The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-10-17
KILLED By SCORES.
Forty-three Dead and Over 20
injured at Mud Run.
SHOCKING SCENES AT THE WRECK.

SHOCKING SCENES AT THE WRECK.
WIrKenaReE. Pa oct- 41-Asont 10
O'Clock las NIGHT a.saaaer Of the accident o's
The Lsbish VALLEY Railroad reached here
and further report said the wrecked train
| WIS a section oftle .eksufsicn tfair reairu-
ing from Hazleton. Nearly COCO Lazerne
aud Lackawanna people had gone there, and
no one knew Just who had retaraedIhs
+ hlrcad officers were mule They knew
nothing. Gradually the stories took terrible.
form. Il 9eaked qua that Superintendent
Mitchell and Others bad gone down the
road ON a special engine. Then a private
dispatch arriving s1ying that the accident
had occurred At Mud Run, where one sec
lion OF the excursion train ran into another
Forty persons were reported killed. The
enowd at the depot swelled 70 hundreds.
still the Officers were mute. No-dispatcles
could be gotten over the wires. Many we'll
known citizens were seen at the depot
pringing their hands, their faces ieaFlul and
pie with dread. Women thronsed the de-
pot with terrorstricken countenanees. sob
bing, crying. or silent and trembling Sill
The railway officers declared that they knew
nothing
NEws AT LAST.
A New Jersey Central train finally brought
news 10 the effect tina eighty were killed
and the excite5aent grew intense. All the
White Haven physicians had gene to the
- II. o~o.t--.f.b c..rs rr,,s
Wilkesbarre to Hazleton, the Number OF pas
I sengers being $500. The sections were all
crowded to suTocaiion. Throughout the
night The depot vas thronged by hundreds
ofpersons. The throng was loud in lis de-
ngnciaton ofthe company for refusing all
information.
Many persons, after waiting from &c to ,
in the morning. TOOK tie south-bound train,
which passed here at $40, and went TO the
scene OF the disaster It was there learned
that The third section Of the excursion train
had stood on the track a few hundred yards
from Mud Ruu, waiting for sessions ahead
70 get out OF the way. A ilasman, some
say, had been sen back with a lantern 10
guard the train from the rear. Suddenly
the passengers on the rear platform saws a
train approach at a high rate Of speed. Sew
cral ofihcse passengers who saw the danger
jumped and escaped.
AN kwFrL CRASH.
in an instant the flash Of 4 headlight IL
dominated the interior orthe rear car; there
was aerlsh, aud the eng ne plunged her full
length into the crowded mass Of humanity.
The shock drove the rear car through the
next one FOR t~wo-thirds of its length, aud
the second car was forced into the third.
Noi a single person ESCAPED from the rear
car. The second was crowded with MANNED
and bleeding bodies, and the third car had
but few passengers who escaped.
The %uniujured passengers o fboth trains
made their way ont ofthe cars. and on going
10 the telescoped engine and ears the full
horror Of the terrible disaster dawned upon
them. The shattered engine was pouring
forth streams Of scalding steam and water,
which hid from their eyes the fullest meas
ure of the horrible scene, while IT'S Kissing
sound deadened the shreks and groans Of
those imprisoned in the wreck, CHASTITY
white faces peered into the windows 20 Be
greeted by faces far more ghastly. some Of
the dead sat pinioned in their seats, erect as
in life, staring open-eyed, rs if aware of the
horrible surroundings. As the steam and
smoke cleared from the rear car its awful
sights were revealed. The timbers were
crushed and w~renehed, while on all sides
hung mangled bodies and limbs. The few
bodies which were not mangled were burn-
ell and scaided by the steam, and little re-
NAMED in the car which bore human sem
blance.
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