The record-union., 1893-08-28
Special to the REcoRD-UN1oN.

Special to the RECORD-UNIoN.
LONG ISLAND CITY, Aug. 27.-An aw-
full railway accident occurred ABOUT mid
night last night in which fourteen lives
were lost and eighteen persons were more
or less seriously injured. The Rocka-
way train ran into the head of the Man
haitian Beach train, telescoping several
cars. The accident, it is said, was due to
the negligence of the tower man at Laurel
Hill.
1t seems that the Manhattan Beach
train WAS block ed at Bushwick junction
at about 1l:30 o'clock, when the Rocka-
way Beach train, coming at high rate of
speed, ran into the tail end of the Man
haitian Beach train, blowing clear through
the last two cars. Everybody in these
cars was either killed or injured, while
third car was thrown from the track.
The locomotive 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 stand
ing train right through and hurled them
to the right and left in wreck. There
were nearly $50 persons in the last two
cars.
Oscar Dengler of New York was a pas
senger on the Rockaway train with his
wife and family of fourteen. The train
was running at high speed all the way.
He says they were just in sight of the
Long Island City Chemical Works when
there was u frighttul crash and the pas
sengers were thrown head over heels out
of their seats.
The men made for the doors, and were
crushed beneath them. Dengler said the
people in those cars owe their lives to
TWO policemen. The police jumped into
the doorways, and one cried:
Keep still, boys! You are going to
get out; you'll get out anyway"
The officers had great tight to keep
the crowd quiet. The train ran about two
blocks alter the collision. Dengler SAYS
the last two cars of the Manhattan train
We're smashed into kIndling wood, and
bodies were lying around everywhere.
The dead are: Colonel +. A. Buck, edi-
tor of the SPIRIT of the Times: Oscar Diet
eel, Mrs. Maggie Dietzel, Mrs. Bertha
Weinstein, Sidney Weinstein, THOMAS
Finn, two unknown women and six nn-
known men.
The injured are: John Hahn, James
Barron, Theodore Graeven may die,
Eleanor F. Graeven, Miss Clara Haskell,
Horace @. Kim ball, Aaron Weinstein
| may die, Morris Flosheim, James b.
| Thompson, August Jakobsson will die,
Eugene Weiss, William Lynch, Frank
Larkin. Kate Durken, James J. Brady,
William Livingston, George Hannet and
James Coughlin.
Word OF the wreck was not received
here for hours after ii occurred, and when
! the relief train with physicians reached
the scene they found an appalling state of
affairs. The Rockaway Beach train had
crashed into the rear end of the Manhat-
tan Beach train, plowed its way COM
| pletely through two rear cars and partly
wrecked the third. The passengers in
the three cars were manned and mangled
horribly, and the shrieks of terror and
| pain were awful.
The Rockaway engine was wrecked.
| The boiler resem bled a pincushion from
timbers of wrecked cars sticking into it.
Upon these umoers were human beings
| impaled. Some were dead and others
gasping their last. The dead and
wounded were massed among the wreck
! age beside, upon and beyond the tracks.
Everything was spattered with blood.
| AS fast as the wounded could he taken
| from the wreck they were carried to the
relief train and cared for. Adjoining
| buildings were also turned into tenn
porary hospitals and every possible effort
made to alleviate the sufferings of the un-
| fortunate people. None Of the passengers
or crew on the Rockaway Beach train
were seriously hurt.
An eye witness of the accident says the
Rockaway Beach train was going at top
speed, as if, being the last train, the en-
gineer was trying to get home as soon as
possible.
At the scene of the accident wrecling
trains and big force of railroad employees
worked all day to obliterate the CHASTITY
evidence of the disaster.
General Manager Reynolds to-day
faI hot !, So . i
still unknown; that it was question of
veracity between Tower-switchman Mutt
and Engineer COncrite of the Rockaway
train. The latter reported that a heavy
| fog prevailed at the time; that the signals
were set at safety, indicating a clear road,
and he went ahead without reducing the
speed. AS soon as be discovered the red
lights of the other train he reversed his
engine and put on the brakes. Then he
and Fireman Price jumped.
Mutt insists that the signal was set at
danger.
Mrs. Theodore Graeven, who was seri-
ously injured, died this afternoon, max
ing the dead fifteen. All the bodies have
now been identified.
FOUR LIVES LOST.
BREwsTERs IN. ", Aug. ga ter
rible accident occurred yesterday on the
Harlem Railroad, near Dykeman's sta
ton, just north of here, which cost four
lives, and possibly more.
/ 1t was the result OF head-on collision
between the west-bound New York ex-
press train and the Pawling accommoda-
ton train. The killed are: Daniel Pone-
| there, engineer; William Elliott, engineer;
| William Best fireman. Nellie Reid, aged
/ 10. The injured number three.
! FATAL CROSSING ACCIDENT.
GLENwooD ull.), Aug. 27.-J. j. Wood
row, aged IS years, an old settler and
| prominent farmer, and his daughter were
instantly killed yesterday while crossing
! the Burlington railroad tracks, a mile
from here. Their carriage was struck
| by train, wrecking the vehicle. Both
bodies were horribly mangled and the
team was killed.
BIOODY RIOI In CHICAGO