New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-28
EXPERIENCES OF TIE PASSENGERS
r.Ixs WITH SOME OF THOSE WHO NARROWLY
ESCAPED DEATH-vIEWs CF TIE R\iL-
pOAD's SUPERB ENDlNT.

ROADS SUPERINTENDENT.
Henry W. Green. an artist who lives az 80 90
West Fourteenth-st, was seen by II Ir'p"'' ~
porter Yesterday afternoon lie was su"''"'s ''''
a dislocated finger and shoulder and from oru'S'S
al over his body. The shock too contributed 10
49,, uca,i,. lie said: Il vas the special
Manhattan Beach train which started for Long
Island city about II o'clock. There were 'hhh'
seven cars on the train. was sitilns III inc '"S'
car but one 4 little before the accident We ma"
s,opped for safety. Just about That Tim" our
engine emitted n shriI whistle and this was fol
loved by continued whistliug our train then
went ahead slowly ana. after apparently pass
ing over switch had just got up Ntu" NOR"
specd when suddenly there was i"iiihc crash
such as / had never heard before. ana ih'h our
car reellng under the shock. turned coinii"'''N
over as the engine Of the Rockaway Beach train
rushed by The rear WAS smashed me-
.s,nithereens' As soOr | recovered myself !
found n man lying on my back iortnn"''N
landed on my hands and knees on the "inlo" sHlS
of the carragc. / heard escaping steam. ana as
soon az | pulled myself together climbed ""' ~
the opposite window. As soon as ! could started
T., - ia what WAS possible 20 alleviate the suffer
;,as NJ tb, passengers. After had assisted VIII
lam HYDE Of j. VI. Iiiils company ont 81 thr
car we helped the other passengers. VIM" ""
were waiting for the relief train v" h"lp"d 10
hattie and stimulate the wounded. As lar as |
know, there were no physicians on our train. Al
hriobtlv and the good people living about IN"
scene Of the wreck brought lanterns and buckets
of water. They also opened IN" gates OF tho
chemical factory where They laid seven dead
boJies A little distance from where our car Was
living / found "A man gasping out his life found
another dead. lying In the ditch ms Dody covered
with wreckage.
TWO QUEER INCiDi NrS.
..rhoro were two queer Incidents N the wreck
,,,houph the Rockaway Beach train was going AT
a terrific rate | think the shock Of the collision
acted better than any brake could have done
noticed that pair Of wheels, probably the rear
u,he.s OF the end car was lying on the cow
catcher OF the Rockaway train. think these
wheels did more to injure the engine than any
thing else one poor fellow was lying on top Of
the Rockaway engines boiler. He had been
scalded 10 death The Impetus Of the train was
so great that ~ I looked up from the bottom OF
the eInbankment l saw the wrecked engine I'VE
car lengths ahead Of our disabled car
"Ano,her queer thing noticed was that the two
Injured cars Of the Manhattan Beach train were
rho only ones that remained Of our whole train
| thought for moment that the other nv" had
been completely wrecked. but could see no wreck
age IL then occurred TO me that the force OF the
IMPACT on the car couplings had been so great as
IN smash them. This is not improbable when We
consider that tire last of our train was com
pleteIy destroyed. | suppose the car in which
was sitting was forced upon the platform Of the
car which preceded II, and the shock broke the
car couplings ! presume the engineer did not stop
because he received no signal from the conductor
u,ho was In my at the time OF tn" accident
Iut at the same time. | think he should have
s,onned the train, and allowed the unhurt people
,o aid the wounded instead OF skuking away as
he did
81 attribute the accident TO the nature Of the
country and TO the thick malaral mist which was
then about us and to the fact that ours was not
a regular train. The signalman may have been 10
blame for allowing one train TO enter block be-
fore the previous train had left IL.
81 witnessed pretty incident after the accident
7 saw standing against the wall in the dark, IA
Family Of Germans. There were six OF them and
.hrs. of this number were little children. They
n,e,e Germans who had evidently been the
pockawav train They all Historically Joyful
that they were reunited. They demonstrated. BY
snosp,odic embraces, that they were exceedingly
iovfuI They were hurGing one another as II they
had never expected to meet again In this world.
Thou fondled and felt OF one another in manner
which bctokencd their belief that II was almost
incredible that they were all alive.
owuliam HYDE OF j. VI. IIill1 company who
sang with Sousa's band. was sitting opposite TO me
u,hor IN. rash came The lady he had with him
had q fearful bruise the side OF her head and
was bvsterical Mr. Hyde had his head badly cut
In several places"
DOCTOR KNAPP JUMPED JUST IL TIME.
DIR Gideon l.. Knapp, together with Colonel
Elisha A Buck the owner o! The spirit Of the
r,nes" and his son. Harry II. Buck. pas
senxers on the Manhattan Beach train. Harry
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