The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-08-28

A Rockaway Beach Train on the Long
Island Railroad Plows It's way Through
Two Cars of "a Manhattan Beach Train.
Another Wreck in Connecticut
LONG ISLAND CITY, Aug. 2s.-An acci-
| dent that cost the lives of fifteen persons
occurred shortly after midnight yesterday
morning in the little village of Berlin,
near Calvary cemetery, in the town of
| Newton. The Long Island railroad train
| that left Manhattan Beach at 1l:l5 o'clock
was overtaken by the train that left Rock
away Beach fifteen minutes earlier In
the frightful collision that ensued the two
rear cars Of the five that made up the
| Manhattan Beach train were demolished
and the middle car mas overturned.
| Hardly one of the score of passengers
| aboard these three cars escaped unhurt.
The following is a corrected list of the
dead; Colonel f. A. Buck, editor New
York Spirit of the Times; Oscar Deit2el,
40 years old, New York; Mrs. Maggie
! Deitzel, his wife; Mrs. Bertha Wenstein,
| New York: her husband at hospital Sid
ney Weinstein, II years old, her son;
Thomas Finn, brakeman; Mrs. Theodore
Craven; Mortimer Dittman, 30 years old,
New York; John G. Dyckhoff, As years old,
and Mrs. Dyckhofl, his wife, New York;
Alexander Grillet, 35 years old Philadel-
phia; James J. Hylands, 80 years old Max
Stein, 3S years old, New York; Joseph NJ.
Thelan, an actor known on the stage as
George Fielding.
Among the seriously injured are: John
| Hahn, "A years old Astoria, internal inju-
ries; will recover James Barron, 33 years,
New York, scalds and internal injuries;
will recover Theodore Craeven, New
York, terribly hurt, condition critical;
wife believed to have been killed. Eleanor
f. Craeven, Is years. his daughter, scalds
and internal injuries; will recover Miss
Clara Haskell, New York, broken ankle.
Horace G. Kimball, Brooklyn, spine in
iured. Aaron Wenstein cOncussion Of
brain; may die. Morris Flosheim, New
York, right leg broken and eye injured
James b. Thompson, 80 years, New York
head cut; will recover. August Jakobs
son, New York, horribly hurt will proba-
ably die Eugene Weiss, New York,
scalded. William Lynch, New York,
badly hurt, but will recover. Frank Lar
kin, 33 years, New York, spine hurt.
The Manhattan Beach train had been
standing in the block to allow another
train ahead to get at a safe distance The
Rockaway Beach train came dashing along
behind, ran into the same block and
crushed into the rear end of the Manhat-
tan Beach train. Both were crowded with
excursionists and both were the last trains
from their respective resorts There we're
five cars in the Manhattan Beach train, all
of them open cars The Rockaway train
plunged in and pushed its way completely
through the two rear cars and partly
wrecked the third. Passengers in the
three cars were MANNED and mangled hor-
1 Al L i
were awful
The ROckaway engine was wrecked. Its
smokestack was carried away and It's
huge boiler resembles a pin cushion from
the timbers of the wrecked cars sticking
into it. Upon these timbers were human
beings impailed, some dead and Others
gasping their last. High upon the top lay
the dead body of a man, yet unidentified.
Upon one Of the timbers was impaled the
body of Mrs Oscar Dietzel. Upon another
was the body of Sidney Weinstein, boy
IS years old. The scene of the wreck was
iudescribably horrible. Everything was
showered with the blood of the dead and
wounded, and the cries of the latter rose
high above the Kissing of steam and the
calls of the frantic trainmen.
The Manhattan Beach train was just
pulling from the block when the crast
| came and mad just begun TO move. w her
Engineer Donaldson heard and felt the ac
cident he threw open his lever and made
all speed for Long Island City, leaving the
wrecked cars behind him. None of thu
passengers or crew on this train were seri
ously hurt. Haberman's 3 Tin factory stands
close to the track at the scene of the ac
cident. This was thrown open and somt
. of the dead and injured were carried il
there. When all the wounded had beer
found that could be the relief train started
with them for Long Island City. They
were met there and taken to St. Johns
hospital The dead were taken by another
special train to Newtown, which is neares
town to the scene of the accident.
All day long today both the morgue IL
Newtown and the hospital in Long ISLAND
City have been besieged by anxious seek
ers for missing members of their families
The scenes as some of the mangled bodie
were recognized were heartrending womeI
fainting and men falling on their knees Il
weep.
General Manager f. r. Reynolds ant
Superintendent W. II. Blood were at thu
scene They stated that the cause of tn
accident was still unknown and it was
question of veracity between the tower
Switchmen Mutt and Engineer Contrte
of the Rockaway train. The latter hal
reported that heavy fog prevailed.