The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01
WRECKED ON A CURVE.
Excursion Train Dumped, Kill
ing Three Persons and
Injuring Many.

Rochester. n. Y, May 1--Three per
sons were killed, more than q dozen Sc
riously injured and so less seriously
hurt as the result of a wreck at 2-4S
o'clock yesterday afternoon on the
Rochester & Lake Ontario railroad. bet
ter known as the Ray railroad, at Ros-
enbaur's corners, about one and a half
miles north of the city line. when two
cars on an excursion train filed with
passengers left the track while round
ing a curve at full speed. and were
completely wrecked.
The dead are:
JOHN HELBERG, aged 20; died at
Homeopathic hospital
J. TIERNEY, aged "A; died at the city
hospital
removed from the wreck
The seriously injured are:
Julia Sullivan, aged IS; fractured col
lar bone
George Brasser, So; compound frac-
Emil steingraber, %; back badly in
1ured.
bruised and bones Of right hand bro
William Goodman. %; severe scalp
wound.
Emil schram, Is; small bone of right
John BiershaI, 42; compound fracture
OF right leg
Emma TuefeI. Il: nose broken. face
terribly Iacerated-
James Lombard. internal injury; may
prove fatal
] F. Moore.
H L BOrie
Oscar DOrschaL
William DOerrer.
C r Rinehart-
John Sullivan.
Charles WerneS.
Joseph thinner
The two latter are very seriously IN
jured and may die
The slightly injured and who were
able to go to their homes were: Charles
DarrOw, back injured and face cut A
E Burnhan head cut and both legs
Bruised. Henry koehIin. back injured;
Valentine Lochner- injured about chest
and back: John Rossinger. back and
cut: Frederick GOldswOrth. side of the
face cut and left shoulder injured;
Charles Nachaler. left leg bruised; JnO.
H. F'redericks, both legs injured: John
ScheIeber. back and legs injured; AL
bert Tippens. back injured; Fred J.
Wehenert, right hand crushed; w. s
Woodruff. left arm bruised; John De
Roller. left side injured; Joseph Hicks,
of the Rochester Railway company face
cut and badly bruised; Mrs Joseph
Hicks. injured internally
Besides these at least % are cut
about the face and otherwise injured
They went home without giving their
names
The train. which was crowded with
excursionists bound for different points
along the shores of Lake Ontario in the
Irondequoit bay district, left the bay
station in this city at 2:41 o'clock about
Is minutes late. Every seat in the
coaches was filed and a large number
of people We're standing on the plat
forms. The train was made up of an
engine. one closed and two open coach
es There is a grade about 100 yards
\
Ridge road and when this grade was
reached the speed of the train increased
perceptibIy-
Down the grade swept the train. its
speed increasing constantly. When the
far curve was reached, the engine
rounded il with startling rapidity. Next
to the engine was the closed Carria ge.
divided into two compartments, and
when il reached the curve il veered
over to the north and rode around the
curve on the left wheels 1t had gone
over but a part of the bend in the track
when it left the rails and shot straight
ahead. There was sudden crash and
the couplings between the engine and
coach were severed and then the coach
again veered over and plowed through
the earth for several feet before drop
ping on its side in front of the Ridge
road hotel
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 a partition that divid-
ed the front part from the rear. The
front apartment was a smoking COM
partment- In it were several men and
standing in the entrance were two wo-
men and a little girl These were
thrown into a jumbIed mass over
against the roof of the car and were
pinioned under the seats and the parti-
ton in the car, which was torn to
SpHnterS-
John ReIberg was standing on the
platform between the second and third
cars when the crash came and was
caught between the two cars and
crushed to DEATH His body was re-
moved with great difficulty and sent to
the morgue.