The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-01
EXCURSIONISTS IN A WRECK
TERRIBLE ACCIDENTJUST O UTSIDE
OF ROCHESTER, N. Y.
Jured, Dozen MT Least Fatally So
Cars Left the Track Mt n Curve Which
the Engine Rounded with Startling
Rapidity.
Rapidly.

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, the Rochester and Lake Ontario railroad
at Rosenbaur's Corners, about one-hal
mile north of the city line, when two
cars on an excursion train filled witt
passengers left the track while goins
around curve at full speed, and were
} completely wrecked. Over fifty persons
were injured, two are dead and at least
a dozen are fatally injured. The follow
ing is a partial list of the dead and in
jured.
Dead: John Helberg, aged twenty
died at the Homeopathic hospital; I'M
known man. died after being removed
from the wreck.
The seriously injured: Julia Sullivan,
aged eighteen years, fractured collar
bone; J. Tierney, internally; George
Brasser, aged thirty-siX, compound frac-
ture of the forearm; Emil Steingraber,
aged twenty three, back badly injured;
Otto Hahnka, aged twenty-one, both
legs badly bruised and bones of right
hand broken; William Goodman, aged
Schram aged eighteen, small bones right
foot broken; John Biershal, aged forty
two, compound fracture of right leg;
Emma Teufel, aged seventeen, nose
| broken and face terribly lacerated; ;
James Lombard internal injuries, may
prove fatal; j. F. Moore, II. l.. Borie,
Oscar Dorscal, William Doerrer, c. r.
Hinehart, John Sullivan, Charles Wer-
ner, Joseph thinner. Two latter are
very seriously injured and may die.
/ The slightly injured and who We're
able to go to their homes are: Charles
| Darrow, A. E. Burnham. Henry Koch
| lin Valentine Lochener, John Russinger,
Henry Rosenthal, Frederick Goldsworth,
Charles Nachaler, John H. Fredericks,
John Fleming, Frederick Scheleber, AL
| bert Lippens, Frederick J. Wehnert, w.
S. Woodruff, John DeRoller, Joseph
Hicks, Mrs. Joseph Hicks.
Besides these there We're at least twen-
ty-five who are cut about the face and
otherwise injured. They went home
without giving their names. The train
which was crowded with excursionsts
bound for different points along the
shores of Lake ontario In the Ironde-
QUOT Bay district, left the Bay depot In
this city at 2:41 o'clock this afternoon
about fifteen minutes late. Every seat
in the coaches was filled 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 grade about enc
hundred yards from the corner Of North
avenue and Ridgeroad and when this
grade was reached the speed of the train
increased perceptibly.
When the far curve was reached the
engine rounded 1t with startling rapid
ity. Next to the engine was the closed
carriage, divided into two compart-
ments, and when it 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 it left the
rails and shot straight ahead. There
was sudden crash as the couplings
between the engine and the coach We're
severed and then it again veered over
and plowed through the earth for sew
eraf feet before dropping on it's side in
the front of the Ridge Road hotel
When the first coach left the track
the engine sped on down thas track
and the other coaches We're forced off |
the track The second coach scraped |
along the side of the one left on the
track, tearing away the platform and |
otherwise injuring the car. These cars,
impelled by the force they had already |
received, ran ahead for about 100 feet.
The second car had been drawn off the
track by the first coach, and being toss
ed to one side. poised in the air as
though it was ready to follow the other
and topple over in the road But the
next instant it struck one of the trucks
of the coach already derailed and the
car was thrown back on the track
where it came to standstil. The en-
gine whirled on down the track and
was not stopped until it had gone near
ly mile The closed coach, which was
overturned had in it a partition that
divided the front part from the rear
The front apartment was smoking
apartment In it were several men,
and standing in the entrance were two
women and a little girl. These were
thrown into a jumbled 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 splin-
terS.
The scene which followed was heart
rending in the extreme. The means and
shrieks of the injured filled the air and
] sickenng sight met the eve John
Hilberg was standing on the platform
the second and third cars
when the cash came, and was caught
between the two cars and crushed to
1eath. His body was removed with
,reat difficulty and sent to the morGue. ,
little Emma Tuefe was among the ,
irst 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 :
lrms. She was crying piteously, and
aid she was sure both her father and
mother, who were aboard the train, had
,een killed. George Brasser, who sus-
aimed a compound fracture of the fore /
rm, was found pinned under a heavy t
eam and YVES removed with consider e
BILE difficulty. The work of rescue was f
nergetically carried on and as soon as
ach sufferer was taken out he was
ent to the hospital Ambulances had
cen quickly summoned from the city n
nd although it was a long run, re- p
quick time was made. The g