Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — DEATH CLAIMS A DOZEN. [ARTICLE]

DEATH CLAIMS A DOZEN.

Terrible Accident Occur* ea the Long I*l- - Bond. Twelve persons are dead and others will die as the result of a terrible rail-

way collision just outside of Long Island City. The accident happened near the bridge across Newton creek, on the Long Island railroad. A Rockaway train had just emptied its passengors at the Hunters’ Point dej ot. It started to return to the bridge at the yards at Blissville. Just across the bridge it collidod with a passenger train from Manhattan Beach. The Manhattan Beach train had been standing in the block to permit a train ahead getting at a sate, distance. The Rockaway Beach train came dashing along behind, ran into the same block, and crashed into the roar end of the Manhattan Beaoh train. Both wore crowded with excursionists, and both were the last trains from their respective resorts.

There were five cars in the Manhattan beach train, all of them open. The Rockaway train plunged in and plowed its way completely through the two rear cars and partly wrecked the third. Passongors in each of those three were maimed and mangled horribly and their shrieks of terror and pain were awful. Everybody in those cars was either killed or injured. The third car was completely thrown from track. The Rockaway engine was wrecked. Its smokestack was carried away and its huge boiler rosemblod a pincushion from the timbers of the wrecked oars sticking into it. Upon those timbers human beings were Impaled, seme doad and others gasping their last. List of the Dead. The list of those killed outright la as follows: Cot,. E. A. Buck, editor of the Spirit of the Times. . Oscar Dietzel; died at St. John's hospital. Mbs. Maooik Dietzel, wife, vj years; died at morgue. Mrs. Bbrtha Weinstein. Sidney Weinstein, her son. Thomas Finn, bra'^eman. Unidentified youno woman, blonde; two oards in pockets; upon one "Laura Duffy,” on the other “Miss Young.” Unidentified woman, 40 years; two oards in pocket, upon one "Mrs. John Conrad," on the other "Mr*. Dyokoff.” Unidentified man with letter in pooket addressed to Alexander Grillette, New York. Unidentified man with letter in pocked addressed to Mr. Ditman, New York, also cheok for $l2O, signed D. J. Needburg. Unidentified man with bnnch of keys marked “J. J. Hyland,' Westerly, 11. I," and small prayer book with ”J. J. Clancy” on fly leaf. Unidentified man, shirt marked "E. P.:* card in pocket with George Fielding upon it, and a valise tag marked with tho same name. Unidentifed man, with letter addressod to Miss MoKenna, Clifton Terrace, Bosobank, S. 1., in pocket. Unidentified man, with lottorin pooket addressed to Mr. Stein, New York. The Beene Was indescribable. The dead and wounded were scattered through the wreckage both upon and beyond the tracks. Everything was spattered with tho blood of the doad and wounded, and tho cries of the latter rose above the hissing of steam and the calls of the frantic trainmen. As fast as the injured could be taken from the wreck they were carried to the relief train and carod for. The doctors on board worked swiftly and well, while tho other medical men were out in the wreck applying restoratives and making hurried dressings of wounds to sustain the sufforers until they could be put on the relief train for more careful treatment. The dead were taken by special train to'Newtown, which is nearest tho scene of the accident, and placed in a morgue by th« order of tho Coroner.