Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-13
| NEWS BY TELEGRlPH.
 From All Quarters. AN EXCURSION DISASTER Fourteen People Killed and
 Thirty Injured. RESULT OF YESTERDAYS RACES. James Russell Lowell and
 Editor Jones Dead. CAPE MAY AND BAR HARB0R NEWS. Two Hundred and Sixty
 People Drowned.
CAPE MAY AND BAR HARROR NEWS.
TERRIBLE DISASTER.

Fourteen EXcuTS1Ou1 EA1lle0 and
 Thirty Wounded - A Heartre ndine : Scene-Hov the Accident Occurred-
 The Barge Claimed to Have Been
 Rotten-The Scene at the Depot fn
 Brooklyn.
 CoLD SPRINGS HARBoR, L. l., Aug. 12.- A terrible disaster occurred here this after noon by which fourteen persons-eight women, four children and two men-lost their lives, and thirty men, women and childen were injured. The steamer Cystal Stream with the barge Republic in tow, and having aboard about 500 adults and as many children on the excursion of the employees of Theodore Kayser, dry goods dealer of 197 Graham avenue, Brooklyn, E. D., arrived at the Cold Spring Grove dock about 9 o'clock, having left South Sixth street, Brooklyn,E. D., at 10:30 this morn ing.
 About half-past three the last whistles for all to get aboard were blown by the steamer, and at 3:45 everybody was ready to start. The larger portion of the excur- sionists were on the barge, where the young people were dancing. Just then some heavy clouds covered the sky. Then came squall, the wind driving every thing before it. The boat hands, antici- pating a shower, had let down the can vas curtains which are attached to the hurricane deck of the barge and fastened them down to the port side. This pre- vented the wind from blowing through, and as one strong gust struck the barge it lifted the starboard side of the hurricane deck clear from its fastenings and sup ports and forced it and the posts and par titions in the center over to the port side.
 AS it pushed over the end of the deck nearest the dock to which the barge was fastened dropped upon hundreds of women and children who had crowded over to that side of the barge in an effort to escape. In moment the air was rent with screams and agonizing cries of the poor victims, whose lives were being crushed out and limbs broken. The scene was heartrend- ing in the extreme and the excitement caused by the relatives and friends of those on the barge who were on the steam CT only added to the pandemonium which prevailed.
 The officers, deckhands and other men on the steamer lost no time in reaching the barge and doing all in their power to rescue all whom they could from the wreck, Willing hands from the grove and neighboring places were also soon at work and in fifteen minutes the fallen deck was raised sufficiently to allow all fbnaa who a1iva and I1ninirraH to crawl out and the injured to be assisted from the barge.
 It had been hoped that no one had been killed, but the lifeless bodies of fourteen were seen to be lying near the gunwale. All had had the lives crushed out of them by being caught beneath the edge of the fallen deck and the guard rails. Women and children and even strong men wept piteously as they looked upon the dead or dying. Of the dead those who were recog- ized were as follows:
 Lizzie Schamant, nine years, of 214 Driggs street; Mrs. Pauline Prinz, thirty five years, of = Driggs street; - Hotf- man, thirty-fve years, Graham avenue and School street; Minnie Goetz, sixteen years, Stagg and Ewen streets; Mrs. Lipen- finger, 196 Graham avenue; Katie Kau1tze, 192 Graham avenue.
 The pilot of the barge, whose name could not be ascertained, was also killed. He was in the pilot house when the wind threw the deck over. He was thrown over and fell beneath the deck and the boat. Among the injured are: Charles Held, arm broken and other bruises Mrs. Henry Isselmann, foot broken and other bruises; Mrs. German, ffty-six years old, seriously, probably fatally injured ir the chest and side of head. She was taken home.
 The injured were carefully carried aboard of the Crystal Stream, which con- veyed them to Oyster Bay village, a dis tance of six miles, where they were at tended by doctors. The steamer then re turned here and carried another load to Oyster Bay and again third time. In the meantime arrangements were being made by the committee of the excursion for { special train to carry the excursionists te Brooklyn. A number took the trair which left Oyster Bay at 6 o'clock. Int others, some of the most seriously injured remained on the Crystal Stream, whicf left there for Brooklyn at about 7:30. Tht | bodies of the fourteen dead were laid ir a row on the deck of the ill-fated barg, | and were covered over with tarpaulins tt | await the arrival of theIcoroner from Hunt ington.
 The place where the disaster occurred | at the head of Cold Spring harbor and Ii the favorite picnic ground. The falling O the deck of the barge and the sad result following are, it it is said, due to the rottel condition of the supports. | Many of the excursionists carried hom
 with them pieces of the center posts whiel show that they were perfectly rotten a the core. The barge itself, it is said, Ii | unsafe in other particulars
 Coroner Rodman arrived at the seen
 about 6 o'clock, and having empanelled jury which viewed the bodies, gave per
 init for their removal to Brooklyn, ant
 they were taken aboard the Crystal Strean
 which conveyed them to Brooklyn.
 The special train carrying the large
 number of excursionists whose days pleas
 ure had been so sadly marred, arrived a
 Bushwick station, Brooklyn, about 9:9O
 The news of the accident had preceded it
 arrival and the station was besieged by
 crowd of not less than 2,000 people wh
 had friends or relatives of those who ha
 gone away on the excursion in the morn
 ing. Everyone was asking those who lei
 the train whether those nearest and deares