The Indiana State sentinel., 1893-08-30


Wrecked Trains Packed with Peo-
pIe-DetaiIs of the Disaster.
| LONG ISLAND CITY. L. l.. Aug. 2s.-
A frightfuI accident occurred tonight at
Bushwick Junction. on the Long Island
railroad.
\ Rockaway train ran into the rear
end of a Manhattan Beach train about
11:35 o'clock tonight. telescoping several
of the cars.
Sixteen 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 a tenn
porary morgue.
1t is estimated that the number OF in
jured will reach in the neighborhood Of
thirty-fve or forty people. many of whom
it is believed, will die.
Owing TO the lack of telegraphic facili-
ties and the lateness of the hour it is
with the utmost difficulty that any par
ticulars can be obtained.
The Manhattan Beach train was
blocked at Bushwick Junction at about
II: 80 o'clock. when the Rockaway Beach
train. coming at a high rate Of speed,
ran into the tail end of the Manhattan
the last two cars. Everybody in those
cars was either killed or injured. The
! third car was completely thrown from
the track.
One man says that he saw eight bod
les taken from the wreck and that one
| corpse lay on top of the engine on the
Rockaway train. The physicians who
are now 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. C. Kimban, 122 Lincoln-place.
Brooklyn.
Eugene NJ. Weiss, 237 W. sixteenth-st..
New York.
August jacobson, 42s Fourth-ave.. New
York
All three sustained internal injuries.
In addition to these Weiss has both arms
broken and Kimban's head was badly
cut
Theodore Grove, 1896 Broadway, New
York, cut about head, arms and legs.
James Darien, ia Second-ave., New
| York, cut about body.
James Brady, 263 Seventeenth-st., New
York, internally injured.
William Lynch, proprietor Of billiard
rooms at the Victoria hotel, New York.
cut about the head.
These are all the names obtainable at
present.
Twenty Killed.
At this hour it is said that twenty
persons We're killed in the rear-end col
lision at Bushwick Junction and it is
| thought that this number will be in
creased before morning as many Of the
injured are reported to be in a critical
! condition.
The locomotive of the Rockaway train,
which was going at full speed when her
/ engineer first sighted the standing train.
split the two last open cars of the stand
ing train right through and hurled them
to the right and left in a wreck. There
We're nearly one hundred and fifty per-
sons in the last two cars, it is said.
Otto Dengles of 80 Avenue A, New
York, was a passenger on the Rockaway
train with his wife and family of four
teen. The train was running st a high
speed all the way in. He says they were
just in sight Of the Long Island City
chemical works when there was a fright
full crash and the passengers were thrown
head over heels out Of their seats.
FrightfuI Scenes.
The men made for the doors. The
women were crushed behind them.
Dengles said that the people in these
cars owe their lives TO two policemen.
The policemen jumped into the door
ways and one cried. Keep still, keep
still boys; if you are going to get 1t,
you'll get it anyway
The officers had a great fight to keep
the mob quiet. The train ran about two
blocks after the collision. Dengles says
the last two cars Of the Manhattan train
were smashed into kindling wood and
that bodies were lying around every
where. Some Of the passengers OF the
Rockaway train helped to carry the
wounded into the chemical works. Dem
StcS saw Twelve persons taken there.
some dead and some hurt. He saw the
headless body of a young woman.
The killed and injured, he says, We're
The killed and injured, he says, were
all on the Manhattan train. TIE does not
think any of the RockaWay passengers
were seriously injured, but all were
shaken up and bruised. II. Newoptsy
of 444 Z. Eighty-eighth-st., was on the
Manhattan Beach train.
The collision broke the coupling be-
tween the second and third cars from
the last and the front of the train ran
on ahead. leaving the two cars, with the
woundeda nd dead passengers behind.
He was in one of the rear cars and
was thrown out on his head. He thinks
everybody I'm the last two cars was
either killed or more or less injured. One
of the injured is John McManus of 74s
Sixth-ave.. a florist on Manhattan
Beach. He received a severe scalp
wound.