The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-06-21
KILLED IN A TUNNEL
Death Followed the Race } at
Sheepshead Bay.
NINE KILLED, A HUNDRED Z HURT


OF tho Wounded 1t Is Feared That Sew.
eral Cannot Possibly Rccovor-0f the
Dead Three Were Now York Police
: Court omcers.
NEW York, June 21.-A train On the
Long Island railroad, upon which were a
Thousand persons returning from the
Sheepshead Bay races, was derailei last
evening in a tunnel a short distance from
Parkville, l.. l. Two persons were killed
outright, seven died soon after being re
moved to the hospital and about hum
dred were injured, many SO seriously that
they will not recover.
The dead are: Patrick DAILY, court Off
Ger OF the Third district court, New York
city; II. 5. Pringle, of New York; Henry
Splnk, marshal at Jefferson Market police
court, New York city; Robert Cudley, q
New York policeman; George Quinby,
unknown man, about 35 years old; b. j.
Meeonigle, Fritz ID. Johnson and John
Simlay.
Among the most seriously injured are:
Andrew bartholomew, OF Cedar Greek,
N. y, left leg cut off; James Fitzsimmons,
New York, foot cut Off; Patrick Graham,
New York, internal injuries; j. b. Childs,
Elizabeth, N. j., face cut, leg fractured;
Richard Flynn, New York, internal in
juries; James Bradford, Paterson, N. j.,
internal injuries; Charles Herring, New
York, serious internal injuries, bruised
on leg and arms; James Addicks, New
York, dangerously hurt; w. d. Ford, Jer-
sey City, legs and body bruised and cut;
hair and whiskers, unconscious, suffering
from shock and internal injuries.
The condition OF Andrew Bartholomew
is serious, and the physicians of the Seney
hospital, Brooklyn, to which place be was
taken, do not think he will recover.
The accident happened upon what is
known as the Bay Ridge division df the
manhattan railroad, about half a mile
from the little town of Parkville, Which Is
at the Junction of the roails running to
Coney Island and Manhattan beach and
Sheepshead Bay The Bay Ridge division,
after leaving Parkville, passes under via
duct of the Coney Island boulevard. Tho
fatal train reached this point at about @
O'Clock. Crowded aboard were men, women
and children who had been spending the
day witnessing the suburban race.
The train consisted of six cars The
front and rear cars were closed The
others were open. Every seat was taken,
and men sto.,d in the aisles of the cars and
shoulder to shoulder upon the platforms
running along the sides of the open cars
1t was good natured crowd. The train,
which was going at full speed, suddenly
gave jerk and the expressions of pleasure
were instantly turned to feelings of terror
and dismay. The engine aud the first two
cars ran along upon the track, dra gging
behind them the other cars of the train
humping and reeling along up to tho very
mouth Of the tunnel Then the engine and
two cars that remained on the track broke
loese from the Others and were carried by
their own speed clear through the tunnel
and twenty-five feet beyond. The other
part OF the train pulled apart, tho first
dragging itself half way through the
tunnel.
No one knew what had happened, sp sud-
denly the fatal accident had occurred
People jumped from the train and fell
upon the embankment to be bruised and
cut by the cars. Others were carrieda along
upon the train, their bodies rubbed and
bruised upon the rocks of the tunnel and
ths stones of the embankment. There
were shrieks Of pain. Women faintdd ard
men became panic stricken and traInpled
them and the children under their feet in
their mad fight for safety.
When the rain stopped the cooler heads
immediately began to render assistance to
thf wounded who lay along the traek,
while policemen who had arrived sent or
ders to the Brooklyn hospitals for ambu-
lances
The train was derailed by misplaced
switch. which stood there open after tho
accident, in mute evidence Whether it
had been opened by the switchmhn or
whether long use had rendered it uhsaic,
and was jolted open by the passing train,
is not detnit sly known.