New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-28
NOTES FROM COMFY ISLAND.

sr->nA Az SrGuT's RAILWAY ACCTDENT-THE STORY OF
AN EXHAUSTED MAN-NEws FOR THE GAMBLERS
The hand of autumn was laid upon Coney Island
Yesterday, and everything that was animate shiV,
| cred and sought the protection OF oVefcoats and
shawls Monday Is usually day when the Island
seems 10 lose its power TO charm The ne
public to its shores; but yesterday was one OF tns
duest DAYS OF the season. The girl who was killed
| on the Brighton Beach Railway, at Sheepshead
| Bay sunday night was identified by her father
| John Collins. and her sisters. yesterday morning
ms Lizzie Collins who had been boarding at Patrick
Coye's house az Sheepshead Bay. sne had returned
home after a visit 10 the beaches and had gone 10
the station to meet some friends, whom she expected
by the incoming train The tracks pass on Doth
sides of an extremely narrow PLATFORM. MISS Col
Inns saw a tram approaching her from the city ana
stepped back. The train from the Island caught
her dress and dragged her along the side Of the
platform underneath gate. The train was stopped.
but when the girl was picked up 1t was found that
she was dead Her father and mother were in the
crowd that The dead girl carried away, but so
greatly was she disgured that they did not recog.
nize her. The inquest viii be held at OraVesend
A short time after midnight Of Sunday policeman
STUN bed over the body of man lying on the sanh
III front of Fetman's Pavilion. The man 8 clothing
was saturated with water. The body was taken TO
the Sea side House, where the man was restored 10
CONSCIOUSNESS tie said his name was William Hen
drlckson OF Secondave. and Ihirtyfourth-st., TINS
city. and that he had fallen into the wafer from
one of the iron steamboats, and had succeeded IN
swimming ashore. The physicians who attended
him said that the man had been drinking, DuV ne
was suffering at the time the officer found him
from partial drowning. and hence they placed some
credence In his story. Hendrickson lett the banc
for h home shortly after sunrise.
TRIBUNE reporter asked Captain Mckane yes
teIday If he did not intend 10 take some action
against the gamblers at West Brighton. lie replied:
- have descended den after den, but after each
descent they seem TO rise again with additional
capacity for breaking the Law. We have men come
into Hea 1quar,ers every day and complain that they
have lost money but they refuse 10 appear in court
when the time for prosecuting the gamblers aTrives
In consequence they discharged for want
of evidence. The men VINO lose their
money are satisfied il they get IL
back again. / have in my private Office
enough gsmbling layouts to start haidozen dens.
There eight houses on the Island, the situa-
ton of which know, and you may rest assured
that intend to stop every one of them within an
exceedingly short space of time Tomorrow night
intend TO make descent on the most notorious OF
these places, and / shall arrest every man and
woman find at the games. My men will effect al
entrance into the house by the help of two walters
VINO nave been employed by the gamblers and VINO
were dissatisfied with their pay.
The fire at Atlantc-ave Brooklyn, delayed the
trains on the Brighton Beach Railway three hours
and those on the Flat Dush-ave. branch of the Man
haitian Beach Railroad two hours The fire hose
lay across the rail way tracks.
A number of the directors and general ticket
agents OF the Erie Railway aimed at the Manhattan
Beach Hotel last night. Fifteen covers were laid.
Among the guests VINO arrived at the hotel yester-
aay were William Cooper and w. III. OsgOod.
Piles have been driven and platforms erected for
Gilmore's Jubilee tonight