Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-19
nANGLED HUMANITY.


a Locomotive Dashes into Philadelphia
Street Car Filled with Passengers, Kill.
ing Four People and wounding Several
PHIIADELPHIA, Oct GA frightful ac-
cident occurred yesterday morning at the
corner of SaSquehanna avenue and Ameri.
can street At this point the tracks of the
Union Horse Railway cross those of the
North Pennsylvania branch of the Peflnsyl
vania Il Reading RailroSa The incoming
passenger train ran into crowded street
car Yesterday, completely demolishing it,
killing four persons and seriously injuring
ten others.
There was no conductor on the car, and
the drivers duty required him to guide his
team, see that fares are deposited in the
box, and ut the same time watch for trains
at the railroad crossing. The railroad COM
pany had no safety gate at the crossing,
although they had been directed by
the City Council year ago to
erect one at that place. The driver
had stopped the car while the
north-bound train passed, but had not no
ticed the approach of the train on the other
track. He started his horses, and before
the passengers had a moments notice the
south-bound train, running at the rate of
twenty-five miles an hour, struck the car
on the side, tearing it to splin
tiers, and hurled the passengers,
bruised and bleeding, into pro-
miscuous heap. Ambulances from the Epis-
copal Hospital arrived quickly, and most
of the sufferers were removed to that insti-
tuition. while others were taken into neigh-
| boring houses, and a few of heinjured were
taken to their homes. 1t is said by a man
who watched the accident that boy was
acting as driver while the regular drivers was
Inside the car - M
The names OF the dead are as follows:
! John McKeown, gardener leaves wife and
| seven children. James Hammil, coal deal
! er, had leg cut off and died in twenty min
! utes after entering the hospital '+'''- -- ,'
! The names of the wounded are: Henry
| Schultz, foot torn off at ankle, and had to
! be amputated. Jacob Iseminger, SCALP
wound, not serious. Adam Kramer, scalr
wound and injuries to shoulder, back and
| leg, not serious. Chafles Young, dam
| gcrous wounds, leg broken, ankle
! smashed, and amputation peceS.
! sary. Henry PoStol, scalp wound, injury of
leg, not serious. Mary Sellers, severe in
! jury of scalp, fracture of skull, one leg torn
| off, both arms fractured; will probably die.
| James McIlenry, slight scalp wound; Miss
| Annie Shaw, injured internally and scalp
wound; George Fredericks, not serious.
Frederick II. Young, not serious.
Charles Young and Mary Sellers men
toned above as wounded, have since died Of
their injuries Such complete wreck was
| never seen. The car was smashed to splint-
ers. The iron wheels were broke into bits
and the thirteen passengers We're thrown o
distance of twenty feet. The iron dash
/ board alone remained whole. 1t was q
! sickening sight. The ground was covered
! with debris and dyed with blood and the
| cries of the wounded rent the air. Not a
! passenger escaped unhurt.
Three more are expected to die from
/ their injuries. The eight remaining victims
I OF the catastrophe are badly hurt and viii
| he crippled for life. Two men on the back
platform of the car jumped off a moment
| before the collision and escaped minjured.
| Andrew b. Little, who saw the accident
! says the crash was like "a whirlwind, and
|. a cloud of dust arose and covered
everything. 81 heard some heartrendins
! cries, he says, "and saw 4 number of bod.
| les of the passengers in the horse-car lying
| around in different directions in the street.
! and fragments of The car were spatterec
with the blood of the Injured passengers.
As soon as could collect myself l jumped
in aud helped to lift up and carry away the
/ bodies that lay wounded on the ground, and
/ the scene presented was heartrending. ]
/ saw one man with his leg completely
| Off, and l helped to place the leg
over his body. l think he died going to the
| hospital. The driver of the car was pckcc
up in the middle of the street directly after
The accident, and he was heard to cry: Fol-
Gods sake pick me up OF the man who
was picked up first l heard the dcath-rattlt
in his throat, and the woman presented
horrible appearance" There are no gate:
at the crossing, and the flagman said he
halloed TO the boy who was driving the car.
but he would not mind.