The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-08-27
PERSONS KILLED.
Horrible Wreck on the Long
Island Road.
/ REAR END COLLISION.
The Locomotive Plows its Way
Through Two Cars.
The Coaches Smashed Into KindIing Wood
and Every Person in Them Either
Killed or Injnred-An
Awful Disaster.


full accident occurred tonight at Bush
wick Junction, on the Long Island rail-
road. The Rockaway train ran into the
rear of the Manhattan Beach train
about midnight telescopi1g several cars.
Lixteen dead have been taken from the
wreck and their bodies are now lying in
Havemeyer's tin shop at Laurel Hill,
which has been converted into tenn
porary morgue.
1t is now estimated that the number of
injured will reach the neighborhood of
thirty five or forty psople many OF whom
it is believed will die.
The accident is said to be due to the
negligence OF the tower man at Laurel
Hill. The injured are being conveyed to
Long Island city hospitals as fast as rail
road officials can remove them. A
car load have already been dispatched. A
number of surgeons have been summoned
tc the scene and these are busily en- gagged
in extending temporary relief to the in
iured.
The particulars of the accident are as
follows: The Manhattan Beach train was
blocked at Brunswick Junction at about
II 80 O'Clock when the Rockaway Beach
train, coming at high rate of speed, ran
into the tail end of the Manhattan Beach
train, ploughlng clean through the last
two cars.
Everybody on these cars was
third car was completely thrown
from the track. One man says
eight bodies were taken from the wreck
and one corpse lay on the engine of the
Rockaway train. Physicians who were
on the scene were summoned from the
Long Island City hospital.
The names of the killed cannot be
learned as yet. Among the injured are
H. G. Kim ball of Brooklyn, Eugene M.
Weiss OF New York and August Jacobson
of New York. Ali three sustained inter-
nal injuries. In addition to these Weiss
had both arms broken and Kimbau's
head is badly cut. Theodore Grove of
New York is cut about the head, arms
and legs, James Daroon OF New York is
injured about the body. James Brady OF
New York is internally injured and
William Lynch of New York.
ga. MAT this hour it is said twenty
persons at least were killed in the col
iision at Bushwick Junction, and it is
thought this number will be increased
before morning, as many of the injured
are reported to be in q critical condition.
This locomotive of the RockawaY train,
which was going at full speed when her
engineer first sighted the standing train,
split the two last cars open of the stand
ing train right through and hurled them
to the right and left in the wreck. There
were nearly $50 persons in the last two
cars. It is said that Otto Dengels, of
New York, was passenger on the Rock
away train, with his wife and family.
The train was running at high speed
oil f1,n in n nd
just in sight of the Long Island City
Chemical works, when there was fright
full crash and the passengers were thrown
head over heels out of their
seets. The men made for the
doors and the women were crushed
beneath them. Dengler said the people
| in those cars owe their lives to two po-
| licemen. The police jumped into the
| doorways and one cried, keep still,
keep still, boys; if you are going to get
killed you'll get it anyway" The
officers had a great fight to keep the
crowd quiet. The train ran about two
blocks after the collision.
| Mr.. DengIer says the last two cars of
| the Manhattan train were smashed into
| kindIing wood and that bodies are lying
around everywhere. Some of the passen-
gers on the Rockaway train helped to
carry the wounded into the chemical
| works. Dengler saw twelve per-
sons taken there, some dead and
some hurt. He saw the headless
body of young woman. The killed and
injured he says, were all on the Manhat-
| tan train. He does not think any of the
Rockaway's passengers were seriously
injured, but all were shaken up and
bruised.
n. Nawoptzay of 444 East Eighty
eighth street was on the Manhattan
| Beach train. He says the collision broke
she coupling between the second and
third cars from the last, and that the
front OF the train ran on ahead leaving
the two cars with the wounded and dead
passengers behind. He was in one of the
rear cars and was thrown out on his
head. He thinks everybody in the last
two cars are either killed or more CT less
injured.