Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-08-31

way collision just outside of Long ISL
and City. The accident happened near
the bridge across Newton creek, on the
Long Island railroad. A Rockaway
train had just emptied its passengers
at the Hunters Point derot. It start
ed to return to the bridge at the yards
at Blissville. just across the bridge
it collided with n passenger train from
Manhattan Beach. The Manhattan
Beach train had been standing in the
block to permit a train ahead getting
at a safe distance. The Rockaway
Beach train came dashing along be-
hind. ran into the same block, and
crashed into the rear end of the Man.
haitian Beach train. Both were crowd
ed with excursionists, and both were
the last trains from their respective
resorts.
There were five cars in the Manhat-
tan beach train, all of them open. The
Rockaway train plunged in and plowed
it, way completely through the two
rear cars and partly wrecked the third.
Passengers in each of these three were
manned and mangled horribly and
their shrieks of terror and pain were
awful. Everybody in those cars was
either killed or injured. The third
Car was completely thrown from track
The Rockaway engine was wrecked.
Its smokestack was carried away and
its huge boiler resembled pincushion
from the timbers of the wrecked cars
sticking into it. Upon these timbers
human beings were impaled. some dead
and others gasping their last.
List OF the Dead.
The list of those killed outright is
as follows:
COL Z. A. BUCK. editor Of the Spirit Of the
Times.
OSCAR D1ErzEL; died at st. Johns hospital.
Mrs. MAGGIE DIETzEI, wife. 20 years; died
at morgue.
MRS. BERTHA wEINsTEIN.
SIDNEY WEINsTEIN, her son.
THOMAS FINN. brakeman.
UNIDENTIFIED YOUNG WOMAN blonde: two
cards in packets: upon one Laura DUFFY" on
the other Miss Young"
the other Mrs. Dyckof."
dressed to Alexander Grillette New York.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN with letter in pocked ad-
dressed to Mr.. Ditman. New York. also check
foT s1 signed d. j. Nsedbars ,,h h,nc, ., &.v.
marked y. J. Hyland Westerly. II. ]" and
small prayer book with j. J. Clancy" on fly
leuf. sr,----~-sv-as-s.szz -
UNIDENTIFIED MAN, shirt marked e. p"
card in pocket with George Fielding upon it,
and valise tag marked with the same name.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN, with letter addressed to
Miss Mckenna, Clifton Terrace, Rosebank, 8.
L. in pocket.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN, with letter in pocket
addressed to Mr.. Stein, New York.
The scene was indescribable. The
dead and wounded were scattered
through the wreckage both upon und
beyond the tracks. Everything was
spattsred with the blood of the dead
and wounded, and the cries of the lat
ter rose above the Kissing of steam and
the calls Of the frantic trainmen.
AS fast as the injured could be taken
from the wreck they were carried to
the relief train and cared for. The
doctors on board worked swiftly and
well, while the other medical men were
out in the wreck applying restoratives
and making hurried dressings Of
wounds to sustain the sufferers until
they could be put on the relief train
for more careful treatment. The dead
were taken by special train to Newtown,
which is nearest the scene of the acci-
dent, and placed in morgue by the
order OF the Coroner.