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| Photos of New York Central train wreck near Garrison, N. Y. |
The
Cortland Democrat, Friday, October 29, 1897.
INTO THE HUDSON.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT ON THE NEW YORK CENTRAL.
The Engine and Several Cars Plunge into the
River—Many Drowned—Cause of Accident as yet Unknown.
Monday
morning's dispatches brought the news of a terrible disaster which occurred
early Sunday morning at Garrison, a small place on the east side of the Hudson
opposite West Point, on the New York Central & Hudson River railroad. Train
No. 26 on the New York Central plunged into the Hudson river at this point
about daylight this morning.
There was
nothing to presage the accident. The train left Buffalo last night and had
progressed for nearly nine-tenths of the distance toward its destination. The
engineer plunged with his engine to the river bottom, and the firemen, too was at
his post. Behind them came the express car, the combination and the sleepers,
and these piled on top of the engine.
It is
known that it was a trifle foggy and that the track was not visible, but if
there was any break in the lines of steel it must have been of very recent
happening, for only an hour before there had passed over it a heavy passenger
train laden with human freight. Neither is there an explanation ready. There is
a conjecture.
This
section was supposed to be the very best on the road. There was a heavy
retaining wall along the bank, and while the tide was high yesterday, it was
not unprecedented.
What
seems to have happened was that underneath the tracks and the ties the heavy
walls had given away, and when the great weight of the engine struck the unsupported
tracks it went crashing through the rest of the wall and toppled over into the
river.
As the
train plunged over the embankment the coupling that held the last three of the
six sleepers broke and they remained on the broken track. In that way some
sixty lives were saved.
The
wrecked train was known as the State Express. It left Buffalo at 7 o'clock last
night and was due in New York at 7 o'clock this morning. The train was hauled
by engine 872 and consisted of one American Express car, one day coach and six
sleepers. This was the makeup of the train when it left Poughkeepsie, the last
stopping place before the disaster at 5:10 A. M.
When a
diver arrived from New York this afternoon the first thing he did was to go
through the three submerged sleeping cars. He reported that he found no bodies,
but said that one or more might be under the berths, which were in great
confusion.
Of
eyewitnesses there were none except the crew of a tugboat passing with a tow.
They saw the train with its lights as it came flashing about the curves and
then saw the greater part of it go into the river. Some of the cars with closed
windows floated, and the tug, whistling for help, cast off its hawser and
started to the rescue. A porter jumped from one of the cars that remained on
the track and ran into the yard of Augustus Carr's house, near which the
accident occurred, and stood screaming for help.
The day
coach and smoker had gone down in the deeper water and rescue was impossible.
In the latter coach the conditions must have been terrible. The car turned
completely over and the passenger end of it was in the deep water, while the
baggage end stood up toward the surface. The men in that lower end must have fought
like fiends for a brief period, for the bodies when taken out were a mass of wounds.
It was at
first reported that twenty-eight persons had lost their lives in the accident, and
from twenty-five to thirty were seriously injured, but up to Monday night but
nineteen bodies had been recovered and this number was thought to cover the
list of the dead, and included in this number are eight Chinamen. It seems
probable, however, that at least two or three more were killed or drowned in
the accident as will be discovered later.
DO NOT BE DECEIVED.
ATTENTION DEMOCRATS! DON’T THROW YOUR VOTES
AWAY.
To Vote the Independent Republican Ticket
is Worse Than Useless. Vote
The Democratic Ticket Straight and Elect
it.
Henry
Howes is asking some of his Democratic friends to vote for him, claiming to
them that the fight is between himself and Saunders. For any Democrat to desert
David W. Van Hoesen and vote for Howes would be worse than folly.
Howes is the candidate of the Independent
Republicans, and is nominated by a petition with 1242 signers, and he cannot
possibly [expect] to exceed 1500 votes in the county. Van Hoesen has 2400
Democratic votes to start with, and with the solid vote of his party the
accessions he will receive will surely result in his election.
For
Democrats to vote for Howes is to elect Saunders; a vote for Howes is half a
vote for Saunders. Democrats, do not be deceived, this is not the year to give
complimentary votes to Republicans of either faction. VOTE FOR DAVID W. VAN
HOESEN.
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| Judge Walter Lloyd Smith. |
The Scheme to Disfranchise the Independent
Republicans Defeated in the Appellate Division.
Public
indignation has been so intensified by the attempt of "A. S. Brown and faction"
to disfranchise 1200 Republicans of this county, and will be so manifest at the
polls on Tuesday next that there won’t be enough left of that
"faction" when the votes are counted to make it worthwhile to send
the remains to Syracuse university for dissection.
Not
content with two decisions of Justice Walter Lloyd Smith sustaining the
legality of the Independent's certificate, made on Monday and Wednesday of last
week respectively, N. L. Miller and E. C. Alger both conspicuous members of
"A. S. Brown and faction." as attorneys for said "faction,"
appealed on Friday the 22nd inst. from the two orders made by Justice Smith to
the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court then convened in extraordinary
session in the city of Albany, and as at the previous hearings Hon. O. U.
Kellogg appeared for the Independent Citizens. As was expected by every lawyer
and layman of sufficient intelligence to read a statute printed in unmistakable
English, the Appellate Division affirmed the orders of the lower court and
dismissed the appeal. Thus the only attempt ever made in the county of Cortland
to disfranchise a large body of electors and deprive them of their inherent
right to vote the ticket of their choice, met with the summary defeat it deserved.
Both
before Justice Smith and in the Appellate Division, the burden of the argument
of N. L. Miller was a personal attack upon the honesty and integrity of County
Clerk E. C. Palmer, and Deputy Clerk H. T. Bushnell the Democratic and
Independent Citizen's candidate for County Clerk, and both were charged by
Miller with forgery, perjury and about every other offense known in the catalogue
of crimes. Among the papers used by Miller before Justice Smith was an
affidavit sworn to by A. E. Seymour, the McGrawville end of "A. S. Brown
and faction,'' who charged Mr. Bushnell with forgery in the following terms:
"That
the deponent is acquainted with the handwriting of H. T. Bushnell, Deputy
County Clerk of Cortland county, and that he is satisfied that the writing upon
the face of the petition in said certificate, with the exception of the words
'Edwin Duffey, Cortland, Cortland,' and 'Robert L. Smith, Marathon, Marathon,'
is all in the handwriting of the said H. T. Bushnell…
"Deponent further states that a considerable number of the names in
said certificate have no residence attached to them and that deponent is
satisfied from a careful examination of the names in said certificate that a
number of them are in the same handwriting and were not written by the persons
bearing such names."
When
Seymour saw what a hornet's nest he had stirred up he made a weak attempt to
disaffirm any reflections upon Mr. Bushnell, by a letter to the Standard, but the affidavit is on file
in the County Clerk's office, a public record and speaks for itself. Upon a
question of veracity between A. E. Seymour and H. T. Bushnell, Mr. Bushnell can
safely leave the issue with the citizens of this county, and they will decide
that issue next Tuesday in a way that even Mr. Seymour will be able to
appreciate the force of the decision.
This
desperate effort at disfranchisement, viewed as an attempt to practice in the
courts was a roaring farce, as an attempt to influence public opinion which
with irresistible force is rushing "A. S. Brown and faction" to the
brink of destruction, it proved a boomerang. As an attempt to save Dowd from an
overwhelming defeat, it has made his defeat more positive and certain than
before. The courts have rendered judgment; the people will put that judgment
into execution on election day.
NEIGHBORING COUNTIES.
CHENANGO.—Nelson
Bowers of Smyrna had a leg badly crushed in a hay press.
Elisha
Green of Smyrna has been taken to the Binghamton insane asylum.
Among the
inmates at the Soldiers Home near Oxford is a blind woman, who is an expert
checker player.
Greene
has a thriving chewing gum factory. Mr. E. Harrison is the proprietor, and by
making the best gum on earth, he has established a well paying industry.
One
hundred tons of crushed stone are to be used in the construction of the bottom
of the Oxford waterworks reservoir. They evidently intend it shall hold water
from the start.
While
digging for the waterworks on Fort Hill, near Oxford, the other day, the Italians unearthed the remains of a human body. In
former years, it is thought that there was an Indian fort on this little hill.
The oldest people in the town have no recollection of there being a cemetery there,
and it is thought to be the body of an Indian.
MADISON.—Lewis
Smith of Hamilton has sold 2,000 pounds of choice hops at 20 c.
The ball
game of the fat and lean men of Oneida netted the Old Ladies' Home $46.50.
One
hundred and twenty-five men and twenty-five teams are engaged in canal
improvement work in the vicinity of Canastota.
The
telephone has been removed from Brookfield, leaving that village only stage coach
connection with the hustling outside world.
The
Congregational Society of DeRuyter have purchased the Joseph Burdick house, just
east of their church, for a parsonage. Consideration, $625.
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| Early model Crandall Typewriter. |
The
Crandall Machine Co. of Groton added several men to their force recently to get
out foreign orders for typewriters.
Last week
practically cleared the shipments of grapes from Lake Ridge. The crop has been
a fine one and fair prices have been realized.
The yield
of buckwheat is very uneven. One man reports 8 bushels from 6 acres; another
137 from 18 acres; another 500 bushels from 13 acres and another 160 bushels
from 6 acres.
The new
steel arch bridge which is being constructed across Fall Creek gorge in Ithaca, near the site of the new hydraulic laboratory,
will be completed about November 15. Its span is 180 feet long, with height
from bottom of ravine 125 feet. The [manufactured in Groton] bridge will make the
Cornell heights more accessible.
A tramp
broke into a box car attached to a Lehigh freight train recently at Groton. When
the man had entered, Conductor Bates, who was a witness of the act, closed the
door and held the train while a passenger went for an officer. The burglar was taken
before a justice of the peace and committed to jail to await the action of the grand
jury.
The
hydraulic laboratory in process of construction on the Cornell campus will be
the largest in the world. Building is being rapidly pushed and the gorge is a scene
of great activity. Over fifty men are employed night and day in order to get
the work on the canal and dam done before the time limit expires. The work on
the laboratory, power house and pumping house will keep a force of men busy until
spring.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
◘ The Standard in its issue of October 26 consumes a large part of its
valuable space in printing copious extracts from the "almshouse law,"
and we are truly indebted to our esteemed contemporary for so doing for it,
unwittingly perhaps, confirms every material statement made in the DEMOCRAT of
last week. In the article in another column, the charge which the DEMOCRAT makes
and which the Standard proves, is
that the law of 1893 did not include almshouses, and that the law of 1896,
for which the Standard concedes Mr. Saunders voted, included
almshouses in the four counties of Onondaga Madison, Oswego and Cortland,
and excludes them in every other county in the state. We object to the
inmates of our county almshouses being classed with the inmates of morgues and
the Auburn state prison, and the people are with us in that objection. DAVID W.
VAN HOESEN IS PLEDGED TO SECURE THE REPEAL OF THE LAW.
◘ The patriotic and liberal purposes of the people in their endeavor to
protect the state forests and water sheds of the Hudson have been perverted,
and one of the most venal of rings has seized upon this great public
improvement, wasting millions of money in the north woods with a purpose to
defeat all efforts for a permanent forest preserve. Thousands of acres of land
beyond the water sheds of the Hudson river and Erie canal have been and are
being purchased at a cost of from five to ten dollars per acre, nearly all of
which has been denuded by the lumbermen and wood pulp manufacturers, and is now
sold as a part of the forest preserve at a price ten times its true value. All
of this land would probably within a few years, have come into possession of
the State through the Comptroller's tax sales, at a cost not exceeding a few
cents per acre. The 65,000 acres of land in the Catskill region comprising the
State Forest Preserve in that part of the State, have been turned over,
regardless of results, to lumber thieves as they desired to prey upon it; the
State Deer Park has been closed and the deer turned into the forest without
care or protection; and the most beautiful tract of virgin forest within one
hundred and fifty miles of New York city, the seat of our densest population,
and which constitutes the great sanitarium for the metropolitan masses, has
ceased to interest the State Forest Commission in any particular because it
afforded no opportunity for profit to the state forest ring, which to-day is
perpetrating the greatest swindle on the Treasury of the State of New York ever
known in the history of that office.
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| Richard Holland Duell. |
More
Fraud Attempted.
Another Duell-Brown-Saunders [Republican] trick
is being attempted, in telling Democrats that if there is any candidate on the
Democratic ticket for whom they do not wish to vote, that all that is necessary
is to put a cross in the circle at the head of the Democratic column, and then
draw a line through the name of the candidate for whom they do not wish to
vote. Democrats, to follow these instructions is to LOSE YOUR VOTE, a line so
drawn through any name will vitiate the whole ballot, and it will be thrown out
as defective.
The ONLY way to vote a Democratic ticket,
and NOT VOTE for some one candidate on the ticket, is to put a cross in the
square at the left of EACH candidate for whom you do wish to vote, and omit the
cross in the square at the left of the candidates name that you do not wish to
vote for. Read the instructions of the Attorney General for preparing the
ballot in the first column on our first page. Beware of tricks. DO NOT LOSE
YOUR VOTE.
HERE AND THERE.
Election next Tuesday.
Bingham Bros. & Miller have a large new
ad. on this page. It will interest all needing clothing.
Mothers' meeting east will be held Friday,
Oct. 29, at 8 P. M., at the residence Mrs. Mudge, 38 Hubbard-st.
Messrs. W. A. Stockwell, Jas. A. Nixon and
E. H. Baldwin have formed a partnership to conduct a fire and life insurance business.
The firm will be Jas. A. Nixon & Co.
Regular meeting of the board of managers of
the Hospital association will be held at the hospital, Monday next, Nov. 1st,
at 3 P. M. A full attendance is desired as officers for the coining year
are to be elected.
Mrs. H. O. Jewell and Mr. Warner Rood left
on Monday morning to attend the funeral of Mrs. William Etheridge, mother of
Mrs. G. S. P. Jewett, who died at her home on South-st., Utica, Saturday, Oct.
23d.
Last Tuesday was the first anniversary of
the opening of the Kremlin hotel. Proprietor L. D. Carns has had a very
prosperous year. His rooms are all occupied nearly every night and often he is
obliged to find lodgings for guests in other places. The traveling public all
speak a good word for the Kremlin.
A small boy with a hoop managed to frighten
one of the delivery horses at
N. Schellinger's
market on Saturday morning and gave him a good send-off. The horse ran through
the principal streets of the village and then started for the country, but was
finally caught and returned without having done any particular damage to any
one or anything.
Mr. Frederick Warde appeared in "lskander"
at the Opera House on last
Friday
evening, and gave a very satisfactory performance. The stage settings
were fine,
some of the scenes being as fine as any ever seen in Cortland, and the
costumes were elegant. Mr. Warde fully met the expectations of the theatre
going public, and the company, as a whole, was good. ''lskander'' was one of
the best things seen in Cortland.
HOMER.
HOMER, Oct. 26.—We are glad to see County
Treasurer Foster riding a new Barnes bicycle.
Mr. P. McAuliff has opened a boot and shoe
repair shop in the Brown block on James-st.
The cabbage season here is at full blast now,
seven or eight [railroad] cars being loaded every day.
Mrs. C. D. Dillenbeck and sons have returned
after a week's visit with relatives in Syracuse.
The Salvation army has revived here again
and a new captain took command Saturday evening.
A very pleasant surprise party was held at
the home of Mr. Burdick on South Main-st., Saturday evening.
We learn that Mr. John Roe has sold his farm
located between here and Little York to Starr White and he expects to move into
town soon.
Hon. Franklin Saunders has been in town
trying to find some voters to help elect him Member of Assembly next Tuesday.
We don't think be found many here.
The Harvest festival held in Mr. Barber's
new barn on Clinton-st. was an enjoyable affair. About 200 were present. Light
refreshments were served after which the evening was spent in dancing.
During the closing out sale of C. E. Wills,
three clerks have been busy most of the time wrapping up boots and shoes. We
are sorry that such a good shoe dealer as Mr. Wills is going to retire from the
business.
A reception will be tendered by the ladies
of the M. E. church Wednesday evening to their pastor, Rev. L. E. Eastwood, who
has been returned to this charge for another year. A delicious supper will be
served.
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