New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-28

! heavy piece of timber They saw the head
| of the boiler of the engine stove in. and great
| tmbcrs filling up the hole, and they saw in
! among the timbers part of woman's body.
| The rest was under the car. All around were
the dead and the dying. Some died hard and
! fought hard to live. Others died thankful for
their release from terrible pain. In time the
wrcciing train came, and time brought the Of
| fcials of the road and the relief train.
REMOVING THE DEAD AND INJURED.
| The dead were placed on the floor aone the
wall the ground floor Of llalcrnans factory
! The living put into The relief train Three
| of them died on their way to Long Island City
From midnight until daybreak the work continued
| and then the dead were all found and the living
| injured all taken away. After sunrise there came
| erocers' WAGONS, butchers wagons and hay wagon
| For more than an hour over an awful road they
carried the dead to Ncwtown, where the morgne
| stands Then all day long and all the evening,
| too the door swung open 10 allow some SAD lac"
10 look upon the dead face of a rc!div" or Trend
| If the lost one was dead ana was tl'ie Ic sc'i'c
| was touching. If the missing one was not 10 De
| found in the ranks Of the dead new hopes arose
| in the breasts of the sorrOwful people who called
at the mOrguc.
| WHAT TIE RAILROAD OFFICIALS SAID
| The officials of tile road did not want 70
| talk about the accident General Superintendent
Blood said that he could not, with prudence CIV"
any expression of opinion as TO how the RocKa-
| way Beach train came to telescope the Man
| haitian Beach train. Hugh O'Nclll, he said: was
| the Waterman at IIabcrmans, but lie dld NOT
| know the name of the man in the railroad tower
| The engineer Of the Rockaway Beach Tram. h'
| ss,d was Kronkite. some others SAID, however
| rhat his maine Mangin and that y" hVcd
| at No 100 Eagle-st, Brooklyn, Donaldson "i1
the name of the engineer OF me Manna'aa m ar,n
| is Robert j. Knott. =,
General Manager Reynolds said that there would
| he an investigation made to-day. When asked 70
explain how the accident happened. he SAID
| il happened because the block was not kept closed
| He denied the storie' that the COUPLING OF tn''
! Manhattan Beach train had broken and 30 caused
| the disaster
| SENDING OUT A RELIEF TRAIN.
| The first passengcrs 10 arrive in Long Island
| CITY from the scene OF the disaster were thos'
who seated in the first three cars OF the Man
! haitian Beach train had come through after
| the shork without stopping. They We're non"
| Of them seriously hurt Some had slight scalp
wounds and bruises but tlie majority came through
without harm. 1t Vas this tram INA, nlo" ,as
| the news of the accident. As speedily is pos
| sible at that hour vi the morning, Wi'eh EN-
| ployes were all away from the railroad Hafu., Il
| Special train was sent out to the scene q! W.,
| wreck and following it went the wrecklng rrail
| The special had a single car. II Tor" Df. j.
Valentine, the Long Island Railroad COMPANY
| physician and DR.. p II. Bumefcr. home surgeon
Of s.. Johns Hospital; DR. John Francis Burn
attending surgeon on duty at s.; Johns Hos,
Pta and H. prs Kenne4y Fry sb ala" Gy % %n
| left 10 arrange for the landing Of me Wouna''
| on their arrival from the wreck, with me phY
sicians went Fathers Mcguire, Foley ana Dough
| crty and dozen train hands "a help III th'
! rescue
After the departure OF the relief train news
| from the scene Of the accident kept coming 10
the Long Island City station from many sources.
II variously stated the dead TO be from ten 70
| thirty, and the wounded as high % hundred
One man, who had come up by the road, slld
he had counted twenty dead bodies by the SD"
Of the week. Others brought stories OF the
most revolving and horrible scenes. All 'old OF
La lack Of assistance and the want Oi manage
nent in the roscung Of the wounded.
| BRINGING IN TIE WOUNDED.
1t was 4 o'clock before the relief train re-
turned In the mean time the few amhulance~
that could be obtained had been driven into the
station and up as near as possible 70 the track
on which the car bearing the wounded was eN-
pectcd. There were only two amhnlances. Other
vehicles had to be secured lhr" or -FOUR
wagons belonging 30 tho Long Island Express
| COMPANY were pressed into service. Straw was
spread over the boxes Of the wagons, and these
conveyanccs also were drawn mp near the track:
Bandag"s and splints blankets ana .irr,clcrs na,i
been provided in abundance Awaiting the tram
were twenty thirty men. They walkr'l back
and forth the station platform. Electric
lights al stated intervals down the walk spnt-
tered fechlv in the mist and added 10 the gen
eral air Of gloomy expectancy that pervaded
everything.
n
every one Tho ear bCarirg the wounded came
slowly down the track toward the ambllancns
and the men before il ran the great black hulk
of an engine that without light On the for
ward platform Of the car itself was red lantern
il looked like spot Of blood Within was dim
light and death There were four or five men on
the front platform, and on the back platform two
red lnterns shone, and there We're also men. As
the car came by the odor Of medicine was strongly
noticeable and there low moaning sound
Within the car men could Just he seen moving
about and STOPPING down. As the car stopped, for
some unforeseen reason or because il was Just 4
o. clock. the electric lights throughout the station
went out The place in total darkness. Tho
fog was still thick and il vet too early for
daylight. Lights could not he found and 80 the
work Of transferring tho wounded from the floor
Of the ear 10 the ambulanc" began with no other
light than that Of The red lanterns,
TERRIBLE CONDITION OF THE INJURED
The wounded We're taken ont by the rear
door and handed down over the back platform
TO hands upheld TO receive them. The first 10
hc taken was Oscar Dctzel As he was lowered
slowly down his blanket the horror Of that
car and the awfulness OF the accident that placed
| so many human beings in such condition an.
pcaled strongly TO the men standing about Diet,
| zcl was mangled frightfully. though he still
| lived and he did not die until placed on Tho
| operating table at st. Johns Hospital Harry
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