Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-02
MANY MEET DEkTH.

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 az 11:15 o'clock col
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 Dietze
Oscar Dietzel, Mortimer Dittman, John c.
Dyckhof, Mrs, John G. Dycllhofr Thomas Finn
Alexander Grlet, James j. Hylands, Richard
Newman Max Stein Joseph NJ Thelan, Mrs
Bertha Woinstein, Sidney Weinstein.
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 messen7
ger who walked into Long Island City.
The railroad company immediate
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 q 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 We're 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
mangled horribly, and their shrieks of
terror and pain were awful.
The Roclaway engine was wrecked.
Its smokestacll was carried away and
its huge boiler resembled pincushion
from the timbers of the wrecked cars
sticking into it. Upon these tim
bers were human beings impaled,
some dead and others gasping
their last. High upon the top lay the
dead body of a 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-
| bic. The dead and wounded We're
! 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 well, while other medical men
We're 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 for
more careful treatment.
The Manhattan Beach train was Just
pulling out of the block when the crash
came. When Engineer Donaldson felt
the shock he threw open his lever and
made all speed for Long Island City,
leaving the three wrecked cars behind.
None OF the passengers or crew on the
RocSaway Beach train was seriously
hurt All were shaken up severely and
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 es,
pecially pathetic. He was returning
from the beach with his son and DR.
Knapp, of New York. The son was
thrown, all torn and bleeding, out on
the embankment. Col Buck was sc
badly hurt that he died almost instant
ly, while Dr. Knapp was uuinjured ano
did good service in relieving the suffer,
ers. Young Mr.. Buck lies at st. Johns
hospital terribly hurt and does not ye,
know of his fathers death. HN
General Manager E. X. Reynolds anG
Superintendent w, ii. Blood said that
the cause of the accident was still un
known; that it was n question of veraci
ty between the tower switchman, Mutt
and Engineer ConlSrite, of the Roclla
way train. The latter had reported tha-
a heavy fog prevailed at the time, which
was true. He declared that the signal:
were set at safety, indicating Il cleal
road, and he went ahead without re
ducing speed. Suddenly Fireman Rob
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my God, there is a train ahead!'
Looking ahead he saw through tn,
mist the two red lights that alway,
hang at the rear end of train and de
clares he Immediately reversed his en-
gine and put on the brakes. Ther
he and Fireman Price jumped for thei
lives When the wrecked engine wa
examined Sunday morning his state
ment as to the reversed lever anC
steam-bralSes 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. 26.--A head ant
head collision occurred Saturday after
noon at | o'clock between passenge