Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-12-22 | Page 7 | Serious Railroad Accident

SERIOUS RAILROAD ACCIDENT new york dec 19 in one ot the moat extraordinary accidents known to american railroading two heavily loaded passenger trains came together on the elevated tracks of the new york central hudson alver railroad tonight at harlem one man J W knapp of new rochelle was killed and forty persona were more or less injured both ot the colliding trains were eastbound and had left the grand cea aral at forty second street within a few minutes of each other one was a stamford local on the new york new haven hartford railroad which company uses the new york central tracks the train was the poughkeepsie le express of the new york central rushing along on parallel tracks the two trains came to gather the kocl awas switched from the third track onto the and in an instant the engine of the express had crashed into tha day coach following ehg smoking cars the tracks at tho point ot the col gibion are about thirty feet in the air athla made the work of rescue difficult and lent to the terror 0 the gora moot of whom were residents of nearby cointa in connecticut and new york state who had chaie to the city on holiday shopping tours fire apparatus from several was summoned and many persons were rescued by means ot ladders placed against the structure serious injuries befell moat ot those in the car demolished by the poughkeepsie ia express john D horn engineer ol 01 the express train was arrested tonight on the charge 0 manslaughter and vaa later released on ball no one on tha train so fa be learned was hurt