The herald., 1893-08-28
CLEARING UP THE DEBRIS,
Counting the Cost of Yester-
days Wreck.
The Names of Those Killed and
Wounded.
A Question of Veracity About the
Cause Of the Accident.
The Engineer Says the Signals Indicated
Clear Track While the Swltch-
man Claims They Indicated
Danger Ahead,
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONG ISLAND Cry, L. l., Aug. 27.-It
is now known definitely that last nights
awful accident on the Long Island road
resulted in killing IA people and wound
ing Is others, several of whom may not
recover.
The dead are: Col. F. A. Buck, edi-
tor of the Spirit of the Times; Oscar
Dietzel, Mrs. Maggie Dietzel, Mrs.
Bertha Weinstein, Sidney Weinstein,
Thomas Finn, Mortimer Dittman, John
@. Dyckhoff, Mrs. John @. Dyckhof,
Mrs. Theodore Graeven, Alexander
Grillet, James ]. Hylands, Richard
Newman, Max Stein and Joseph M.
Thelan.
The injured are: John Hahn, James
Barron, Theodore Graeves (may die),
Eleanor F. Craven, Miss Clara Haskell,
Horace G. Kimball, Aaron Weinstein
(may die). Morris Flosheim, James B.
Thompson, August Jakobson (will die),
Eugene Weiss, VIM. Lynch, Frank Lar
kin, Kate Durken, James j. Brady, VIM.
Livingston, George Hannet and James
Coughlin.
Word of the wreck was not received
here for hours after it occurred and
when the relief train with physicians
reached there, it found an appalling
state of affairs. The Rocka way beach
train had crashed into the rear end of
the Manhattan beach train, ploughed its
way completely through the two rear
cars, and partly wrecked the third. The
passengers in the three cars were
manned an mangled horribly, and their
shrieks OF terror and pain were awful.
A CHASTITY sCENE.
The Rockaway engine was wrecked.
The boiler resembled a pincushion,
from the timbers of the wreck sticking
into it. Upon these timbers were
human beings impsled. Some were
dead bodiess and others were gasping
their last. THE dead and wounded were
massed among the wreckage besides,
upon and beyond the tracks. Every
thing was spattered with blood. AS
fast as the wounded could be taken
from the wreck they were carried to the
relief train and cared for. The adjoin-
ing building was turned into hospi-
tai, and every possible effort was made
to alleviate the sufferings of the unfor-
tunate people.
None of the passengers or crew on the
Rockaway Beach train were seriously
hurt.
AN YE.wITNEss'S STORY.
An eyewitness of the accident says
the Rockswsy Beach train was going at
top speed, as if, it being the last train,
the engineer WAS trying to get home as
soon as possible. At the scene wreck
ing trains and big force of railroad
employees have worked all day to OBJ
literate the ghastly evidence of the dis
aster,
General Manager Reynolds stated that
the cause of the accident was still un-S
known. 1t was a question OF veracity
between Tower Switchman Mutt and
Engineer Concrite of the Rockaway
train. The latter reported that heavy
fog prevailed at the time; that the sig-
mails were set for safety, indicating a
clear road. and that he went ahead at
high epeed. AS soon as he discovered
the road lights of the other train he re-
versed his engine and put on the
breaks. Then he and the fireman
jumped. Mutt insists that the signals
were set at danger.
Mrs. Theodore Craven, who was
seriously injured, died this afternoon,
making the dead 15. All the bodies are
now identified.