The herald., 1893-08-27
FATAL TRAIN COLLISION,
Many Are Reported Killed
and Injured.
Two Passenger Trains Tele-
scope on Long Island.
R0ckaway and Manhattan Beach Ex-
cursiOnists the Victims.
The Cars OF One Train Arc Cut In Half by
An Engine at Almost Full Speed.
Particulars of the Disaster, and
List of Injured.

By the Associated Pressl
LONG ISLAND CRY, Aug. 26.-A fright
full accident occurred tonight at Bush
wick Junction, on the Long Island rail-
way. The Rockaway train ran into the
head of Manhattan Beach train about
midnight, telescoping several cars. Six
teen dead have been taken from the
wreck and their bodies are now lying in
Havemeyer's tin shops at Laurel Hill
which have been converted into tenn.
porary morgue. 1t is now estimated
that the number of injured will reach
in the neighborhood OF 35 or 40 people
many of whom, it is believed, will die
The accident. it is said. was due to
thu negligence of the tower man al
Laurel Hill.
The injured are being conveyed to the
Long Island city hospitals as fast as the
railroad officials can remove them. A
carload has already been dispatched. A
number of surgeons were summoned to
the scene, and these are busily engaged
in extending temporarily relief to the
injured.
DETAILS OF THE ACCIDENT.
The particulars of the accident are as
follows: The Manhattan Beach train
was blocked at Brunswick Junction at
about IL 80 O'Clock, when the Rockaway
beach train, coming at a high rate OF
speed, ran into the tail end of the Man
haitian Beach train, plowing clean
through the last two cars. Everybody
in these cars were either killed or in
jured. The third car was completely
thrown from the track. One man says
he saw eight bodies taken from the
wreck, and that one corpse lay on top oi
the engine Of the Rockaway train.
The physicians who are now on the
scene were summoned from the Lond
Island City hospital.
The names OF the killed cannot be
learned yet.
LIST OF THE INJURED.
Among the injured are: HI. G. Kim
I'LL .l3saoklSn Il Ehsana n We;aa...NAx
three sustained internal injuries. Ii
addition to these Weiss had both arms
broken and Kimbsl's head was badly
cut. Theodore Grove, New York. cul
about the head. arms and legs; James
Daroon, New York. injured about the
body; James Brady, New York, inter.
nally injured; William Lynch, New
York.
At this hour e a. m. it is said that
20 persons at least were killed in the
collision at Bushwick Junction, and il
is thought this number will be increased
before morning, as many of the injured
are reported to be in critical condi-
tfon.
LATER PARTICULARS.
The locomotive of the Rockaway
train, which was going at full speed
when her engineer first sighted the
standing train, split the last two cars of
the standing train right through, and
hurled them to the right and left. There
were nearly 100 persons in the last two
cars.
Otto Dsngler of New York was pas
senger on the Rockaway train with his
wife and family. 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 frightful crash, and the
passengers were thrown heels ever head
out of their seats. Men made for the
doors. Women 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, keep still,
boys. You are going to get it; you'll
get IL anyway" The officers had great
fight to keep the crowd quiet. The train
ran about two blocks after the collision.
Dengler says the last two cars of the
Manhattan train were smashed into
kindling wood, and bodies were lying
around everywhere. Some of the pas
sengers of the Rockaway train helped
to carry the wounded into the chemical
works. Dengler saw IL persons taken
there. Some were dead and some hurt.
He saw the headless body of young
woman. The killed and injured, he
said were all on the Manhattan train.
He does not think any oi the Rock
away passengers were seriously injured,
but all were shaken up and bruised.
N. Nawoptsay, of 444 East Eighty
eighth street, was on the Manhattan
beach train. He says the collision
broke the coupling between the second
and third cars from the last, and that
the front OF the train ran on ahead,
leaving the two cars with the wounded
and dead passengers behind. He was
in one of the rear cars and was thrown
out on his head. He thinks everybody
in the last two cars was either killed or
more or less injured.
The wounded are being hurried to the
hospital as fast as the meagre facilities
ut hand will permit. An express car
has just arrived containing 15 of the
wounded. Three of them died on the
way here. One Of them had both legs
cut off. The doctors say great many
are suffering from the shock. The
names of the killed are unobtainable.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
LONG ISLAND CRY, i. l.. Aug. &c.
This city was startled just before mid
night last night by telephone message
rom Laurel Hill, reporting that the
Rockaway Beach train and Manhattan
Beach train had been in collision there,
ind that great number of persons
1ad been hurt and six or seven killed
outright. The Long Island railroad de-