The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-01
BAD WRECK.
Awful Collision on the Long ISL
and Railroad.
FOURTEEN KILLED and MANY HURT.
Among the Dead Was Col. Buck. Editor
of the Spirit of the Times-The
Two Trains Crowded with
Excursionists.

LoNG ISLAND CITY. L. l., Aug. 2S.-
An accident that cost the lives of four
teen people occurred shortly after mid
night in the little village of Borne,
near Calvary cemetery, in the town of
Newton. The Long Island railroad
train that left Manhattan Beach at IL
o'clock was overtaken by the train that
left Rockaway beach few minutes
later. In the frightful collision that
ensued the two rear cars of the five
that made up the Manhattan Beach
train were demolished and the middle
car overturned. Hardly one of the
scores of passengers aboard the three
cars escaped unhurt
Following is correct list of the
killed: Col. L. Buck, So years, ed
itor Spirit of the Times; Oscar
Dietzel Mrs. Maggie Dietzel. Mrs.
Bertha Weinstein, Sidney Neinst elm,
13 years, her son; Thomas Finn, brake
man Manhattan Beach train: unknown
woman, unknown man, small black
mustache, letter in pocket addressed to
Alexander Grillett, 30 West Thirty
second street, New York; unknown
man, with letter in pocket addressed
to Mr.. Ditman, 10 West Fifty-second
street, New York; unknown man with
bunch of keys marked j. j. Hyland,
Westerly, X. l.; L. p. Harding: un-
known man with letter addressed to
Miss McKinna; unknown man, with
letter in pocket addressed to "Mr.
Stein, care of Mr.. Goodwin, 33 East
,rrI,t
as many were injured.
The accident happened at half an
hour after midnight. 1t was over an
hour before any news of it reached any
outside point. 1t came by messenger
who walked into Long Island City.
The railroad company Immediately dis
patched a relief train with all the ply
sicians possible.
They found an appalling affair. The
Manhattan Beach train had been
standing in the block to allow another
train ahead getting past The Rock
away Beach train came dashing along
behind, ran into the same block and
crashed into the rear end of the Man.
haitian Beach train. Both were
crowded with excursionists, and both
were the last trains from the resorts.
The Rockaway train plunged in
and plowed its way completely
through the 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 a pincushion from the tim
bers from the wrecked cars sticking
into it. Upon these timbers were hui
man 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 tim
bers was impaled the body of Mrs. Os-
car Dietzel; upon another was the body
of Sidney Wefnstein.
The scene of the wreck was horrible.
Everything was showered with the
blood of the dead and wounded, and
cries of the wounded arose above the
kissing steam. As fast as the wounded
We're taken from the wreck they were
carried to the relief train and cared for.
The killing of Col. Z. a. Buck, editor
of the Spirit of the Times, was especial
ly pathetic. He was returning from
the beach with his son and DIR. Knapp,
of New York. The son was thrown,
torn and bleeding, out upon the en-
banllment Col. Buck was SO badly
hurt that he gasped few times and
died, while DIR. Knapp was uninjured
and did noble service in administering
to the sufferers. The body of Col.
Buck lies at st. Johns hospital.