Death List is Now Sixteen

A Score of Lives may Mark the Long Island Horror

Long Island City, Aug. 28.-By the death of August Jakobson the number of victims of Friday night’s catastrophe at Berlin, on the Long Island Railroad, was to-day increased to sixteen.

Three more mangled human beings are laying in St. Joseph’s hospital in a dangerous condition. A score of lives may be the final measure of the sacrifice of these hapless creatures who were caught and ground beneath the wheels of the fast-flying engine of the Rockaway Express.

The list of dead, as corrected follows:
BUCK, COL. ELISHA A., editor of the Spirit of the Times. Live at 30 West Fifty-First Street, New York City.
DIETZEL, OSCAR, manufacturer. Lived at 122 East One Hundred and Fourteenth Street, New York City.
DIETZEL, MRS. MAGGIE B., wife of OSCAR DIETZEL.
DITTMAN, MORTIMER, clothing manufacturer. Lived at 75 West Fifty-Second Street, New York City.
DYCKHOFF, JOHN CONRAD, a wholesale wine and liquor merchant at 47 Front Street, New York City. Lived at the Burlington, 10 West Thirtieth Street, New York City.
DYCKHOFF, MRS. JOHN CONRAD, wife of JOHN CONRAD DYCKHOFF.
FINN, THOMAS, brakeman. Lived at Smithville, L.I.
GRAEVEN, MRS. THEODORE, of 1,696 Broadway, New York City, wife of THEODORE GRAEVEN, an importer at 139 Front Street, New York City.
GRILLET, ALEXANDER, of the firm of Borel & Co., 29 West Twenty-Third Street, New York City.
HYLAND, J.J., an extra waiter at the Manhattan Beach Hotel.
JAKOBSON, AUGUST, tailor, 430 Fourth Avenue, New York City.
NEWMAN, RICHARD, an extra waiter at the Manhattan Beach Hotel. Lived at Third Avenue and Thirty-Seventh Street, New York City.
PHELAN, GEORGE, an actor under the name of Fielding. Lived at 1,536 Madison Avenue, New York City.
STEIN, MAX, bookkeeper, 338 West Fifty-Second Street, New York City.
WEINSTEIN, SIDNEY, aged fourteen years, son of MRS. BERTHA WEINSTEIN.

Of those who are in St. John’s Hospital five are considered to be in danger of dying. These are EUGENE M. WEISS, JAMES B. THOMPSON, THEODORE GRAEVEN, AARON WEINSTEIN, and WILLIAM LYNCH. The condition of Mr. WEINSTEIN was to-day said to be critical. He has not ceased since he was taken to the hospital to stop crying out piteously for his wife and child, both of whom, were ground to death in the collision. Their fate has been kept from him, for fear that knowledge that they were dead would prove fatal.

The breath was not long out of poor Tailor JAKOBSON’S torn and bruised body when the officials of the Long Island Railroad began, with characteristic secrecy, their investigation of the circumstances of the accident.

There were many painful scenes to-day at St. John’s Hospital. Friends and relatives of the wounded called in large numbers.

MRS. ROBERT KIENZLEN of 338 East Ninetieth Street, New-York, called at the hospital this afternoon and inquired for her husband, a salesman for A.G. Spalding & Brothers, New-York. Mr. KEINZLEN had been spending his vacation at Far Rockaway, his wife said, and had written that he would come home last Saturday night by way of Rockaway. Since then Mrs. KIENZLEN had heard nothing of him. She was glad to learn that he was neither among the dead nor the injured.

The funeral of COL. ELISHA A. BUCK, owner and publisher of the Spirit of the Times, who was killed in the accident, will take place Wednesday morning at the residence of 30 West Fifty-First Street, New York City. It and the burial will be private. The Rev. Dr. JOHN HALL, pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, will probably officiate.

The body of AUGUST JAKOBSON, who died at five o’clock this morning at St. John’s Hospital, was taken to the Morgue. The body will be buried to-morrow in the Cemetery of the Evergreens.

The body of Brakeman FINN will be buried Wednesday at Smithville.

The body of OSCAR DIETZEL will buried on Wednesday in the Lutheran Cemetery.

The New York Times, New York, NY 28 Aug 1893