Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-03-14
FINE CARS THROWN
|. ON ICE Of HUDSON
Thirteen Persons Suffer Minor
Injuries in Wreck of goth
Century Limited.
FLYER STRUCK BROKEN RAIL
Rivers Frozen Surface, and Steel
Coaches All That Saved Two
Score Passengers from
Drowning
FLYER STRUCK BROKEN RAIL

Thirteen persons injured. several ser!-
ously but none 1t Is believed. mortally,
sums up tonight The casualties from
the wreck of the arst section Of the
southbound Goth century limited. the
New York Centrels rack flyer,
mile south Of Hyde Park. near this
city. thrs morning.
Running behind It's scheduled speed
CT 50 miles an hour and rounding n
curve close by the banks of the Hud-
son. the train struck rail, cracked
to the breaking point and in an In
slant FIVE cars had left the track and
plunged down an oinbnnk,nent into
the ice-covcred river.
The thick ice coating Of tho stream
acting as check to the laundering
rush of the topplng cars as they
ploughed through the shadows near
bank. kept them from sliding into
deep water. and the steel construction
of the coaches probably prevented a
far worse disaster Had the river
been open. i'll the opinion of railroad
men. the deralled cars would have
ploughed along into the depths and
many persons would undoubtedly have
been drowned. AS IL was the ice held
the cars and while the water entered
the sleepers to the depth of the lower
berths in some of them and gave many
or the sleeping passengers an ICY bath.
all were rescued without great DIM
Guilty. Planks were run out to the
windows of the cars and passengers
made their way to shore over these
limprovised bridges. A construction
company doing work near by was able
promptly to bring the much needed
!planks to the scene
The injured who were unable to help
| themselves were car-'e out and al those
| requiring surgical attention We're placed
| on board other trains Of the system
| which were halted near the scene of the
| accident. and rushed quickly as pos
sible TO New York city.
LIST OF THE 13 INJURED
The list af injured, as given out by the
railroad authorities late to-day, follows
August Kochs. Chicago, bruised; Hen
| Woolf, Chicago. bruised: J.. s. Often, To-
| ledo. Ohio knee bruised; Fred b. Wheel
| er, Chicago. shoulder dislocated; Mrs
McMicken, Cincinnati broken ribs {;
Thomas G. Willard, Cleveland, internal
l.
bruised ]. r. Strong, New York, head
bruised and hands cut: L. 5. keeter.
| Elizabeth, y. j., bruised. l. New, Chi
cago. head cut: William Lewis Greeley.
| New York, fractured elbow: Mrs. A. b.
White. New York. fractured arm; Pat
rick NJ Sweeney. Brooklyn. cut by glass,
| The train was running In two sections.
the second but 10 minutes behind the
first This train was booming along
swiftly toward the scene where the brok-
en rail which had wrecked the first sec
tion. and roadbed torn up for 800 yards
OF so where the derailed cars had buinl,-
ed over the ties had set dangerous trap
for IT, Frank Lee. conductor of the
wrecked train. stepped into the breach
here and saved "A second possible disas-
ter Lee. who lives in Buffalo, was
standing at the rear of the observation
car when the wreck occurred and was
pinned underneath some seats. His head
was badly cut and he was otherwise
bruised. He managed to extricate him
self and bleeding as he was from his In
iuries ran back to flag the second sec
ton
New York Central officials and passen-
gers who knew OF the conductors act
praised It warmly tonight Without
seeking to cast any cloud upon the con
ductor's brave and hcady work. however.
the officials were inclined 10 think that
the block signals had fortunately work
Of automatically. stopping the second sec
ton about half a mile above the scene
Of the disaster from which point the
trntn approached the wreck slowly
HAVE THRILLlNG STORIES.
Many OF the passengers on the train
had thrilling stories TO tell at was the
worst wreck ] ever saw and the escape
OF tho passengers was marvellous. said
J. Y. Burnett. New York Central otfi-
cial of Chicago. we can all be thankful
that we were in stool cars instead of me
old type wooden ones"
f.. w. Andrews a prominent building
contractor Of New York was In the din
ing car, one of the wrecked cars and
next to the last on the train, with dozen
other passengers and mo walters,
I'VE were running n mile a minute,
said Mr. Andrews, when the train be-
gan to rock very hard. This was caused
by the cars ahead leaving the tracks
Then the floor seemed to rise up under
MS. We were thrown from our chairs
Women screamed In terror. Glass flew
from windows, Chairs, tables, crockery
men and women were thrown in a mass
! to the floor toward tho end OF the car
There was an awful crash and we were
shaken about like dice in box as the
car turned over on It's side on the frozer
river. / got hold Of u transom stick anc
I broke n window through which We es
capped, one after another with assistance
fruin the rescuers outside"
As an Instance VI the way passene
ers in the sleepers got uut OF the
wreck, w. A Cameron Of Chicago.
passenger In one Of the sleeping cars
who did not awaken fully mtil hs
felt the shock " the water into which
the car had plunged said that ns h,
\. scrambled from his berth he saw {
woman in the berth next To his ais,
getting free. He went to her assist
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