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Show '- - . ' -.. . . - . ; , ' . Train Strides Landslide and Narrowly ; Escapes Going Info River; Three Tracts Torn Up for a Hundred Feet. Escape of Passengers Almost Miraculous, s The worst wrecK since the New YorK tunnel disaster, dis-aster, occurred on the New YorK Central last niht A train ran into a landslide and tore up all three tradls. v Almost miraculously, only two engineraen were Killed ' although many passengers were injured. , : . r - NEWBUBGH, July 30. The wrecking crews are at work thi morning morn-ing clearing the debri of the wreck of the New Tork Central's Pacific express, ex-press, which ran into a landslide one mile south of New Hamburg at 11:30 last, night, resulting' in the death ef Edward " WeUa the engineer, of, Albany, Al-bany, and Edward Warren, -fireman, of New York, and injuries to about a dozen doz-en passengers, none of which will prove fatal. There are three tracks at the point where the accident occurred, but they were all torn up or badly twisted for a hundred feet or more. Worst WrAk In Tears. " The' wreck was the worst that has occurred oc-curred on the Hudson river division since the New York tunnel disaster. It seems miraculous that here were no casualties cas-ualties or scriops injuries among the passengers, espeeiJly with regard to the twenty or more men who were in the combination smoking and baggage ear when the locomotive turned over af toe ploughing for' forty; feet into the great neap of gravel which haf fallen down npon the tracks, shot upward and then turning almost at right angles, came down with a crash across all three tracks. Dropped Into Elver. ' Joseph Shine of Poughkeepaie, who was in the forward part of the smoker, felt the floor knocked out from uador him, and-as the car landed, without turning over, he was dropped into the j river and swam ashore uninjured. ! Dr. P.. E. McCam bridge of Pongh-1 keepsie was thrown through a window, and vith another man teR upon the tender, which had turned over on its-side its-side and lay embedded in the gravel bank. Neither was hurt to any extent. Many Narrow Escapes. Other passengers had equally narrow escapes,- getting off with slight cuts and bruises. The most seriously injured were E. Vf. Kelly of Pougnkeepsie whd sustained a broken shoulder, and Harry ' Taylor, a member of the Poughkeepaie baseball team, who suffered a badly fractured leg. ' Fireman ' Warren was dead when he and the engineer were lifted out of the locomotive which turned at right angles from the train, darted across the track and turning on its side lay on the embankment, em-bankment, with the front of the boiler - -in the river. The engin'er died two ' ' hours later. Heroic Baggageman. John Carstens, baggageman was thrown 'through a window of the amok- ' er and received a deep cut on his wrist, notwithstanding which he seized a Inn tern and ran north to prevent any southbound traia from running into the ' wreck. - The second; and third coaches were slightly telescoped, but of the eight cars that composed the train only three left the rails, although the track was s4 badly twisted under some of the others, oth-ers, that the ears inclined to one side and the panic among the hundred passengers pas-sengers was at first general throughout train. southbound freight had just cleared the point when the slide eame down in front of the northbound express. |