The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-08-27
AN AWFUL CRASH.
One Train Pierced by
Another.
DASHED TO THEIR DEATH.
Criminal Carelessness in the
Operation of Railroads.
DASHED TO THEIR DEATH.
CLEARLY SOME ONE TO BLAr1E.
No Warning Given to Men and
Women as Eternity Was
Opened to Them.

LONG ISLAND CITY. Aug. ga fright
ful accident occurred tonight at Bush
wick junction, on the Long Island Rail-
road. The R0ckaway train ran into the
head of the Manhattan Beach train at
about midnight. telescoping several cars.
Sixteen dead have been taken from the
wreck, and their bodies are now lying in
Havemeyer's tin shops at Laurel
Hill, which has been converted into
temporary moTgue. 1t is now
estimated that the number of injured will
reach in the neighborhood of thirty-fve or
forty people. many of whom il is believed
will die. The accident, it is said. was due
to the negligence of the tower man at
Laurel Hill. The injured are being con-
veyed to Long Island City Hospital as fast
as the railroad officials can remove them.
A carload has already been dispatched and
a number of surgeons summoned to the
scene and these are busily engaged in ex-
tending temporary relief to the injured.
1t seems that the Manhattan Beach train
was blocked at Bushwick junction at
about II 30 O'Clock, when the Rockaway
Beach train, coming at a high rate of
speed, ran into the tail end of the Manhat-
tan Beach train. plowing clear through
the last two cars. Everybody in these cars
vas either killed or injured, while a third
car WAS thrown from the track. One man
says he saw eight bodies taken from the
wreck and that one corpse lay on top of
the engine of the Rackaway ira II.
The physicians who are now on the
scene were summoned from the Long
Tata II
killed cannot be learned as yet.
Among the injured are:
II. G. KimbalI Of New York. Eugene NJ.
Weiss OF New York. August jacobson of
New York. All three sustained internal
injuries. and in addition to these Weiss
has both arms broken and Kimball's head
is badly cut.
Theodore Grove of New York, cut about
the head. arms and legs.
James Daroon OF New York. injured
about the body.
James Brady of New York, internally
injured.
William Lynch of New York.
The locomotive of the Rockaway train,
which was going at full speed when her
engineer first sighted the standing train,
split the two last open cars of the standing
train right through and hurled them to the
right and left in wreck. There were nearly
150 persons in the last two cars, it is said
Oscar Dengler of New York was pas
senger on the Rockaway train with his
wife and family of fourteen. The train
was running at high speed all the way.
He says they were just in sight OF the
Long Island City Chemical Works when
there was a friGhtful crash and the pas
sengers were thrown head over heels out
of their seats.
The men made for the doors, and were
crushed beneath them. Dengler said the
people in those cars owe their lives TO two
policemen. The police jumped into the
doOrways. and one cried:
Keep still, boys! You are going 70 get
out; you'll get out anyway"
The officers had great fight to keep the
crowd quiet. The train ran about two
blocks after the collision. Dengler says
the last two cars of the Manhattan train
were smashed into kindling wood, and
bodies were lying around everywhere.
Some of the passengers of the Roekaway
train helped to carry the wounded into
the chemical works. Dengler saw twelve
persons taken there, some dead and some
hurt He saw the headless body of a
young woman.
The killed and Injured, he says. were all
OD the Manhattan train. He does not think
that any OF the Rocka way passengers were
seriously injured, but all were shaken up
and bruised.
n. Nawoptzay Of 444 East Eighty-eighth
was on the Manhattan Beach train. He
says the collision broke the coupling be-
tween the second and third cars from the
last and that the front of the train ran on
ahead, leaving the cars with the wounded
and dead passengers behind.
He was in one of the rear cars, and was
thrown out on his head. He thinks every
body in the last two cars were either killed
or more or less injured.
LONG ISLAND CITY. Aug. 27-3 A. M
At this hour IL is said that twenty persons
at least were killed in the collision at
Bushwick junction, and 1t Is thought this
number will be increased before morning,
as many of the injured are reported to be
in critical condition.