The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-16

! informant hurried away and told a reporter
that he thought both boys were dead
Inc report getting abroad in Scranton .
number OF persons who had friends on the
| Tram hired a special train on which they come
] down to this city They were desiros Of oo-
ing on to the scene of the wreck, bat were re-
fused permission by the company. They were
highly indignant at the treatment received A
! special train of three cars in charge of DR.. w.
| Trimmer, of White Haven, arrived here at Is
| O'Clock TINS morning from the wreck with
| twenty-four injured persons. They were
| placed IN care OF DIR. w G.. Weaver, of this
city, who accompanied them to the city hos
| piial' Ut. 1rlmmer reports that many of the
injured are badly burned by gas coming from
engine stack
The killed as far as learned number forty.
nine, and the injured twenty-five.
Nine additional names are given out Of
bodies from last nights wreck which have
been identified. Two of the injured brought
here died today in the hospital and five or six
more are likely to die. The list OF identified
dead now toots up sixty-one. The number in
1ured is surprisingly small i'll proportion to the
total casualties, many more people being re-
ported killed than injured There still
main number of unidentified bodies.
The Dead Ride.
At $50 this evening, the funeral train ar
rived in Wilkesbarre, bearing fifty seven dead
podies they had been partially prepared foK
burial and lay upon boards placed upon the
backs OF the seats in three passenger coaches.
1t was an awful sight, indeed, to look through
the long coaches at the dead bodies each COW
| cred with white cloth Here tho form Of n
| boy OF twelve, and beside it the stalwart man.
| AS the train drew up to Wilkesbarre depot is
| took dozen policemen to keep back the frantic
| crowd OF friends and relatives who had come
| from Scranton and Pleasant Valley to meet
Their dead. A special coach had been provided
fer th6sed friends, bttt TREY iris1et4l terng
the cars containing the dead, and were stopped
by the force and efforts of five priests who
were on the train. One body was removed
from the cars at Wilkesbare. The train then
continued on its way up the Delaware and
Hudson road to Miners Mills and Scranton.
The people in the special coach again
began to clamor for permission to enter the
funeral cars, but were again refused, 10
being alleged that one had keys Several,
who were IN search of missing friends, became
desperate, and soon broke down the car doors
and began frantic search for their loved ones.
| Tho cloths were torn from the manged and
scaldcd bodies, and revealed the gay uniforms
OF Ut. Aloysius men, cadets and othermembers
OF the societies. Those who knew their rela-
tiyes We're on board also locked into the cars,
and began roarranging the attire or coverings
oil the corpses Many were distorted and In
horrible attitudes and friends endeayored to
lessen their frightlu appearance.
FRIGHTFUL SCENE.
AT Miners Mills the train stopped to leave
one body. No lights could be obtained, and
much of tho work was done in the partial
darkness. 1T was, rs the train drew up at
Pleasant Valley, that the most heartgendng
scenes were enacted. Ropes had been stretch
cd about the depot and guards kept the inn
mense throng back Tho shrieks and screams
of the stricken friends and relatives were pitt
full in the extreme. Tho first body carried ous
was that Of q thirteen year old boy, bogne in
The arms OF his stawart brother. Then, one
after another, forty-siX white-sheeted bodies
were carried out and given into charge Of
friends. The shrioks and cries of the women,
and the hoarse shouts and imprecations OF the
men made terrible scene. When all were
out the train again pulled out, with the re-
naming dead, to Scranton and Blinolta and
points beyond.
There are ten bodies still unidentified tis
impossible to tell tho number Of the wounded.
Twenty-Five wero brought here to the hospital.
and numbers Of others slightly injured have
gone to their homes, or are being cared for
elsewhere.
THE STORY OF THE DISASTER
on the Lehigl Valley, st Mud Rud, as told
by an official, is rs follows:
Eighty seven car loads OF people attended
tho parade at IIazelton from Wisesbarre.
Scranton, Carbondalc, and other places There
wero eight sections Of tho train, and these fol-
lowed passenger train No. II, with orders to
run ten minutes apart. These orders were
also delivered to the telegraph operators at all
the signal stations. The seventh section came
TO Mud Run ahead OF timo and was stopped
till ten minutes expired. The danger signal
was displayed at the stations, and the rear
lection. Section No laid short distance be-
yond tho station No came laundering
along and the brakemen gave the engineer the
signal to stop. He failed TO heed it and dashed
by the signal. Tho train plunged on, disre-
garded the signal at the station and tho awful
disaster followed. Tho last train was filed
with people from Cnrbondale. Three cars
were telescoped. The distance from the
end OF the wrecked section OF the
train to tho spot where the brakeman
stood giving tho signal to the section following
was measured this morning. and found to be
one thousand feet. As tho train was ascend
ing grade, it could have been stopped in less
than that distance. According to myestiga-
tion thus far made, tho company's rules and
orders were complied with by the telegraph
operator and the crow OF the wrecked section.
The loss 10 the Lehigh Valley railroad COM
pany will DO over one million dollars"
Another Smasb-Up.
CANTON Ohio, October IA north bound
passenger train on the Cleveland, Canton and
Wheeling road came into collision with
freight train near Massillon, Ohio, about
o'clock this morning Both engines two
passenger coaches and several freight cars were
completely wrecked. One freight and ono
passenger Brakeman were fatally ured and
two passengers were seriously hurt one prob
ably fatally. srhe accident was caused by o