The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-08-31
MANY MEET DEATH.

MANY MEET DEATH.
ltxoursion Trains On the Long Island Aad
ON the Hudsoa Roads Collide a Total
Of Nineteen Lives Lost MANY Inj1rsil.
Lone ISLAND CITY, Z. l., Aug. 29.--..
An accident that cost the lives Of four
teen persons occurred shortly after
midnight Friday in the little village Of
Berlin, near Calvary cemetery, in the
town of Newtown. The Long Island
railroad train that left Manhat-
tan Beach a. 11:15 o'clock coll
lided with the train that left Rock
away Beach fifteen minutes earlier.
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.
| The list Of those dead is as follows:
Col Elisha A. Buck. Mrs Maggie Dietzel.
oscar Dietzel, Mortimer Dittman, John c.
Dyckhod, hrs. John c. Dyckhon, Thomas Finn.
Alexander Grillet, James j. Hylands, Richard
Newman Max Stein, Joseph NJ Thelan, Mrs
/ sos
The list of injured numbers eighteen.
After the accident happened it was
over an hour before news of it reached
any outside point. 1t came by messen-
ger who walked into Long Island City.
The railroad company immediate
~ dispatched relief train with
all the physicians in the city. They
found an appalling state of affairs.
The Manhattan Beach train had been
standing in the block to allow another
train ahead to get at safe distance.
The Rockaway Beach train came dash.
ing along behind, ran into the
same block and crashed into the
rear end of the Manhattan
Beach train. Both were crowded
with excursionists. There were five
cars in the Manhattan Beach train, all
of them open cars. The Rockaway
train plunged in and plowed it's way
completely through the two rear cars
and partly wrecked the third. Passen-
gers in the three cars were MANNED and
mingled 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 pincushion
from the timbers of the wrecked carr
sticking into it. Upon these tim
bers were human beings impaled,
some dead and others gaspine
their last. High upon the top Law the
dead body of man. yet unidentified.
Upon one of the timbers was
impaled the body of Mrs. Oscar Dietzel.
Upon another was the body of Sidney
Weinstein. The scene was indescriba.
BILE. The dead and wounded were
massed among the wreckage, beside,
upon and beyond the tracks, Every.
thing was spattered with blood of the
dead and wounded, and the cries of the
latter rose above the kissing of steam
and the calls of the frantic trainmen.
AS fast as the wounded could be
taken from the wreck they were car.
ried to the relief train and cared for.
The doctors on board worked swiftly
but we'll, while other medical men
were out in the wreck applying restora
tives and making hurried dressings OF
wounds to sustain the sufferers until
they could be put on the relief train TO,
more careful treatment.
The Manhattan Reach train was inst
pulling out of the block when the crash
came. When Engineer Donaldson fel,
the shock he threw open his lever anG
made all speed for Long Island City
leaving the three wrecked cars behind
None of the passengers or crew on thu
Rockaway Beach train was seriously
hurt. All were shaken up severely anc
some badly bruised, but all were able
to go to their homes without assistance
The killing of Col. E. A. Buck, editor
of the Spirit of the Times, was cs
pecially pathetic. He was returning
from the beach with his son and DR.
Knapp, of New York. The son wa.
thrown. all torn and bleeding, out or
the embankment. Col. Buck was Sc
badly hurt that he died almost instant
ly, while DIR. Knapp was uninjured anc
did good service in relieving the suffer
ers. Young Mr.. Buck lies at St. John.
hospital terribly hurt and does not vel
know of his fathers death.
General Manager E. r. Reynolds ant
Superintendent w. H. Blood said thai
| VIZ SNuoO Va VIC oCC1OcuU was SL1ll uQ
known; that it was question of veraci
ty between the tower switchman, Mutt
and Engineer Conkrite, of the Rocka
way train. The latter had reported thai
heavy fog prevailed at the time, which
was true. He declared that the signal.
were set at safety, indicating a clea1
road, and he went ahead without re
ducing speed. Suddenly Fireman Rob
ert Price, his companion, exclaimed
my God, there is train ahead!'
Looking ahead he saw through tn,
mist the two red lights that Away.
hang at the rear end of a train, and de
clares he Immediately reversed his en-
CINE and put on the steam-brakes. Their
he and Fireman Price jumped for thei
lives When the wrecked engine wa
examined Sunday morning his state
ment as to the reversed lever ant
steam brakes was found to be true
The only remaining question was as t.
whether he or Mutt was right about tn,
danger signal. Sunday morning it wa.
set at danger, and Mutt insists that i
had remained SO ever since he set it t.
warn Engineer Conkrite. A rigid in
vestigation will be held.
New YORK, Aug. ga head an,
head collision occurred Saturday after
noon at o'clock between passenge
trains No. - and No. 20 between Ic
Pond and Dykemans on the Harlem
road. Five men were killed and fou
seriously hurt.
Shot by Highwaymen.
DANvILLE, ILL.,, Aug. 29.-Henry Hell
wick, wealthy farmer and his wife
were returning from church q
Pilot Chapel, IL miles from thi
city, Friday night when four high
waymen stopped their carriage. NV,
of the robbers leaped into tn