The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-08-29
KILLED ON THE RAIL.
Frightful Accident to Manhatten Beach
Train-Sixteen Lives Lost.

lrain--S1xteeH Lives Lost.
Long Island City, l.. l.. August ga
frghtiul accident occurred tonight at the
Bushwck junction of the Long Island
railroad. X Eockaway train ran into
the rear of IL Manhattan Beach train
about 30 O'Clock. telescoping several
cars. Sixteen Gead have been taken
from the wreck, and their bodies are now
lying in Hayemayer'S tin shops at Laurel
Hill. which have be converted into a
temporary morgue. 1T is now estimated
that the number of injured will reach i'll
the neighborhood of thirty-tive or forty
people. many of whom it is believed will
die
The injured are being conveyed to the
Long Island City hospitals as fast as the
officials can remove them. A carload has
already been dispatched. A number of
surgeons were summoned TO the scene,
and these are busily engaged extending
temporary relief to the injured.
Further Particulars of the Wreck.
Long Island City. l.. l.. August II
An accident that cost the lives of fourteen
people occurred shortly after midnight this
morning III the little village of Berlin,
in the township of Newton. The Long
Island train that left Manhattan beach Mt
1l:15 O'Clock, was oycrtaken by the train
that left Rocllaway beach. fifteen minutes
earlier. In the frghtful collision that
ensued the two rear cars of the five that
made up the Manhattan beach train were
demolished and the middle was over
turned. Hardly one of the scores of pas
sengers abroad these three ears escaped
unhurt.
ing Aaron w. Einstein and August Jacob
son. of New York who will probably die.
ImpaIed by the I!mbers.
There were five cars in the Manhattan
beach train, in all. ten cars. The Rock
away train plunged i'll and ploWcd lts- WAY
"rfc''-cin've cars We're manned and manged
horribly and their shrieks of pain were
awful. The Rockaway engine was wreck
ed. Its smokestack was carried away;
Its huge boiler resenbled pincuShon from
the timber of The wrecked sticking
into 1T. Upon these timbers were hui
man beings impaled, some dead and others
gasping their last. High up on the top
lay the dead body of 4 man yet unidenti-
fed Upon one of the timbers was i'm
paled the body of Mr.. Oscar Dietzel.
twenty nine Years Old. of 80. ID East
One Hundred and Fourteenth street. New
York city. Upon another was the body of
Sidney itinSttin. a boy, thirteen years Old,
of fifty-eighth street, New York
The scene of the Wre" was horrible the
dead and wounded lying among the mass of
wreck upon and beyond t. <-trackS. Every
thing was shoWered with the blood of the
dead and wounded, and the cries of the
wounded were heard above the kissing of
men.
Cause of the Accident.
General Manager L. X. REYNOLDS and
superintendent w. II. Blood were at the
scene early. They stated that the cause
of the accident was still unknown; that it
was j question of yeracity between the
tower switchman. Mutt and Engineer Con
critic. of the Rockaway train. The latter
had reported that q heavy fog prevailed at
the time which was very dense. He declared
that signals We're set at safety indicating
clear road. and he went ahead without
reducing speed Suddenly Fireman Robert
Irlce. his companion. exclaimed:
Ny God. there is Il train ahead"
Looking ahead he saw through the mist
the two red lights that always hang at the
rear end of train and declares that he
Immediately reversed his engine and put
on the steam brakes. Then he and Fire
man Price jumped for their lives. When
the wrecked engine was examined this
morning his statement as to the reversed
lever and steam brakes WAS found to be
true The only remaining question was
as to whether he or Mutt was right about
the danger signal This morning ii was
set at danger and Mutt insisted .hat it had
remained so every since he set it to warn
Engineer Concrtr.
General Manager Reynolds and Super
intcndcnt Blood took all These statements,
and viii hold rigid investigation
Revised List of the Dead
Theodore Graeyen, who was severely injur-
ed died this afternoon, making the list of
dead sixteen All the bodies have. h.<n ident-
flied. The revised list of the dead is as fol
lows:
BUCK. Colesha A. ifty-tive years old. edi-
tor The Spirit Of the Times. instantly killed;
taken 10 hi; home, No. 30 West Fifty-first
street.
DIEBEL. Mrs Maggie twenty nine years
old, instantly killed.
DIETZEI.. Oscar forty years old. New
York, both legs crushed; died in the hospital
today
DlTrAIAN Mortimer. thirty years old. Ney
York. tied before the doctors arrived ut the
wreck.
DICKHoFF, John c.. forty-five years old
New York, a partner in the liquor rcctifying
finn of +. f. Ersiug 4 Co Oh No II Front
street; died in the hospital.
DICkHOFF. Mrs. John c., forty-fiye years
old, New York. wife of the liquor merchant
who killed.
THOMAS, twenty-three years Old of Lone
Island City. both legs broken and conclusion
of the brain; died in the hospital this morn
irg.
GRAENEN. Mrs. Theodore New York.
identified by friend Of the family
GRILLET Alexander thirty-tive years old
of No. 81 West Twcnty-seyant street died
in Aberrnan's factor; he has Il family in phia-
dclphia.
HYNDLANDS. James c.. thirty vears old
one Of the extra Saturday walters Mt the
Manhattan Beach hotel; identified late to-
night.
NEWMAN. Richard. about thirty
years old, Of New York. one of the extra Sat
urday walters at the Manhattan Beach ho-
tel
STEIN. Max. thirty-eicht years old. a book
keeper, New York; identified late tonight by
his employer.
PHELAN. Joseph NJ, address unknown an
actor known on the stage as George Fielding.
who played last season with the DeWolf