St. Paul daily globe., 1893-08-27
NANGLED TO DEATH.
Horrible Accident on the
Long Island Railroad.
EUEBER OF KILLED UHKR0WA.
The Roekaway Beach Train
Plunges Through Coaches,
DEALING DEATH AND INJURY
Long Island Hospitals Filled
With the Unfortunates.
EUKBER OF KILLED UAKEo wA.
DEALING DEATH AND INJURY
CAUSE OF THE AWFUL HORROR.

LONG ISLAND CITY, n. Y. Aug. &c.
A frIghtful accident occurred tonight at
Bushwlck junction, on the Long Island
railroad
y Rockaway train ran into the rear of
a Manhattan Beach train about 11:35
o'clock tonight, teIescoping several of
the cars.
Many people are reported to have
been killed outright, and about thirty
five others more or less injured.
Sixteen dead have been taken from
the wreck, and tlIeir bodies are now
lying In Havemeyer's tin ships at Lau-
rel Hill, which have been converted
into temporary morgues.
1t is now estimated that the number
of injured will reach in the neighbor-
hood of thirty-iye or forty people,
many of whom, it is belle we'd, will die
Owing to the lack Of telegraphic =
tiles and the lateness of the hour, it is
with the utmost difficulty that any par
tcularS can be obtained.
The accident, it is tsaid, was due to
the negligence of the tOwerman at
Laurel Hill.whO let the Rockaway train
IN on the sectlon before the Manhattan
Beach train had pulled out. The in
jured are being conveyed to the Long
Island City hospitals as fast as the rail-
road officials can remove them. A C ar
load has already been dispatched.
A number OF surgeons were sum-
moned to the scene. and these are buSily
engaged in extending them temporary
relief.
Later particulars of the accident are
as follows: The Manhattan Beach train
was blocked at Bushwick Junction at
about 1870 o'clock. when the Rock
away Beach train, coming at high
rate of speed, ran into the tail
end of the Manhattan beach train.
ploughing clean through the last two
cars. Every body in those cars was
either killed or injured. The third car
was completely thrown from the track.
One man says that he saw eight bodies
taken from the wreck, and that one
corpse lay on top of the engine of the
Rockaway train. The physicians who
are now on the scene were summoned
from the Long Island city hospital. The
names of the killed cannot be learned as
yet. AMONG the injured are:
II. q. Kimball, 122 Lincoln Place,
Brooklyn.
eugene NJ. Waiss, 137 West Sixteenth
Street, New York.
Aug. JACOBSON, 42S Fourth avenue,
New York.
All three sustained internal injuries,
In addition to these WaiSS has both
arms broken and Kimball's head was
badly cut.
Theodore Grove, 1896 Broadway, New
York, cut about head, arms ard legs.
James Daroon. TIA Second avenue,
New York, injured about body.
James Brady, 263 Seventeenth street
New York, internally injured.
William Lynch, proprietor of billiard
rooms at the Victoria hotel, New York
cut about the head.
These are all The names obtainable a
present.
3 a. MAT this hour it is said tha
twenty persons at least were killed il
the rear end collision at Bushwicl
Junction, and it, is thought that thi;
number will be increased before morn
ing, as many of the injured art
reported to be in a critical condition
The locomotive Of the Rockaway train
which was going at full speeC
when her engineer first sighted
the train, split the two las
open cars of the standing trail
right through, AID hurled them to righ
and left in a wreck. There were nearl,
$50 persons in the last two cars, it i
said. Otto Dengler, of 80 Avenue A.Ney
York, was a passen er on the Rock
away train with his wife and family 0
fourteen. The train was running at
high speed all the way. He says the
were just in sight of the Long Islam
City chemical works when there was
frtghtful crash, and the passenger
were thrown head over heels out @
their seats.
The men made for the doors. th
women were crushed beneath then
Dengler said that the people in thos
ears owe their lives to two policemen
The police all jumped into the dool
ways and one cried: keep sti
boys. if you are going to get it, you
get it any way" The officers had
great fight to keep the mob quiet. Th
train ran about two blocks after the co
lision Dengler says the last two cal
of the Manhattan train were smashe
into kindling wood. and that bodie
were lying around everywhere. Som
of the passengers of the Rockawa
train helped 10 carry the wounded ini
tie chemical works. Dengler sa
twelve persons taken there, SON
dead and some hurt. He sa,
the headless body OF youll
woman. The killed and injured, l
says, were all on the Manhattan trail
He does not think any of the Rockawa
passengers were seriously injured, bl
all were shaken up and bruise
Mr.. Nawoptzay, of 444 Ea
Eighty-eighth street, on the Ma
haitian Beach train, says that the COLI
ion broke the coupling between Il
second and third cars from the last, al
that the front Of tile train ran on ahea
leaving the two cars with the woun
ed ahd dead passengers benin
BE was i'll one Of the rear cars, and W
thrown out On his head. He thinl
everybody in the last two cars W
either killed or more or less injure
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