Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 500, 18 Ianuali 1902 — TRAINS COLLIDE IN NEW YORK TUNNEL [ARTICLE]

TRAINS COLLIDE IN NEW YORK TUNNEL

I lAKT DEAD. SCOBES INJURED Fire Breaks Out and Many are Suffocated by Dease Smoke. Police ard Firerren Organize Belie* Expeditions and Do Valiant Wo-k Among Those Whole Lives Were in Pent—Engineer and Fireman of White Plains Were Arrested. NEW YORK. Jan B.—Two local vain- boun 1 for Ney York —cne from South Norwalk tb- other from White plains—crashed together in the smoke clouded Park aveaue tunnel of tb* New York Central early today. Seventeen persons were killed and forty injured. Of the latter twelve were seriously injured. The engineer aci fireman of the White P : ains were arrested. District Attorney Jerome visited the wreck and will personally direct aa investigation The list of dead follows: A. G. WALTON. New Roche!!'-. H. G. DIAMOND. New Rochelle. AiBER TM. PERRIN. New Rochelle. H G. THOMAS. New York City. H. D. C. FOSKETT. New Rochelle. WILLIAM B LEES. New York H. C. FRANKLIN CROSBY. Ne w Rochelle. OSCAR E. MYEROWITZ. optician. New York city. He lived at New Rochelle and was secretary of the New Rochelle YaVht Club. THEODORE FORGARDO. age 11 New Ri chelle. WILLIAM FISHER, aged .\>w Rochelle. GEORGE POTTER, aged 40. N w . Rochelle. MRS. A F. HOWARD. New Ro- < hellc. WILLIAM HOWARD. New Ro e helie. E. C. HINDALE. aged 3.'.. Now Rochelle. Unknown man. believed to be (’HAS. MARS, an employe in the Custom House, who lived at New Rochelle-. GEORGE W. BORING, ag.-d 25. New Rochelle. F. WASHBURN, aged 53. New R.i chelle. The shock of the collision was plainly heard by people passing on Park avenue, above the tunnel. Several of them ran to give the alarm. In ten minutes everybody at police and fire headquarters was at work organizing relief to be sent to the spot When the rescuers, reached the wreck smoke was pouring out of the entrance to the tunnel at Fifty fifth street and great columns of smoke came out of the first ventilator a half block north. Ambulances came in Mom the* East and West. Ladders: were put down from the street over the iron fence to the track and the firemen. policemen and surgeons were i immediately at work. It was very dark In the tunnel, whie-h was filled with smoke and ste am. The w ork of rescue w as. thcre'fore. difficult. The locomotive, of the White Plains local was hidden -n the rear eat of the South Norwalk train. The maimed and injured were calling from the wreck. Some, more badly injured tuau others, were being assisted by the more unfortunate passengers. The work of rescue wa- further im paired by the enormous crowds, which, in spite of po!ie*e vigilance. ; swarmed into the tunnel through its many entrances, or crowded about the ope ning at the surfa<-e. The first of the- injured taken from the wreck was a woman. She was e-arritel to the Women’s Hospital. In many instance the uninjured and those whose injuries were slight re'ndored splendid aid. while others, bewildered by the stuck and dark ness, groped their way along the walls seeking an exit. Some of the passengers walked through the tunnel into the Grand Central Station, while others made their way to the’ stairways below the south end of the tunnel. The bodies of tb;- deael anil many . of the wounded were hoisted through the openings in the roof of the tunnel. plar-ed in the waiting ambulances and rushed to the nearest hospitals. No attempt was made at Sdentifica tion.