Morning journal and courier., 1893-08-28
news BY TELEGRAPH.
From ALI Quarters
INPALBD ON SPLiNqRRS.
Scenes of Horror at a Rail-
road Collision.
IN FAVOR Of 4 STAsLE GuRhEs cY.
State Bank Tax Will Not
be Repealed.
PENSION CLAIMS IRE SIDE TRACKED.
They Will Now be Sent for
Allowance.
PENSION CLAIMS IRE SIUETRACkeD.
MANY INE PALED ALIVE.

Train and Ploughea Hts Way Conn
pletely Through Two Open Cars
Filled with PaSsengers-The Scene OF
| the Wreck Was lndescribably Hor-
rible-Dead and Wounded 11assez
Together-Everythi Was Show
cred With Blood-The Boiler of tn
Rockaway Engine Stuck Full of
Timbers of the Wrecked Cars, ON
which Were ImpalIed Human Be
inss, Some Bead and Others Gasping
for Esreath-Fourteen People Killed
and scores Wounded, Many of
Whom Will Die.
LONG ISLAND, Aug, 27,-An accident
that cost the lives Of fourteen people o.
CURED shortly after midnight this morn
ing in the little village Of Berlin, near Gel
vary cemetery, in the town Of Newtown.
The Long Island railroad train that left
Manhattan Beach at Ills last night was
overtaken by tha train that left Rockeway
Beach fifteen minutes later. In the
frightful collision that ensued the two
rear cars Of the five that made up the Man
haitian Beach train were demolished and
the middle CAT was overturned. Hardly
one of the scores Of passengers aboard these
cars escaped unhurt.
Following are corrected lists of dead aud
injured.
The dead-Colonel E. A. Buck, fifty We
years, editor of the Spirit of the Times;
Oscar Deitzsl, forty four years, 1922 East
One Hundred and Fourteenth street, New
York, died at St. Johns hospital; Mrp.
Maggie Deitzsl, his wife, twenty nine years,
died at morRus; Mrs. Bartba Weinatein,
347 East Fifty eighth street, New York,
dead at morgue; her husband at hospital;
Sidney Weinstein, aged thirteen, her son,
died at morgue; Thomas Finn, brake
man Manhattan Beach train, died at
hospital; unknown young woman, blonde,
two cards III pocket with Laura Duffy,
1881 Madison avenue" written upon one
and miss Yeung, Sc West Seventeenth
street, New York." upon the other IN
pocketbook with the name "Ars. John
Conrad" upon one and"Mrs Dyokoff 'upon
the other; unknown man, small black
moustsche, letter in pocket addressed to
Alexander GIillette, 80 West Twenty third
street, New York; unknown man
to Mr.. Ditman, IS West Fifty
second street, New York, alao check
for s125, signed D. J. Mes dburg; unknown
man with bunch of keys marked ~. J.
Hyland, Waverly. l." and a small pray
er book with 81. J. Clancy" on fy-leaf;
unknown man, shirt marked "E. p" card
Madison avenue" and vslise tag with
same name; unknown man with letter ad
dressed to "Miss McKenna, Clifton Ter
race, Roaebank. Staten leland" In pocket :;
unknown man with letter in pocket ad-
dressed to ''Mr. Steinway, care Mr.. Good
win, 1888 East Fifty second street, New
York"
The injured-John Hahn, Astoria, in
ternally injured, will recover; James Baron,
| New York, scalds and internal injuries,
| will recover; Theodore Craven, New York,
| terribly hurt, condition critical; Eleanor
| F. Craven, his daughter, scalds and inter-
| nal injuries, will recover; Miss Clara Has
| kell, New York, broken ankle; Horace G..
Kimbal], Brooklyn, spine injured; Aaron
Weinstein, conclusion Of the brain,
may die, wife and son dead at
| morgue morris Flosheim, New York,
| right leg broken and eye injured; James B.
| Thompson, New York, hesd hurt, will re-
cover; August Jacobson, horribly hurt,
will probably die; Eugene Weiss, New
York, soalded; William Lynch, New York,
badly hurt but will recover Frank Larkin,
New York, spine hurt; Kate Durkep, New
1
| Brady, New York, internal injuries; VIII.
lam Livingstone, Brooklyn, George Han
net, Long Island City, James Coughlin
brakeman. Manhattan Beach train, Long
Island City.
The accident happened at 1890 this
morning. It was over an hour before any
news of 1t reached any outside points. L
came by messenger who walked into Ions
Island City. The railroad company imme
diately dispatched relief train with al
physicians obtainaole at the time.
They found an appalling state of affairs
The Mahattan Beach train had been stand
ing in the block to allow of another trail
ahead getting at safe distance. TIL
| Rockaway Beach train came deshing alopj
behind, ran into the same block and crash
ed into the rear end of the Manhattan
Beach train. Both were crowded with ex
cursionists, and both were the last train
from their respective resorts.
There were five cars in the Manhattan
Beach train, all of them open cars. Tn
Rookaway train rushed in and ploughe
|; | It's way completely through the two rea
cara and partly wrecked the third.
Passengers In the rear cars were maine
| and mangled horribly, and their shrieks G
terror and pain were awful.
Ths Rockaway engine was wrecked. II
smokestaek waa carried away and Its hug
| boiler reeembled a pin-cushion from th
timber of the wre cked cars sticking int
} lit. Upon these timbers we're human b,
ipgs impsled, some dead and others gasI
ing their last. High upon the top lay tt
dead body of q man, yet unidentified
Upon one of the timbers was impaled tt
body of Mrs. Oscar Dietzel Upon anotl
e er was the body of Sidney Weinstein.
The scene of the wreck was indescribs
I Nd Ial
: massed among the wrecksge, beside an
upon and beyond the tracks. Everythir
was showered with the blood of the des
: and bruised. The cries of the injured 70
high above the kissing steam. As fast
:; the wounded came from the wreck thu
8, were carried to the relief train and caTt
y for. The doctors on board worked swift
but we'll Others of the doctors were O
in the wreck applying restoratives al
~ making hurried dressings CT the wounds
:e the sufferers were taken out and then Il
Ill latter we're put on the relief train for mo
careful treatment.
Haberman's tin factory, which stan
close to the tracks at the scene of the ac
- dent, was thrown open and some Of t
dead and injured we're carried in there.
e When all the wounded had been foul
y that could be the relief train started wi
them for Long Island City. They We
met there by the only ambulance which
Johns hospital owns. Two persons We
placed in 1t and hurried to the hospital a
the ambulance returned to the wreck
more. Meanwhile express wagons, hol
- cars, coaches and vehicles of every 81
\ were pressed into service to get
- wounded to the hospital quickly.
Seventeen of the passengers were tax
ne to the hospital in all, of whom two di
ye- upon the way there-Oscar Dietzsl a
Brakeman Finn.
The dead were taken by another spec
train to Newtown, which Is the near
town to the scene of the accident, q
placed in Skeletons morgue by the order
Coroner Brandon.
The wrecked Manhattan Beach train '
a special, carrying all the struggling pie
ure-seekers who remained st the be'
late, the members of Sousa's bt
gs. and many employees who were
. their way to New York to g
over Sunday The Manhattan Beach tt
was Just pulling out of the block when
= crash came and had just begun to me
The three wrecked cars were derailed
: OF detached from the rest of the train. W
q it Engineer Donaldson realized that the a
the dent had occurred he made all speed
sde. Long leland City, leaving the wrecked I
behind. None of the passengers or C
on the Rockaway train we're seriously
". iured. All were shaken up seriously