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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1895; 2 the road and endeavor at. least to prevent the repetition of such another casualty. WlVh INVESTIGATE AT ONCE. the train of empties swinging out from the north bound track through the switch to run up on the south bound track and take on her passengers. It Is a down grade from Third to and she shot forward under full headway.

The engineer was hurt by the falling cab roof, but in splto of that mado an effort to get at the throttle. So covered was it by the debriB, however, that he could not reach it, and, knowing that he eould do nothing to stay the Fulton, Livingston and Hoyt Brooklyn. Still Two More Great Annual Fall Ina Ch chinery and valve being covered by the wrecked top of the cab made it absolutely impossible for him to get at the working parts of his machine and he did the wise thing in jumping to save his own life while he had time. Of course, if thero was any possibility of his being able to stop the engine would. not say this.

"It was very unfortunate that the wrecked train was two or three minutes late. Had it had a minute and a half more, Woodlawn would have been passed and the train would have been going under good headway. No. engine, which was pulling the train. Is the largest and fa'stest we have on the road and am sure she would have been able to keep out of the way of the wildcat had she been in motion.

Of course the wildcat was using up steam very fast d.nd she could not have gone over a minute longer without emptying her boilers. Then she only would have had tho impetus of her former speed and the slight down grade to help her and she could easily have been switched off and no damage done. have no Idea yet what the damage will amount to. No. 6 Is entirely destroyed and the three cars, of course, are entirely destroyed.

Up to the present time that is all we have to acount for. As to the legal aspect of the case I have nothing to say further that that there was no negligence on the part of either of the officers of the company or its employes." "Now. to show you Just how the accident occurred, I will make a little sketch of the tracks at the foot of Sixty fifth street. There! No. 1 is the north bound platform, where the passengers from Coney Island alight to take the boats.

No. 2 Is the south bound platform, where Che passengers for Coney Island take the train; No. 3 is the north bound track and No. 4 is th south bound track; No. 5 Is the switch, which is used for transferring the cars from the north hound to the south bound tracks; No.

0 is the switch to the turn table; No. 7 is the turn table and No. 8 the bridge over Second avenue, where the accident occurred. A train of cars had Just deposited its passengers from Coney Island at No. 1 and were standing on No.

etigine No. was coming down No. i. just as the train of empty cars was pushed out from No. 3 to No.

5, and thence on No. A. The engineer was just passing under No. when he saw the empties cross No. 5 Into No.

4, but he was too close to avoid the collision then." Stories of Passengers and Eyewitnesses W. W. Walker of 525 East Twenty third street. New York, one of the passengers on the Bcalp and concussion of the bnUn. Norwegian hospital.

GEORGE; AUGUST, 222 Avenue N'rw York. Ear wounded anrl left leg fractured. Norwegian hoapltaj. HELD, JOSEPH, 176 Stanton street. New Tiwk.

Compound fracture of Hie leg. Norwegian hospital. HAMMOND. G120RGK. Second avenue.

New York. Left leg fvactured. NorvveRlan hospital. XcGILL, JOHN. 140 Norfolk street.

Leg broken. Taken home. MAItGARElU IvOHIS. 4S Norfolk otrect. New York.

Contusion of tlie spine, face and Norwegian hospital. ROE, CAPTAIN JACOB. 31S Kim street, Newark. N. J.

Lacerated wounds of the feet and fractured ribs. XorweRioji hopiml. SODERSTUON. AVUPST. 400 Kan Thirty first street.

New York. Compound fractur? of the leg. Norwegian hoppluU. WOODS. CHARLRS.

TS Third avenue. New York. Compound fracture of the leff and fraqtured nose. WOODS. MRS.

CHARLES It. Fractured leg and sprained ankle. Norweirliui OKEATOREX, WtLIAM, 1 iT Madison avenue, Harrison. N. J.

Fractured ley. Norwegian hospital. ROSEN HFIRG, 1.806 Third avenue. New York. Compound fracture of the leg at the ankle.

OTHERS WHO WERE I.N.ICRED. ANDERSON, MATILDA. S13 Elm street. Newark, N. J.

Contusion of the limbs. Taken to the Norwegian hospital and discharge. BURLETON, MISS NKI.LIK. 122 West Fleventh Street, New York. Contushm of th eye and Itwo.

Taken to the Norwegian hospital and discharged. BALL, policeman attached to the Oak street station. New York. bruised about the body. COEYMAN.

ALLISON. 71 Union street, Newark, N. .1. Sprained anisic. N' rweglai hospital.

COONEY, Mrs. KATK. Harrison. N. .1.

Compound fracture of the leg. Seney hospital. COONEY, JOHN, husband of Mrs. Kate Cooney. Lacerated wounds of the limbs.

Treated at Seney hospital and dtsolinrM'd. DUFFY. FRANK. East One Hundredth and tenth street. New York.

tvalp wounds and contusion of the leg. Norwegian hospital. DENEHAN. JOHN, 230 East Eighty lira street. New Y'nr, slightly bruised.

Taken to the Norwegian hospital and discharged. LDT, SARAH, 17li Stanton street. New York, legs bruised. Went home. FINCH.

JOSEPH. 42T Knst Fourteenth street. New York. Contusion of the spine and sprained ankle. Norwegian hnspital.

FRIEDMAN. JOSEPH. Kir. Geerc street. New York.

Leg bruised. Removed to St. John's hospital and will probably be discharged this afternoon. FRANKLE. JULES.

3.76 East Fourth street, New York. Bruised. Norwegian hospital. CKADY, KATIE, 2G4 Went Houston street. Legs bruised.

Went homa. GOTTLIEB, MAX, 344 East Fourth street. New Y'ork. Scalp wounds and lacerated wounds of tine leg. Norwegian hospital.

HARRIS. OEXR(3E. colored. :0 Boyden street. Newark.

Ankle sprained. HEUSTON. Mrs. JAMES, Kearny, N. J.

Lac HEI STON. JAMES, huShaml of the above. Lacerated wounds of the leg. ralt wounds of ttie les. Norwegian hospital.

HET7STON. TIWM.lS. Kearny. N. J.

Concussion of brain. Norwegian hospital. KERAXGia. C. 11S West Twelfth St.

New York. Fraotureu leg. Norwegian hospital. Discharged. MERCHANT.

C. US West Twelfth street, New York. Left leg fractured. Treated at the Norwegian hospital and removed to his home. McNEILL.

EFFFIK, 161 West Twelfth street. New York. Left foot sr ralned. Went home. MEIDLING.

OUSTAV, D5 Gllnton street, Newark, N. J. Three ribs broken. Treated at the Norwegian hnspital. Will be removed to hla noma this afternoon, NEEF, LIZZIE.

343 East Tenth street. New York. Scalp wounds. Norwegian hosnltal. The entire list of wonderful values as advertised by us Sunday will be continued Wednesday and Thursday.

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Then I lot go the throttle bar for an instant and put my fcnrtrt nn tlrn nip hr nko SoJirCfilV had I re nana on tne air Drake, ticinucij uu i leaoeu my noia ou u.t U1UB and the pressure of steam from the inside threw the valve wide open. Of course I grasped It again immediately and threw It back, at the Bame time throwing over the reversing bar. but It was too late. The Impetus given to the engine by the throttle being open for an instant shot it forward toward the train of empty cars and before I had time to think twice the crash came. Just before we struck I saw my fireman jump off from the other side of the engine.

"Then for a second everything was confusion in my mind. The cab was smashed to pieces, the water in the small reservoir in the back of the engine was dashed over me and found myself pinned In under the roof of the cab which had been crushed down over the throttle valve and the reversing, handle In such a manner that I could not possibly get at them. Of course the reversing bar being over tho lnstau the engine struok and l. Boiler. 2.

Lug. 3. Handie bar. 4. tiprinff Dog.

6. Rachet. 7. Throttle valve stem. stopped it started off in the new direction.

It oouldu't have been over ten seconds before I succeeded In wrenching myself loose from the portion of the roof which pinned me in. "Then I made a desperate effort to get at the throttle, but found that It would be im possible. By this time the engine had nearly reached the Second avonue bridge and I knew that if I proposed to get off at all I must do it at once. I threw myself bodily from my seat, fortunately striking in a soft spot beside the track. Up to this time I did not know that I was hurt.

Then I found the cut on my face and that my leg was badly wrenched. Had I remained on the engine I could not have done anything to stop her, the machinery was so thoroughly covered by the broken roof. It is only a run of a little over three miles from where the engine got away to the scene of the accident and as everything was wide open and the engine light she must have made the distance in about three minutes. "I will make a little sketch of the throttle for you so that you can understand the accident better. No.

1 Is the end of the boiler. No. 2 is a lug to which the handle of the throttle bar Is attached. The lug Is screwed fast to the end of the boiler. No.

3 is the handle bar which operates the throttle valve stem. No. 4 Is the Eprlng which broke. This spring presses against the grip which raises the dog and keeps it in place in the rachet teeth. No.

5 Is the dog or tongue which fits in the rachet teeth and holds the valve in position. No. 6 is the rachet itsefl and No. 7 is the throttle valve stem. The teeth of the rachet are shaped like the teeth of a saw, so that you can see that, if the spring which holds the dog In place should break, the pressure of steam on the throttle valve stem from the inside would throw it wide open and allow the steam under full force to rush into the cylinders.

That was the accident which occurred and is solely to blame for the frightful loss of life. How the soring broke I do not taiow. I go over my machinery carefully every morning before I take the engine out ana am sure mat i tested the throttle bar In the morning as thoroughly as any engineer would." What Superintendent Larke Says. Superintendent Richard Larke of the Sea Beach railroad was seen by an Eagle reporter last night at Coney Island. When asked about the accident, how It occurred, he said: "It waB just the busiest hour of the day and I had my hands full getting the trains off on time at the foot of Sixty fifth street, when one of the men came rushing up and told me that engine No.

6 had collided with a train of empties and started for the Island wild. He didn't know whether Bhe had gone out on the north hound or south bound track and I had no time at the moment to inquire. I rushed to the telephone, sent word to Coney Island to open every switch within reach on both tracks and to run the wild engine on into tne sana or the creek or anywhere else. I had no Idea train which he had pushed to the top ol the train whlc hhe had pushed to the top of the ridge had fully ten minutes' start and, if on time, would have passed the switches and have been safe before the wild cat overtook 1. North bound platform.

3. South bound platform 3 North bound track. 4. South hound traek D. Swlteh from north bound to south bound tracks.

C. Swlteh to turn table. 1. Turn table. S.

Urldge over Second avenue. her. Nevertheless, to make assurances doubly sure, I ordered out a special engine and followed on down the line. When 1 arrived at Woodlawn I found the cars afire and the wounded men, women and children scattered around on the ground in all directions. No ambulance had at that time arrived and I took it upon myself to direct matters a well as I could.

Shortly after Dr. Luudbeck and Roundsman Frank appeared on the scene and I turned everything over to them, while I attended to the removal of the wreck. "It is one of those accidents which no amount of foresight could prevent. I know of nothing that could have been done In advance which would have prevented an accident of this kind. The breaking of that little spring in the throttle valve handle caused the entire damage.

I do not see how the engineer or the fireman can be held to blame in the matter. I nave heard many persons say to day that the engineer should have stuck to his post and so he would, I believe, had there been any post to stick to. The ma i A 3 2 4. k. i I ila llilll 1 I 3 I I RAILROAD COMMISSIONEBS PROMPTLY ACT UPON THE DISASTER.

(Special to the Eagle.) Albany. N. September 3 The railroad commissioners propose tc make a rigid investigation into the circumstances attending the Sea Beach railroad accident at Woodlawn yesterday. A committee of the board, consisting of Comissioner Rlckards and Secretary Charles R. Defreest, will leave for Brooklyn probably late this afternoon, to begin their inquiry tomorrow.

RAILROAD MEN ARRAIGNED. THEY WERE RELEASED UNDER J1.000 BAIL EACH. Two engineers, a conductor and a fireman, employed on the road, were arrested late last night, charged with having been responsible for the accident. They were Engineer Frank Jensen and Fireman Arthur Ross of runaway engine No. 6, and Engineer Daniel Hummel of engine No.

4, and Conductor Joseph Hilger, who had charge of the train of ele en cars that backed into No. 6, the direct cause of sending the engine backward on her fatal run. All were before Judge Cowenhoven in the New Utrecht court shortly after 9 o'clock this morning, and entered a plea of not guilty to criminal negligence. Counselor George E. Eldridge appeared for them.

He asked that his clients be placed under ball. Roundsman Gaughran of tho Twenty fifth sub precinct, who had the prisoners in charge, told his honor that up to that hour there were no deaths reported, and from the latest accounts all the patients were doir.K well. Upon the strength of this state ment his honor agreed to admit the prisoners to ball, fixing the amount at each. Bondsmen were waiting in court, and the men were released at once. Fo Engineer Jensen, ex Judge W.

Bennett Wardell went security: for Fireman Ross, hie lather, con Ross, furnished ball, and Superintendent Riehard F. Clarke of the Sea Beach Railroad company became bondBman for the other two The examination was set down for Tuesday, Sentember 10. at 9:30 A. M. The four railroad employes live in new Utrechf.

Jensen was born in Bay Ridge, and has been working on a locomotive all his life nearly. His father was an engineer before him on the old Gunther road. Youns ensen has been on the Sea Beach road for some time, and was looked upon as one ot the most competent engineer! Both Jensen and Ross limped very badly court. Ross was thrown out of the cab window by the force of the collision and was njured about the head and body. Jensen vas not only burned in his efforts to stop the engine, but was also Injured when he fell or threw hlmseir from the runaway engine.

Ross tells a similar story to the engineer's. Jensen lives on Bay Ridge avenue and is related to the old Wardell family of that place. His brother, Harry Jensen, Is a fireman on the same line and was on the engine that drew the ill fated excursion train from Bay Ridge. WELL KNOWN IN NEWARK. WILLIAM K.

POINIER, VICTIM OF THE RAILROAD ACCIPENT. (Special to the Eagle.) Newark, N. September 3 William K. Poinier, who died this morning of injuries received yesterday on the Coney Island railroad, was a well known business man and prominent citizen of this city. He was a son of ex Mayor Poinler.

For a long time he was in the lumber business with his broth er, Woods Poinler, but retired from it to nin F. W. Bonneau Co. In the manufac ture of harness. Mr.

Poinier returned only a few days ago from his summer residence at Belmar, below Ashury Park. Had It not been a holiday, he would have been at the factory. After luncheon he set out for Coney sland. He was in nis bsq year, dul in gooa health and high spirits when he left home, 67 Thomas street, on his fatal trip. A widow and three children, a son, Joseph Poinler, and two daughters, survive him.

His daugh ters are Mrs. F. W. Bonneau ana Mrs. Fred erick Sweasy.

OTHER SIMILAR ACCIDENTS. THE LAUREL HILL AND PAKK.VILLE TRAGEDIES RECALLED. Not since the Laurel Hill accident of August 27, 18U3, has any accment on tne railroads leading to the seashore equaled yesterday's In severity, and that, coming so close after the one at tne ParkvIUe tunnel on the Manhattan Beach read, made the year 1893 memorable for the number of lives lost. The first of this serleo of fatalities occurred 1 the evening of June 20, at the entrance to the tunnel at Parkville. when the four rear cars were derailed, as was after vard determined by the state commissioners of lailroads, by the switchman awaking from doze and throwing the switch after the forward cars had passed.

At least eight lives were lost in this accident, and about forty were more or less severely wounded. The train was i long one, and was leiutning from tho track ol the Conpv Island Jockey club. It being Suburban day. and every available space was occupied, pas sengers hanging on to the sides, standing on the steps and platforms. Several of the dead were shockingly mutilated and it was some time before they were identified.

The coroner's jury exonorated the switchman from blame, but the state hoard, after a thorough Investigation, held him responsible for the accident. At about the same place two years previous a train was derailed, but no lives were lost. The accident excited very severe criticism at the time oh account of the inadequacy of the facilities provided by the Manhattan Beach Railroad company, which resulted in very much improving the conditions prevailing. The second fatal accident on this system was 'the Laurel Hill casualty. In the village of Berlin, just outside of Long Island City.

occurred just after midnight, op Sunday, August 27, 1893, when a train laden with passengers from Rockaway Beach ran Into a special train from Manhattan Beach. Both trains were crowded with passengers and the deaths numbered fifteen, while the wounded were fully forty. The Manhattan Beach train had come tc a standstill and the conductor of the Rockaway Beach train claimed that, he did not know that a special was ahead of him, and no brakeman going back to warn the approaching train, it ran under full headway into the special, cutting two cars in two and overturning three ahead. In this case both the coroner and the state board held the towerman responsible for the accident, for failing to show the proper signals, whereby the approaching train would not run into the block, and the Long Island Railroad company was severely censured for employing the men ML did in responsible positions. AUCTION SAXES.

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FIRST APPEARANCE IN THE VAUDEVILLES IN TEN YEARS, A5BISTED BY THE TALENTED COMEDIAN FRANK M. WILLS. THE LATEST IMPORTATION, monster, he throw himself from the engine, i i I nito htinrr Mrth bralde the car track, and leaving the engine, with a roll pressure of steam on. but no controlling hand on the to thunder on toward the island. As It passed Third avenue ft had accumulated a speed which was very closo to fifty miles an hour.

Tho station was crowded with men, women and children and as it ruthed past, like a demon, bent on annihilating anything and everything which offered it resistance, eries of horror were hoard on all sides, as though the crowd already de vlned what the frightful ending of It all would be. A number of the women on the platform fainted from sheer fright, and, Indeed, it did present a grew some sight, calculated to shake even the strongest nerves. In the meantime Superintendent Larke, who wa8 at the Bay Kidge end of the line, quickly telephoned to Coney Island for the yardman there to throw open any switch which would stop the Iron monster in its mad career. When the engine reached Bath junction It was traveling at the rate of from fifty to fifty five miles. It thundered by Mapleton at the rato of sixty miles an hour and as the road from the ridge to the islund is down grade all the way, it was accumulating more speed every second.

The Collision. Tho next station was Woodlawn park, and the train which runaway engine had helped to push up the hill but a short ten minutes before, was drawing slowly up to the platform as tee runaway engine hove in sight behind thorn. Some one on the rear platform of the train saw the engine coming and, comprehending tho situation at a glance, shrieked: "Jump for ryour lives, here she comes," and a dozen peo ple who glanced hastily around, followed him as he leaped to the ground. Others, among them many women and children, became frightened, they did not themselves know at what, and followed like a flock of sheep. Tho time was too short, however, and before one sixth of the passengers In the last three cars could get out, the catastrophy had occurred.

With a crash that could be heard for blocks, the engine dashed into the rear car. clear through it. and buried itself ten feet Into the second rar. The rear car was simply smashed into kindling wood. People were hurled in all directions, some landing 10 to 20 feet away from the accident.

For a few minutes there was a babble of shouts, shrieks, curses and prayers, which simply beggars description. The ground was literally strewn with frightened and wounded people. Some mothers, calling piteously for their children, wives calling on their husbands for help and others running frantically up and down looking for their children. To add to the horrors of the scene, the cars caught fire from the broken ashpan and fire box of the engine, and In a moment were burning fiercely. Some of the women in the second and third cars had fainted and slipped down between the cross seats of the open cars; men too badly hurt to drag themselves out were calling loudly for help, while the flames were crawling swiftly but surely toward them.

The Work of Rescue. In the meantime the passengers in the forward cars who had only felt a comparatively light shock, but enough to tell them something In the nature of an accident had occurred, jumped to the ground and rushed to the scene of the disaster. Here they stood, petrified for a moment, too utterly amazed and horror stricken to do anything to assist the moaning, shrieking mass of help less humanity. August Bauerman of Newark was the first to recover his self possession. He heard his name called by one of tie wounded men in the burning car, and, to his horror, recognized a friend whom he did not know was aboard the train.

Springing forward, he oaught his friend under the arms and commenced to drag him out. His example was Infectious, and in an instant the people had set to work witih a will, assisted by some farm laborers who ran in from the surrounding farms, where they had been at work, and the picnickers at Wood lawn park, who ran out to the scene to see what was the matter. There was no lack of assistance then. The great trouble then was too much of it, and peaple got in one another's way In their wild desire to do something. By dint of the greatest exertions and hard work the wounded pas sengers were at last all gotten out and laid In a jumbled mass on the grass.

Before the last unfortunate had been taken out, however, the three last cars were in names and some of the men, headed by the trainmen, were fighting the Are. There was no water to be had, oxeepting such as was carried from the engine in buckets, so that for a time It looked as though the whole train would burn. Then, like an inspiration of genius, one of the workmen cried, "Tear this car to pieces." In an instant a hundred hands were at work on the fourth car and In less time than it taken to tell It the top of the car was torn on dumped in the ditch beside the track and from there carried out in the fields. Then the three wrecked cars were uncoupled from the train and it moved ahead to a place of safety. while the work of getting the wounded men from the car was in progress Patrolman Ryan of the.

Twenty fifth sub precinct, on whose beat tffe accident occurred, arrived on the scene. Taking in the seriousness of It at once he started on a run for the boulevard, from wnich point he telephoned to his sta tion house at Bath Beach. From the Bath Beach station a general alarm was sent out to all surrounding precincts and to police headquarters. Roundsman Frank of the same precinct, who was taking a day off, happened to be riding up Twenty second avenue at the time of the cash and at once took charge of tne police end of it until the arrival of Captain Johnston. Dr.

C. L.undbeck of 107 Bergen street, Brooklyn, had Just stopped on the hotel on the boulevard, and hearing Patrolman Ryan telephone the news to his precinct, drove at once to the scene of the accident with his daughter. He was the first physician on the ground. He threw off his coat and vest, rolled up his sleeves and worked from that time until the last patient was removed, assisted by his daughter, who went at the work like a veteran. In the meantime the police began to arrive on the scene from the Twenty third, the Twenty fourth sub, the Twenty fifth, the Twenty fifth sub and the Eighteenth precincts.

The ambulance from the Twenty fourth precinct, with Ambulance Surgeon Holmes in charge, arrived first on the ground. Later ambulances from the Seney, Norwegian and St. John's hospital and emergency wagons from most of them, with extra physicians, arrived, and for nearly two hours every available doctor had his hands full. Farm wagons from the neighboring farms were pressed into service by the police and helped to carry the wounded to more shady spots. Those who were thought to be injured most were taken to the Wood lawn hotel, where the picnic of the Catholic Knights of America was in progress.

One of the Injured men asked for a priest and Father Loftus of the Church of Our Lady of Angels. Bay Ridge, who was attending the picnic, was called and performed the last rights of the church. He thon went from ambulance to ambulance and from group to group, and wherever he found a Catholic he performed the same rites If the injury was thought to be at all serious. It was fully an hour and a half after the accident occurred before the last of the wounded was taken away to the hospitals. There were many cases which, under ordinary circumstances, would have been fit cases for the hospital, which under the circumstances were not thought serious enough, and were cither left to their own devices, where thev had money or friends to take care of them, or were shipped off on the trains to Brooklyn or Coney Island, there to shift for themselves.

Engineer Jenson's Story. Engineer Frank Jenson, who had charge of the runaway engine when she collided with the empty cars at the foot of Sixty fifth street and who jumped from his engine when he found it Impossible to control her, sustained in his fall a bad cut, runlng from about the center of the forehead over the right side of his nose and below the cheek bone. His left leg was also badly wrenched In the fall, but otherwise he was uninjured. In explanation of the accident he said to an Eagle reporter last night: "It was one of the most peculiar things I have ever seen. I had just pushed the 3:11 train, which was somewhat lato and left the station at about 3:22, up to the top of the ridge, and was bringing my engine back to the station for the purpose of runlng out the next train.

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M. SWINDLER FKAKEIVS ABREST. Liberty, September 3 The news of the Dntling of Or. Frakej at Towor, created considerable ezolterAent here. Attorneys for the iiiBuranco oomp'nie3 served notice on tho Commercial baiit, firobate Judge Fowler and on the clerk of Jadge Lincoln, oxeautor of ffrnkor'a will.

thatTjiey would aoilv fr an In junction before States Jutjgq Foster, enjoining mem rmi paying oat any money Sale Discount. WILD MA RR I ETTA AND THEIR WONDERFUL OF FERFORttlNG COCKATOOS. the train, said to Eagle reporter yesterday: "I was in the third car. The train was just drawing up at. the Woodlawn station and had not yet stopped when someone on the rear Platform shouted Mump for your I looked quickly around and saw men, women and children leaping from both sides of the two rear cars.

I did not wait to ask any questions, but followed suit. I had hardly struck the ground before the crash came. The firebox of the engine was broken by the collision and red hot coals were thrown In all directions. The engine had smashed clear through the first car and fully ten feet into the second, lifting the car trucks up on the cowcatcher and derailing both the car and the engine. The flying red hot coals fell on the shattered remains of the first car and a blaze almost instantly started.

I saw one man caught under a broken seat in the second car just below the hips and rushed to his assistance. In dragging him out his clothes were torn off and a long strip of flesh was torn from his right leg. The roan was carried over under the trees and that was the last I saw of hiin. There is no question in my mind that had. not about half the passengers in the last three cars jumped on the first Intimation of danger there would have been a great many deaths, 'ine last hit which was so badly smashed to pieces was the first to receive warning and consequently more of its passengers were able to get out.

It was fully half an hour before the first ambulance arrived on the scene and during that time we all did everything in our power to care for the wounded. They were carried from the train to shady spots all alone Nineteenth avenue and the people residing In the nelghoornooa turneu out eu masse and did even thing in their power to help the sufferers pending the arrival of the ambulances "A number of the houses were thrown open, and the sufferers who were considered the mtist Rfirlouslv iniured were carried mere The proprietors of Woodlawn park put the entire building at the disposal of Dr. Lund beck when he arrived on the scene. The whole thing still seems like a nightmare to mo. I cannot give any aoequate aescripnou of thr horrors nf the hour that followed.

Perhaps the most pitiful sight or the day was that of the Woods family. Charles H. Woods of 708 Third avenue, New York, had his leer broken. His wife had her right leg fractured, and their child, a pretty little girl of 6 or 7 years, was badly bruised about tne legs auu uuu uuv uo wuco mwn.v... the crash came they were all three thrown in onnoslte directions.

The mother half a dozen times nttfimoted to rise in spite of the frac tured leg to go in search of her child, crying pitifully for It all the time. The father was asking every passer by for God's sake to And his wife and child. When at last they were brought together all three forgot their Injuries for a moment In the happiness of being again reunited and all alive. While I was attending to these people as best I could Doctors William S. Robblns of Sixtieth street, hot ween Eleventh and Twelfth avenues, and Louis C.

Ayger of Cedar lane and Third avenue, Bay Ridge, arrived on the spot, and lent valuable assistance during the rush which Busbee of Third avenue. Brooklyn said to an Eagle reporter: "I wan one of those who helped August George out of the wrecked train. When we laid him on the grass under the shade of a tree, there was not a person but what thought he was dying and he thought so himself. He had half a dozen frightful wounds about the head and blood was runninir from his nose and ears. Both lees seemed to be broken and his clothes were slmnlv drencned witn 010011.

ne av tempted half a dozen times to speak, but in each case only succeeded in emitting a eui sic. "At last with a mighty eliort ne raised nt hand and made a motion as though writing, A man standing by divined what he wanted and nlaced a pencil in nis nana, alter moment's rest he wrote with it on the bosom of his shirt, slowly and carefully, tne words, Ceorsre. 277 Avenue New YorK Catholic." The pencil dropped from his hand and he fainted. Father Loftus, who was hiiKv amone the wounded, was notified of what had occurred and hurried to the sup posed dying man's side. Stimulants were administered and after tho last sacred rites of his faith had been administered, he heaved a sigh of satisfaction and seemed to breathe a little easier.

shall never forget the look of gratification which shone in his eyes when rhfl nriest aooeared on the scene and the se rene contentment resting on his face after the sacrament had been administered. Short ly ftorwrrl he was taken away in a wagon but I shall watch the papers for news of him with more interest I ever before lelt for Action by Coroner Kene. Coroner Kene visited the Seney hospital at noon to day and found an undertaker pre paring to remove the remains of Mr. Poinler to Newark for Interment. Mr.

J'olnier was 62 years of age and leaves a wife and two chi dren. He will be buried In Mount Pleasant cemetery, near Newark, on Thursday nex The coroner impaneled a jury and led the men to the mortuary of the hospital where they viewed the body. They will not be taken to the scene of the horror, but sketches of the ground have been pre pared for use at the inquest. After viewing the remains Coro ner Kene announced that the jury would have its first sitting at the county court house next Tuesday evening at 0 ciock He also notified the jurymen that they might be called together between now and men to view other bodies of the victims. The jurors are all business men whose stores are on Seventh avenue.

The name; and addresses are as follows: Joseph G. foreman, real estate, 444 Ninth avenue; Seth R. Hart, 344 Seventh avenue; William H. Jones. 326 Seventh avenue; Harry Krauss.

322 Seventh avenue; William J. Ward, 315 Seventh avenue; Charles F. Buerman, 31C Seventh avenue; Severina Batista. 31S Seventh avenue; Thomas Rosecrans, 26 Seventh avenue: Fred StllllriK. 310 Seventh avenue; Charles E.

Wlckes. 3SS Seventh avenue. The Mayor May Take Action. Mayor Schieren was asked to day by an Eagle reporter what action he Intended to take with reference to the accident on the Sea Beach road yesterday. He replied that as yet no official report had reached him, asd that whan it did he would send for the officials of ROGAN, FRANK.

121 Oliver street. Newark. N. J. Lacerated wounds of the fool.

Norwegian hospital. ROE, CARRIE, 315 Elm street. Newark, N. J. Lacerated wounds of the leg.

Norwegian hospital. ROE, Mrs. SOPHIA, same address as above. Body bruised. Norwegian hospital.

ROE, RUSSELL, 'same address ae above. Legs lacerated. Norwegian hospital. ROSENBERG. RACHEL, child of above.

Abrasion of head. Norwegian hospital. SUCH, AUGUST, no adilresB given. Contused leg. Treated at the Norwegian hospital and discharged.

SCHOELLER. MARGARET. 289 Wright street. Newark. N.

J. Dislocated hip. Norwegian hospital. SCHMIDT, FERDINAND 10 Broome street. Newark, N.

J. Right foot and leg sprained. Taken home. STIPEK. EMIL, 22S East Seventy third street, New York.

Contused knee. Treated at the Norwegian hospital and discharged. The following were treated by ambulance Burgeons tut the seen of the accident and left for their homes: ANDERSON. CHARLES, 74 Mill street. Astoria, Left arm hurt.

ANSON. RALPH, 31 Twelfth street, Hoboken. Scalp wounds. BE1L1 ALEX ANUER. 410 East Seventeenth street.

New York. DENNKHAN. JOHN. 3 East Eighty first street. Slight wounds.

HOEFLE. JOHN. 1T.2 Mulberry street, Newark, N. J. Bruises on hips.

KING, liAURA, 127 Jackson street, Newark, N. J. KING, ELIZABETH, same address us above. Slight Injuries. LEE, HARRY, SS Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Slight injuries. McCUE. JOSEPH, 234 East Twenty fifth street. New York. JIcGlUTir, Mrs.

THOMAS, 440 East Forty oeventh street. New Y'ork. Two score more received cutis and bruises Mid were cared for by people living near the scene of accident. All the patients were reported to be doing well at the Norwegian, Seney and St. John's hospitals at 3 o'closk.

this afternoon. The physicians in charge at the different hospi tals said that their patients were all likely to recover. The Cause of the Accident. On Sundays and holidays during the rush season the Sea Beach railroad is compelled to run from thirteen to eighteen care to a train, according to the capacity of the engines, to accommodate the crowds who visit the Island. From the Bay Ridge depot at the foot of Sixty fifth street to a point a little above Seventh avenue, there Is quite a steep incline to climb, and when the big trains are crowded an extra switch engine Is brought into requisition to help the regular engine push the train up the steep grade.

No. 6, which Is a switch engine, is usually assigned this duty at Bay Ridge. The switch engine pulls in behind the outgoing train, and pushes it up the hill. At the brow it is uncoupled and runs back; to help take out the next train. Yesterday was a rush day, and big trains were being run on about twenty minutes headway.

No. 6 entine. In charge of En glneer Frank Jensun and Fireman Arthur Ross, both old and experienced railroad men was employed as pusher. At 3:22, a seventeen car train drawn by fengine No. i.

one of the largest and strone est of the companies' machines, in charge of Conductor Charles Pettis and Engineer Will iam Mallen. lnuried with excursionists who had just landed from the Newark boat, and a large number of picnickers who were going to the picnic of tne catholic Knights America at oodlawn Park, as well hundreds of ordinary passengers for the lsl and and the knights nf labor picnic at the Sea Beach palace, pulled out on the south bound track, with Engine No. to push A hen they had reached the top of the ridgi tne, switch engine uncoupled and started to the yard to be in readiness to help out the next train. It passed Third avenue, running tit the rate of about eight or nine miles an hour. Just as got under the bridge which crosses the track at Second avenue a train of empty cars, which had just deposited a load of passengers from Oonoy Island backed out from the north bound track, on the switch, to run iat" the aepot on the south hound track, and bo In readlne s.

i to take a load for the island. Engineer Jenson, on engine No. 6, did not see that tbe care were to be switched on his track until he was almost on them. Then he reversed his engine, but not in time to avoid the collision. No.

6 crashed into the empty cars with such force that the cab ivas entirely wrecked, and the front end of the empty car badly damaged. Just before the crash Fireman Ross, Seeing that It was inevitable, leaped to the ground and escaped without injury. The smashed house, however, fell about Engineer Jen r' "son, pinning him and completely covering but the reversed lever and the throttle, so that he could not get at them. The shock throw the throttle valve wide open, and, as the reversing bar had already been put as tar over as possible the effort to avcid the col llslon, the steam rushed into the PRESS ELDRIDGE, Commander in Chief of the Army of Fan. DARE Horizontal Bar Performers.

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