The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-02
A FEARFUL WRECK.
A Train Load of Pleasure. Seekers
Split In Two.
Fifteen Persons Killed aud Haif n Hum
dred Mangied In the Wreck. Many
of Whom VIII Die OF Their
Iniuries.

InIuries.
LoyG ISLAND CRY, L. l., Aug. 2S.-
An accident that cost the lives OF four
teen persons occurred shortly after
midnight yesterday morning in the
little village of Berlin, near Calvary
cemetery in the town of Newton. The
Long island train that left Manhattan
Beach at 11:15 O'Clock was overtaken
BY the train that left Roekaway Beach
fifteen Minutes earlier. In the fright
full collision that ensued the two rear
cars of the five that made up the Man
haitian Beach train were demolished
and the middle car was overturned.
Hardly one of the scores of passengers
aboard these three cars escaped M
hurt.
The accident happened ut half an
hour after midnight 1t was over an
hour before any news of it reached any
outside point. 1t came by messen-
ger who walked into Long Island
City.
The railroad company Immediately
dispatched a relief train with all the
physicians obtainable, consisting of
DIR. Valentine, the surgeon of the road.
and Drs. Huikson, Kennedy, Doyle and
McKeown.
They fotind an appalling state of af-
fairs. The Manhattan Beach train
had been standing in the block to al
low of another train ahead getting Mt
q safe distance. The Rockaway Beach
train came dashing along behind, ran
into the same block and crashed into the
rear end of the standing train. Both
were crowded with excursionists and
both were the last trains from their
respective resorts There were five
cars in the Manhattan Beach train. all
of them open cars. The Rockaway
train plunged in and plowed its way
completely through the two rear ears
and partly wrecked the third. Pas
sengers in the three cars were MANNED
and mangled horribly and their shriehs
of terror and pain were awful.
The Rockaway engine was wrecked.
Its smoke-stack was carried away and
its huge boilers resembled pin eush-
ion from the timbers of wrecked cars
sticking into it. Upon these timbers
were human beings impaled, some dead
and others gasping their last. High
upon the top lay the dead body of a
man as yet unidentified. Upon one OF
the timbers was impaled the body OF
Mrs. Oscar Bietzel, 80 years old, of 12a
East One Hundred and Fourteenth
street, New York city.
The scene of the wreck was indie
scribably horrible. The dead and
wounded were mashed among the
wreckage beside and upon the tracks
The timbers were showered with the
blood of the dead and wounded, and
the cries of the latter could be heard
high above the kissing of the steam
and the calls of the frantic trainmen.
As fast as the wounded were taken
from the wreck they were carried to
the relief train and cared for. The
doctors on board worked swiftly but
well.
Others of the doctors were ont on the
wreck applying restorntivcs and max
ing hurried dressings of wounds rs the
sufferers were taken out, and then the
latter were put on the relief train for
more careful treatment.
Havemyer's factory stands close to
the tracks at the scene of the accident;
this was thrown open and some of the
dead and injured were carried in there.
One of the physicians was stationed
here to receive them as they were
brought in. When all the wounded
had been found that could be, the re.
lief train started with them for Long
Island City. They were met there by
the only ambulance which st. Johns
hospital owns Two were placed in il
and , hurried to the hospital, and
the ambulance returned for more.
Meanwhile express wagons, palace
cars, coaches and vehicles of every sort
were pressed into service to get the
wounded to the. hospital quickly.
Seventeen of them were taken to the
. hospital in all, of whom two died upon
the way there, Oscar Dietzel, of 122
East One Hundred and Fourteenth
street, and John Coughlin, brake
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