The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-02

nyav train. OccupyfnQ seats In tho
fourth coach. The trainvxs travelling
A NJ, ,,nn.u,llv h;oh rate of speed. the
cars swinging so violently from side to
side that thsy fnstinctiveiy looked for
an accident All of n sudden there
was a crash and everybody was thrown
.o the fioor of the car or over the backs
Of ,ests Fortunately only 4 few of
the nas.sngers in that car were hurt.
Oplv one -young man. named Larkin.
.tr;e,, 70 1fan from the car and was hurt
ON the head and also internally. The
rear cars were at the same time de-
rallied.
August Baedecker,. of New York
citv- who is connected with the Sleeps
head Raw race track, said: ssThe disas-
ter was yery terrible. was fortunste
enough TO escape with a severe shak-
inc nm and so was able to assist the
less fortunate. helped to carry four
men from the cars
Eugene Matthews, Of Greenwich
street. New York city, said: 81 helped
to carry away one of the killed. l can't
give Won any details. The affair hap
pened so suddenly that nobody knew
ANYTHING about it until the train
crashed into rs. The shrisks of the-
wounded and diving are ringing in my
oars evan now am hurryiup home 50
that INV family NAV not be alarmed.
Isaac H. Rotchschild, New York
city. gave the following description Of
tbe awful SCENE. .sMvself. INV wife and
NV d,ugbter were coming home from
Manhattan Reach and occupied seats
in the center of one of the cars that
had in some vav become detached
from the remainder of the train. Di-
rectlv in front of ms sat six men, ap-
narently asleep. They were all terri
blv injured. IL was an awful scene,
and I don't know how nv wife and
daughter and l ESCAPED. I am too
much excited to give YOU an intelligent
description of the scene. All 1 know.
is that many were killed outright and
three times as many injured. Our train
was n crowded one for. being the last
to leave Manhattan Beach, there was
a large throng waiting. You know it
,ya. 50 hot that they stayed as long as
possible at the seaside
All day the morQue in Newtown and
the hospital in Long Island City have
been beseiped by anxious seekers for
missing members of their families
The scenes as some of the mangled
bodies were recognized were heart
reudino. women faiutinp and men fall.
iup upop their knees to weep. Fully
200 persous did not find those they
sought among the dead or wounded
and went away with intense relief, in
sbarn contrast with those who found
loved ones dead and mangled.
At the scene of the accident q wreck
inc train and a big force of railroad
employees have been working all day
10 obliterate the painful evidences of
the disaster. The three smashed cars
were piled mn and burned, the twisted
rails and broken switches were re-
naired and the blood pools hidden un-
der sbovelfuls of sand.
General Manager E. R. REYNOLDS and
Superintendent w. III. Blood were at
the scene early. They stated that the
couse of the accident was still un-
known. that il WAS n question of ver-
ocitv between the tower switchmau,
Nutt and Engineer Concrite. of the
Roc,xawav train. The latter had re-
norted that a heavy fog prevailed at
the time. which was true. he declared
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