The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-01
Disastrous Wreck Of a
Crowded Excursion Train
on the Rochester Road.
CAR JUNPSTHE TRACK
Running Down Grade at a Furious
Rate Of Speed Results in the
DeTailing Of the First Coach.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

ROCHESTER,, n. Y, April S0.-Three
persons were killed and more than a
dozen seriously injured and fifty less
seriously hurt as the result of a wreck
this afternoon on the Rochester and
Lake Ontario Railroad, better known
as the Bay Railroad at Rosenbauer' S
Corners, about one and a half miles
north of the city line. when two cars
Of an excursion train filled with pas
sengers left the track while rounding
a curve at full speed and were COM
pletely wrecked. The dead;
JOHN HELBERG, aged 20, died at
hospital.
J. TIERNEY. aged q, died at hos
pital.
UNKNOWN MAN, died after being
removed from the wreck.
The seriously injured: Julia Sullivan.
aged IS. fractured collar bone; George
Brasser, aged sc. compound fracture of
the forearm; Emil Steingraber. aged
%, back badly injured; Otto Hahnke
aged p, both legs badly bruised and
bones of right hand broken: William
Goodman, aged - years. severe scalp
wound; Emil Schram. aged IS years,
small bones Of foot broken; John Bier
shell, aged A. compound fracture of
leg; Emma TueseIbeIof, aged Il. nose
broken, face terribly lacerated; James
LON bard, internal injury, may prove
fatal; J. +. Moore, II. L. Borie. oscar
DOrcshal, William DOereT. c. r. Rhine
hart, John Sullivan, Charles Warner.
Joseph thinner. The two latter may
die.
The slightly injured are: Charles
DarroW y. +. Burnham, Henro Koch
lin, Valentine LOchner, John Russin-
ger, Henry Rother. Frederick Gold
worth. Charles Nachaler, John H.
Fredericks, John Fleming, Frederick
Schelberg, Albert Tippens, Frederick J.
Weihnert. W. :. Woodruff, John De
Roller Joseph Hicks, Mrs John Hicks,
injured internally.
Besides these. at least twenty-fiv
are cut about the face and otherwise
injured. They went home without Civ
ing 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 ,: Al o'clock this
afternoon. about fifteen minutes late.
Every seat in the coaches was filled
and a large number of people were
standing on the platforms. The train
was made up Of an engine, one closed
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 perceptibly.
Down the grade went 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 car
rage. 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.
Il had gone but a part of the bend in
the track when it left the rails and
shot straight ahead. There was a sud
den crash and the couplings between
the engine and coach We're severed and
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.
The closed coach which was over
turned had a partition that divided
the front part from the rear. Men and
women We're thrown into a iumbled
mass over against the roof of the car
and were pinioned under the seats and
the partitions in the car, which was
torn TO spinters.
John Hilborg was standing on the
platform and was caught between the
two cars and crushed to death.
The work of rescue was energetically
carried on, and as soon as each sufferer
was taken out he was sent to the hos