Show CRUSHED TO DEATH Fourteen People Killed on an Excursion Boat THE DECK WAS BLOWS OFF Of the Starboard Side on to the People on th Port Side A Passengers AcconnS of the Accident i MINEOLA L L Aug 12Tho employees of Theodore Kaiser of Graham avenue Brooklyn went on an excursion to Laurel ton grove Cold Springs harbor today on the steamer Crystal Stream and the barge 4 Republic There wereSOOpersonscrowded together on the upper deck on the barge 1 Suddenly a heavy squall struck tho barge and the upper dock gave away pinioning about fifty persons Fourteen persona were instantly killed and twenty or more wounded The injured were taken to Oyster 4 Oys-ter Bay for treatment Eight women four children and two men were killed Just before leaving Cold Springs harbor dock for thejreturn trip after all the passengers were aboard a squall sprung up The boat hands anticipating antici-pating a shower let down the canvass curtains cur-tains which are attached to the hurricane deck of the barge and fastened them down to the port side This prevented the wind from blowing through and as ono strong guststruck the barge it lifted the star board side off the deck Irma its fastening and supports and forced it over on top of the port side As it pushed over the end of the deck nearest the dock to which the barge was fastened dropped down upon a hundred women and children who had crowded over to thao side of the barge in an effort to escape In a moment time air was rent with screams and the agonizing cries of victims who olives o-lives were being crushed and limbs broken It was in time midst of a terrible storm and the waves ran high Some persons per-sons think the mast of the barge wan struck by lightning but this la not known The officers deck hands and ether men on the steamer which had the barge in low lost no time in reaching the barge and doing all in their power to rescue ither could from the wreck Willing hands from the grove and neighboring places were also soon at work and in fifteen minutes the fallen deck was raised sufficiently to allow all of those who were alive and uninjured to crawl out and the injured to be assisted from time barge It had been hoped none were killed jut the lifeless bodies of fourteen people were soon lying near the gunwale All lad their live crushed out by beingcaugnt between the edge of the fallen deck and the guard tails Women children and oven strong men wept piteously as they looked upon the dead or dying Of the dead bodies those recognized were as follows Lizzie Schamant Mrs Pauline Prinz Hoffman Minnie Goetz Mrs Lipendnger Katie Kautze Robert Schuler Amelia Laadscraf Mary Schaff Minnie Schauliein Annie Volts Amelia Vaguer Emma Well Louis Kurtz The pilot of the barge whoso name could not be ascertained was also killed He was in the pilot house when the wind threw the deck over Ho was tarown over and fell between the deck and boat Among the injured are Charles Held Mrs Henry Isselmam Mrs Herr mann The wounded were carefully earned aboard the steamer which conveyed them to Oyster Bay village a distance of six miles where they were attended by physicians The bodies of the dead were laid on the deck of the barge to await the arrival of the coroner The place where the accident occurred is at the head of Cold Springs harbor and is a favorite cicknlckinp ground The falling and sad results are due entirely en-tirely it is bald to the rotten condition of the supports of the deck Many excursionists excursion-ists carried home with them pieces of the centre posts which show they wore perfectly per-fectly rotten at the core The barge Itself it is said is unsafe in other particulars Mrs Schamant whoso daughter Lizzie was among the killed says she was standing stand-ing at the upper end of the barge She jaw the storm coming ana was trying to get to shelter when a cyclone came and ripped the top of the barge off and a inmate inm-ate later she saw her daughters legs sticking stick-ing out from betweeii the guardrail and the edge of the deck She could hear her screaming but could not help her She does not know what became of her sister who was standing near her and it is feared she was also killed George Peters who was slightly injured said Everybody had gone on board the barge and steamer and they were just preprint pre-print to cast off the hawsers by which the barge was fastened to the dock when a cyclone struck the barge and throw It over to one side They lad rolled down the canvas on one side to protect those on board from the rain which was commencing to fall when a earful gust of wind lifted the roof off and carried it with he pilot house and everything else over against the side nearest the dock A number of people were crushed between he edge of the roof which dropped down when the supports were broken and I think most of those killed had their lives rushed out in that way I assisted a num bar of women and children to got Iron under the collapsed deck I never witnessed wit-nessed such a terrible sight Other accounts of the accident are elm lar to the foregoing When the special rain conveying the survivors home cached Brooklyn a crowd of 2000 gathered at the depot anxiously awaiting news of hose near and dear to them The coroner jury this evening viewed the bodies of the lead and gave a permit for their removal to Brooklyn |