History of Corning, New York, USA

Corning, an important post-village of Painted Post township, Steuben county. New York, on the New York and Erie railroad, 301 miles from New York city. It is beautifully situated at the foot of a hill on the S. bank of the Chemung river, and contains from 15 to 20 stores, a bank, several manufactories, 2 or 3 hotels, and a foundry. It has an extensive trade in lumber and coal: 25,000,000 feet of dressed timber are estimated to be sent annually from this place down the Susquehanna. The Corning and Blossburg railroad connects it with the bituminous coal region of Pennsylvania. The Buffalo, Corning, and New York railroad connects it with Buffalo and Canada. Bridges unite the village to the communities of Knoxville and Centreville, on the opposite side of the Chemung river. Population, about 2000.

CORNING, a village of Painted Post township, Steuben co., in the state of New York, U.S., 213 m. WSW of Albany, on the S side of Chemung river, intersected by the New York and Erie railroad, and connected by a canal and Seneca lake with the Erie canal. It has also railway communication with the coal district of the state of Pennsylvania, by means of which it carries on an extensive trade in lumber, coal, &c.

CORNING, Thursday, Jan. 13. The large stone building, owned by R. E. Robinson & Co., and occupied by several persons as a flouring mill, furniture wareroom, confectionary and bakery, &c., was totally destroyed by fire at about 2 o'clock this morning. Loss $30,000; insurance $14,000. Supposed to be the work of an incendiary.

Corning, N.Y., expects to have a glass factory, which will give employment to 200 workmen.

Corning, a city of New York, one of the capitals of Steuben co, is situated on the Chemung River, and on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western and the Erie Railroads, 290 miles W.N.W. of New York, 132 miles E.S.E. of Buffalo, and 16 miles W.N.W. of Elmira. It is a terminus of several branches of the Fall Brook Railroad system, which connect it with the coal-mines of Lycoming and Tioga cos., Pa., and with the New York Central system. It contains a court-house, 7 churches, the Corning Free Academy, a public library, 2 banks, several iron-foundries, manufactures of railroad-cars, extensive glass-works, stove-works, lumber industries, &c. Two daily and 2 weekly newspapers are published here. A bridge across the river connects Corning with Knoxville. Pop. in 1880, 4802; in 1890, 8550.

On the 26th day of October, 1825, that great thoroughfare of travel and traffic - the Erie canal - was completed and opened for its intended use, and great and immediate benefit accrued to the towns and villages along its route. During the ten years next following this event, the legislature was constantly besieged with applications for charters and for pecuniary assistance in the interest of other similar enterprises, nearly all of which were intended to be auxiliary and tributary to the canal first mentioned, and to cross the State from north to south, penetrating the vast lumber tracts of Southern New York and the unlimited coal fields of Northern Pennsylvania. Capitalists and merchants in Albany and New York, and also in the more prominent manufacturing centers of New England, were desirous that these lateral waterways should be established, for they eagerly sought both coal and lumber for business and speculative purposes, which commodities were not provided by the main canal. In ...

ENGINEER IGNORES SIGNALS

Two Day Coaches Split in Two and a Pullman Crumpled Up by the Onrushing Locomotive.

VICTIMS KILLED IN SLEEP

A Few Passengers Who Rise to Learn Cause of Delay Witnesses of Tragedy.

SWIFTLY RUSH TO SUCCOR.

Injured Are Hurried to Corning Hospitals While Dead Are Laid Out for Identification.

MANY VICTIMS FROM HERE

Officials Blame Disaster on Express Engineer, Who, They Say, Ran By Warning Semaphore.

Special to The New York Times.

CORNING, N. Y., July 4. - Train No. 9, the regular train of Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, which leaves Hoboken nightly at 9 o'clock and is due here at 4:47 o'clock the next morning, was halted near Gibson, a small town three miles east of here, shortly after 5 o'clock this morning. In front of it was a freight train, stalled on the steep incline to Gibson, by the pulling out of a drawhead. An engine from the passenger train-two had been put on to surmount the grade at Groveland with a heavy excursion...

Corning, a city of Steuben co., N.Y., is situated on the Chemung River and on the Lackawanna, the Erie, and the New York Central and Hudson River Rs., 17 miles WNW. of Elmira. It contains a court-house, the Corning Academy, St. Mary's Orphan Asylum, iron-foundries, extensive glass-, briok-, tile-, terra-cotta, and wagon-works, etc., and has lumber- and coal-industries. Coal is mined in the vicinity. A bridge across the river connects Corning with Knoxville. Pop. in 1880, 4802; in 1890, 8550; in 1900, 11,061.