The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-29
DEATH ON THE RAIL.
Fatal Accident to a Party of Ex-
cursionists.
FIFTEEN KILLED, MANY INJURED.

Another Wreck in Connecticut.
LONG ISLAND CITY, Aug 2S-An acct
dent that cost the lives of fifteen persons
occurred shortly after midnight yesterday
morning i'll the little village of Berlin.
near Calvary cemetery. in the town of
Newton. The Long Island railroad train
that left Manhattan Beach at Ills o'clock
was overtaken by the train that left Rock
away Beach fifteen minutes earlier In
the frightful collision that ensucd the two
rear cars of the five that made up the
Manhattan Beach train were demolished
and the middle car was overturned.
Hardly one of the score of passengers
aboard these three cars escaped unhurt.
The following is corrected list of the
dead: Colonel f. A. Buck, editor New
York Spirit OF the Times; Oscar Deitzel.
10 years old, New York; Mrs Maggie
Deitzel. his wife; Mrs. Bertha Weinstein,
New York; her husband at hospital: Sid
ney Weinstein, lo years old, her son:
Thomas Finn, brakeman; Mrs. Theodore
Craven; Mortimer Dittman, 30 years old,
New York; John C. Dyckhoff, ~ years old,
and Mrs. Dyckhoff, his wife, New York;
Alexander Grillet, 85 years old, Philadel-
phia; James }. Hylands, 80 years DID, Max
Stein, Is years old, New York; Joseph NJ
Thelan IN actor known on the stage as
George Fielding.
Among the seriously injured are: John
Hahn, 81 years old, Astoria internal ini,l-
rics; will recover. james Barron, 81 years,
New York, scalds and internal in juries;
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 &. kimball, Brooklyn, spine in
Jured. Aaron Weinstein, conclusion of
brain; may die. Morris Flosheim, New
York, right leg broken and eye injured
James b. Thompson, 80 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, but will recover. Frank Lar
kin, 33 years, New York, spine hurt
The Manhattan Beach, train had been
standing in the block 70 allow another
train ahead to get ut n safe distance The
Rockaway Beach train came dashing along
behind, ran into the same block and
crushed into the rear end of the Manh;.t-
tan Beach train. Both were crowded with
excursionists and both were the last trains
from their respective resorts. There were
live cars in the Manhattan Beach train, all
of them open cars. The Rockaway train
plunged in and pushed its way completely
through tho two rear cars and partly
wrecked the third. Passengers in the
three cars were MANNED and mangled bor-
ribly, and their shrieks OF terror and main
were awful
The Rockaway engine was wrecked It's
smokestack was carried away and it's
huge boiler resembles n pin cushion from
the timbers of the wrecked cars sticking
into it. Upon these timbers were human
hpi LODI
gasping their last. High upon the top Law
the dead body of man, yet unidentified
Upon one of the timbers was impaled the
body of Mrs Oscar DietZel. Upon another
was the body of Sidney Weinstein, bow
Is years old. The scene of the wreck ,yas
indescribnbly horrible. Everything WAS
showered with the blood of the dead and
wounded, and the cries of the latter rose
high above the kissing of steam and the
calls Of the frantic trainmen
The Manhattan Beach train WAS inst
pulling from the block when the crash
came and had just begun to move When
Engineer Donaldson heard and felt the ac-
cident he threw open his lever and mnde
all speed for Long Island City. leaving the
wrecked cars behind him. None of the
passengers OF crew on this train we're serj-
ously hurt. Habcrman's Tin factory stands
close To the track at the scene of the nc
clucnt. his WAS thrown open and some
of tho dead and injured were carried in
there. When all the wounded had been
found that could he 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 besieged by anxious seek
ers for missing members of their families.
The scenes rs some of the mangled bodies
We're recognized were heartrending, women
fAintjng and men falling on their knees To
weep.
General Manager Il. II. Reynolds and
Superintendent w. II. Blood were mt the
scene. They stated that the cause of the
accident was still unknown and il was a
question of veracity between the tower
Switchmen Mutt and Engineer Contrite,
of the Rockaway train. The latter had
reported that heavy fog prevailed.
Death Crash of Engines.