The Portland daily press., 1884-06-16
CRASH ON THE RAIL.
Terrible Result of an Operators
Blunder.
A Sunday School Excursion Train
TelescOped.
EIGHT PERSONS KILLED AND
EEGHTEEN BADLY HURT.

PHILADELPHIA, June 14-About $40 this morn
ing collision occurred on the Camden & Atlantic
Railroad, between the O'Clock accommodation
train from Atlantic City and a special excursion
train from Camden for Lakeside Park short dis
lance east of Ashland Station. Both locomotives
were entirely demolished, together with the tender
The accommodation train was composed of a loco
motive and seven cars, while the Lakeside Park
train &C insisted of locomotive and two cars. The
latter were filled with women and children and
formed excursion given under the auspi ,es of the
Sunday school connected with the Second Presby-
terrain church Of Camden This train left the latter
place at $50 o'clock this morning. Just previous
to the departure despatch was forwarded BY Supt.
Barnard TO the opera or at Ashland station. with
orders directing the accommodation train to lay off
on siding at that point until after the special ex
cursion passed. 1t is not known whether or not the
order was received as sent, or whether the condue
TOR and engineer OF the accommodation disregarded
the order and kept on with their train 1t Is known
however that the trains together with terrific
force IN curve almost a mile west Of the Ashland
station.
SECOND DESPATCH.
PHILADELPHIA June lathe following is a cor
rect list of the killed ard wounded:
I'll KILLED.
4 Wesley Palmer, engineer, aged 81.
George Baxtsrsengineer Of the Lakeside train.
eaged 35.
Albert Smith. conductor aged 30.
Winfield Scott Hilles, mail agent, aged 30.
NICHOLAS Barber. fireman.
Gustayus Edwards a young man residing at Marl-
tom
Frank Jenton, supervisor of the road. aged 4S.
INJURED.
Henry Dietz, special officer residing in Camden,
scalded and hip broken.
Leonard Beusch Lakeside Park, back hurt and
badly scaided about the face and body.
Frank Mccormick, Camden, an excursionist, leg
broken and scaled about the body.
Willie Caskey, aged 10, internally injured; feared
fatally.
John Rossepbaum, express agent, badly injured
Albert Glen, conductor, shocked and internally
injured. His leg was broken and spine injured.
Cora May 1ippincott, aged -, and her brother,
Eugene, aged l6, of Camden, legs slightly hurt.
Louis Mclean. fireman of the excursion train, in
jured about the head
John Corskey, an excursionist aged IL, and John
Lager OF Berlin, internally injured.
Harry G. Chen, Atco, hurt about the body.
Chas. II. Hand. Atco, slightly injured.
:. G; Warner, Atlantic City, scalp wound.
Joseph Moore, news agent, face badly cut
j. H. Soay, Kirkwood, cut about the body.
1t is stated that the accommodation train should
have taken siding at Ashland, just above Lakeside
Park in order to allow the excursion train to go BY
and the operator at Ashland it is charged respon
sble for the disaster in permitting the accommoda-
ton to pass without going into the siding 1t is also
said that the operator was new man.
The injured were placed under immediate medi
cal attendance, and such as could be removed to
Camden were taken down at noon.
One of the passenger says hat after the collision
occurred we all scrambled out of the car some es-
Gaping by the windows. Both locomotives were
completely demolished and the escaping steam
mace 1t impossible for some time for anyone to ap
proach within so feet of the wreck. Great excite
ment existed among the women and children on the
excursion train. The sight presented after the ac-
cident occurred was a terrible one. Train hands
and passengers were running to and fro so much ex
cited that they unable to render anv assistance
to the injured and dying. When the news reached
Camden special train was hurriedly made up, and
about dozen Camden physicians were summoned
and the train departed for Ashland. A wrecking
train was also sent to Ashland to clear the track
The point where the collision occ Irred is consd-
cred one of the worst on the line of the road The
place is about miles from Haddonfeld and / mile
from Ashland, with heavy down grade curve in
both directions, and in the middle of the is
wooden bridge over Cooper's Creek. There is only
single track on the curve with light embank-
ment on either side. The accommodation train was
running at the rate of ~ miles an hour whea it
entered the curve, and after the two trains came
together the utmost confusion ensued among the
passengers.
THIRD DISPATCH.
Willie Caskey died this evening" making the
eighth victim. Samuel Archer, one of the wreck
ers, was badly hurt this evening while pulling the
engines apart. One of the ropes broke and a piece
of iron which pulled out of place struck Archer
on the head, fracturing his skull.