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Two Women Killed By Train

• Title	Two Women Killed By Train
  Date	30 Jul 1900
  Date Viewed	27 Aug 2025
  Locality	Newspapers.com
  Page	7
  Periodical	Brooklyn Daily Times
  Place	Brooklyn, Kings, NY USA
  Source Type	Newspaper
  URL	https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-times-elizabeth-coles/164582396/
  Source ID	S1695
  Text	TWO WOMEN KILLED BY TRAIN Fatal Accident This Morning at Yaphank. VICTIMS FROM WADING RIVER. MRS. VALENTINE AND MRS. TINNEY DIED INSTANTLY. Their Carriage Struck by the Greenport Westbound Express - Remains Taken to the Almshouse. YAPHANK, July 30.-The Greenport express train, leaving there at 8:08 this morning, struck and killed two women at the highway crossing near the railroad station here. The women were Elizabeth Valentine, aged about sixty-five, and her daughter, Mrs. Jean Tinney, aged about forty, both of Wading River. The two women were driving from their home to the south side of the Island, Brookhaven being their destination. They probably did not notice the approach of the train, though it could have been seen a long distance away, the track being straight. The train was proceeding at full speed when the brakes were suddenly appiled and the train came to a standstill as soon as possible. The locomotive struck the horse and knocked it along the track about 100 feet, of course killing it. The carriage, a pretty red runabout, was smashed to splinters. The two women were the only occupants of the carriage. One was thrown a distance of fifty feet and the other about twenty-five feet. Both were dead when the trainmen reached them, havIng. in all probability, been killed instantly. The skull of one woman was crushed and the other one's spine seems to have been severed. Both bodies were badly bruised. The remains were conveyed to the Suffolk County Almshouse nearby, and Coroner Moore, Bay Shore, was notified. The remains were left at Almshouse, pending his arrival later in the day, and disposition of the remains. The train proceeded to Long Island City.
  Linked to Individuals: 3	COLES, Elizabeth PHINNEY, Nelson Clark VALENTINE, Jean Falconer
  Linked to Families: 1	Family: PHINNEY, Nelson Clark / VALENTINE, Jean Falconer

  
  

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