The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-21
Heavily Loaded Passenger Train Leaves the
Track at the Entrance OF Tunnel aud Goes
Dumping Through to the Other End.
Scores of Persons Caught Between the
Walls and the Sides of the Cars.
Misplaced Switch Probably the Cause of the
Accldent-The ToEarman in Custody
Serious Freight Wreck Near Marion.
F1IGhTFUL ACCIDENT.


Island railroad. upon which were about
one thousand persons returning from tho
Sheepshead Bay races. was derailed. this
evening. In q tunnel u short distance from
Parksville. L. i. Nine persons were either
killed outright or died soon after being re-
moved to the hospital and about one hun
dred were injured. many so seriously that
they will not recover. The dead are:
PATRICK DAILY, court officer OF the Third
District Court, New York city.
II. S. PNINGLE, whose residence. according
to card In his pocket in New York.
HENRY sPINk. marshal a. Jefferson Market
ROBERT CUTTING. a policeman. New York
- QUINBY. Utica, n. ", right leg cut OF
died on the way TO the hospital.
UNKNOWN NAN. about thirty years old. dark
mustaehe and dark hair, dressed in dark clothes,
died in seney Hos pital.
b. j. McGON IGLE
FRITZ ID. JOHNSON.
JOHN SIMLAY.
The last three mentioned died late tonight In
Scney Hospital
Among the injured are the following:
HIRAM A MAYNARD, New York, leg injured.
NICOLAS FOSTER, New York, leg fractured.
p JOHNSON, New York. leg and body injured
ANDREW BARTHOLOMEW, seaey Crook, n. u,
JAMES FIfzsIMMoSs New York. foot cut of.
PATRICK GRAHAM, New York. internal injuries
j. b. CHILDs, Elizabeth. n. j., face cut. left Lee
fractured.
f. c. HILLS. Times Building. New York, hand
BRANsoN ]. McKENNA, Central Park police
man, compound fracture OF the ankle.
FRANK j. FINN. New York face cut and leg
RIcHARD FLYNN, New York. internal injuries.
WILLIAM HERRING, Auburn, n. u, leg frae-
JAMES BRADFORD. Paterson. N. j.. internal
PATRICK GIBBONS, Brooklyn. bodily injuries.
CHARLES STEERING, New York, serious inter.
nal iniur;es.
HESRY RuEscHE. New York. internal injuries:
HUGH ]. McCoNlGHTEN. Philadelphia, cut and
bruised on leg and arm.
PHILLIP IsAAcs, New York, leg fractured.
FREDERICK ScHLoMBERG. New York. body In
- ADDIcKs, New York. internal injuries
unconscious.
W. u. FORD, legs and body bruised and cut
l.. FOSTER, New York. injured on body and
face.
Unknown MAN. unconcious suffering from
shock aud internal injuries.
The condition of Andrew Bartholomew ID
serious, and the physioians of tho Seney
Hospital. Brooklyn. to which he was taken.
do not think be will recover. Many of ths
injured were taken in private oenveysnces
or by friends to New York hospitals or to
their homes.
SCENE OF THE ACCIDENT.
The accident happened upon what 10
known as the Bay Ridge division Of the
Manhattan railway, and about alf mile
from the little town of PsrkvilIe. which -
at the junction of the roads running to
Coney island and Manhattan Beach and
Sheepshead bay. The Bay Ridge division,
after leaving Psrkville. passes under
vladuot of the Coney Island boulevard.
The fAted train reached this point of the
road at 6 O'Clock. Ii had left the Sleeps
nj S.1F
aboard were men, women and children
who had been to witness New York's great
rsce-the Suburban.
The train consisted of six cars. the front
and rear cars being closed, the others open.
Every seat was taken, and men stood in
the aisles of the closed cars and on plat
forms running along the sides of the open
cars. 1t was good-natured crowd. Tiers
was q badinage and wit exchanged between
the broker and the tout who had given him
an unsuccessful tip; between the residents
Of Cherry Hill and the wealthy residents
of Murray HILL; or between the drummer
and his suburban customer 10 whom be
was showing the beauties of New York life.
Every body seemed merry and the upper.
most thought perhapsof the whole train
was to get back TO New York as quick rs
possible. Upon the boulevard a long line
of tailyhos and fancy turnouts were NOV.
ing on toward the city. The people aboard
the train answered the salutes and waving
handkerchisfs from the occupants OF the
carriages as it drew near the tunnel
The train. which was going st full speed,
suddenly gave q jerk and jolt and the ex.
pressI0ns of pleasure were instantly turEsd
to feelings of terror and dismay. The en-
gine and the first two cars ran along upon
the track. dragging behind them the other
cars of the train. humping and reeling
along the ties up TO the very mouth of the
tunnel Then the engine and the cars that
remained on the track became loosened
from the others and were carried
by their own speed clear through
the tunnel and twenty-five feet
beyond. No one knew what had
happened. go quickly had the fatal acci-
dent occurred. People jumped from the
train and fell upon the emhankment to be
bruised and cut By the care. Others were
carried along upon the tram, their bodies
! rubbed and bruised upon the rocks of the
tunnel and the stones of the embankment.
| There were shrieks OF pain. Women faint
| ed and men became panic stricken and
trampled them and the children under
their feet in their mad fight for safety.
CARING FOR THE WOUNDED.
When the train finally stopped those
| who were not hurt rendered assistance TO
| the wounded who lay along the track.
| Court officer Daily was found beside the
track. the lower part of his body fright
fully crushed. A few feet from him was
found Mr.. Prlngle. He wac still alive. and
he Was carried mp to the top OF the embsnk-
ment and laid upon the grass. Then others
carried mp Robert Cutting and Henry
Sphinx. A physician who was upon the
train hurried TO these two men. and. after
| a very superficial examination. pronou aced
| both of their injuries fatal lie did what no
could for them. and sent them as quickly
| as possi BILE to hospital Policemen who
| arrived immed lately sent orders 30 Brook
| lyn hospitals for ambulances witch aeon
began 10 arrive. In the meantime tho
| wounded had been gathered mp and
stretched out on the grass on the em bank
ment. The physicians that were arriving q
attended 60 their wounds as best they could-
One hundred persons. ID is said. found
upon this green plot n temporary hospital
The people who In the carriages had looked
down upon this terrible scene stopped and
! also offered their assistance Some of these
found upon the grass injured frienda
| They put them into vehicles and
! took them Ia their homes TO
hospitals. Others cared for persons IN.
Il A.