Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-08-31

La LONG lSLAND mug Sfs-1Au az |
cident that cost the lives of IA persons
Ioccurred shortly after midnight this
/ morning, in the little village of Berlin,
near Calvary Cemetery, in the town of
L Newton. The Long Island railroad train
u that left Manhattan Beach at Ills
lo'clock was overtaken by the train that
N left Rockaway Beach 15 minutes earlier.
x, In the frightful collision that ensued the
"A two rear cars of the five that made up
IN the Manhattan Beach train were de-
II molished and the middle car was over
N turned. Hardly one of the score of the
n passengers aboard these three cars es-
a capped unhurt. Following are lists of
y dead and injured:
III THE DEAD.
i Colonel e. A. Buck, 55 years, editor
Spirit Of Times.
Oscar Deitzel, 40 years, 122 East One
hundred and fourteenth street, died at
st. Johns Hospital.
Mrs Maggie Dictzel, wife, 90 years,
81 died at morgue.
Mrs. Bertha Weinstein, 347 East Fifty
Is eighth street, died at morgue. Her hus-
Fl band at hospital.
Sidney Weinstein, 13 years, her son,
dead at moTgue.
# Thomas Finn, brakeman, Manhattan
# Beach train, died at hospital
Unknown young woman, blonde, two
cards in pocket, upon one Laura Duffy,
1881 Madison avenue" and upon the
other "Miss Young, SO West Seven
teenth street, New York"
& Unknown woman, 40 years, two cards
in lizard skin pocketbook. Upon one
is "Mrs. John Conrad" and upon the
other "Mrs. Dyckoff.
3M Ipknpwu man small black mons
tache, letter in pocket addressed 10
4H Alexander Grillette, 20 West Twenty
IA seventh street, New York.
@ Unknown man, with letter in pocket
& addressed to Mr., Ditman, rs West Fifty
second street, New York, also check for
WI $125 signed ID. j. Needburg.
M Unknown man with bunch of keys
" marked j. j. Hyland, Westerly, r. L.,
3 and small prayer book with J. ]. Clancy
on the fly leaf
Unknown man, shirt marked "E. p"
~ card in pocket with George Fielding,
N 1886 Madison avenue, New York, upon
IN it, and yalise tag with same name.
Unknown man, with letter addressed
TO Miss McKenna, Clifton Terrace,
Nh Roseba1k, Staten Island, in pocket.
# Unknown man, with letter in pocket
addressed to Mr.. Stein, care Mr.. Good
win, 1888 East Fifty-second street, New
IVA York.
THE INJURED.
John Hahn, "a years old, Astoria, in
ternal injures; will recover.
James Barron, 80 years, New York
scalds and internal injuries; will re-
cover.
Theodore Graeven, New York, terri
bly, hurt, condition critical; wife believed
m to have been killed.
Eleanor f. Graeyen, 10, his daughter
M scalds and internal injuries; will re
cover.
Miss Clara Haskell, New York, broker
ankle.
Horace G. Kimball, Brooklyn, spin
injured.
Aaron Weinstein, conclusion of brain
may die; wife and son dead at morgue.
M Morris Floehiem, New York, righ
& leg broken and eye injured.
James B. Thompson, so years, Ney
York, head cut will recover
August Jakobsson, New York, hor
ribly hurt; will probably die.
E Eugene Weiss, New York, scalded.
M William Lynch, New York, badl
hurt but will recover.
Frank Larkin, 33 years, New York
r spine hurt.
Kate Durken, 26 years old New Yorl
suffering from shock; left hospital thi
2f afternoon.
james J. Brady, New York, interns
Injuries.
William Livingston, Brooklyn.
George Hannel, Long Island City.
James Coughlin, brakeman, Mar
haitian Beach train, Long Island City.
M The accident happened ut half a
hour after midnight. 1t was an hou
&before any news of it reached any ou
Nside point. 1t came by messenge
who walked into Long Island City.
The railroad company immediatel
dispatched relief train with all th
physicians obtainable, consisting of d.
MValentine, the'surgeon of the road, an
Drs. Hulkson, Kennedy, Doyle an
#McKeown. They found an appallin
Mstate of affairs. The Manhattan Beae
train had been standing in the block {
Nallow another train ahead getting at
safe distance The Rockaway Beac
train came dashing along behind, ra
into the same block and crushed I'M
M{the rear end of the Manhattan BeaC
train. Both were crowded with excu
hlonists and both were the lust trail
from their respective resorts.
N&f There were five cars in the Manhatti
Beach train, all of them open cars. TT
Rockaway train plunged in o.
Hploughed its way completely throul
the two rear cars and partly wreck
the third. Passengers in the three ca
were manned and mangled horribl
and their shrieks of terror and pa
fwere awful.
M The Rockaway engine was wreckt
Its smokestack was carried away, al
lts huge boiler resembled pincushi,
from the timbers of the wrecked CO
sticking into it. Upon these timbs
were human beings, some dead a
others gasping their last. High up
the top lay the dead body of man J
unidentified. Upon one of the timb,
twas impaled the body of Mrs. Osl
Dietzel, 20 years, of IL East Hath sire
New York city. Upon another was
body of Sidney Weinstein, boy
years old, OF 341 East Fifty-eighth sire
New York.
The scene of the wreck was indescr
M ably horrible. The dead and
wounded were massed among the wre,
age upon and beyond the tracks. Eve
# thing was showered with blood Of
dead and wounded, and the cries OF
latter rose high above the Kissing