Omaha daily bee., 1893-08-28


Beach train were demolished and the middle
car was overturned. Hardly one of the
scores of passengers aboard these three
cars escaped unhurt.
List of the Dead.
Mrs. Theodore Craven, who was severely
injured, died this evening, making the list,of
dead fifteen. All the bodies have been
identified. The revised list is:
COLONEL E. A. BUCK, editor of Spirit of
the Times
OSCAR DIETZEL, died at st. Johns hos
pital.
MRS. MAGGIE DIETzEL, wife, 20 years.
died at the morgue.
MRS. BERTHA WElNSTEIN.
SIDNEY WElNSTEIN.
THOMAS FINN, brakeman
MORTIMER DITTMAN.
JOHN 9. DICKHOFF.
MRS. J. @. DICkHOFF.
MRS THEODORE CRAVEN.
ALEXANDER CRILLETT.
JAMES j. HYLANDS.
RICHARD NEWMAN
MAX STERN.
JOSEPH NJ. TlIALEN.
Names of the Injured.
Those most seriously hurt are:
JOHN HAHN, internal injuries; will recover.
JAMES BARRON, scalds and internal injuries;
will recover.
THEODORE CRAVEN, terribly hurt; con-
dition critical .
ELEANOR F.. CRAVEN, his daughter, scalds
and intcrnalinjuries; will recover.
Miss CLARA HASKELL, broken leg.
Horace G.. KMDALL
AARON WE1NsTEIN, concussion of the brafnt
may die
Nouns FLosHEM, leg broken.
JAMES b. THOMPSON head hurt.
AUGUST JAKoBsoN, horribly hurt; will
probably die.
TUGENT WEISS, scalded.
WILLIAM LYNCH, badly hurt, but will re-
cover.
FRANK LARKIN, New York, spine hurt.
KATE DURKEN, suffering from the shock.
JAMES j. BRADY, internal injuries.
WILLIAM LIVINGSTON.
GEORGE HANNETT.
JAMES CoUGHLIN.
Details OF the Horror.
After the accident happened it was over
an hour before any news of it reached any
outside point 1t came by a messenger, who
walked into Long Island City.
The railroad company Immediately dis
patched a relief train with all the physl-
clans in the city. They found an appalling
state of affairs, The Manhattan Beach train
had been standing in the block to allow an
other train ahead getting at n safe distance.
The Rockaway Beach train came dashing
along behind, ran into the same block and
crashed into the rear end Of the Manhattan
Beach train Both were crowded with ex-
cursionists.
Ihere were I've cars In the Manhattan
Beach train, all of them open cars. The
Rockaway train plunged and ploughed its
way completely through the two rear cars
and partly wrecked the third Passengers
In the three cars were manned and mangled
horribly and their shrieks Of terror and pain
made one sick with dread. The Rockaway
engine was wrecked, the timbers of the
wrecked cars sticking in it. Upon the tim.
bers were human beings impaled some dead,
and others gasping their last breath High
up on the top lay the dead body of man yet
unidentified. On one of the cars was i'm
paled the body of Mrs. Dietzel Upon an.
other was the body of Sydney Weinstein.
Work for the Surgeons.
The scene was indescribably horrible.
The dead and wounded were massed among
the wreckage, besides those upon and beyond
the tracks. Everything was spattered with
blood OF the dead and wounded, and the
cries OF the latter arose above the Kissing Of
S'caH anu bHe Calls VI inc trantlc tralnmen.
AS fast as the wounded could be taken from
the wreck, they were carried TO the relief
train and cared for. The doctors on board
worked swiftly but well, while
other medical men were out In the
wreck applying restoratiges and making
hurried dressings Of wounds TO sustain the
sufferers until they could be put in the relief
train for more careful treatment
Habermans tile factory, which stands
close to tho tracks at the scene OF the acci-
dent, was converted into temporary hospi-
tai and some of the dead and injured were
carried in there. All the wounded had been
placed on the relief train and taken TO Long
Island City this morning. Seventeen of
them were taken TO the hospital In that city,
OF whom two died upon the way, Oscar
Dietzel and Thomas Finn, brakeman on
the Manhattan train.
OThe dead were taken by another special
train TO Newton, which is the nearest town
to the wr eek and placed IN the morgue OF
the dead there were twelve, seven men, four
women and the boy Weinstein.
Incidents of tho Wreck.
The Manhattan Beach train was just pulling
out OF the block when the crash came. When
Engineer Donaldson felt the shock he threw
open his lever and made all speed for Long
Island City, leaving the three wrecked cars
behind him None Of the passengers or crew
on the Rockaway Beach train were seriously
hurt. All were shaken up severely and
some badly bruised, but all were able to 60
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