St. Paul daily globe., 1893-08-28

the body of Mrs. Oscar DietZel, % years
old, of 122 East One Hundred and Four
teenth street, New York. Upon an
other was the body of Sidney Vein
stein, boy Is years old, of $40 East
Fifth street, New York. The scene of the
wreck was indescribahly horrible. The
dead and wounded were masSed among
the wreckage. beside. upon and beyond
the tracks. Everything was howered
with the blood of the dead and wound
ed, and the cries of the latter rose high
above the Kissing 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 we'll. Others of the doctors
were out in the wreck applying restora-
tives and making hurried dressings of
the wounds as the sufferers were taken
out, and then the latter were put
On tlle e elief Train
formore careful treatment. Haberman's
tin factory stands close to the tracks at
the scene of the accident. This was
thrown open and some of the dead and
injured Were carried in there. One of
tie phys clans was stationed here to re-
ceive them as they were brought in.
| When all the wounded had been found
| that Gould he, the relief train started
with them for Long Island City. They
were met there by the ouiy ambulance
which ST. Johns hospital owns. Two
were placed in it and hurried to the
hospital, and the ambulance returned
| for more. Meanwhile express wagons,
| horse cars, 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 the way there
Oscar DieiZel, of 123 East One Hundred
and Fourteenth street, and John Cough
| lin, a brakeman. The deal were taken
by another special train to Newtow n,
which is the nearest town to the scene
or the accident, and placed in SIele-
toms mOrgue by order of Coroner Bran
don. OF the dead there were thirteen
eight men, four women and the boy
WeinStein. The wrecked Manhattan
Beach train was a special, leaving the
baacn at 11:I5, and carrying away all
the
Struggling Pleasure Seekers
who remained late. the members of
Snusa's band and many mOloves who
were on their way to New York to stay
over Sunday. James A. Mott was tina
conductor of the Manhattan Beach
train, Otis Donaldson engineer, and
William Shurr fireman. or the
two brakemen. Thomas Finn and
James Mccormick, Finn was killed.
Mccormick was uniniured. The MN
,ttan Beach train was Just pulling out
of the block when the crash came, and
had just begun to move. When Eu-
gineer Donaldson hearl and felt the ac-
cident, he tlrey open his lever and
ma lie all spec for l. ing Island City,
leaving the three wrecked cars behind.
Frank E. f nley wlS the conductor of
the Rocka way train. None of the
passengers or crew of this train ware
seriously hurt All were shaken up
severely an some Daily bruised, but
all were able to 20 to their homes with
out assistance. An eyewitness of the
accident says that the r ,ckaway Beach
train was going at top speed, as if,
being the last train. the engineer was
trying to get hons as so IN as possible.
The Killing Of Col. Bdck,
the editor of ne Spirit of the Times.
was especially pat letic. He was re-
turning fro the beach with his son
and DR.. Knapp, of New York. The son
was thrown, torn and bleeding, upon
the elnban6ment; Cot. Buck was so
a 70
and died, while Dr.. Knapp was unin-
jured and did noble service in minister
ing to the sufferers. Young Mr.. Buck
lies at st. Johns hoSpit,l terribly hurt,
and does not yet know of his fathers
death. A reporter saw three of the sur
vivors in the Long Island City ferry
house, foot of East 'rhirty-fourth street
They were r. g. Barrett, James Han
non and Joseph eastman, all of
New York. They said they were
passengers on the Rockawav train, occu-
pying seats in the fourth coach. The
train was travelling at an unusually
high rate of speed, the cars swinging so
violently from side to side that they in
stinctiyely looked for an accident. All
of sudden there was a crash, and
everybody was thrown to the floor of
the car or over the backs of the seats.
Fortunately only few of the passen-
gers in that car were hurt One young
man named LarkIn tried to leap from
the car when the collision occurred, but
he was wounded on the head and also
sustained internal injuries. After the
cars had separated by the shock the
forward part of the train went right on.
The rear cars we've at the same time de-
rallied.
Heart ending Scenes.
All day today both the morgve in New
ton ana the hospital in Long Island
City have been besieged by anxious
seekers for missing members of their
families. The scenes as some of the
mangled bodies were recognized were
heart-rending, women fainting and men
falling upon their knees to weep. Fully
200 persons did not find those they
sought among the dead or wounded.
and went away with intense relief. in
sharp contrast with those who found
loved ones dead and mangled. At the
scene of the accident wrecking trains
and a big force OF railroad employees
haFo ocSH WoihluS dli uay 10 ODllLeraIe
the painful evidences of the disaster.
The three smashed cars were piled up
and burned. The twisted rails and
broken switches were repaired, and the
blood pools hidden under shovelfuls of
sand. General Manager Reynolds and
Superintendent Blood were at the scene
early. They stated that the cause of
the accident was still unknown, that it
was
Question of Veracity
between Tower Switchfnan Mott and
Engineer Concrite. of the Rockaway
train. The latter had reported that
heavy fog had prevailed at the time,
which was true. He declared the sig
mails were set at safety, Indicating a
nlaar road and ha xront ohaad .r;tho.,4