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Show FREIGHT OTS PREVENT PASSENGER TRM f ROM PLUNGING INTO S RIVER TTVOLI, N. Y March 5. The limited lim-ited fast mail train from Chicago for New York on the New York Central ft Hudson Elver railroad wu partially derailed while passing through here at 5:40- o'clock this morning and ten persons per-sons were injured, others sustaining slight bruises. Berkely Brandon of New York, cook on the diningcar, suffered broken leg and three passengers and six employees of the Pullman cars suffered scalp wounds and minor bruises. The train left Chicago at 8 o'clock yesterday morning. It consisted of baggage ear, four sleeping cars and a diningcar. At a point 800 feet aouth of Tivoli station, while passing over an interlocking switch en the straight track, the three cars in the rear of the train were derailed. The rest of the train remained on the track. The derailed cars crashed into a string of freight cars standing on a siding between the southbound track and the bank of the Hudson river, along which the track runs at that point. Freight cars were overturned, but the passenger cars remained upright. Only the presence of the freight cars prevented pre-vented the passenger cars from going over the embankment into the river, and possible loss of life. One of the Pullman cars turned partly part-ly crosswise of the tracks and crashed into a signal tower, tearing off the side of the tower and smashing in the end of the car. There were two signal men in the tower, but they escaped injury. The passengers were placed on another train and proceeded to New York. It is believed that the cars were either derailed by the switch or that a journal was broken. |