Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-10-13
THE MUD RUN HORROR
Sixty-lwO People We're Killed or
Have Since Died.
STORIES OF EYE WITNESSES
Awful Tales of sufering-A Priest Who
Considers the Accident Due to Care
Iessness-The Wreck Made 15
widows and % Orphans.

WuKEsBARRE, Pa, Oct l3--All the in
jured aud dead by the Mud Run accident,
with the exception of one Of the former, have
been removed from the scene of the wreck.
Miss Cannon, Of Hyde Park, had her back
broken and she cannot be removed.
Peter Kline and Terry Sullivan died Friday
morning. This makes sixty-two victims.
The surgeons at the Wilkesbarre hospital
say that at least half a d ozen Of their patients
will die
The town Of Pleasant Valley where twenty
one Of the dead made their homes, presents
mournful appearance On one square in
Chestnut street nine of the dead find rest
ing place. The houses are close together, and
on the front door of each is black Grape The
dead will be buried from the Catholic church.
The disaster makes fifteen widows and
thirty-four orphans.
II is estimated that the accident will cost
the Lehigh Valley Railroad company half a
million dollars To settle with the relatives of
the dead and injured
SCRANTON, Pa, Oct. ~. - Walter Nc
Nichols of the Scranton postofFice gives the
following thrilling account of his experience
i'm the Lehigh Valley disaster on Thursday
night:
II was on the train following the one that
was run into, sitting in car about the mid
die of the train. The first knew of the ac-
cident was the sudden and tremendous Earring
Of the train 1t was then about 7:45 o'clock.
Two engines were pulling the train on
which / was AS soon as the crash oc-
CURED, the people who filled the hind
train at once rushed for the doors.
The jam was fearful The people
went out of the windows pellmell, and the
first / saw was the forward engine of our
train jammed right into the hind coach of the
forward train. The cars had taken fire from
the broken lamps, but the flames were quickly
extinguished by the use of buckets.
t'The scenes were fearful Bodies were
wedged in between the seats and among the
broken timbers. One man was held down by
the dome of the engine of our train which
had crashed upon him. Another had tried to
escape 10y the windows of the car, but was
caught in the crash and the life squeezed out
of him. He was pinned between the tim
bers. Others were moaning and crying most
piteously.
Steam from the engines scalded severely
all those who were held down by the broken
seals and timbers do not think there was
ono in the last car of the front train who
escaped alive My sister, Katie, Maggie Cam
non and my father were among those in the
first train, and of course my thoughts at
once went toward my own relatives. But in
the excitement it was impossible for me TO
trace them until nearly an hour had elapsed.
Then | found my father, who was
injured about the legs by being caught be-
tween the seats aud my sister, who hadssuf-
fered from scalds about the face and hands
from the escaping steam Miss Cannon was
badly injured, mainly from scaldS, and it
was not thought at the time that she would
recover Joe Cannon was also i'm the seat
with his sister and my sister, but he got off
with very slight scratch.
ION every hand willing persons were at
work, rescuing the injured, cutting away the
cars and taking the people away to be cared
for. The scene was too terrible to witness,
and thrill of horror passes through me to
endeavor to detail it,
The Rev. Father j. Y. Moylan, rector of
St Peters cathedral, who reached the scene
of the accident shortly after the collision,
makes the following statement:
81 saw one little cadet who had met his
fate in this way, with his hands clasped to-
gether as If in prayer, aud clutched close to
his temperance badge Several had their
limbs chopped off in the effort to extricate
them, and in the breaking of cars with axes
some persons were struck on the head and
killed. The number of bodies placed on the
special train TO come up the valley was fifty
seven. One body was found across the river
after the train started and four others died
in the hospitals, making the total number of
deaths at present sixty-two.
II consider the accident criminal piece of
leckleSsness,n added Father Moylan, land
the conduct of the company's officials after
ward cruel and reprehensible.