| Show BANKER SPENCER TRASK IS KILLED I Was in Section of ot N Y Central Passenger Train When Freight Crashed Into It DEATH DINT AFFECT MARKET MARKETis is One of o New Yorks tending Leading Citi Citizens CI zens ZeUS and One of or Best Known Inon Financiers I New York Dec Dee 31 Spencer one of or tho the leading financiers and nd head hea of or the tho banking bunking house bear ber Jug Ing his name was wa killed hilled today tOda when whon a freight train triin crashed Into the rear of o otho tho Cue New York Central Centra passenger train on which he ho occupied the drawing room section at tho the rear end of the tho last lut car carThe carThe carThe The accident occurred near Croton 1 Y r One other othor 1 passenger was so seriously Injured that he lie could not no give Ilyo his name The porter also was not badly l hurt hUIt wa Mr Jl who was wal coming Into th the city elt from rom his home at Saratoga was dressing In his compartment when hen the tho tho train plowed Into the heavy passenger train which Is known knon aa as C tho the Montreal express When his torn body bo y was wa re moved from the wreckage It was found fould that he had Imd but partly dressed dr himself UNEXPLAINED BLUNDER I The express had been stopped s by In a block signal and why wh tho freight r be hind explained It was not stopped has h not beep te p Tho struck with such suel force horco torce that It demolished the tho rear ond onti o of bf the sleeper and amid telescoped the tw front rort end of oC oCI o oit It I with wih tho the sleeper ahead Many Man of tho the occupants occupant of pf tho the five Ive sleepers rs had not fully dressed and they were thrown half clad Into snow banks Wrecking and relief reler trains trins were dis lIis dispatched patched front from the Harlem yards of the tho New York Central and officials of or the company compan hurried to the scene The he last l t two sleepers had been hurled across the tracks with wih the freight en gins gine Ine In lii such luch a mariner manner maner that traffic was delayed for more than two hours Passengers on the Montreal express say 13 that when tho the train stopped tho the rear ream brakeman did dla not go so back bac to dis display Ils display play a danger dager signal The weather was Wa clear cear and the block signals were working accurately the company re 10 reports reports ports The news of oC the bankers death had bad no effect on the tho stock exchange where prices last night wore were slightly above abe the close of or HIS IlS CAREER Spencer Trask was one omie of ot New Yorks leading citizens and one of the thin s best known bankers Born here In ISH hp entered the banking business on oil Oi his graduation from Princeton His financial l i u n V I quickly recognized find tand he ho became a power In the banking world Mr Ir Trask early ear became Impressed with wih the genius of Thomas A Edison and Identified himself with wih the Edison electric enterprises The banker was wasa wasI a I a director In many may realty realy companies and arid was ivas wal deeply interested In several Reveral educational and philanthropic enter enterprises The banker several years yedra e r ago bought and reorganized tho the New York Times Ho He was president lent of ol the Na Art club and a member of ot nu numerous numerous numerous other prominent Now York clubs club Mr lr Trask Nichols was wa married maried in 1874 to Miss I |
