Show AWFUL ACCIDENT gars cars plunge into the hudson river kiver EIGHT ARE AKE DEAD three cars miraculously culous ly iy ay ilie breaking of a coup 1 elniff ll 11 ig brolien broken bridge nr Y oct 24 from he be sleep that means refreshment and rest to the eternal alee that knows no awakening plunged in the twinkling of an eye eve this morning twenty eight souls men women and children in the ibe slimy bed of 0 the hudson river a train laden with slumbering humanity ploughed sloughed hed drog breine dreine gina through brough the wertera the there waa nothing to presage the accident which so suddenly enly deprived these unfortunates i t life the new liew york central train left buffalo last night and had progressed for nearly if arly nine tenths of the tha distance to word ward its destination the enzinger ene enz ineer and a fireman had just noted the gray eray awa breaking from the east and the ht streak of red denoting the suns rapp amparan paran ap aran e when the ceat engine a servant on the rails plunged into the of the river neither engineer r fisman fireman will mil ever tell the story of tha tar terrible moment for with his bia land hand uron noon the throttle the engineer plunged wi h his engine to the river bottom an i the fireman too was at his bis post behind them came the express car the combination car and the sleepers and these piled on top of the engine 1 1 spa M kai it is known it was a trifle foggy and abd that the track was not visible but it if there was wa any break in the lines of steel it must have bave been of very recent bap happening pening for only an hour before there had bad passed over it a heavy passenger train laden with human freight neither is an explanation ready all la is conjecture ute the section of road was eup supposed posed to be the tha very verv best on the entire diV division islon there was a great heavy retaining wall along the bank and while the tide was waa high hiah yesterday it was not unprecedented what seems to have bare happened was that underneath the tracks and ties the heavy wall had away and w when hea the great weight of the engine struck the unsupported tracks it is went crashing throngs the rest of abo wall and toppled over into the river then there happened what anthe on the railroad at any other time would have caused a disaster but now proved a very bless up As the train plunged over the embankment the coupling that be held d tho last three of the six aix sleepers broke and they miraculously remained on the broken track in that way some sixty lives were saved of eye witnesses there were none ex es capt cp the crew of a tugboat passing with wibb a tow they saw the train with its acht as it came flashing about the arves and then saw the greater part 0 o it go in the river some of the cars with closed windows floated and the tug tag whistling for help cast aff its haw ser ber and started to the tea resene rescue A porter jumped from one of the cars care mat remained on the track and ran into the yard of augusta auguata carrs carre house Dear which the accident occurred and ethod screaming ajr r help and moaning moan tha train is in river all our pas passengers are drowned in a few garr carr had dressed himself and getting a doat rowed with the porter to the scene As they turned a point in the bank they came upon the express car and the combination car floating about twenty feet irom from shore but bat sinking every minute one man was taken from the top of the car and efforts were made to rescue those inside A few were gotten out the passengers left upon the track making a human bridge to the shore to 10 take the wound ed edon on I 1 the day coach and smoker bad gone d dawn wn in the deeper water and rescue was a in the latter coach the ibe conditions must have bee beau horrible the car turned completely over and the paE passenger end of it was deep in the water while the baggage end stood up toward the surfaces surface the men in that lower end must have fought like fiends for a brief period for the bodies when taken out we e a mass of wounds general manager gave to the representative of the associated press toe tile following statement as to the cause of the disaster the tb accident was caused by the bed ot the railroad being washed out in some inexplicable man ner IU in this undermined condition the track sank as ab soon Es s the weight of the train was put pat on it and the embankment giving way the train was ot or course precipitated into the river such sach conditions as this we r 0 have never looked for trains have been running over this spot for years and years without accident or difficulty of any jund and this piece of track was eon con eldered ss as good goad as any section of the railroad not only w was as the roadbed d the hardest kind of an embankment but it was strengthened by a retaining ingua water ter wall of solid masonry three feet thick other railroad officials were of the opinion that quicksand of some kind bind formed below the water line was responsible lor for the sinking of the roadbed during the day thousands of people from thu surrounding country visited the scene jacene of the wreck who retarded the work of the railroad men A river derrick and floats were being used to raise the wrecked cays cars the express car was eaid to contained thousands of dollars worth of valuables all of which were in a stationary safe attached to the car before noon general manager goocey had formed an estimate of the number of dead anich he ha placed at twenty eight and no change in this estimate was made during the day |