Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-03-14 | Page 4 | Limited Train Plunges into Hudson River

LIMITED TRAIN PLUWGES INTO HUDSON RIVER -- POUG1IKEEPSIE. N.Y., March 13. Thirteen persons Injured, several severely, sums up to- night tho casualties caused when tho first bection of the southbound Twentieth Century limited, the New York Central's crack flyer, fell Into the Hud- son river a mile south of Hyde Park, near this city, this mo'rn- ing. Running behind schedule at an estimated es-timated speed of GO miles an hour and rounding a curve closo by tho I " v' MMr'-n ti fro n tr,",k a broken rail. Five cars left tho , awm nu wi.iLic-.ii.meat and broke through tho Ico Into the water. Thick ico coating tho stream kopt tho cars from sliding into deep water. Wator entered some of the lower berths and gave many of the sleeping sleep-ing passengers an Icy bath Planks were run out to the car windows and passengers made their way to shore over these improvised bridges. ThoBO of tho Injured who were unable un-able to help themselves wero carrlod out and all those requiring surgical attontion wore placed on board othor trains and rushed to Now York city Passengers Havo Narrov Escapes. Tho train was running in two sections. sec-tions. Tho second section was only ten minutes behind the first and the wreck of the first had sot a dangerous trap for It. Conductor Frank Lee was In the rear of the observation car w.en tho wreck occurred and was pinned beneath some seats. His head was cut, and he was otherwise bruised, but ho extricated himself, ran back and flagged the second section. W. A. Cameron of Chicago did not awaken fully until he felt tho shock of the water As he scrambled from his berth he saw a woman in the berth next to hlB also getting free. He went to her assistance and tho two together reached the uppermost side of the car. Cameron, seizing a curtain polo from one of the berths, pushed the glass out of one of the windows, through which they emerged and got safely ashore. Thoro were about fifty passengers on the wrecked train and nearly two score of them wore pulled out of the water-logged cars. nn