Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-10-12
DEATH IN A WRECK.
Two Sections of an Excursion
Train Collide at Mud Run, Pa.
FIFTY-FIVE WERE KILLED.
Not an Inmate of the Rear
Car Escaped Alive.
SCORES TERRIBLY MANGLED.
lndescribably CHASTITY Scenes Described
by 0nloOkers.
SCORES TERRIBLY MANGLED.

UJ OH1OOhcISs
The Catastrophe Occurred Early in the
Morning ON the Lehigh Valley Railroad.
The Train Was Crowded 20 the Doors
with People Who Had Attended the
Father Mathew Temperance Celebration
at Hazleton-Three Cars Were Tele-
scoped-The Number of Injured Is Es-
Train Supposed to BE Loaded with
Victims of the Disaster Greeted by a
barre Depot-A Report That Twenty
Boys Were Killed is Unconfirmed.
WILKEsBARRE, Oct 12-The Father
Mathew celebration at Hazleton ended in
q most frightful disaster, the like Of which
has never been seen in the Lehigh valley, or,
indeed, in this country. The wreck occurred
at Mud Run, about midway between White
Haven and Penn Haven Junction. The first
section of train while standing still was run
into by the second section. The last three
cars, filed to over1owing, We're totally
car were killed.
The last two cars telescoped and the pas
sengers We're either crushed to death or
pressed against the boiler and burned to
death. The scene was heartrending
1t was nearly six hours before the first sec.
tion was able TO reach WiIkesbarre, the
wounded being conveyed in ambulances from
Mill Creek to the city hospital
Passengers on the several sections of the
train tell tales too horrible for belief under
any other circumstances They relate that
the third section of the excursion train stood
on the track few hundred yards from Mud
Run waiting for sections ahead to get out of
the way
A brakeman, they say, had been sent back
with a lantern to guard the train in the rear
Suddenly they saw a train approach from
the rear at high rate of speed Several who
were on the rear platform jumped off and
escaped. One young woman sprang of, but
seeing two little boys who were in her charge
yet on the platform, she climbed back to
rescue them aud lost her life by her daring.
In an instant the flash of headlight illu-
minated the interior of the i'll fated rear car.
There was fIightful crash and the engine
plunged her full length into the crowded mass
of humanity. The shock drove the rear car
tAAOu6n AHC tiic LOI TWO ydTuS OIL us
own length AID the second into the third.
1t is not haeiy that single person escaped
from the rear car. The second was crowded
with MANNED and bleeding bodies and the
third car hal but few passengers who es-
capped.
The passengers throughout both trains
were terribly shaken and bruised They
swarmed upon the track and the full horror
of the accident dawned upon them They
thronged from the two trains to the tele-
scoped engine and car, and the most fearful
sight of their lives was before them.
The shattered enging was pouring forth
streams of scalding steam and water, which
kindly hid from their eyes the fullest measure
of the horrible scene, while its kissing dead
ened the shrieks and groans of those involved
in the ruin CHASTITY white faces peered into
the windows to be greeted by faces more
CHASTITY.
Those already dead, hemmed in by the
broken timbers, sat, some erect as In life,
staring open eyed as if aware of the horrible
surroundings Here youth stone dead held
in his arms his little brother, whose feet were
pinioned A father, crushed and mangled,
lay at full length, and upon his prostrate
form was the body of his son, as badly i'm
jured.
AS the steam and smoke cleared from the
rear car its awful sights were revealed. The
timbers were crushed and wrenched into all
shapes, while on every part hung mangled
bodies and limbs-a slaughter pen bloodier
than the butchers shambIes The few un-
mangled bodies were burned and scalded by
the steam, and little remained in the car
which bore human semblance
When the shock of the first crash had sub
done for the unfortunates. The few light
tools on the train were called into requisition,
but proved feeble instruments indeed The
st. Francis Pioneer corps, who were ON the
train, piled with zeal the broadaxes which
were meant for holiday occasions. They
were but little adapted to the work and were
soon useless. In the meantime the Window
Of the cars were smashed in, brave men en-
tered and released those least hurt or least
entangled.
In one car they found John Lynch, brother
in-lnw Of Policeman Guinney, hanging from
the roof by one leg His cries brought friends.
who to relieve him stood upon the wreckage
and held his weight upon their backs for two
long hours. Finally axes effected his release,
his leg being fractured
A young lady was found caught by the
legs, one nearly severed. One leg was quickly
released The other couldn't be freed aAd
blow of an ak severed it from her body iShe
saw the blow struck and never flincaed TAX
ing out her gold watch, she handed it to an
acquaintance as gift TO friend at home.
She was put ON board one Of the trains and
given all possible care. She c0nversed freely
and cheerfnlly with friends; suddenly she
gasped and fell back corpse
To free the bodies in the rear car the train