Show TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT eight roni on OB tile ui N x Y central hurloc lulo into the river garrisons N Y oct 25 from tho the sleep that means refreshment and rest to the eternal bleep bleed that knows no awakening plunged in the twinkling of an eye yesterday 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 was nothing to presage tho the terrible gerrib ae accident which so suddenly deprived these thes un unfortunates of life the new york central train left buffalo last night and had progressed tor for nearly nine tenths of 0 tho the distance towards it its s destination the engineer and his fireman and just noted the gray dawn breaking from the east and the light streak of red rad denoting the suns suna appearance when tho the great engine a servant of the rails plunged into tho the depths of the river neither engineer nor fireman will ever tell the story of that terrible moment with his hand upon the throttle the engineer plunged with his engine to the river bottom and the fireman too waa was tit nt his post behind them came the express car the combination cars and the sleepers and these piled on top of the engine it I 1 is known it was a trifle foggy and that the track was wag not visible out but if there wag any break in the lines of steel it must have been of very recent happening for only an hour before there had passed over a heavy passenger bertrain train laden with human freight neither is an explanation ready all Is conjecture the section election of road was a supposed u 0 s e d t to be the very best on the entire e ati division v i s bior 0 o there was a great heavy retaining wall all along the bunk blink and while the tide was high the day before it was not unprecedented red what seems to have happened was wag that underneath the tha tracks and ties alo the heavy wall all had bad given away and when hen the great weight of the engina struck the unsupported tracks it went crashing through the rest of the wall and toppled over into the river then there happened what on tha t railroad at any other time would have caused now proved a very blessing As the train plunged over the embankment the coupling that held the last three of tho the six sleepers broke and they miraculously remained on the broken track in that way some sixty lives were saved |