The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-09-01
LONG ISLANDS HORROR
Fourteen Killed in the Railway
Wreck Sunday Morning.

| occurred shortly after midnight Sunday
morning In the little village OF Berlin,
near Calvary Cemetery, in the town Of
| Newtown. The Long Island Railway
train that left Manhattan at 1i:15 o'clock
was overtaken by the train that left ROCK
away 10 minutes earlier " the frigltfuI
| collision that ensucd the two rear cars cf
the five that made up the Manhattan
| Beach train were demolished and the Inid
die car was ov srturned. Hardly one of tho
scores of passengers aboard these three cars
| escaped unhurt.
Following are corrected Lists Of the dead
| and injured:
Cot. f. A. BUCK, 55 years. editor Spirit
of the Times.
OSCAR DIETzEL, 40 years, 122 East 114tb
street, died at St Johns hospital
Mrs. MAGGIE DrETzEL, wife, 30 years
died at Morgue.
Mrs. BERTHA WEIvsTEIN, 347 East 55t,
street, died at Morgue Her husband is al
the hospital.
SDsEY WEINsTEIN, 10 years, her son,
dead at Morgue.
THOMAS FINN, Brakeman Manhattan
Beach train died Mt hospital.
Unknown young woman, blonde, two
car DIS in pocket, upon one, Laura Duffy,
1881 Madison avenue" aud upon the other,
'Miss Young, 36 West nth street, New
York"
Unknown woman, 40 years two cards ia
Lizard skin pocket book Upon one is
Mrs. John Conrad, and upon the other
Mrs Dyckoff
Unknown man, small black moustacbe,
letter in pocket addressed to Alexander
Grillette, 20 West 9th street, New York.
Unknown man with letter in pocket ad-
dressed to Mr.. Ditman, IS West 5Sd steeet,
New York, also check for 1926 signed y
S. Needburg
Unknown man with bunch OF keys
marked j J. Hyland, Westerly r. l., and
small prayer book with J. J. Clancy on ay
leaf
Unknown man, shirt marked f. p
Card in pocket with George Fielding, 1896
Madison avenue, New York upon it, and u
valise tag with same name.
Unknown man with letter addressed to
Miss McKenna, Clifton, Terrace, Rosebank,
Staten Island in pocket.
Unknown man with letter in pocket ad-
dressed to "Mr STEIN, care Mr.. Goodwin,
33S East Bed street, New York"
Tue Injured.
John Hahn, "a years old, of 495 Broad-
way, Astoria, internal INJURIES; will re-
cover.
James Barron, 33 years old, IA Second
avenue, New York, scalds and internal in
juries; will recover.
Theodore Graeven, 1896 Broadway, New
York. terribly hurt; condition critical:
wife believed to have been killed
Eleanor n GraaVep vaars hio darDi1
ter, scalds and internal injuries; will re-
cover.
Miss Clara Haskell, 1O1 West SD street.
New York, broken ankle.
Horace G.. Kimbal, 122 Lincoln place,
Brooklyn, spine injured.
Aaron Weinstein, conclusion of brain;
may die; wife and son dead at morgue.
Morris Floshem, 105 East 1O6th street,
New York, right leg broken and eye in
jured.
James B. Thompson, so years. I02 West
Gath street, New York; head hurt; will re-
cover.
August Jakobsson, 42S Fourth avenue
New York, horribly hurt will probably
die.
Eugene Weiss, ZIG West 18th street.
New York, scalded.
William Lynch, 9S5 Park avenue, badly
hurt, hut will recover.
Frank Larkin, 33 years, : Ninth avenue.
spine hurt.
Kate Durken, 20 years, 22S East 1Osd
street, New York, suffering from shock;
left hospital yesterday.
James ]. Brady, 267 West 18th street.
New York, internal injuries
William Livingston, 662 Lorimer street,
Brooklyn.
George Hannst, 81 Webster avenue.
Long Island City.
James Coughlin, brakeman, Manhattan
Beach train, So Fifth street, Long Island
City.
Scenes Of Horror.
The scene Of the wreck was indescribably
horrible. The dead and wounded were
massed among the wreckage, beside, upon
and beyond the tracks. Everything was
showered with the blood Of the dead and
wounded, and the cries Of the latter rosa
high above the Kissing Of steam and the
calls Of the frantic trsinmen
As fast as the wounded were taken from
the wreck they were carried to the relief
train aud cared toI.
When all the wounded had been found
that could be, the relief train started With
them for Long Island City. They were
met there by the only ambulance which
st. Johns hospital owns Two were
placed in 1t and hurried to the hospital
and the ambulance returned for more
Meanwhile express wagons horse cars.
coaches and vehicles of every sort was
pressed into service to get the wounded to
the hospital quickly.
Seventeen was taken to the hospital in
all, OF whom two died upon their way
there. Oscar Dietzel of 1873 East One Hun
dred and Fourteenth street, and Thos.
Finn, brakeman on the Manhattan
Beach train.
The dead was taken by another special
train to Newtown which is the next near
est town to the scene Of the accident, and
placed in Skeletons morgue by order of
Coroner Brandon.
Father of italian Opera.