New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-28
THE STORY OF THE WRECK.
IT WAS AN AWFUL SCENE OF DEATH AND
DESTRUCTION.
GREwsoME SIGHTS BEHELD THROUGH THE roe
BY THOSE WHO FIRST RAN TO HELP The
vICTIMs-DELAY IN GETTING NEWS OF
THE DISASTER TO LONG ISLAND
CITY-LIsTS OF THE DEAD
AND INJURED.

CITY-LISTS OF THE DEAD
AND INJURED
The train from Manhattan Beach reached Berlin,
a SHALL village between Calvary Cemetery and
Laurel Hill. about / / 80 o'clock in the evening.
1t was an extra train, put on 20 accommodate the
hundreds OF pleasure-scekers who had gone TO tho
Beach and 10 get them back 10 New-iork City be-
fore Sunday. Being an extra train, when it reached
Berlin il was blocked in order TO give the regular
tran which was preceding it, opportunity to get
we'll Its journey and 80 avoid all chance of
collision.
II was about II :l5 oclocl, when the extra train
received the signal TO go ahead II had just begun
10 move when those in the rear saw head
light come flashing around the bend in the road
list east of Berlin Before the terror-strcken
passengers could realize it the locomotive which
bore the headlight crashed into the rear car OF
the Manhattan Beach train. The last two cars
broke loose from the rest of the train from Manhat-
tan Beach and were smashed into kindling-w0od by
the Rockaway Beach train. AT least eleven per-
sons were killed outright, or died before as
sistance could reach them. Others died in
IIaberman's factory. in the relief train ana In
st. Johns Hospital, Long Island City. The IN
jured numbered between fifty and sixty Here
are lists of the dead and injured:
THE DEAD.
BUCK COLONEL T.. A.. hny-hve years old. OF NO 80
West Fify.hrstst. lie sat near the back door OF the
rear with Dr. KNAPP. Dr. Knapp saw the kock'
away Beach train coming and told u Buck TO Jump
from the rear platform the left. Ee was not QUICK
enough however, and struck. His legs We"
broken. DR.. Knapp not hurt
DIETZEI, Mrs MAGGIE c.. Of No. l.2 Eas. o.e
hund red and -fourteenth.st., NewYork Identihea "
Mrs. Dehl. her mother
pIETZEL OSCAR. OF No 100 Fast one-hundredand'
braid
ing tablo at st. Johns Hospital.
DITTMAN MORTIMER thirty years Old mahuiAe'urer
Of ladies' aud chiIdrcns cloaSs, at NO - ~, "' S.
Identified by his landaiy AM sef'a"'' ~ s ~
Will take care Of the b dy. lie hN'u VIZ" m'' e.'
,,,o hro.hcrs and two i.ters at No. 10 West Ffy'
secondst and was tho of a well'kno"n Ne"'horA
merchant.
FINN. THOMAS No. IS Fifth-st. Long lsana olvi
brakeman on Manhattan Beith tram" u'ed ~ " ''
Hospital.
c,,,,,,r ALIEN ,NDEI, about tiirty-sevcn years odi
u ,,.k nustachc; high torch Sd. Had In his
no,kes several letters adiestd t. AeNanier "rilet'
=. Va, 20 Wet Thrt, hrst-st. 81 West lwen'y'htth-
:, and D, West Twenty-third So Cards am re'eipn
-, So ,h,, no WAS connected with p, ople in Phila-
S",,h,o His clothe, fihi n,ble AMI were mads
nv a PhlaiGphia tailor. a ticket IN Ms pocket
h,wed him 70 " a member OF the Mutual Acciiens
,..oc,,,on At O'Clock list night the body was
,,,,o,y ,oenuned by J. r. Stark. OF Nos. p and
10 west Twerty.h According to S,rk. Grillet
was unmarried. hut hal several sisters In
this CITY the Horgue at Newtoyn.
Ue was thirty-e,cn year, old. and was o member
of the firm Of Bo,cl Co.. buttm manufacturers.
I'm Philadelphia. with an onice az No 90 West
Twenty .thlrd-sc this city. For many years he was
q salesman for the firm of J. W. Goddlrd & Sons
wholesale dealers in tailor.' trimmings at No %
Blccckcr.st. About year he be-amc mem.
bcr of the firm Of Bnrel a Co. His time was dt.
vdcd between Ncw-York AMI PhiladeIr rhia When
In this city he boarded at No. 81 West Twenty.
mth..st. He was member OF the Commercial
ll.p., llp.
Club. He was urged saturday accompany
two friends who had been fcow-salesmen with
him In the employ OF Goddard Sons y
Manhattan Beach. lie did rot wish % eos
but his friends expressed much disappons"s
at his refusal that he finally consented to acco"p.u
them. saying gooi-naturedy; "wcl. III 20 "s"
than lreak up your party" ana "e "'''
friends departed In high spirits. 49,.
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Of which is stamped ~. J. Hyand. we'tery' ~ ~.
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