The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-08-28

blIs RI rooms at Victoria Hotel and oriental Hotel
Coney IsaBd ribs and leu ankle broken. Commissions
and scalp wound; will recover: st. Johns Hospital
McCoRucH JAsg.. ~ flfth street. Long Island city
brakeman Manhattan Beach rain scalp cut bruised
and internal njurcs viii recover st. Johns Hospital
NcTnrxsor n. p25 Boulevard, Astoria. not seriously
4 hurt; went home.
NoRhp Tuoris, 1.325 Bristow street, horrssnihi
Il slightly hurt: went homo.
R,ouvtrz uugH. ~. q t2s Second avenue; bad wound
in head hands crushed. right arm broken. bruised all
4 over body. and sesided by steam; may recover; st.
\ Johns Hospital.
RraoEy g. ITO Pleasant avenue: shghtiy hurti went
home.
Tnoxr.os, J.sss r. lo2 West slxty.fourth street,
head bruised ankle sprAined eye injured body mass
OF bruises; will recover: st Johns Hospital
wEissrpiS AARON. AZ, 3t7 West FIFTY eighth street;
internal injuries conclusion OF tho brain may re-
cover; 81 Johns Hospital
WEISS EuGkSr MATHEW, 81 tailor, 23T West SIX
tenth streets scaided about body. incsed wound in
right thigh and In chin; will probably die: 81 johns
Hospital.
YONG, A. W. z25 Hancock street Brooklyn; slightly
hurt: went home.
The scene OF tho wreck was the village OF
Berlin. which Is one mile east OF Laurel Hill.
two miles east OF the Long Island City ter
minus OF the road. and three-1uarters OF n milo
west OF Bushwick junction. Bushwick juno
ton is where tho trains OF tho Now York and
sRockaway Beach division take tho main line
OF the south SnOre DIVISION. lHe Ioau 10 wv
tected by block signal system. and there is
n signal tower Just west OF the junction. On
the opposite side OF the track is tall soma
phore that marks the beginning OF tho block
in which tho accident happened. few feet
beyond the Berlin crossing OF tho railroad Is
another sem aphore. which marks the end OF
the block.
DANGER SIGNAL UNSET OR UNoBsERvED.
The Rockaway Beach train ran into the Man
haitian Beach train when the Manhattan train
had half passed the second scmaphore. Inc
collision was the fault OF one OF two employees
OF the Long Island Railroad. Either the
towerninn in the Bushwick Junction tower
failed to display the red danger signal at
semaphore No. l. or the engineer OF the Rock
away train failed to observe the signal II 1t was
displayed
There was an unusual number of attractions
at Manhattan Beach on Saturday night. ana
the crowd OF visitors was large. The trains
going down in the early evening had leen
crowded. and those coming lack after 10
o'clock held as many people could 10 got
aboard. Stll. there was II big crowd left Mt the
station clamoring for quick TRANSPORTATION
back to the city, and about 11:lo o'clock the
railroad officials ordered that an extra train
be run. At that hour the tracks Of the road
are clear. and the ordinary danger of running
trains on no set schedule is at the minimum.
The extra train consisted Of five closed cars
1t was drawn by an extra engine. which was
In charge OF Engineer Otis donaldson and
Fireman William shurr. The crew Of the
train consists of J. A. Wall. conductor. and
Thomas Finn and James Mccormick brake
men. ..
road seats sixty persons. These cars were
NIL 1lled and there were persons standing IN
bly, 400 persons. In the crowd were several
large parties. One was party OF printers.
w watcbns the eeh re%o Sb Anothsr was
lice concerts. Tho ira in had clear track to
minutes ahead Of the schedule time for the ar
train. Being an extra, it had no stops to make.
The last regular train from Rockaway Beach
SeoeE TRs an was
charge Fh Finite Sna 5
ductor and James HUDSON and Thomas Ridden
the brakeman. The last train from Rocka-
hard run. Several stops are scheduled and the
runpin: times Is very fast
MAKING UP LOST TIME
As the road is always clear at tho late hour
fast running Is not considered dangerous. and
Engineer Concrite was anxious to make up
the three minutes and to bring his train into
would land his passengers in New York city at
midnight. The ROckuway train consisted OF
six cars. They were all closed and every seat
was filled. But few persons were standing.
Probably there was about the same number of
passengers in the six cars AS in the five cars OF
TWAS n typical SATURDAY. night crowd. There
wore many women and some children. Sew
ernl men wero more orlesS under the influence
Siipa ap eapers while tho trai9i Thizzed a ons:
to be exirnordinary. After every stop tho
train started again with Jerk that shook the
msrEsby ~ auiek tins " It was rsmarked by
many Ol the shakrn-up passengers that the
engineer Vas running at the train n an srratic
great that some Of the women grew timid and
wished aloud that, the train would not run so
fast The railroad non agree IN saying that.
while tho speed may have been greater than
usual. It was not dangerous
The Manhattan train stoned lust before 1t
reached the second senaphore beyond the
Bushwick tower. 1t was ioegy. ono story is
trar had I'D not Lett the block preceding re that Oh
which the Manhattan train was running and
mat tbe IISorIin somnphore, showed ,,4nsGr,
and tho Manhattan train stopped until the
srui went up and showed white signal.
THE MANHATTAN TRAIN DELAYED.
:. Tho other story told to th" reporter Of THE
railroad is that hall :. milo west Of the lush;
wick tower the coupling between the third and
The parting OF the coupling separated the
train. Tho cars We're equipped with. an air
brake. and when brake coupling gives way
iron the engine are set on hard. Tho engi-
nesr Of the Manhattan train discovered tho
loss OF tho ears IN moment and brought tho
forward part OF the train 10 standstili. The
moment the roar part stopped tho rear brake
man on duty. knowing that tho ltocknway
train was about due, .oo: a red light and ran
back to signal Il. This is u precaution in
sisted on in addition TO tho block signal. The
brakeman went back n hundred yards That
was to the point OF the curve in the road be-
low the Berlin crossing. Tho Eockaway train
was not In 81 ght then. Engineer Donaldson
backed to the stranded cars and tho coupling
was patched W. That was only moments
work. and when 1t was finished tho engineer
whistled for tho brakeman to come hack with
the light and started the train ahead again.
The brakeman says that MP to the time the
whistle sounded he did not SEQ the Rockaway
train. Had 1t been only u quarter OF n milo
away, however. no would not have seen 1t on
account OF the curve. Tho brakeman started
back with his light and got aboard the tram,
FOG AND DAMP TRACKS.
He had been aboard but very short time
and tho Manhattan train had attained u speed
of perhaps six or seven miles m hour when
tho thunder of the ltockaway tram was heard
behind 1t was coming at u speed vaTiously
estimated at from forty i've to sixty miles an
hour. When II came in View II WAS less than
2UU yards away II was within n hundred
yards before anybody realized what was about
10 happen. Probably IL was that close when