The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-09-02
MERRYMAKERS
Hilled and MANNED In a Frightful
Railway Wreck.
Fourteen Pcrsons Killed and = Large Nun.
ber Injured : Editor Of tho Spirit of the
Times Kilied-who Was to Blame,
the Engineer or the Towerman

LoNe ISLAND CRY, Aug. 2s-An ac-
cident that cost the lives OF fourteen
people, occurred shortly after midnight
Sunday morning in the little village OF
Berlin, near Calvary cemetery, in the
town Of Newton. The Long Island
railroad train that left Manhattan
Beach 11:0O o'clock was overtaken by
the train that left Rockaway 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 unhurt
After the accident happened 1t was
over an hour before the news OF tt
reached any outside point It came by
messenger, who walked into Long
Island City. The railroad company
Immediately dispatched relief train
with all the physicians in the city.
They found an appalling state OF at
fairs. The Manhattan Beach train had
been standing in the block to allow Of
another train ahead getting at a safe
distance The Rockawsy Beach train
came dashing along behind, ran into
the same block and crashed into the
Manhattan Beach train. Both were
crowded with excursionists, and both
were the last trains from their respec-
tive resorts.
There were five cars in the Manhat-
tan Beach train, all Of them open cars.
The Rockaway train plunged in and
plowed its way completely through the
two rear cars and partly wrecked the
third.
Passengers in the three cars were
MANNED and mangled horribly, and
their shrieks Of terror and pain were
awful
The Rockaway engine was wrecked.
Its smokestack was carried away and
its huge boiler resembled pin-cushion
sticking into it. Upon these timbera
were human beings impaled, some dead,
and others gasping their last High
up on the top lay the dead body OF a
man, yet unidentified. Upon one OF
tho timbers was impaled the body oa
Mrs. Oscar Dietzer. Upon another waa
the body of Sidney Weinstein.
The scene was indescribably horrible
The dead and wounded were massed
among the wreckage, besides upor
and beyond the tracks. Everything
was despatched with blood of the desd
and wounded, and tho cries OF the lat
ter rose above the kissing Of steam and
the calls Of the frantic trainmen. As fas
as the wounded could be taken from thu
wreck they were carried to the relic
train and cared for.
The doctors on board worked swift.
but we'll, while other medical men wer
out in the wreck applying restorative
and making hurried dressing Of wound
to sustain the sufferers until they coul'
be put in the relief train for more care
full treatment.
Haberman's tin factory stands clos
to the tracks at the scene Of the acci
dent. This was thrown open and som
of the dead and injured were carried il
there. One of the physicians was sta
toned here to receive them as the
were brought in. When all the wound
ed had been placed on the relief trai
it started for Long Island City, wher
it was met by the only ambulanc
. which st. Johns hospital owns Tw
of the injured were placed therein an
; hurried to the hospital, and then tn
) ambulance returned for moro. Nest
while express wagons, horse cart!
coaches and vehicles of every sort wer
, pressed into service to get the wounde
to the hospital quickly.
!. Seventeen of them were taken to th
. . hospital in all, of whom two died upo
!, !, the way, Oscar Dietzel and Thoma
: Fin9lin, a brakeman on tho Manhatta
Beach train.
Col. f. A. Buck, editor of the Spir
of the Times, is among the killed.