The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-08-30
FIFTEEN KILLED.
Frightfll Collision on the Long
Island Railroad.
A Rear-End Collision In Which Several
Cars Were Telescoped Fifteen Per-
sons Killed and as Many More
Badly Injured = Another
Fatal Wreck on the
Harlem Road.

LONG ISLAND CRY, L. l., Aug. 9s.-
A frightful accident occurred Saturday
night at Bushwick junction, on the
Lenp Island railroad. A Rockaway
train ran into the rear end OF Man
haitian Beach train, telescoping several |
of the cars. Thirteen people were killed
outright and about thirty-fve others |
more or less injured
In the frightful collision that ensued
the two rear cars Of the FIVE that made
up the Manhattan Beach train were
demolished and the middle car was
overturned. Hardly one Of the scores
of passengers aboard these three cars
escaped unhurt.
Following is list Of the dead:
Col. E. A. Buck, 55 years, editor Spirit
of The Times; Oscar Dietzel, 40 years;
Mrs. Maggie Dietzel, his wife, aged 20
years; Mrs. Bertha Wienstein, Sidney
Weinstein, her son, aged Is years;
Thomas Finn, brakeman; Mortimer
Dittman, John c. Dycof, Mrs. John "
Dycoff, Mrs. Theodore Graeven, Alex
ander Grillet, James ]. Hylands, MAX
Stein, Richard Newman, Joseph M.
Thelan.
The accident happened at haf an
hour after midnight II was over an
hour before any news of it reached any
outside point. 1t came by a messenger
who walked into Long Island City.
The railroad company Immediately
dispatched relief train with all the
physicians obtainable. They found an
appalling state of affairs. The Man
haitian Beach train had been standing
in the block TO allow another train
ahead getting at a safe distance. The
Rockaway Beach train came dashing
along behind, ran into the same block
and crashed into the rear end OF the
Manhattan Beach train. Both were
crowded with excursionists and both
were the last trains from their respect
i've resorts.
There we're five cars in the Manhat-
tan Beach train, all of them open cars
The Rockaway Beach train plunged In
and ploughed its way completely
through the two rear cars and partly
wrecked the third. Passengers In the
! three cars were manned and mangled
horribly and their shrieks OF terror
and pain were awful. The Rockaway
engine was wrecked. Its smokestack
was carried away and its huge boiler
: resembled pin cushion from the tim
!: bers of the wrecked cars sticking into 1t,
. Upon these timbers human beings
l were impaled, some dead, others dying
The scene of the wreck was inde'
! scribably horrible. The dead and
wounded were massed among the
0 wreckage, beside, upon and beyond tht
n tracks. Everything was showered witt
. the blood of the dead and wounded
V and the cries Of the latter rose higl
u above the Kissing Of steam and thu
10 calls of the frantic trainmen. AS fas
Q as the wounded were taken from th'
n wreck they were carried to the relic
y train and cared for.
% When all the wounded had beef
y found that could be the relief trail
ie started with them for Long Island City
To Seventeen Of them were taken to tn
"a "a hospital in all, of whom two died upol
the way there.
9e The dead were taken by anothe
- - special train to Newton, which rs tn
nearest town to the scene Of the acc
- dent, and placed in Skeletons morgu
=, = by the order of Coroner Brandon.
- - The killing of Col. E. A. Buck, tn
90 editor OF Spirit of The Times, was e.
os pecially pathetic. He was returnin
s .s from the beach with his son and D.
- -, Knapp, of New York. The son wa
oi thrown. torn and bleeding, out upo
N. the embanlSment Col. Buck was
IA badly hurt that he gasped few tint
II and died, while DR.. Knapp was unii
nd iured and did noble service in ministe
,is ing to the sufferers Young Mr.. BuC
., lies at st. Johns hospital terribly hu
he and does not yet know of his father
.tv death.
,sy BREwsTERs, N. Y, Aug. 2s.-A hei
nm end collision occurred Saturday afte
noon about l o'clock between trai
he No 3 and No. 90, passenger trains
M tween Ice Pond and Dykeman's on q
,ds Harlem road. The killed are: w
ms liam Elliott, engineer; N. Best, fiji
nd man; Samuel Gibney, fireman; Miss
ro. Reed Of Brewsters.
,es The injured are: John Finnega
mt bagQageman; j. A. Banks, brakma
,re Mona Maher, Brewsters; ID. Herman
he Poughkeepsie. All seriously.
nat Several Others were slightly injur
all and many badly shaken up. Both c
for gines are complete wrecks and the 1
d's cident blocked the main line for u
hours. The Pittsfeld express is
ma ported 10 have been running at hi
no rate Of speed when the collision
IL. CURED. II was crowded with pass'
ian gers, including the usual large comp
on ment Of Saturday passengers for
der Berkshire hills. majority Of tho
,w. on the train were business men bou
,al- for fashionable resorts to pass Sund
nee with their families. just how
ou- local train and express came togctl
ed. cannot be definitely learned, but n
hat said TO have been due TO disregard
hat signals The cars were piled In he
nce on the tracks. Physicians were hast
DDS summoned TO the scene ana trainh
in rendered every possible aid.
OF An Atrocious Murder.
'me MARsHALLTowN, Ia, Aug. 2S.-
ath atrocious murder was committed :
ces. urday night, four miles northeast
nth Green Mountain. Anna Weise, 2l ye