Show TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT tanty eight souls soar on the K X T y central cental hurled into the hudson river garrisons Garri itou sous N Y oct 25 from the sleep that means refreshment and rest to the eternal sleep that knows no wakening awakening plunged in in the twinkling I 1 of f an eye yesterday morning twenty eight souls men women and children in the utoy slimy bed of the river it a train laden with slumbering humanity ploughed sloughed hed dragging through the waters the passengers there was nothing to presage the terrible accident which so BO 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 and just noted the gray dawn breaking from the east and the light streak of red denoting thesues the suns appearance when the great engine a servant of the rails plunged into the depths of the river neither engl engineer neer 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 was at his post behind them came the express car the combination cars 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 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 I 1 laden with human freight neither is an explanation ready all is conjecture the section of road was supposed to be the very best ori on althe the entire division there was a great heavy retaining wall BIT all along the bunk and while the tide was high the day before 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 now proved a very blessing As the train plunged over the embankment the coupling that held t the h e last three of the six sleepers broke and they miraculously remained on the broken track in that way some sixty lives were saved |