The Springdale news., 1888-10-19

She herOtcally bore her torture, and tax ing out her gold watch she handed it to an acquaintance as a gift to friend at home She was put on board of one of the trains and given all possible care, but she codld not survive her terrible in- iuries. and died in the arms of friends on board the car.
 To free the bodies in the rear car the trainmeu attached locomotive to tho wrecked engine, and started to pull it from the wreck. The first movement of the shattered wreck brought from the wounded such awful cries of distress that the surrounding friends ordered the engineer to deslst on pain of death. They did not wish to see the mangled forms still further mutilated. The few honses about the spot were thrown open to the suffering, and bonfres were lighted to aid the work of relief.
 It is not probable that the work will bo completed before noon. Passengers on the rear train state that they saw Q train ahead when far down the road. They sprang from their seats and stared in wonder and surprise that the train did not slacken it's speed. Suddenly theiren- gineer and fireman were seen to jump, then came the shock. The engineer, Harry Cook, and the fireman, Hugh Gal- lagher, sustained slight injuries The fireman subsequently, stated that he saw the red light. informed the engineer and
 hen jumped The passengers glve many different accounts of the probable cause of the aeeide Tt, some attributing it 10 the negligence of the fiagman ill not going back with the red light, others say the fourth section, which ran into the third, had no air brakes.
 After the news was received at the hos- pital confirming the worst fears, the scenes at the depot were heartrending in- deed. Several hundred persons assem- bled as the report spread that the train was approaching; then rush was made for the platform. A line of policemen and railroad employees was drawn up to keep back the crowd. It was then re- ported that the wounded were on board and were to be taken to Mill Creek, near the hospital, there to be transferred. One desperate man, hearing this, sprang forward, and. with an awful imprecation, declared that his family were on the train, and that any attempt to keep him him from them would cost life. It was learned a little later that no wounded were on board. As the train drew up, it was found to contain many from Pleasant Valley and Minooka, who had left dead friends behind. As they alighted and met acquaintanees, their shrieks and walls were pitiful to hear. One young woman moaned that her father and sister were dead; another a brother, and so it went The crowd be- came wild with excitement. Grad ually the facts narrated above were gleaned from the more com- posed. A sad incident was the pres- ence on the platform of Michael Whalen, of Pleasant Valley Up and down he wandered, questioning each ono as to his two boys, aged resI actively twelve and fourteen years, Finally one of the pas sengers remembered that one of the boys was hurt.
 The informant hurried away and told reporter that he thought both tine boys were dead. The report getting abroad in Scranton, number of persons who had friends on the train, hired a special train on which they came down to this city. They were desrous of going on to the scene of tue wreck, but were refused per- mission by the company They were highly indignant at the treatment re- ceived. A special train of three cats, in charge of Dr. W. Trimmer, of White slIaven arrived at five o'clock this morn- ing from the wreck with twenty four ln- jured persons. They were placed in care of Dr. W. G. Weaver, of this city, who &C., eompanied them to the City Hos pital. Dr. Trimmer reports that many of the in- iured are badly burned by gas coming from the engine stack.
 The burned and mangled remains of sixty persons have already been sorted out from the debris, and many are missing who it IS feared, were burned to death. At the hospital in Wilkesbarre are forty persons brought III by relief trains, eighteen of them seriously injured-ten of them certainly fatally. h the railway station at Mud Run woman lies at the point of death, too weak to be removed. This resume does not include all the fa- talities, for many of the injured were taken home by thier friends. The num- Der Of deaths will probably not fall short of one hundred The following is the list of the dead so far as they have been identifed:
 From Pleasant Valley-Patrick Cur ren, Michael Whalen, William Early, James Jackson, James Jackson (two of that name). Barney Meighan, Polly Meighan, John NJ. Coleman, Michael Coleman, Thomas Buddy, Mamie Atkin- son. William Kelly, Mrs. Patrick Farrel, Benjamin O'Brien, Katie Feathers ton, Lewis Doran, John Walsh, Patrick Wash, John Early, William Keely, Abram Doran, James Brahony, whose mother was also killed; Charles Colitz, o scar Gibbons, Mrs. McAndrews and two sons; John Barrett.
 From Minooka-Annie Curran, Richard Powell and wife, James Canoby, Festus Mulhullen, Thomas Tool.
 From Jessup-John F ogan.
 From Hyde Park-Mamle Halett.
 From Miners Mills-James Flynn.
 From Old Forge-W. Cusy and Katie Clark.
 From Oliphant-Anna Loftus,
 From Scranton-Norah and Katie F.