New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-12
MUD RUNS CHASTITY HORROR.
EXTRICATING THE DEAD AND RESCUING
THE WOUNDED.

HEARTRENDING SIGHTS ON THE FIELD OF
DIsAsTER-ALIENATING THE SUFFERINGS
OF THE vICTIMS-ENGINEER COOK
CHARGED WITH THE CALAMITY.
lBr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBuNE.l
White Haven, PENN Oct l1.-Before noon
to-day the wrecking train had removed the last
spnters Of the ruins of last nights disaster, and
there is nothing to show that there had been a
fearful wreck From Drs. A. G. Snyder, Samuel
W. Trimmer, William Brader NJ S Marstellar and
John Nj. Taylor and others who went from here
to aid the wounded Immediately after the acci-
dent the following details have been gained
The engine that was drawing the wrecked train
was dispatched soon as possible aftcr the crash
to bring aid from this point Mud Run is about
five miles below and the relief party arrived there
at 0:20, nearly an hour and half after the
collision They took with them bandages, lint
and such medicines as were thought necessary.
Before their arrival the scene, as described by an
eyewitness, appalling beyond description.
No cool ORGANIZED effort could be made to extri-
cate the wounded or to soothe the dying. Train
men and passengers alike rushed hither and
thither in frantic excitement, and the dismal calls
of the suffering and terrified passengers wero
mingled with the Kissing steam from the disabled
engine and the shrll whistle that blew con-
tnuous and mournful blast as long as any steam
remained.
The deadly work that had been done presented
O terrible spectacle when the relief party reached
the spot. The rear car Of the haltins
train had been driven through the preceding one
so that they seemed but one car, and the front
engine of the two locomotives which drew the on
coming train had ploughed its way twelve or ff-
teen feet into the wreck.
Huge bonfres had been lighted near the wreck,
and the victims were seen crushed in a compact
mass in front of and above the engine. Some
were sitting in life-lIe attitudes, with eyes open
and staring Others looked terrified and with
hands extended and eyes bulging from their
sockets and tongues protruding seemed to have
caught the horror of the impending doom.
1t was some time before anything could be done
to restore order. As soon as an attempt was made
to haul the engine cut of the wreck, several half
crazed men armed themselves with cOupiing-pns
and links and swore that they would brain the
first man who attempted to move any portion of
the wreck They were finally persuaded to let
tie WORK go on and arrangements were made at
| once to send the passengers who remained unhurt
to their destination, IL was practically out OF
tie question tC do anything with them on the
ground. They were finally started for the north
ut 4. m, and by o'clock ffty-scvcn bodies were
taken from the wreck
Before the passengers started, however, they
had taken in charge many of their friends who
were injured, to prevent their being taken to
hospitals and many of these were too seriously
hurt the doctors say. to endure the journey IN
the ordinary way. Many of them will no doubt
die and there are reports that several have al
ready succumbed
DEADLY WORK OF GAS AND STEAM.
| The killed and those most seriously hurt were
in the two cars which telescoped." In crashing
through the cars the smolIe-stack and dome OF
| the huge locomotives were carried away, giving
vent to great volume of gas and steam, by which
most of the victims are believed to have pcrished
| Many pitiful episodes were witnessed. woman,
who with her two small boys had seat in the
rear car of the ill-fated train. was standing ON
the platform when the other train approached
and jumped off to escape Then suddenly re-
membering in her terror that her children were
, in the car she hurried on board. and they all
pcrshed together. A young woman, who was
wedged in between several dead bodies some of
which had to be dismcmbered before
she could be got out. seemed perfectly cool
when she was eXtricated and told The doctors 10
see to the others she was ell right She looked
on patiently for time, but she soon began to sink
and died about two hours later.
MINIsTERING TO THE WOUNDED.
The doctors turned the forward cars OF the
wrecked sections into hospitals and while they err
ministering to the wounded ambulance cars wert
ordered from WlScsbarre and Mauch Chunk
| One company was taken to the former point by
Doctor Trimmer and party to St LulSe's Hospta
at Bethlehem. 1t was impossible to tell how many
were hurt The doctors and their assistants worked
all night, and by the early dawn this morning the
| railroad company had wreckers clearing away the
! ruins Only one truck had left the track so that
motive was taken to the Wilkesbarrc shops and
| the wrecked cars shunted upon an old side-tsack
| where they are concealed by heavy foliage.
| This morning the railroad company made ar
| rangements to have the dead prepared for burial
and placed in cOfns here. large order for coffin,
was sent TO lIazeton, the town at which tac
passengers held their festivities, but be
| fore the order could be filed number
| of priests had arrived here and forbade the com
pany to carry out it's plan. They preferred that
| The bodies should be sent TO their homes just
| as they were so that the people might realize
| something of the real horror Of the calamity
| The bodies were then hurried away. and there
are scores OF home III mourning Tonight in thJ
| towns and villages from which men and women
boys and girls, had come so recently Tor merry
holiday.
The railroad men at every point refuse to talk
about the accident even now. But they are all
greatly saddened by u, and say they cannot
recover from the shock.
THE BLAME FALLS NOW ON ENGINEER COOK.
Cook, the engineer OF the section that caused
the wreck, is generally believed TO be in fault
II is firmly believed that he was either asleep
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