Connecticut western news., 1893-08-31
One Excursion Train Crashed Into Another, Splitting the Cars and Mangling the Pas sengers-Fifteen Killed and Over Forty Injured.

signals were set at safety, indicating a clear road, and he went ahead without reducing speed.
 Suddenly Fireman Robert Price, his com panion, exclaimed, My God, there is a train aheadr' Looking ahead he saw through the mist the. two red lights that always hang at the rear end of a train, and he declares that he immediately reversed his engine and put on the steam brakes. Then he and Fireman Price jumped for their lives.
 When the wrecked engine was examined in the morning his statement as to the re- versed lever and steam brakes was found to be true. The only remaining question was as to whether he or Mutt was right about the danger signal.
 In the morning it was set at danger, and Mutt insisted that 1t had remained so ever since he set it to warn Engineer Concrite. Manager Reynolds and Superintendent Blood took all these statements and will hold rigid investigation today.
 The Dead and Injured.
 The corrected list of the dead is as fol- lows:
 Colonel E. A. Buck, editor of The Spirit of the Times.
 Mrs. Maggie Detzel, ll2 East One Hundred and Fourteenth street.
 Oscar Dietzel, 1l2 East One Hundred and Fourteenth street. husband of foregoing; mer- chant at 25s East Thirty-ninth street. Mortimer Dittlnan, 30 years of age, 70 West Fifty-second street; unmarried; cloak manu- tacturer. John Conrad Dyckhoff, 10 West Thirtieth street; wholesale liquor dealer. Mrs. John Conrad Dyckhoff. 10 West Thir- heth street, wife of the preceding. George Fielding. an actor, living at l538 Madi- son avenue; his real name was George Phelan. Thomas Finn, 3 years of age, 6s West Fifth street, Long leland City; brakeman on Man hattan Beach train.
 Alexander Grillette, 37 years of age. 5l West rwenty-ffth street, of the Borel Button Manu. featuring company of Philadelphia, with an office at e9 West Twenty-third street.
 August Jacobson. 40 years of age, 42S Fourth avenue.
 Max Stein, 33s East Fifty-seoond street; book keeper.
 Mrs. Bertha weinstein, wife of Aaron wein- stein, real estate, 3iT East Ffty-eighth street. who was injured.
 Sidney weinstein, son of Aaron and Bertha Weinstein.
 Mrs. Theodore Graeven. Mir. Graeven and his daughter are in St. Johns hospital J. U. Hiland. R. Newman. Following are the injured:
 John Hahn, 24 years old, 4a5 Broadway As toria; internal injuries; will recover. James Barron, 3S years, IT. Second avenue, | New York; scalds and internal injuries; will | recover.
 Theodore Graeven, l098 Broadway, New York; terribly hurt; condition critical; wife believed | to have been killed.
 Eleanor E. Graeven, l3 years, his daughter; | scelds and Internal injuries; will recover Miss Clara Haskell l0l West Fffty-seoond | street. New York: broken ankle. Horace G. Kimball, l22 Lincoln Place. Brook | lyn; spine injured. Aaron Weinstein- concussion of brain may | die: wife and son dead at morgue.
 Morris Flossheim, l05 East One Hundred and Sixth street, New York; right leg broken and | eye injured.
 James B. Thompson, 50 years, loe West Sixty fourth street, New York; head hurt; will re- cover.
 Eugene Weiss, 2l3 West Sixteenth street, New York: scalded.
 William Lynch, ss5 Park avenue, New Yorkg badly hurt, but will recover.
 Frank Larkin, B years, | Ninth avenue, New York: spine hurt.
 Kate Durken. aa years. 22s East One Hundred and Third street, New York; suffering from shock left hospital in the afternoon. James J. Brady. 2J7 West seventeenth street, New York; internal injuries.
 William Livingston. 0d2 Lorimer street. Brook lyn.
 George Hannet sl Webster avenue. Long Is- land City.
 James Coughlin, brakeman, Manhattan Beach train, bS Fifth street. Long Island City. How It Happened. The accident happened at half an hour after midnight It was over an hour before my news of it reached any outside point. It came by messenger, who walked into Long Island City. The railroad company immediately dispatched relief train with all the physicians obtainable, consisting of Dr. Valentine, the surgeon of the road, and Drs. Huikson, Kennedy, Doyle and Me Keown. They found an appalling state of affairs. The Manhattan Beach train had been standing in the block to allow of an- other train ahead getting at a safe distance.
 The Rockaway Beach train came dash ing along behind, ran into the same block and crashed into the rear end of tho Man haitian Beach train. Both were crowded with excursionists, and both were the last trains from their respective resorts.