The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-08-27
MANY OF THE WOUNDED DYING.
A Standing Excursion Train Struck
by an Extra That Followed.
All che Cars Crowded with Rssarnias
Pleasure seekers-Ths Kngine Plows
Through Two Cara. FlnEing the
Dead and Intared Aside.

Iut aecident occurred tonight at Bushwick
junction, on the Long Island railroad. A
Rockaway train ran into the head Of .
Manhattan Beach train about midnight.
telescoping several cars. Sixteen of the
twenty dead have been taken from the
wreck, ard their bodiss are now lying In
Havemeyer's tinshop at Laurel Hill. which
has been converted into a temporary
morgue. 1t is now estimated that the
number of injured viii reach In the neigh
borhood of thirty-five or forty people,
many ofwhom viii die before daylight. The
accident. 1t Is said, was due TO the neg
ligence OF the tower man at Laurel Hill.
The injured are being conveyed to Long
Island City hospital as fast a. the railroad
officials can remove them. A car load have
already been dispatched. A number OF
surgeons have been summoned 10 the
scene. and these are busily engaged in ex-
tending temporary relief to the injured
Particulars of the accident are as fol-
lows: The Manhattan Beach train was
blocked at Brunswick junction at about
III 80 o'clock when the Rockaway Beach
train. coming at a high rate of speed, ran
into the tail end of the Manhattan Beach
train. piowing clear through the last
two cars Everybody in these
cars was either killed or injured.
The third car was completely thrown from
the track. One man says eight bodies
were taken from the wreck and that one
corpse iw upon the top Of the engine Of
the Rockaway train. Physicians who were
on the scene were summoned from the
Long Island City hospital. The names OF
the killed cannot be learned rs yet.
Among the injured are: III. G.. Kimhall,
Brooklyn, internal injuries and head
badly cut; Eugene NJ. Weiss, of New York.
internal injuries and both arms broken;
August Jacobson, New York, internal In
juries: Theodore Grove, New York, cut
about the head. arms and legs: James ID.
Arroon, New York. injured on the body:
James Brady. New York, internally In
jured; William Lynch, New York.
Thslocomotive 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 the wreck. There
were nearly l50 persons In the
last two cars, it IL said. Otto
Denelsr, Of New York, was Q pas
senger on the Rockaway train. with
his wife and family Of fourteen. Ths train
was running at . high rate Of speed ell the
way in. he says. They were Just In sight
of the Long Island City Chemical Works
when there was frightfui crash and the
passengers thrown heels over head out
of their seats. Men made for the
doors and women were crushed beneath
them. De glcr said the people IN those
cars owe their lives to two policemen. The
police jumped into the doorways and one
cried. Keep still; keep stili. boys.
II you are going to get IL you'll
get IL 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 passengers on the Rockaway train
helped to carry the wounded into the
chemical works.
Dengier saw twelve persons taken there
some dead and some hurt. He saw tho
headIess body Of young woman. The
killed and injured, he says. were ell on the
Manhattan train. He does not think any
Roekaway passengers were seriously in-
jured. but all were shaken up and bruised.
n. Nawoptsay, of ~ East EIghty-esghth
street, was on thu Manhattan Beach train.
lie says the collision broke the coupling
between the second and third cars from
the last and that the front Of the train
ran ahead, leaving the two 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 everybody in
the last two cars was either killed or more
or less injured.
Loss ISLAND CITY. Aug. 27--This city
was startled Just before midnight Lass
night by q telephons message from Laurel
Hill reporting that a Rockaway Beach
train and a Manhattan Beach train had
been In collision there. that great many
persons had been hurt and ssx
or seven killed outright. The
Long Island railroad depot was notified
to send on q wreeking train at once and a
special train TO bring in the injured. and
20 have ambulances and surgeons at hand
20 receive them. and TO send doctors TO
Laurel HUI If possible. At first the re-
port was that the regular last
train from Rockaway Beach, which
leaves the beach at III O'Clock, had
been run into by an extra from Manhattan
Beach, which was bringing back crowd
from the fireworks st Coney Island. A
railroad official who came up 70 Long ISL
and City ss 1 O. m. this morning
said that on the contrary the extra
Manhattan train was at a stand
still. held on the block by Q
telegraph operator. when the Rockaway
train came along and ran into It Both
trains were crowded, the standing train
especially %, and he said he believed
twel We persons had been killed and thirty
| or thiriy-hvs injured At this hour
smbrisnces and surgeons from Long
Island college hospital are walt
| ing I'm the Long Island station
for the arrival Of the special train with
| the sufferers. The collision occurred Just
| beyond Penny bridge. and how IL hap
pened that tue Manhattan Beach train
was held there 10 not known There wers
| unusual attractions at Manhattan beach
| and coney island and an extra train vas
| run 70 help bring them home.
The wounded are being hurried to the
hospital IS fast as the rneager facilities 81
| hand will slow. An express car just ar
| rived With fifteen Of the wounded. Thres
| of them died on the say here. One OF
them. nsiddie-aged man, had both legs
| cut on The doctors say great many are
| suffering from the shock. The names Of
| the killed are unobtasnab.e.
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