Fifteen Killed

Terrible Extent of the Long Island Railroad Disaster

Cars Sliced in Two.

Rockaway Beach Train Was Running Full Speed.

No Chance To Escape.

Passengers Badly Crushed and Mangled.

The Manhattan Beach Train had Scarcely Started After Being Stopped In the Block at Berlin When It Was Crashed Into-If It Had not Been Delayed By a Regular Train In Leaving the Beach the Collision Would Not Have Taken Place-The Blame for the Accident Has Not Yet Been Placed-The Engineer of the Rockaway Train Says the Signal Was Set To Let Him Into the Block-The Signal Man Says the Signal Was Set To Warn the Rockaway Train Not To Enter The Block-It Was A Long Time Before the Relief Train From Long Island City Arrived-It Had on Board Only a Few Physicians-There Were Many on the Manhattan Train, but They Were Not Allowed to Aid the Injured-Survivors Blame the Railroad Company-Scenes at the Hospital and the Morgue-Morbid Crowds About the Wreck All Day Yesterday.

Long Island City, Aug. 27.-By the Frightful crash of heavily-laden passenger trains on the Long Island Railroad at Berlin last night fifteen person’s lost their lives, seventeen were cut and bruised and mangled, and dozens of others were injured more or less severely.

In Skelton’s dingy morgue in Grand Street, Newtown, thirteen of the bodies were lying to-day, awaiting the identification which was unusually slow. So badly were the bodies mangled that recognition by physical marks was in nearly every case out of the question, and the only clue to identity lay in the articles found in the clothing by Coroner Brandon.

Ten lives were ground out almost simultaneously with the crash of the trains. Three persons lived but a few minutes after the rescue work began.

The Dead.
In the books of the morgue the dead are recorded as follows:
No. 1. ALEXANDER GRILLET, member of the firm of Borel & Co., 29 West Twenty-Third Street, New-York.
No. 2. GEORGE PHELAN, an actor, whose stage name is FIELDING, 1536 Madison Avenue, New-York.
No. 3. MRS. BERTHA WEINSTEIN, 345 East Fifty-Eighth Street, New-York.
No. 4. Unknown woman, dressed in black; about thirty years old; nothing found to identify her.
No. 5. MORTIMER DITTMAN, clothing manufacturer, lives at 75 West Fifty-Second Street, New-York.
No. 6. Supposed to be J.J. HYLAND, Westerly, R.I.
No. 7. Supposed to be RICHARD NEWMAN, address unknown.
No. 8. SIDNEY WEINSTEIN, fourteen years old, daughter of Mrs. Bertha Weinstein, No. 3.
No. 9. MRS. MAGGIE B. DIETZEL, 122 East One Hundred and Fourteenth Street, New-York.
No. 10. MAX STEIN, bookkeeper, 338 West Fifty-second Street, New-York.
No. 11. MRS. JOHN CONRAD DYCKHOFF, 10 West Thirtieth Street, New-York.
No. 12. Supposed to be JOHN CONRAD DYCKHOFF, husband of No. 11.
No. 13. E.A. BUCK, editor of the Spirit of the Times, 30 West Fifty-first Street, New York.
These died in St. John’s Hospital:
DIETZEL, OSCAR, 122 East One Hundred and Fourteenth Street.
FINN, THOMAS, brakeman, 58 Fifth Street, Long Island City.

The Injured.
Those most severely injured were taken to St. John’s Hospital, this city, and there two of them expired in a very few hours. Those now in the hospital are:
BARRON, JAMES, 774 Second Avenue, New-York, forty-five years old; internal injuries; will probably recover.
BRADY, JAMES, 263 West Seventeenth Street; fractured arm and scalp wound; will recover.
DURKEN, KATE, aged twenty-six, 228 east One Hundred and Third Street, New-York; she suffered from shock, but was able to go to her home yesterday morning.
FLORSHEIM, MORRIS, 165 East One Hundred and Sixth Street, right leg broken; slight contusions of the face; will recover.
GRAEVEN, ELEANOR F., 1,696 Broadway, New-York; badly scalded and internal injuries.
GRAEVEN, THEODORE, 1,696 Broadway, New-York; scalp wound and scalded by steam; incised wound of forearm and also incised wound of left leg; multiple contusions; he is seriously injured.
HAHN, JOHN, 495 Broadway, Astoria, twenty-four years old; internal injuries; will recover.
HASKELL, MRS. CLARA, 101 West Fifty Second Street; broken ankle.
JAKOBSSON, AUGUST, 428 Fourth Avenue, New-York; will probably die.
KIMBLE, HARRIS G., 122 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn; concussion of spine and contusions of the body; will recover.
LARKIN, FRANK, thirty-three years old, 7 Ninth Avenue, New-York; contusion of the spinal column; but he will recover.
LIVINGSTON, WILLIAM A., 662 Lorimer Street, Brooklyn; nose fractured; left at once for home.
LYNCH, WILLIAM, 985 Park Avenue, New-York; two ribs fractured, contusions all over the body, and fracture of the left ankle.
RECHNITZ, HUGH, twenty-two years old, 2,428 Second Avenue, New-York; right arm fractured, abrasions of arms, and badly scalded; condition serious.
THOMPSON, JAMES B., 102 West Sixty-Fourth Street; contusions of head; sprained ankle.
WEISS, EUGENE M., 213 West Sixteenth Street, New-York; body badly scalded; and will probably not recover.
WEINSTEIN, AARON, aged forty, 347 East Fifty-Eighth Street; concussion of the brain; will recover.

For causing this fearful sacrifice of life blame wavers between two employees of the railroad, and where it will be finally fixed will not be known until the investigation which the railroad officials will begin tomorrow is finished.

Continued, part 2 - detailed account of the wreck (below)