Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-13
TERRIBLE DISASTER
TRAINS LOADED WITH ExCURSTON-
lists RUN INTO EACH OTHER.


WILKEsBARRE, Pa., october To-
Especial train on the Lehigh Valley railroa
iearrying the Wilkesbarre delegation hom
Iirom Hazelton from Father Matthe,
celebration, this evening, was wrecke,
iabove Penn Haven. Tt is reported severa
ears were completely wrecked and som
forty or more persons killed.
PoTTsynLE, Pa, October 1O.-Informa
tion has reached this city, tonight, OF
terrible accident which occurred on th,
Lehigh Valley railroad at Mud Run, th,
first station above Penn Haven.
a grand parade Of Catholic societies tool
place at Hazelton, to-day, and q large ex
|cursion was run from Wilkesbarre for the
occasion, composed OF lodges, bands and
sightseers from Wilkesbarre. Nanticoke and
other points along the line. The excursion
train was run in two sections, and upon
their return trip tonight the rear section
RAN INTO THE FORWARD SECTION
at Mud Run, at about O'Clock. with dis
astrous results. Several cars of the for
ward section were telescoped, and forty
persons were killed outright, and about an
equal number injured, many Of them prob
ably fatally.
The late hour at which the accident oc-
Cured, the remote and isolated locality of
the scene and the reticence of railroad
people combine to render obtainment Of
the details extremely difficult.
WLkEsBARRE, Pa, October 1.-THE
accident on the Lehigh Valley road at Mud
Run, near Penn Haven, is beyond all
question,
THE MOST AWFUL DISASTER
that ever happened in this portion Of the
State. Though no details can be learned,
there is no doubt that the number of killed
will reach nearly eighty, and the injured
nearly double that number. .
The trains were excursion trains return
ing from celebration at Hazelton, and
the annual parade of Catholic temper
ance societies OF the Scranton diocese.
Thousands OF people went down to Hazel
ION from towns in Luzerne and Lacka-
wanna counties. Seven trains with cars
illed to the doors passed through White
Haven this morning, taking the old route
,y the Pennsylvania road. On the return
;he first train left..Hazelton at about 5 p.
n, and the others followed as rapidly as
was deemed safe. The first three Sec
ions came through without accident, the
disaster happening to the fourth and fifth
ections.
For some reason, not explained, the
ourth section was
STANDING ON THE TRACK
lear the little station of White Run, five
niles below White Haven, when the fifth
ection shot around the curve, close be- |
lind, and crashed into it. The cars were
mashed and broken and hurled off the
rack.
The road lies close by the side of the |
4ehigh River, steep embankment sixty
BET high running down to the water. Several
4 the cars rolled down this and others were
rushed against the sharp rocks on the |
ther side. Up to this writing (12:5O a.m.)
10 direct communication has been estab- |
shed with the scene of the disaster and
abroad officials here, il they know any
hing, aDsoIuteIy refuse TO give any lnIor-
nation.
At / O'Clock, this morning, reports about
he accident.are.stili very conflicting. 1t is
,nown, however, from dispatches received
Vt the depot, that the accident is quite as
,ad as at first reported, and that at least
THIRTY OR MORE ARE KILLED.
One train has been started from the
wreck and it is expected to arrive here at
bout O'Clock this morning.
Most of the injured are from Scranton
md Lackawanna counties.
Arrangements. have been made to admit
he injured to the Wilkesbarre Hospital.
The first section OF the train is carrying the
wounded.
NAMES OF SOME OF THE INJURED.
WLKEsBARRE, October IL, a. m.-The
rain reached here at o'clock, but it is
impossible to learn how many were killed.
Among those reported dead are as the
ollowing: F. Mulhern, J. Conaby, R.
Powell and wife and boy named Ratch-
ord, all of Minooka, near Scranton. Mary
ellen Girteve, VIM. Noon, Annie Hart,
Mary Cannon and Kate Kennedy of Hyde