The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-01
JUMPS THE RAILS.
Excursion Train Is
Ditched Near Ro-
chester.
THREE ARE KILLED.
Over Fifty Were Hurt and
Twelve Fatally In
jured.

Rochester N. Y. April So.A disas-
trous railroad wreck took place this
afternoon on the Rochester and Lake
Ontario Railroad at Rosenbauers Cor
ners, about one-half mile north of the
city line, when two cars on an excur-
the track while going around a curve
at full speed, and were completely
wrecked. Over so persons were injured;
three are dead and at least dozen are
fatally injured. The following is a
partial list of the dead and injured:
Dead: John Helberg, aged 20, died at
the homeopathic hospital; ]. Tierney,
"a. died at the city hospital; unidenti-
fed. died after being removed from the
wreck.
The seriously injured: Julia Sullivan,
10. fractured collar bone; George
Brasse, SO, compound fracture of the
forearm Emil Steingraber %. back
badly injured; Otto Hahnke. 81, both
legs badly bruised and bones of right
hand broken: William Goodman, %, Sc
we're scalp wound Emil Schram, Is,
small bones of right foot broken; John
Bierschal, AZ. compound fracture of
right leg; Emma Teufel, II, nose bro
ken. face terribly lacerated; James
| Lombard. internal injuries, may prove
| fatal; j. f. Moore, H. L. Borie, Oscar
! Dorschal. William Dorrer, C. S. Hime-
hart John Sullivan, Charles Werner,
John thinner. The two latter are very
seriously injured and may die.
The slightly injured and who were
able to go to their homes are: Charles
Darrow. A. E. Burnham, Henry Koch
| lin. Valentine Lochener John Russin-
ger, Henry Rosenthal, Frederick Colds
worth. Charles Nachaler, John H.
Fredericks, John Flemming, Frederick
Scheleber. Albert Lippens, Frederick j.
| Wehnert, w. S. Woodruff, John d. Roll
Ter, Joseph Hicks, Mrs. Joseph Hicks
Besides these, there were at least %
who are cut about the face and other
wise injured. They went home without
giving their names. The train. which
was crowded with excursionists bourd
for different points along the shores of
Lake Ontario in the Irondequott bay
district, left the bay depot in this city
at 2.41 o'clock this afternoon, about 15
minutes late. Every seat In the coaches
was filled and large number of peo-
pie 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 increased per-
ceptibly. Down the grade swept the
train, it's speed increasing almost con-
stantly. 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 1t reached
the curve it veered over to the north
and rode around the curve on the
wheels on the left side.
1t had crossed but part Of the bend
In the track when 1t left the rails and
shot straight ahead. There was a sud
den crash as the couplings between the
engine and coach were severed. and
then it again veered over and plowed
through the earth for several feet be-
fore dropping on its side in the front
of the Ridge Road Hotel.
When the first coach left the track
the engine sped on and the other
coaches were forced off the track. The
second coach scraped along the side
of the one left on the track, tearing
away the platform and otherwise in
juring the car. These cars, impelled byl
the force they had already received,
ran ahead for about 100 feet. The see
ond car had been drawn off the track
by the first coach and being tossed toll
one side, poised in the air as though 1t
was ready to follow the other and top
pie over in the road
But the next instant It struck one Of
the trucks of the coach already derail-
ed and thus was thrown back on the
track where it came to a standstill.
The engine whirled on down the track
and was not stopped until it had gone
nearly a mile. The closed coach. which
was overturned, had in 1t a partition
that divided the front part from the
rear. The front apartment was al
smoking compartment In 1t were sew
eral men, standing on the entrance
with two women and little girl. These
were thrown into a jumbled mass over
against the roof of the car and were
pinloned under the seats and the par
tition in the car, which was torn tol
splinters.
The scene which followed was heart
rending in the extreme. The means
and shrieks of the injured filed the
air John Helberg 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 sentl
to the morgue.
Little Emma IFuIel Was among the
first of the wounded taken from the !
wreck Her face was covered with
blood. her nose broken and cuts and
bruises all over her face. hands and
arms. She was crying piteously. and
said she was sure both her father and
mother who We're aboard the train had
been killed. George Brasser. who sus-
tanned a compound fracture of the fore |
arm was found pinned under a heavy !
beam and was removed with considera-
BILE difficulty. The work of rescue was
energetically carried on and as soon as
each sufferer was taken out he was
sent to the hospital