Show WENT DOWN TO DEATH garrisons N Y oct 24 from the sleep that means refreshment and rest to the eternal sleep that knows no awakening plunged in the twinkling of an eye this morning twenty eight souls men women and children in the slimy bed of the hudson river a train laden with slumbering humanity ploughed sloughed hed dragging through the waters the passengers there were nothing to presage the terrible accident which so suddenly deprived these unfortunates of life the new york central train left buffalo last night and had progressed for nearly nine tenths of the distance towards its destination the engineer and his fireman had just noted the grey dawn breaking from the east and the light streak of red denoting the suns appearance when the great engine a servant on the rails plunged into the river neither engineer or fireman will ever tell the story of that terrible moment for with his hand upon the throttle the engineer plunged with his engine into the river bottom and the fireman too was at his post behind them came the express car the combination car and the sleepers and these piled on top of the engine it is known it was a trifle foggy and that the track was not visible but if there was any break in in the lines of steel it must have been of very recent happening for only an hour before there had based over it a heavy passenger train laden with human freight neither is an explanation ready all Is conjecture the section of road was supposed to be the very best on the entire division there was a great heavy retaining wall along the bank and while the tide was high yesterday it was not unprecedented what seems to have happened was that underneath the tracks and ties the heavy wall had given away and when the great weight of the engine struck the unsupported tracks it went crashing through the rest of the wall and toppled over into the river then there happened what on the railroad at any other time would have caused disaster but now proved a very blessing As the train plunged over the embankment the coupling that held the last three of the six sleepers broke broka and they miraculously remained on the broken track in that way some sixty lives were saved of eyewitnesses eye witnesses there were none except the crew of tugboat dassine pas siner with a tow they saw the train with its light as it came flashing about the curves and then saw the greater part of it go into the river some of the pars ears with closed windows floated and the tug whistled for help cast off its hawser and started to the rescue A porter jumped from one of the cars that remained on the track and ran into the yard of augusta carrs house near which the accident occurred and stood scream screaming ang for help and moaning the train is in the river all our passengers are drowned in ft a few minutes carr had dressed himself and getting a boat rowed with the porter to the scene As aa they turned a point in the bank th they ey came upon the express car and the comb tion car floating about twenty from shore but sinking everyman every min one man was taken from the top the car and efforts were mader made rescue those inside A few were out the passengers left upon the tn making a human bridge to the a fib to take the wounded on 1 X the day coach and smoker had gi down in the deeper water and r res was impossible in the latter coach conditions must have been terrible car turned completely over and passenger end of it was deep in water while the baggage end st stood toward the surface the men in f lower end must have fought like fie fl for a brief period for the bodies ca taken out were a mass mass of wounds the closing scene of the first d day this tragedy is drawn around a ca mon car that stands near the BW s of the accident where nearly a acord badly mutilated bodies are lying ii long row gruesome evidences of 1 disaster the greatest that has occurred on this railroad the wrecked train was known aa state express it left buff buffalo alo i last night and was due in york at 7 this morning train was drawn by engine consisted of one american express one combination baggage and ing car one day coach and six sa s1 poughkeepsie was the last st stopp place of the train before the dasas disaster 1 am at this time there in the smoker in addition to the bageman ga geman herman acker of peel pee who was in his compartment en route from the C cato border to new york and a middle man supposed to be thomas rell delit st louis all of those excepts excepting perished |