The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-08-31
DEATH on THE Rail.
Fatal Accident to a Prty q FL
curslonists.
hoe kaSsy Reach Trails the ssnE
Island Railroad Ftows Its way ThFsagh
Two Cara IL aAahasszn Beach Train
Another Wreck In Sont.s<rIruE

Island Railroad Piew. 1t. .s=y ThrsaSh
Two Car. IL a Manhattan Bsaeh Traia-
Another Wreck In Connecticut
Lose ISLAND CITY. Aug. - An a~el-
Gent that cost the lives Of fifteen persons
occurred shortly after midnight yesterday
morning tn tie little village Of Berlin.
near Calvar, cesneie~s. ia the town Of
Newton Ghe Long y sud railroad train
that left ManaAt - Zach al { - o'clock
was osertaken by .hc train that left Rock
away Beach Fifteen minutes earlier. In
the irightful collision that enSned the two
rear cars Of tie live that made up the
Manhattan Bench train were demolished
and the middle car was overturned
Hardly one Of the = ore Of passeng gers
aboard these three caI- escaped unhErt
The following j. a corrected list OF the
eeaf: Colonel + 4. Buck. editor New
York Spirit Of the Times: Oscar Deitzel.
a. years old. New York: Mrs Maggie
Deitzrl, his wife; Mrs. Bertha Wriustpiu
New York, her husband at hospital: sid
ney WeinSteln, II years old, her son:
Thomas Finn. brakeman; Mrs Theodore
Craven; Mortimer Dittman. ~ years old
New York, John {. Dyckhoff, ~ years old
land Mrs. byckhof. his wife. New York;
Alexander Grillet. 81 years old. Philadel-
| phia; Jane, J. Hylands, 30 years old; Max
| Stein, IS 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-
| Fies; will recover. James Barron, b years
| New York, >calds 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 q. kimball, Brooklyn. spine in
| Iured. Aaron Weinstrin, conclusion of
| brain; may die Morris Flosheim. New
| York, right leg broken and eye injured
Jane b. Thompson. ID 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, bur will recover Frank Lar
kin, 30 years, New York, spine hurt.
| The Manhattan Beach train had been
standing in the block to allow another
train ahead to get ut a safe distance. The
| Rockaway Beach train came dashing along
! behinu, ran into the same block and
crushed into the rear end of the Manhat-
| tan Beach train. Both were crowded with
| excursiOniats and both were the last trains
| from their respective resorts, There were
| five cars in the Manhattan Beach train, all
| IF them open "urS. The Kockaway train
| plunged in and pushed its way completely
| throu-h the two rear cars and partly
wrecked the third. Passengers in the
three cars We're MANNED and mangled hor-
ribly, and their shricIs of terror and pain
were awful.
| The Rock away engine was wrecked Its
| smOkestack was carried away and its
| huge boiler resembles a pin cushion from
he timbers of the wrecked cars sticking
into it. Upon these timbers were human
beings implied, some dead and Others
gasping their last. High unon the top lay
| the dead body of man, Yet unidentified.
| Upon one of the timbcrS was impaled the
body of Mrs. Oscar Dietzel. Upon another
was the body OF Sidney Weinstein, a boy
! 3 years old. The &C ne of the wreck was
inde,cribablv horrible Everything was
showered with the blood Of the dead and
wounded, and the cries Of the latter rose
high above the hissiug Of steam and the
calls of the frantic trainmcn.
The Manhattan beach train was Just
| pulling from tie block when the crash
! came and had just began to move When
Engineer Donaldson heard and felt the &C
| ,ident he thfcw Open his lever and made
all speed for Long Island City, leaving the
wrecked cars behind him. None of the
passengers crew on this train were seri-
olsly hurt HaEerman's Tin factory stands
close to the track at the scene of the &C
cident. This was thrown open and some
Of the dead and injured were carried in
| there. When all the wounded had been
found that could be the relief train started
with them for Long Island City. They
were met there and taken to St. John s
hospital The dead were taken by another
special train to New: own, which is neares,
| Gown to the scene o. the accident
All day long today both the morgue in
Newtown and the hospital III Long Island
City have been hesicged by anxious seek
ars for missing members of their families
The scenes as some of the mangled bodies
were recognized We're hearlrending, women
tainting and men falling Oh their knees tt
weep.
General Manager +. X. Reynolds and
Superintendent ". Il. Blood were at the
scene. They stated that the cause of the
accident was still unknown and 1t was a
question of vpracitV between the tower
5witchmen Mutt and Engineer Contrite
of the Rockaway train. The latter haC
reported that heavy fog prevailed.
| ra- n Engines.