The record-union., 1899-05-01
Two Coaches Rounding a Curve Left the
Rails.
Three Persons Killed and Others
Probably Fatally Injured, While
Number Are More or Less
Hurt-Severe Rain and Sand
Storms Reported From Nebras-
ka and Kansas.

ROCHESTER On. ", April. 30
Three persons were killed and more
than a dozen seriously injured and fifty
less seriously injured, as the result of
a wreck this afternoon on the Rochester
and Lake Ontario Railroad, better
known as the Bay Railroad, at Rosen-
bauer's Corners, about one and half
miles north of the city line, when two
cars of an excursion train filed with
passengers left the track while round
ing a curve at full speed and were com
pletely wrecked. The dead. John Hell
berg, aged 20; J. Tierney, aged "A; I'M
known man. -.s,-st
Seriously injured: Julia Sullivan,
fractured collar bone; George Brasser,
compound fracture of the arm; Emil
Steingraber, back badly injured; Otto
Hahnke, both legs badly hurt; William
Goodman, severe scalp wound; Emil
Sctram, small bones, Of foot broken;
John Biershen, leg. fractured; Emma
Tueselbelof face terribly cut; James
Lombard, internal Injury, probably ia
tai; J. F. Moore, H. l.. Bore, Oscar
Dorschall, VIM. Doerrer, c. R. Rhine
hart, John Sullivan. Charles Warner,
Joseph thinner The two latter may
die.
Slightly injured: Charles Darrow, A.
F. Durham, Henry Koehlin, Valentine
Lochner, John Russinger, Henry
Rother, Frederick Goldworth, Charles
Nachaler, John H. Fredericks, John
Fleming, Frederick Schelberg, Albert
Tippens, Fred J. Weinhert, John D.
Roller, Joseph Hicks, Mrs. J. Hicks, in
jured internally.
Besides these at least twenty-five are
cut about the face and otherwise in
jured They went home without giving
their names
The trains which was crowded with
excursionists bound for different points
along the shores of Lake Ontario, left
the bay station in this city at PA
o'clock about fifteen minutes late.
Every seat in the coaches was filed
and large number Of people were
standing on the platforms. 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 train was increased perceptibly.
Down the grade went 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 compartments and
when it reached the curve it veered
over to the north side of the road
around the curve on the left wheels. 1t
had gone but part of the bend in the
track when it left the rails and shot
straight ahead. There was a. sudden
crash and the couplings between the
engine and coach were severed and the
coach again veered over and plowed
through the earth for several feet be-
fore dropping on it's side in front of
the Ridge Road Hotel.
STORMS IN NEBRASKA.
OMAHA, April 3O.-This has been a
day of severe storms in Nebraska and
all sorts of rumors are coming into
Omaha tonight about serious damage
in the country by the wind. For the
past three days gales have prevailed
throughout the State, accompanied by
rain and in a few. places a fall of hail
In Western Nebraska the dust storms
were almost uncomfortable and started
prairie fires which did considerable
damage. AT Omaha the rainfall was
the heaviest known for years at this
season, doing some damage to private
property and washing out cellars in
some parts of the city.