The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-01
CARS THROWN OFF A CURVE.
TWO EXCURsIONIsTs KILLED AND
MANY INJURED.

Train Was Going at Full Speed and
the Cars Left the Track-WaS ON
the Rochester and Lake Ontario
RaiIrOnd-SeveraI of the Injured
Are Not Expected to Live-Cnr
Next to the Engine snapped Its
Couplings.
Rochester N. Y, April 3O-Two per-
sons were killed, more than a dozen Sc
riously injured and fifty less seriously hurt
as the result of a wreck at PAS O'Clock this
afternoon ON the Rochester and Lake On
tario Railroad, better known as the Bay
Railroad, at Rosenbaur's Corners, about
one-half mile north of the city line. when
two cars on an excursion train filled with
passengers left the track while rounding a
curve at full speed and were completely
wrecked The dead are:
John Helberg, aged 20, died at Homeo-
pathic Hospital.
Unknown man, died after being removed
from the wreck.
The seriously injured are:
j. Tierey, "a years o.d, seriously injured
Julia Sullivan, IS years old, fractured
collar bone.
George Brasser, SO, compound fracture
of forearm.
Emil steingraber, 23 back badly injured.
Otto Hahnke, 21, both legs badly bruised
and bones of right hand broken.
William Goodman, %, severe scalp
wound
Emil schram, IS years old, small bones
of right foot broken.
John Biershal, AZ years old, compound
fracture of right leg.
Emma Tuefel, II years old, nose broken,
| face terribly lacerated.
James Lombard. internal injury, may
| prove fatal. ]. F. Moore, H. L. Borie,
! Oscar Dorschal, William Doerrer. C. r.
! Hinehart, John Sullivan, Charles Wernes,
! Joseph thinner.
The two latter are seriously injured and
may die
The slightly injured. and who were able
| to go to their homes are: Charles Dar-
| row, back injured and face cut A. f.
Burnham head cut and both legs bruised;
| Henry Koehlin, back injured; Valentine
! Lochner injured about chest and back;
John Russinger, back and head injured;
! Henry Rosenthal left leg injured; Freder-
ick Goldsworth face cut and left shoulder
| injured Charles Nachaeler, left leg bruis-
| ed; John II. Fredericks, both legs injured;
John Femming, arms bruised; Fred
erick Schleber back and legs
| injured; Albert Lippens, back injured;
| Fred ]. Wehnert, right hand crushed;
! W. s. Woodruff, arm bruised John De-
Roller, left side injured; Joseph Hicks,
| of the Rochester Railway Company, face
| cut and badly bruised; and Mrs. Joseph
Hicks, injured internally.
| Besides these at least twenty-five are
cut about the face and otherwise injur-
ed They went home without giving their
| names.
How the Accident Occurred.
The train, which was crowded with ex-
| cursionists bound for different points along
the shores of Lake Ontario on the Iron
| dequoit bay district, left the Bay station
in this city at 2:41 o'clock this afternoon.
about fifteen minutes late Every seat
in the coaches was filled and large num-
! ber of people were standing on the plat
| form.
| The train was made up of an engine, one
| closed and two open coaches. There is a
grade about 100 yards from the corner of
North avenue and Ridge road and when
this grade was reached the speed of the
| Down the grade swept the train. its speed
increasing constantly. When the far curve
was reached the engine rounded it with
| startling rapidity. Next to the engine was
| the closed carriage, divided into two com
| partments and when it reached the curve
! 1t veered over to the north and rode around
| TO the curve on the left wheels Ii had
| gone but a part of the bend in the track
when It left the rails and shot straight
ahead.
There was a sudden crash as the coup
lings between the engine and coach we're
| severed, and then the coach again veered
over and plowed through the earth for
| several feet before dropping on its side
in the front of the Ridge Road Hotel
some of the Injured.
When the first coach left the track the
| engine sped on down the track and the
other coaches were forced off the track.
The closed COACH which was overturned.
had partition that divided the front part
from the rear The front apartment was
| a smoking apartment. In it We're several
men, and standing in the entrance were
two women and a little girl. These were
thrown into jumbled mass over against
the roof of the car, and were pinioned
| under the seats and the partition in the
car, which was torn to spinters.
| John Hilberg was standing on the plat
| form, between the second and third cars
when the crash came. and was caught be-
tween the two cars and crushed to death.
His body was removed with great diff
Guilty and sent to the morgue.
| The work of rescue was energeticallv
carried on and as soon as each sufferer
was taken out he was sent to the hospl-
tai. Ambulances had been quickly sum
moned from the city. The ambulances
carried extra doctors, so that the wounded
| were quickly attended to.