The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-01

learned forward, tnstiuotivoly pulling ner Win
the air head first. I landed on my hands and
fee. on top Of the driver, I think 800,
the wreck. For a minute ! gould not think
and. then It ali came to me-. Down the
% Ssr rs tT %aas sSsInd 4 1 was WAS siish sqsy S # : s %sa
he had been knocked on the coach, had been
run over by the train. The remains OF tho
dead and OF the, badly, wounded lying in, the
badly were beginning to get up. Tho girls were
too shocked to scream, and there were only tho
groans OF tho wounded to be heard
HEARD NC WHISTLE.
"As I 500 II now, tho engine struck the coach
at the third scat, on which Dick Bates sat, We
heard no whistle until we were on tho track and
times, l think, but the engine had struck us al
most before Its sound had stopped,
to tho Village hILss sn foT a ot Doctor q 70 Two other young
fellows were on the spot. They had been sitting
on q FENCE q hundred yards or so on The ,n, other ,sr
horns IN response 70 their erecting. They came
some. bicyclists who happened along.
The train came to q stop two or three nun,
back slowly. The conductor wanted 70 run
ahead to tho station and telegraph for aid; but
, toll , him mot to; and and n hs ssp The tho bSli engine to call
cause / was tSe only man that WA was y qn ,RI SSd;
h tSinsys I / SId w Ss,1 e S SonS : b lex Bates Ses W whose eSs head =
WAS iI badly y, cut; with The FijE I'll tS Eh9 2,i Msre if TSs
Miss Hem. Miss stillman. Miss de Bedts.
S or se Miss wb psshl ankle w ssln Strained Ts and M Whs
had to be carried. The rest OF them were able
to walk. Miss Psshley had been thrown against
deal. My chief thought was to keep the wounded
away from the dead; The doctors had como and
were at work with the badly wounded.
TAKEN TO 71rE HOSPITAL
1--WE picked up the dead and laid them on the
ground In tho woods, and then. by making
s ss5ss ,s out Of e. car car. doors s"s ,, Wp t 1s55i0 Sow shS
The engine, which had eono for aid, re.
turned In about forty-fve minutes. and
and those that had gone to the hotel The con;
ductor at first wanted to take US to Long Island
j wanted to go, and / told him to go to st. Johns
Hospital, at Atlantic and Albany avenues, at the
s ssns, Of the Were ss Msi;iSx With When .I Ts SSs te snS t e.,
wounded were taken into the hospital.
nv vo s6s tSS sssiSe !, . it 1Iss!: fS1 Ssa' Fl TSa 9n po Rotnis;;
snSi ens was S ON u so That ! viii swear to- We w
been a whistle the drivers, who were on the
lookout. woult have heard II, II we did not;
as iremember seeing that engine and the two
cars coming down on us the speed seemed to be
terrific. ~ ..o,s
the story. His father and mother sat close to
him, overjoyed at his narrow escape, yet, griev-
we'll. Mr.. Wyatt has in his possession a lot of
jewelry. including some watches, that had be-
longed to the victims.
HARRY 8. LEwIs's STORY.
Harry s. Lewis of 1Os1la De Kalb avenue. who
escaped by jumping from the coach. related his
III started with the party from the house Of
Mr.. Rarnes. When we got uD on top or the
coach l sat down with Mrs. Andrews and Well
s sTSfa Se the for t .dne s ssSs' water Me s aSS iane CT
Before beS As we hReared the crossing no,
v WSieh Allowed ans SSPr Ss to look ' orer the isS9 hedge q at sf the
side Of the road; Il !, : coach ,na Twas was Nv, within mn about about
the driver to throw his horses into the
ditch; , but the noise h,d made n by the h9 pjm
from hearing me. The train. / think. was within
a block from the crossing. There seemed to
s to aa 'if 6sil. Of As any t geiled IRON tue jumped SSi
backward Just as the coach h,oE was ST. ssru ths
engine cut the coach almost in two. l rushed
up Immediately, and Wyatt. at the same time,
with the w n Secured a coach and broke
the news to the families of the injured
MISS sTILLMAN's STORY.
Miss Ray Stillman. who was one of those In
side the coach and who escaped comparatively
II was sitting beside Miss De Bedts inside the
s9nsh' The aes coach %s he sse% nj la to be Ti sna io Ef5s
inside. when suddenly heard some som one shou!
I turned and looked through the window
the engine doomed up and seemed directly II
f haried OF 1io %s; to 5fm sems dis eslHs ' When / f re
covered q little heard Miss De Bedts calling
f from me- me se on T shs o eISae SIDE iGso Of the track 4Sss AT re-
member / asked her IL she was hurt, and sh'
said something about her leg. but lost con
seriousness almost Immediately after that.
RELIEF TRAINS SENT OUT.
The first news of the accident that left Vale!
Stream was about half an hour after IL hap
pened, The train all this time , had been waitinI
patching up. The people at Valley, Stream
station. a quarter Of a mile away. had all left tn b
telegraph office was for the time being withou
an operator. When the operator got back h
dered from there to make up a relief train
Another train was sent from Jamaica With NOR
r pSieGf tram aiGoa and the Hh%s one ne1 that res was made up tool
aboard only the bodies of the dead.
The railroad also notified Coroner Coombs a
Inwood and asked him to get around as qnickl.
as possible. He started right over to V.elle,
Stream. and got there Just as IS the President
rived In his special car attached to a regu
lar train. Mr.. Baldwin and the Coroner ha,
o talk and then the bodies were taken over Il
Inwood. where the Coroner complicated natter
by taking everything that he could find out o
tho pockets or The clothing ana putting IL all Il
one pile, which pile he didn't want to let any
body see.
The injured who were not hurt badly enough
to be taken on tho train to Brooklyn stage,
around Abrams's Hotel. where the doctors VIII
were left attended them, One Of these injured
ones was Richard Griffin, u helper. He had 4
be carried to the house. but he recovered whcl
he got there. and u moment afterward becam
temporarily insane. While the doctors were al
tending to others he left the place. That wa
the last seen Of him there. He showed up after
ward at the stables.
WARNING BELL DIDN'T RING.
Before the arrival of the train which brough
President Baldwin from Long Island City
gang of workmen were engaged clearing ava
the wreckaRc. and 1t was while they were bus
that the crowd that had gathered began L
/ speculate rs to the cause of the accident. Som,
one, suggested that tho bell at the crossing
couldn't have rung.
1t wasn't long after this that the President
> train came along. and every person in the crow,
! watched the warning board and listened for tn
bell. There wasn't a sound. AS tho train role
. by there was some shouting and some Kissing.
After the train was some forty feet the othe
9 side OF the crossing, when anything that Nigh
have been on tho crossing would have bee
ground up. the warning bell began to- ring.
0 7. w. Pearsall, a former deputy sheriff, VIII
Q lives near there, declared to the crowd that