenorff, 163 Lloyd st. Mil
-rwaukeegsrihs and right hip broken.
Mrs. A. b. White, New York, right
arm fractured, cut and bruised.
/ P. M. Sweeney, Brooklyn, badly cut
about head and hands.
DR.. F. C. Warnshius, Grand Rapids,
cut by glass.
/ William Thorn, ribs broken, inter-
nal injuries
Carl Riddington, 422o North Lincoln
street, Chicago, both hands cut off
Amanda Gastavsoy, 5152 North Ash
land avenue, Chicago. left arm frac-
/ tured
Mrs. C. F. Fornes, New York, cut by
glass.
Mrs. B. Baruch, Brooklyn, right
arm broken, cut by glass.
! M. Louise Bogg. 5755 Prairie Ave.
i Chicago, badly cut and bruised and
possibly internal injuries.
4 Miss Alice Micken. Auburn, N. ",
broken ribs, cut head and possible in
ternal injuries.
The train was late and many OF the
passengers had purposely remained
in their berths to shorten the tedious
ness of the trip. Some were in the
observation car attached TO the rear
of the train, while others We're eating
breakfast In the dining car.
: The wreck came without warning.
With a 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 in
TO the river. The parting of the air
hose set the brakes so tightly that
the engine and two cars slid along
the rails for several times their length
when the wheels locked.
The uniniured passengers and train.
I men swarmed from the remaining
: cars and went to the work of rescue
? AS fast as the victims could be haul,
ed out of the nearly submerged cars
they were carried into the Pullman
cars still on the rails and cared for
t Women who had escaped unscath
! ed. tore their undergarments and
I night robes up for bandages, while
DR. Warnshius himself injured, gave
j first aid to the other bleeding victims
e That a number did not bleed to deatt
t was due to his efforts as it was near
/ ly an hour before doctors and nurses
l. from PougTkeepsie arrived.
!, The second section of the flyer wa:
L tagged near the wreck and switcose
a over the northbound track. 1t was
t then sent down TO the wreck and al
J. the passengers from the wrecked
s train loaded on it and taken to New
l. York The railroad officials declare,
o if the wrecked cars had not been stee
y every occupant must have been in
t stantly killed