New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-21
PASTOR HERO OF WRECK.
REFUSES AID TILL LAST.
Score on Church Picnic Injured in
Trolley Collision.

Hampstead, Long Island. July 20 (speciaD.-
In a head-on collision between a construction
train of the New-York and Long Island Trac-
tion Company and one OF three special trolley
cars that conveying members of St
Georges Episcopal Sunday school to outing
at Long Beach to-day, near Roosevelt. two
miles north of Freeport, at a point where lies
one OF the few sharp curves on the twenty-five
miles Of tracks. a score of men, women and
children were injured. Several in serious
condition.
THE INJURED.
BEDELI. c7suncey. iinen,an head and
BOX. the Misssr. cut
BUNCE. Elizabeth cut
COMBS winfield. motorman. scalp wound cuts and con-
tusiona.
COOKE Rev Jere Knoae formerly rector Of St Paul.
Church. Baltimore: internal Injuries
COOKE Mrs. Knode. contusons cut on leg
DAVIS. Thomas. llneman, contusions and cuts.
GILDERSLEEVE- Marion. lower jay fractured face
GILDERSLEEVE. Netta. shock
PoLHEAfUs. Frank, superintendent, Of the New-York
and Long Island Traction Company spranea wrists
ROBERTS, Mrs. Jacob X. both legs injured
ROBERTS. Marion back
ROBERTS. Florence. scalp woln,-
ERIDMORE; Bird head
sLADE1 Lillian. hip head and back inturio>
SPENCER Ray. anc br1ised.
TOILSoN. Gunda, leg nsAments torn from bone
wYCKOFTT W. children Of. Garden City. shock
and contusions.
The special car. which was bound south on
the single track. was partly telescope6. In II
about eighty persons. principally women
and children. The occupants of the car were
thrown from their seats and number of women
and children trampled by those un-
hurt in their efforts to escape. Flying glass
wood. pieces of iron and other wreckage IN
ficted many injuries.
The accident happened at turn in the road
a slight down grade, where a number OF
trees and trolley and telegraph poles border the
track. obstructng the view in all directions. The
spot is the most dangerous on the route between
Hampstead and Freeport.
The special car was In charge of Jesse Rhodes
motorman, and Robert Combes. conductor. Win
field Combes the motorman of the con-
struction train, which made up OF two cars
and Thomas Davis. the conductor. Superln-
tendent Polhemus also occupied seat beside
the motorman OF the passenger car
Rhodes and Polhemus jumped from the special
second before the collision occurred. Combes
and Davis stuck TO their posts. Joseph King,
line superintendent of the trolley road, Jumped
from the construction car and escaped injury.
The hero of the day the Rev. Mr.. Cooke.
pastor of st. Georges Church. Hampstead, who
rector of st. Paul's Church. Baltimore. Au-
gust Belmont is senior warden of st. Georges.
Mr.. Cooke IN charge of the excursion When
door Of the special. Only few moments before
the collision he had spoken to Superintendent Pol
hemus regarding the speed at which the special
travelling. and had suggested that it he re-
duced. He thrown backward under one of
the front seats. from where for time II was
impossible to extricate him. Although badly in
jured. he refused aid until all the women and
children had been taken from the car. Even
when taken from the and suffering the Rev.
Mr. Cooke insisted seeing that all the injured
women and children placed cars and I'm
carriages and taken to their homes. Then. with
his injured wife. he consented to be taken to
Hampstead where he attended by DR..
Charles G. ]. Finn and other physicians.
Charles Thrasher vice-president and general
manager of the traction company; Supernten-
dent PoIhemus and every employe who was IN
any way connected with the accident refused to
talk about the accident.
Some of the State Railroad Commissioners will
visit the scene OF the wreck tomorrow and
make an Official investigation
! The collision occurred near the homes of the
Rev Ichabod Finch and the Rev. Charles Young.
! The members of the latter clergyman's family
| ran from their house and assisted I'm caring for
the injured women and children. Miss Lottie
Edwards daughter OF the Rev. Charles Edwards.
WAS sick In an upper room OF her home but
| when she heard of the accident she ran from her
room carrying the bed sheets
These she tore in shreds she ran for
! bandages. Later. with her father and sisters.
she carried water and bathed the injured.
Telephone messages were sent TO Hampstead
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