Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1893-08-31
A FEARFUL WRECK.
L Train Load of Pleasure Seekers
Split In Two.
Fifteen Persons KILLED and Half . Han
drcd Nsuxi~d Tn the Wreck. Many
of Whom VIII DIE of Their
fniurtes.

LoyG ISLAND CTrT. l. l.. Aug. 4-
An accident that cost the lives of our
teen persons occurred shortly after
midnight yesterday morning in the
little village of Berlin, near Calvary
cemetery in the town of Newton The
Long Island train hat left Manhattan
Beach at fl.I5 o'clock was Overtaken
by the train that left Rockaway Beach
fifteen minutes earlier. In the fright
full collision that eusued the two a
ears of the five hat made mp the Man
haitian Beach train were demolished
and the middle car was overturned
Hardly one of the scores OF passengers
aboard these three cars escaped un-
hurt.
The accident happened ut half an
hour after midnight IL was over an
hour before any news Of it reached any
outside point IL came by a messen-
ger who walked into Long Island
CITY.
The railroad company Immediately
dispatched a relief train with all the
physicians obtainable. consisting of
DIR. Valentine, the surgeon of the road.
and Dr~ Huikson. Kennedy. Doyle and
Mckeown.
They found an appalling state of af-
fairs The Manhattan Beach train
had been standing in the block to al
low of another train ahead getting at
n safe distance. The Rockaway Beach
train came dashing along behind. ran
intothe same block and crashed into the
rear end of the standing train. Roth
were crowded with excursionists and
both were the last trains from their
respective resorts. There were five
cars in the Manhattan Beach train. all
of them open cars. The ROckaway
train plunged in and plowed its way
completely through the two rear cars
and partly wIecked the third Pas
and manglcd horribly and their shrieks
of terror and pain were awful.
The Rockaway engine was wrecked
Its smoke-Stack was carried away and
its huge boilers resembled a pin cush-
ion from the timbers Of wrecked cars
sticking into it. Upon these timbers
were human beings impaled, some dead
and others gasping their last. High
upon the top lay the dead body Of a
man as yet unidentified Upon one of
the timberS was impaled the body of
Mrs Oscar Bietzel. - years old. of 122
East One Hundred and Fourteenth
street, New York city.
The scene Of the wreck was indie
Scribably horrible The dead and
wounded were mashed among the
wreckage beside and upon the tracks.
The timber were showered with the
blood of the dead and wounded. and
the cries of the latter could be heard
high above the kissing of the steam
and the calls Of the frantic trainmen.
As fast as the wounded were taken
from the wreck they were carried to
the relief train and cared for. The
| doctors on board worked swiftly but
well
Others of the doctors were out on the
wreck APPLYING r~estoratives and max
ing hurried dressings Of wounds as the
sufferers were taken out. and then the
latter were put on the relief train for
more careful treatment
Havemyer's factory stands close to
the track at the scene Of the accident:
this was thrown open and some of the
dead and injured were carried in there.
One of the physicians was stationed
here TO receive them as they were
brought in. When all the wounded
had been found hat could be. the re
lief 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 il
and hurried to the hospital. and
the ambulance returned for more.
Meanwhile express wagons. palace
ears. coaches and vehicles of every sort
were pressed into service to get the
wounded to the hospital quickly.
Seventeen of them were taken to the
hospital in all, of whom two died upon
h way there, Oscar Dietzel, of laa
East One Hundred and Fourteenth
street. and John Coughlin. a brake.
man on the Manhattan Beach train.
The dead were taken by another spe-
cial train to Newton. which is the
nearest town to the scene of the acct
dent, and placed in Skeltsu's moryus
by the order of Coroner Brandon. Oh
the dead there were thirteen. eigh,
men. four women and the boy Vein
stein
The wrecked Manhattan Beach train
was u special leaving the Beach at ii:r,
and carrying away all the struggling
pleasure seekers who remained late
the members of SouSa's band and many
employees who were on their wav 4
New York to stay over Sunday. Jane,
A. Mott MAS the conductor of the Man
haitian Beach train. Otis Donaldson
engineer and William >hurr, fireman
of the two hrakemen, Thomas Finr
and James Mccormick. Finn was killes
and Mccormick was uninjured,
The Manhattan Beach train was Jus
pulling out of the block when ths
crash came and had just begun TO move
When Engineer Donaldson heard ana
felt the accident he threw open hi,
lever and made all speed for Lon.
Island City. leaving the three wrecked
cars behind him
Frank Z Finley was the eouducto,
of the Roekaway train None of tn.
passengers or crew on this train wer,
seriously hurt All were shaken III
severely and some badly bruised. bu,
all were able TO go to their homes with
out assistance.
An eyewitness says that the Rock
away train was going at top speed, a,
il, being the last train. the engines
was trying TO get home as soon as pos