Garrison train crash

46 of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad derailed near King's Dock of the Hudson River division, about one and three-quarters miles south of Garrison.

All but one of the 19 fatalities drowned when the embankment gave way, plunging the train into the Hudson River.

[2][3] Witnesses described feeling between one and three "thuds" before three of the five sleeper cars fell into the river.

[2] Early speculation blamed a large explosion of dynamite as the cause of the train's derailment.

[4] Two weeks previously, the same train had almost derailed near the same spot when a two-ton boulder was found on the tracks, with some believing it had been deliberately placed.