The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-08-28
DEATH ON THE RAN.
Fatal Accident to a Party Of Ex-
cursionists.
FIFTEEN KILLED, MANY INJURED.
A Rockaway Beach Train on tho Long
Island Railroad Piows Its Way Through
Two Cars of Manhattan Beach Train.
Another Wreck in Connecticut.


Another Wreck in Connecticut.
LoSa ISLAND CITY, Aug. 2s-An acct
fent that cost the lives of fifteen persons
occurred shortly after midnight yesterday
morning in the little village of Berlin,
near Calvary cemetery, in the town of
Newton. The Long Island railroad train
that left Manhattan Beach at li:i5 o'clock
was overtaken by the train that left Rock
away Beach fifteen minutes earlier. In
the frightful collision that ensued ths two
rear ears of the five that made mp the
Manhattan Beach train were demolished
and tho middle car was overturned
Hardly one of the score of passengers
aboard these three cars escaped unhurt.
The following is n corrected list of tho
dead: Colonel Il. \. Buck, editor New
York Spirit of the Times; Oscar Deitzel,
90 years old, New York; Mrs. Maggie
Deitzel, his wife; Mrs. Bertha Weinstein,
New York; her husband at hospitals; Sid
ney Weinstein, IL years old, her son;
Thomas Finn, brakemnn; Mrs Theodore
Craven; Mortimer Dittman, 80 years old,
New York; John G. DyckhoiT, 45 years old,
and Mrs. Dyckhoff, his wife, New York;
Alexander Grillet, 35 years old, Philadel-
phia; James j. Hylands, 30 years old; Max
Stein, 80 years old, New York; Joseph NJ.
Thelan, an actor known OH the stage as
George Fielding.
Among the seriously injured are: John
Hahn, "a years old, Astoria, internal inju-
ries; will recover. James Barron 33 years,
New York, scalds and internal injuries;
will recover. Theodore Craeven New
York, terribly hurt, condition critical;
wife believed to have been killed Eleanor
i. Craeven, Is years, his daughter, scalds
and internal injuries; will recover. Miss
Clara Haskell New York, broken ankle
n = ,1t.n Ill.
jured Aaron Weinstein, conclusion of
brain; may die. Morris Flosheim, New
York, right leg broken and eye injured.
James B. Thompson, 50 years, New York,
head cut; will recover. August .Jallobs
son, New York, horribly hurt; will proba-
ably die. Eugene Weiss, New York,
scaldcd. William Lynch, New York,
badly hurt, but will recover. Frank Lar
kin, 33 years, New York spine hurt.
The Manhattan Beach train Ind been
standing in the block TO allow another
train ahead to get at n safe distance. The
Rockaway Beach train came dnshing along
behind, ran into the same block and
crushed into the rear end of the Manhat-
tan Beach train. Both were crowded with
excursionsts 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 pushed its way completely
through the two rear cars and partly
wrecked the third. Passengers in the
three cnrs were MANNED and mangled hor-
ribly, and their shrieks of terror and pain
were awful.
The Rockaway engine was wrecked Its
smokestack was carried away and its
huge boiler resembles pin cushion from
the timbrrs of the 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 man, yet unidentified
Upon one of the timbers was impalel the
body of Mrs, Oscar Detzel. Upon another
was the body of Sidney Weinstein, boy
IL years old. The scene of the wreck was
indescribably horrible. Everything was
shnwcred with tho blood of tile dead and
wounded. and the cries Of the latter rose
high above the kissing of steam aud the
calls Of the frantic trainmen.
The Manhattan Beach train was Just
pulling from the block when the crash
came and had just begun to move When
Engineer Donaldson heard and felt the ac-
cidcat he threw open his lever and made
all speed for Long Island City. leaving the
wrecked cars behind him. None of the
passengers or crew on this train were seri-
ously hurt. Haberman's Tin factory tands
close to the track at the scene of the nc
ClilPnt, MS WIS 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 Johns
hospital. The dead were taken by another
special train to Newtown, which is nearest
town TO the scene of the accident
All day long today both the morgue in
Newtown and the hospital in Long Island
City have been beseged by anxious seek
ers for missing members of their families.
The scenes ns some of the mangled bodies
were recognized were heartrending, women
fainting and men falling on their knees to
weep.
General Manager L. r. Reynolds and
Superintendent w. H. Blood We're at the
scene. They stated that the cause of the
accident was still unknown and il was a
question of yeracity between the tower
Switchmen Mutt and Engineer Gontrite,
Of the Rockaway train. The latter h had
reported that a heavy fog prevailed