Cortland
Evening Standard, Tuesday, October 26, 1897.
DIVING FOR
THE BODIES.
All But
Three Recovered From the Hudson River.
IDENTIFYING
THE DEAD.
Officials
Make a Bonfire of the Wrecked and Useless Cars.
GARRISON, N. Y., Oct. 26.—The complete list
of the killed in the New York Central and Hudson River railroad wreck, and
which the railroad officials believe includes all of those who could possibly
be lost, is as follows:
JOHN C. FOYLE, engineer of East Albany; body
not recovered.
JOHN Q. TOMPKINS, fireman of East Albany; body
not recovered.
SAMUEL WILLIAMS of 781 Best street, Buffalo.
THOMAS RILEY, St. Louis.
W. H. G. MYERS, Tremont, N. Y.
A. G. MCKAY, Harlem; body still in the river.
E. A. GREEN, Chicago.
WILLIAM SCHENCKENBECKER of 89 South
Thirteenth street, Newark, N. J., otherwise known as William S. Becker.
GUISEPPE TAGUANA of 38 Park street, New
York.
MRS. ROBERT LINDSMAN, Utica.
Unknown woman, not yet identified.
CHIN LEE SONG of San Francisco, on his way
to make New York his residence.
LEE TONG SONG, brother of Chin Lee Song.
HOO WUH of New York.
CHIN FONG HOP, of 17 Mott street, New York.
Unknown Chinaman with letter to Hop Sing of Newark,
N. J.
WONG GIM, residence unknown.
Two unknown Chinamen.
The number is 19 and there is little doubt
that this is the total list of the killed.
The bodies of the engineer, fireman and Mr.
Van Etten's secretary are yet in the river, with small hopes of their immediate
recovery.
CLAIMING
THE DEAD.
Row
Between Undertakers Over the Bodies of the Chinamen.
The first body identified was that of Samuel
Williams of Buffalo, who died after being taken out of the wreck and while on
his way to the Peekskill hospital. The body was identified by the man's brother,
Henry C. Williams, and Rev. August Goetz, pastor of the Bartholomew Evangelical
church of Buffalo. The brother and his pastor clasped hands over the body of
the dead man and wept together. The body was sent to Buffalo.
The Chinamen, who it was supposed would have
to be buried at the county's expense, were for the most part identified by
prominent Celestials from New York. All but two or three were identified by
[Sam] Ping Lee, vice president of the Chinese Equal Rights league of 4 Mott
street, New York, and by Charles T.
Sing, an Americanized Chinamen and court interpreter of New York.
Most of the Chinamen lived in New York.
A number of employes of a Mott street undertaker
reached Cold Spring prepared to take the dead Chinamen to New York for burial.
They were acting for the Chong Wah Kung Saw, a Chinese benevolent society.
The undertakers here brought with them eight
coffins. This caused a question between the Chinamen and the undertakers of
Cold Spring. The New Yorkers got the necessary burial permits from the coroner
and the Cold Spring undertakers took the bodies to the railroad station to turn
them over to the friends of the Chinamen from New York city.
The local undertakers had already placed the
bodies of the Chinamen in coffins, and the New York undertakers refused to take
the bodies unless they were taken out of the Cold Spring coffins and placed in
the coffins which they had brought with them. No agreement of this kind could
be made so the undertakers took the bodies back to their respective morgues,
there to remain until the controversy is settled.
George C. Green of Buffalo, general counsel
of the Lake Shore railroad, arrived at Cold Spring and identified his nephew
Edwin A. Green of Chicago. He said that the young man, who was 32 years old,
had called on him in Buffalo a few days ago, being on his way to New York.
One of the two women was identified as Mrs.
Mary Lindsman of Utica, N. Y. She was identified by her husband, Robert
Lindsman, a tailor, who said that his wife left home on Saturday night to go to
Croton on a visit to her mother. She was 24 years old.
William S. Becker of Newark, N. J., was
identified by his brother, Nicolas, of Auburn. The brother stated that the
family name was Schenckenbecker, but they had changed it to Becker. He was 38
years old and leaves a wife and two children. The body was taken to Yonkers,
where Becker's mother lives.
In examining the body of the Italian,
Taguana, $140 in money was found strapped around his left leg, just above the
ankle.
ARCHIE
BOYD ALIVE.
Actor
Seen on another Train—Hospital Patients Improving.
Archie Boyd, the actor, who was reported
missing, was seen four hours after the accident occurred on a train that passed
this point.
The stories current that some parts of the
wreck caught fire after the accident are declared to be untrue, as are also the
rumors that two bodies had been found near Peekskill.
All of the patients at the Helping Hand
hospital in Peekskill are doing well and the physicians state that none of the
injuries will prove fatal.
The three Chinamen, whom it was supposed
would die, are much better. As to whether they were smuggled into this country
their lips are sealed. One can talk English. He says there were 12 Chinamen in
the party. If his statement is correct,
all the Chinese have been accounted for.
Clarence Morgan of Buffalo, another patient,
positively refuses to see anyone but the nurses and surgeons.
DIVER AT
WORK.
Failed
to Recover the Bodies of Foyle, Tompkins and McKay.
The wrecking company made another search for
the bodies of the engineer, the fireman and of Superintendent Van Etten's clerk,
Mr. McKay. The diver, I. J. Merritt, was unable to find them.
Still later Mr. Merritt went down again and
began the work of fastening lines and tackle to the tender so that it can be
raised. When this is accomplished the other parts will be brought up and if the
bodies of the three men are not found by that time the search will be
abandoned, the theory being that the bodies will eventually come to the
surface.
Mr. Chapman, of the wrecking company, says
that he would not be surprised to hear of them being found 10 miles from here.
But for a few embers and the twisted rails it
would be difficult to detect any signs of the wreck.
FIRED
THE WRECK.
Cars
Were of No Further Use to the Company, So They Applied the Torch.
Division Superintendent McCoy decided that
none of the cars would ever be fit for use again, and that with the exceptions
of the cushions there was nothing worth saving.
The torch was applied to the day coach and
combination smoking car and baggage car.
The sleeping coach Hermes was lifted to a
transport, towed down the river and deposited on the bank, where it was
destroyed by fire. The last coach of the ill-fated train, the Niobe, was gotten
out of the water and also burned.
The express car is around the little knoll
of the mountain, 300 yards below.
A large force of men has been at work
building another track, and there soon will be two tracks at this point. The
northbound track was moved over five feet east, a firm bed composed of sand,
gravel and broken stones having been prepared for it.
A track has also been nearly completed for
southbound trains.
RYAN'S
STORY.
Was
Awakened by the Jerk —Swimming in the Car.
John E. Ryan of Jersey City, now in the
hospital at Peekskill, is resting well. He told what happened to him:
"I got on the train at Albany, going into
the day coach. There were 10 passengers in the car. I had just fell into a doze
when the shock came.
"The day coach went into the water in an
upright position and floated. The lamps were out. The water commenced to rise
in the car.
"I swam to one of the small ventilators
and began smashing the glass with my fist, nearly severing two fingers by the operation.
"The cries of the other occupants were awful.
I held fast to my position. I was joined by a man and his son, who smashed out
another ventilator.
"While in this position we could see a
tug nearby, but could not make them hear us. The situation was horrible. Every
minute seemed an age, and we thought it would never end.
"Soon we saw a man with an ax, swim out
from the bank and we called to him to chop the side of the car. The boy was
fast failing, but the ax soon made an opening through which I shoved the
youngster. Then the man made the hole larger and the father and myself went
through. We were the only ones in the car to escape alive."
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| Chauncey M. Depew. |
PRESIDENT
DEPEW
Says the
Road Was Supposed to Be Safe. Investigation Demanded.
NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—President Depew read a
published statement to the effect that the company had for some time prior to
the accident been watching the place where the wreck took place, well knowing
its dangerous condition.
"That is so absurd," said Mr.
Depew, "that I hardly care to make any reply.
We run the
New York Central to make money. As its officials we ride over it almost daily
in the same trains with the passengers.
"Now does it seem likely that we are
knowingly risking our own lives? The only way we can make money out of the road
is to make it safer than any other, and we spare no expense to do this. I have
wired the state railroad commissioners asking them to come at once, while the
matter is fresh, and make a thorough examination. One of the commissioners was
at the scene of the wreck Sunday, but I want to get all of them there."
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| Charity Hospital, New Orleans. |
People
of New Orleans object to Being Quarantined—Deaths Increasing.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 26.—Numerically this city
has just experienced its worst day of the [yellow] fever situation here. The
score of the board of health shows a total of 33 new cases and there had been
deaths to the number of 11. Heretofore the highest number of deaths in a single
day has been nine.
Unfortunately, there continues to be
concealment of cases, fatalities occur because medical attention is not called
in, and the masses for the time being are in a revolutionary mood because of
the enforcement of house quarantine, and are resorting to every means in their
power to put obstacles in the way of constituted authorities.
It is generally agreed here that the house
quarantine is not accomplishing the results expected.
Death of
Stephen Brewer.
Mr. Stephen Brewer, for many years a resident
of Cortland, died Sunday night, Oct. 24, at 11 o'clock at the home of his
sister Mrs. John B. Spooner at Lockport, N. Y. He was born at East Hartford,
Ct., Jan. 13, 1822, and was consequently 75 years, 9 months and 11 days of age.
When a young man Mr. Brewer came to Cortland
to learn the trade of a harness maker from his brother, Mr. Henry Brewer, and
for many years worked for his brother, and afterward for his nephew Mr. Edward
H. Brewer, after that gentleman succeeded his father in business. He was at one
time a justice of the peace in Cortland and was also a solicitor of patents
here.
Mr. Brewer's wife was Miss Mary Esty of
Ithaca, and two children was born to them: Mrs. John T. Pratt who died about
twenty-five years ago, and Dr. Joseph S. Brewer, who died Jan. 20, 1897. Mrs.
Brewer died a number of years ago. For some years prior to Mrs. Brewer's death
their home was in Ithaca, but after her decease Mr. Brewer traveled largely,
making headquarters in Cortland, but spending part of the time with his
relatives and some of his winters in the South.
He was an enthusiastic wheelman and
attributed much of his good health in advancing years to the excellent exercise
and to his long tours on his wheel. He had not been in usual health for a few
weeks past, but it was not supposed that he was seriously ill till shortly before
the end.
He is survived by his sister, Mrs. Spooner,
at whose home he died, and also by two half sisters, Mrs. Stewart and Miss
Joanna Brewer of Ocean Springs, Miss.
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Brewer left this morning
for Lockport to attend the funeral which will be held there to-morrow afternoon.
It is thought that the remains will be brought to Cortland for burial some time
on Thursday, but the arrangements for this are not yet completed.
Cincinnatus
Gas Co.
ALBANY, Oct. 26.—The Cincinnatus Gas company
of Cincinnatus, Cortland county, was to-day incorporated with the secretary of
state; capital stock $2,000; directors: B. R. Corning, F. M. Benjamin, P. C.
Wheeler, Benjamin Kinyon and M. L. Halbert of Cincinnatus.
A PLAGUE
OF INSECTS.
Bicyclists
and Horses in the State Have Been Annoyed by Them for Weeks.
A plague of winged insects has prevailed
through this part of the state during the fall months to such an extent that
driving and bicycling have been robbed of their pleasure. These minute pests
fill the eyes and facial orifices of the bicycler and make horses frantic with
pain and apprehension. A few minutes in the open air is sufficient to cover the
garments with the bodies of these insects, which fly with such force as to kill
themselves when they are obstructed.
They get into the eyes of animals and
persons in such numbers that serious inflammation often is excited. The Ithaca
Journal says that specimens have been submitted to Dr. Charles W. Hargitt of
the biological department of Syracuse university, who pronounces them a species
of aphid or plant lice. They are very small, green in color and provided with
thin, transparent wings, which fold longitudinally against the body. The
irritation which results from their getting into the eye comes from a secretion
which they are capable of exuding from their bodies. The fluid in some of the
species is of a sweet, transparent, sticky nature and often covers the leaves
of the trees which they infest and collects on the ground beneath, forming the
food of wasps, bees and ants, known as "honey dew."
ATTEMPTED
SUICIDE.
Prisoner
Taken From Cortland Takes Poison on an Ithaca Street Car.
Lizzie Quinn, the woman about 50 years of
age, who was taken to Ithaca on the 1:40 train yesterday afternoon by a
Tompkins county officer on a bench warrant, as noted in The STANDARD last night,
attempted suicide before she reached the Ithaca jail. She stepped out upon the
platform of the trolley car while descending the hill in that city from the
Lehigh Valley station upon some pretext or other and as her escort turned his
face away she took the contents of a vial of aconite. It did not seem to affect
her till she reached the jail and then to the surprise of the officers she
seemed to go all to pieces. A search of her person was made and the empty
aconite bottle was found and also a full bottle of laudanum. A physician was at
once called and restoratives applied. This afternoon she is reported as very
comfortable and recovering rapidly.
The woman was charged with libel in writing
letters. From the many queer things she has done it is not believed by some
that she is sane.
FARM
HOUSE BURNED.
No One
Knows How the Fire Started or Where the Family Is.
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Bates spent Sunday in
Freetown, going over in the early morning. On their return at night a farmhouse,
occupied by a family named Schouten
located in the town of Cortlandville near the Freetown line on the road from
Hoxieville to Freetown Corners, lay in ashes. No one seemed to be about the
premises. In the morning, when they passed the house, the family appeared to be
preparing to go away. The origin of the fire is not known.
BROKE
BOTH ARMS.
Mrs.
John T. Barnes of 64 Railroad-st. Fell Yesterday Afternoon.
Mrs. John T. Barnes of 64 Railroad-st. was
yesterday the victim of an accident which will lay her up for some time. She was
descending the cellar stairs with some articles in her hands, and had just reached
the cellar bottom, when she slipped and fell forward, striking heavily on both
hands. The result was that each radius bone received a colles fracture just
above the wrist joint, and both wrist joints were dislocated. Dr. S. J. Sornberger,
assisted by Dr. H. T. Dana, reduced the fractures, and Mrs. Barnes is as
comfortable as might be expected.
BREVITIES.
—Kate Rooney will be the attraction at the
Opera House all next week.
—The
new Kremlin hotel was opened to the public one year ago to-day.
—The Democratic county committee held a
meeting in its rooms in the Taylor hall block this afternoon.
—The mothers meeting (north) will be held
Wednesday, Oct. 27, at 8 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Sandwick, 66 Madison-st.
Subject, "Teaching Obedience."
—Mr. and Mrs. Robert McMiIlen will receive
the sympathy of a large number of friends in the death of their two days' old
son, which occurred at 4 o'clock this morning.
—Mrs. I. V. Johnson of 144 Main-st. accidentally
cut a deep gash in the end of her left thumb this morning with a butcher knife.
Dr. H. P. Johnson dressed the injury, and the wound will soon heal.
—New display advertisements to-day are—D.
McCarthy & Co., stylish outer-garments, page 6; Lewis S. Hayes, special sale,
page 4; C. F. Brown, toilet soap, etc., page 6; Case & Ruggles, ladies'
and children's wraps, page 6.
—A very handsome Cortland Howe ventilating
stove of this year's pattern is on exhibition in the window of Bingham Brothers
& Miller's store and is to be disposed of by the Moulders' union for
the benefit of one of their members who is ill.
—The opening of the E. & C. N. Y. R. R. to Solon
and the running of regular passenger trains between Cortland and Solon has been
necessarily postponed from to-morrow to Saturday, Oct. 30. Freight, however,
will be received any day and will be transported promptly.
—A class in spelling is very soon to be
formed at the Normal school among the Normal students. Candidates for admission
will be selected by vote of the faculty, and graduation will also be by vote of
the faculty. The Normal teachers very properly consider ability to spell as one
of the prime requisites of a good education.
—The dates for the animal convention of the
New York State Dairymen's association have been fixed for Dec. 15 and 16, and
the state officials are looking with increased favor toward Cortland as a place
for its meeting. The Patrons of Husbandry have taken the matter in hand with
the idea of complying with the requirements in the way of entertainment and the
convention will probably be in Cortland.
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