The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-03
Fatal ce,,ssseu.
now AN EXCURSION TRAIN AND A LOCAL
TRAIN CAME TO CRASH INTO EACH OTHER ON
TnH LONG ISLAND RAILROAD.

| now AN EXCURSION TRAIN AND A LOCAL
TRAIN CAME TO CRASH INTO EACH OTHER ON
THE LONG ISLAND RAILROAD.
New York World. ye.tsrdsy.l
One life was lost by Saturday nights col.
| lision on the Southern railroad Of Long
Island near Morris Greve. but that no more
| llves were lost Is almost miracle. A local
train running between FIatbush avenue,
| Brooklyn. aud Jamaica left Brooklyn, II ~
said. at 9:05 u. M.--that being the time
when IL should have left--and was due at
Jamaica at 9:26. A Long Beach train com.
ing the other way was due TO leave Jamaica
at 9.35. IL was on time, but the local II ain
had not at Gas arrived. nor was 1t signalled
on the road. Although the other train was
nine minutes behind time the Long Beach
train started with almost certainty OF
meeting the local train when both were I'M
der full Roadway. The danger OF collision
was further increased by the nature OF the
road, which is marked in this part by FIRE.
quent sharp curves. On one OF these
curves, about two hundred yards from
Morris Grove and about TWO miles from ia
maica, the two trains came together. The
Long Beach train consisted OF four close
cars. with some three hundred passengers
aboard, and was goin. twenty miles an
hour.
The engines were less than one hundred
yards apart when the engineers saw that the
collision was inevitable and cndeavorcd 10
check the momentum OF the trains by re-
yersing the engines and applying the air.
brakes. The two locomotives came to-
geiher with terrific force. Both engines
and their tendeIs were completely smashed
and baggage-car of the Long Beach train
was damaged beyond repair. The local
train consisted OF a single passenger-car, en-
CINE and tender, and carried only tive pas
sengers, and IL is thought that TO the greatly
superior weight of the Long Beach tram,
overcoming the momentum OF or riding
down the lighter train, is mainly due the
escape from a far more serious and fat ac-
cident. As ii was, many OF the passengers
from Long Beach were cut and bruised in
the shock. John Lestrade, the conductor
OF the local train. says that being late he
had been running very fast, intending to
switch off at Morris Grove, but for some
reason, which he cannot explain, the brake
would not hold, and he passed the switch
which led 10 the siding and decided to go
ahead. hoping 10 reach Jamaica before the
Long Beach train left.
The ngineers of the two trains were bro
theirs. The engineer OF the local train, John
NOlicott, was hllleu instantly, Delng crusheu
almost beyond recognition. The engineer
OF the Long Beach tram, Henry WollcOtt,
Jumped off with The fireman just as the col
isiou occurred and escaped with internal
injuries OF severe character. The con-
ductor OF the Long Beach train, S. f. Al.
len, was severely cut and bruised and had
two ribs broken, but was Yesterday pro-
nounced out OF danger. w. McDOnougb,
n brakeman on the Long Beach train, was
also severely cut about the bead, but had
no bones broken. Mrs. James Eagan, OF
No. 1871 Sixteenth street, Brooklyn, pas
sen9er on The local train. was so badly cut
and bruised as to require medical assist
ance. Her husband, VINO accompanied her,
was also hurt.