The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-03-13
FAST TRAIN GOES OVER
BANK ON HUDSON RIVER,
TWENTY PERSONS HURT
Five Cars of Twentieth Century
LIMITED Rpff fHto3Mater-
Near Poughkeepsie
III ARE SERIOUSLY INJURED
Rail Breaks as Passenger Is
Speeding Towards New
York City
III ARE SERIOUSLY INJURED

PoUGHKEEPSIE, n. T., March
lS- In one OF the most remarkable
wrecks In the history OF the New
York Central railway today, twenty
passengers were injured, eleven ser
iously.. The train wrecked was the
Twentieth Century Limited. Five of
the seven cars we're thrown into the
Hudson river when q rail broke under
the big train as IL was speeding
southwark shortly after nine O'Clock
today The great steel cars, their
couplings holding them in a solid
mass, went over the bank breaking
through lee in the river until they
were three-quparters submerged.
Their occupants, many OF them wo-
men and still In their night clothing,
were plunged into the Icy water and
held prisoners there until they man,
aged to break the windows on the
upper size md crawl through. Tn.
Injured Messengers and trainmen from
the cars that had remained on the
track pulled them out and assisted
thNAA W COoNHCb NhlN1 udu bCSu huA-
riedly transformed into a temporary
hospital
The seriously injured:
A. II. Wettenorff, l63 Lloyd street,
Milwaukee, ribs and right hip brokRn
Mrs. A. b. White, New York, right
arm fractured, cut and bruised.
p. NJ, Sweeney, Brooklyn, badly cut
about head and hands.
~ -
eut by glass.
William Thorn, New York, ribs
broken, internal injuries.
Carl Riddington, 1926 North Lin
coin street, Chicago, both hands cut
on. -
Amanda Gastavsoy, 5152 North
Ashland avenue. Chicago. left arm
Mrs. G. +. Fornes, New York, Gu.
BY glass.
Mrs. 3. Baruch, Brooklyn, right
arm broken, cut by glass.
NJ. Louise Bogg, 1855 Prairie-aye..
Chicago. badly cut and bruised ana
possible internal injuries.
Miss Alice Micken, Auburn. n. T..
broken ribs, cut head and possible
internal injuries.
The train was late and many OF the
passengers remained In their berths.
Some were in the observation car in
the rear OF the train, while others
were eating breakfast IN the dining
car.
With crash that could be heard
for miles, the FIVE cars turned over
when the rail- snapped as though II
was made Of glass. The coupling hoi1.
ing the hfth and sixth cars together
broke as the rear Of the train went
Into 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, with the wheels locked.
The uninjnred passengers and
trainmen swarmed from the remain
ing cars and went TO the work OF
rescue. AS fast as the victims could
ed cars they were carried into the
Pullman cars still on the rails and
cared for.
Women who had escaped unscathed
tore their nndergarments and night
robes up for bandages, while DIR.
Wsrnshuis, himself injured. gave frst
aid to the other victims. II was near
~ an hour before doctors and nurses
from Poughkeepsie arrived.
The second section Of the flyer was
tagged near the wreck and switched
over to the northbound track. II was
then sent down to the wreck and all
the passengers from the wrecked
train loaded on 1t and taken to New
York. The railroad officials declared
II the wrecked cars had not been steel
every occupant must have been III
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