Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-09-01
AN AWFUL HORROR.
Correct Account of the Fatal Long
Island Wreck.

! Long Island City, l.. L., Aug. 2S.-The
corrected account of the wreck on the
Long Island road makes the accident
Of yesterday morning much worse than
at first reported
] In frightful collision between the
RoCkaway Beach and Manhattan
Beach trains, the two rear coaches of
the latter were completely demolished
and the third was overturned.
Hardly one of the scores of pasSen-
gers aboard these three ears escaped
even more horrible than ut first re-
unhurt, fourteen people were killed and
scores of others injured. Following are
corrected lists. The dead are:
Col T.. A. Buck, editor Of Spirit of
the Times; Oscar Diezel, died at st.
Johns hospital, Mrs Maggie DieZel,
wife, % years, died ut mOrglc: Mrs.
Bertha Weinstein; Sidney WeinStein.
her son; Thomas Finn. brakeman; I'M
known young woman, alone, two cards
i'll pocket, upon one Laura Duffy,
and upon the other Miss Young
unknown woman, 10 years, two cards
IN pocket upon one is Mrs. John Con
Il,
unknown man, with letter in pocket
addressed to Dr. Ditman, New York,
also check for $125, signed \. j. Need
burg: unknown man. With bunch of
keys marked 81. ]. Hyland, Westerly,
II. L." and small prayer book with
-. J. Clancy on fly leaf; unknown
man. shirt marked e. P card in
pocket with George Fielding upon it,
and a valiSe tag with same name; I'M
known man, with letter addressed to
Miss NIckenna, Clinton terrace, Rose
bank. Staten Island, i'll pocket; I'M
known man, with letter in pocket
addressed to Mr.. Stein, New York.
The injured are: John Hahn, in
ternel injuries, will recover; James
Barron, scalds and internal injuries,
will recover; Theodore Graeven, ter
ridly hurt, condition critical; Eleanor
f. Graeven, his daughter, scalds and
internal injuries, will recover; Miss
Clara Haskell broken ankle; Horace G.
kimball; Aaron Weinstein. conclusion
of brain, may die; Morris Flosheim,
leg broken, James p. Thompson, head
hurt; August JakobSsOn, horribly hurt.
will probably die; Eugene Weiss,
scalded; William Lynch, badly hurt,
but will recover; Frank Lar>in, New
York, spine hurt; Kate Durken, suffer
ing from the shock; James J. Brady,
internal injuries; William Livington;
George Hannet; James Coughlin.
After the accident happened, it was
over an hour before news of it reached
any outside point It came by messen-
ger, who walked into Long Island City.
The railroad company Immediately
despatched a relief train with all the
physicians in the city. They found an
appalling state of affairs.
The Manhattan Beach train had been
standing in the block to allow another
train ahead to get at a safe distance.
The Rockaway Beach train came
dashing along behind, ran into the
same block and crushed into the rear
rheir respective resorts There were
end of the Manhattan Beach train.
Both were crowded with eXcurSioniSts,
and both were the last trains from
five cars in the Manhattan Beach train,
all Of them open cars. The Rockaway
tain plunged in and ploughed its way
completely through the two rear cars,
and partly wrecked the third. PaSsen-
gers in the three cars We're MANNED and
mangled horribly, and their shrieks Of
terror and pain We're awful.