The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-13
CRImEs AND CAsUALTrEs.


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PHILADELPHIA, August 12.-.Last evening
the second section OF an excursion train
which left Atlantic City at O o'clock rar
into the first section, telescoping the real
car, killing one and injuring over forty per
sops. The train was filled with st. Ann''
Catholic excursion from KeDsine ton, PbiIa
delpha. The first section OF sixteen cars left
the city at @ O'Clock, and the second section
of ten cars soon followed. All went well un.
iii the hrst section reached Mays landing,
when the engineer slowed up and started "a
run on the siding to allow the passage oil
the $40 express from Camden. All the
cars bad passed the switch except two,
when the second section came laundering
on behind. Persons on the rear platform
OF the first train jumped to the ground, and
then rushed panic-stricken into the cars.
The locomotive came bounding on and
crashed into the rear car, still standing upon
the bridge. So terrible was the force OF
the collision that The engine fairly pIoughed
furrow half way into the car, The room oil
the latter being lifted over the smokestack
OF the locomotive. The shock broke one cy-
Under Of the engine, and instantly scaIding
water was poured out upon the terror-strick-
en- occupants OF the car. The rain had been
pouring down heavily, and consequently all
steam filling II instantly added TO the ter
rors Of The occasion by cOncealing every
thing beneath an impenetrable cloud. The
scenes that ensued are described as being
simply terrible. From beneath the conceal
ing vapor were heard the agoniZcd sbrieks
OF the women, the pieous walls OF children,
and pain-born yells OF suffering men. The
| panic. stricken thousands in the cars OF the
first train ran pell-mell from them, or
jumped through the windows and rushed
they knew not whittier In their uncoDquer-
able fright, and 1t was some time before
reason prevailed and earnest efforts were
made to rescue the injured and relieve their
sufierings.
AS there were nearly 1000 people from
| Philadelphia on the excursion the excite
ment among those looking for their friends
at the wharf, as the wounded were brought
over from Camden, was intense. Some OF
the women had gone down TO the seaside IN
light summer costumes, which furnished but
slight protection against the stean-ieis, and
the only difficulty Is TO see where they are
not burned. They were carried from the
cars in a mass OF -four and cotton, under
which q human form was scarcely distln-
guishabe. and but for the low means they
seemed dead. AT o'clock this morning ten
Of stretchers proved 10 he inadequate sew
erai OF the victims still remained in the cars.
THE DEAD, DYING, AND OTHER vICTIMs-HAR-
ROWING DETAILS.
MAYS LANDING, n. j., August 12.-This
place Is i'm a state OF intense excitement.
The Union Hotel is turned into a temporary
hospital, and in the parlors are several OF
the dead and diving. In the front room lies
ia TN nj ttrffh hnn nd
body lrighlfully scaldeG, and by her side Is
her husband, also badly scalded. In the
next room is Mrs. Doodle, badly scalded
about the head and face. Near her,
and covered with q cloth. lies the body
Of Katie Welsh, aged eleven years, who
died from her injuries last night, and near
by lies Lille Grace badly burned and suffer-
ing intensely. At the neie hboring cottages
are other victims. At Godfrey Eastlow's,
near The hotel. was found the infant daugh-
ter Mr.. McCrystal, about four months
old. suffering from severe scalds. Another
child OF the same family is at Mrs. Pefi-on's,
close by. This little one, girl eighteen
months old, was in its mothers arms when
the collision occurred, and the father,
snarchng 1t quickly, without waiting
to raise the car window, threw it through
the glass and jumped after it. The baby
was picked up ouly slightly injured, and is
now doing well. AT the house OF Mrs.
Smith, near the scene of the accident, is the
dead body OF Miss Hcnrotty, and two other
persons suffering greatly from scalds. The
dead body OF James Sweeney has been sent
to Philadelphia. Freddie Carr, eleven
wears old, who died soon after the accident,
and Annie Gillespie, who died early to-day,
are ut the residence OF Mr.. Rlfe. The
manged forms OF Owen Walsh aud James
Mullen, tied up in raw cotton, and present
Ing terrible appearance, were also sent 10
philadelphia.
THE NAMES OF THE DEAD,
with their residence. as far as learned, are
as follows: Mary HenrOtiy, Almond and
Somerset streets, Philadelphia; Ann GILES
pie. Newkirk and Huntington streets, Phil
adelphia James Sweeney, 2405 Cedar
street, Philadelphia; Freddie Carr, Tilton
and Emory streets, Philadelphia, and Katie
Welsh.
The injured now here are Mr.. and Mrs.
David McCrystal and their two children,
James Mullen, Mrs. Doodle and Lille
Grace-al OF Philadelphia.
James Bender, who was sitting with Miss
Henroity when she received her fatal iDiu-
ries, is unaccounted for. At farmhouse
near here Miss Mary Waddell, OF Camden,
Is living in a precarous condition. being
scaded so severely that Der life is despaired
Of.
II. B. Judge, president OF st. AIMS Lit
erary Institute. who is here waiting TO al
tend the inquest, makes statement liking
the number OF passengers at 1900. lie
characterizes the scene which followed the
collision as Undesirable; and says: 81
think the railroad company
"GUILTY OF GROSS NEGLIGENCE
in running the sections of trains so close
Together. There were twenty-four cars in
the train-sixteen in the first section and
eight in the other"
The people here have done everything
that could be done fer the wounded. The
scene OF the accident is on straight stretch
of track about two hundred yards from
Mav's- Landing station. Part OF the first
section was on the Great Egg Harbor river
bridge when the crash came. It'll The gene
raj opinion that the engineer OF the COLI
ding locomotive did all he could TO check
his engine, and when 1t struck the engine
had been reversed aud the air-brakes put on
Assistant.Train-M Master Edward Aiken,
engineer OF the second section, says the &C
cident was caused simply by the air-brake:
falling to work. He believes II the brakes
had operated his train would have stopped
in time to have prevented the collision. II
has been suggested that the air.brakes may
have been designedy tempered with, but
this theory has but few supporters.
OTHER VICTIMS DEAD.
Sarah Collins, who was terribly sealded
and also suffered frightful internal injuries
hv In aI;nv no sfeam died at the PpnnSyI