Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-20
WRECK AFTER WRECK.
Continued from First Page.

der broken; Frank B. Hall, manager of
Frank Mayo's Dramatic Company,
cut about head and body, bruised
about arms and legs; John Car
roll, St. Clair, back hurt and internally
injured; Joseph Asfeld, Mahanoy City,
bruised about body and legs; William
Glassmayer, Port Clinton, badly cut about
the breast; Thomas Cooney, Philadelphia,
head and legs injured; Robert Cation,
Pottstown, injured internally; Samuel
Sholenberger, Hamburg, legs injured; B.
w. Cirbler, Girardville, foot and leg
mashed; John Cook, Mount Carmel, hurt
internally and hand mashed; n. j. john
ston, Shenandoah, head badly cut
and leg broken; George Sanders,
Reading, badly hurt about back
and neck; Benjamin Franklin Beecher,
Shenandoah, lett hip badly cut and leg
hurt; James Bernhart, Shenandoah, left
hip crushed and legs hurt; John Hess,
Mahanoy City, legs badly hurt; David G;
Young, Mahanoy City, head badly cut and
legs spraIned; Lyman Dick, Hamburg, both
legs broken; DR.. B. f. Salade, New Ring
gold, right arm badly hurt; Jacob Ulmer,
Pottsville, both legs broken; Samuel
Coome, Mahanoy City, badly hurt about
body, and leg broken; William Sumers,
Ashland, badly hurt.
TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL.
The special train which was sent from
Reading to Shoemakersville with corps of
physicians arrived here at 10 o'clock to-
night with the injured and killed who re-
sided here and south of Reading and they
were,t taken to the Reading Hospital in ambul-
ances. When word reached here of the
time of arrival of the train with the injured
hundreds rushed to the place within few
squares of the hospital. Though a special
stopping place was designated it was not
very long before it became generally known
and it was with the greatest difficulty that
the I'M ured were removed from the train.
Willing hands were ready, however, to
lend every assistance, and IN short time
the two dozen coupes and ambulances had
safely delivered their mangled freight in the
wards of the hospital. Anxious friends
focked to the hospital to learn if any Of
their number had been injured, but it was
impossible under the excitement to admit
anyone, and the exact result OF their In
juries will not be known even to the fam
lilies of the injured before tomorrow.
At 10 o'clock telephone message from
the wreck gives very indefinite particulars
as to the real number killed and injured, and
all that can be ascertained is from the Coro-
ner and the one newspaper representative
on the grounds.
OFFICIALS RETICENT.
The railroad officials refuse to give any
information whatever beyond the fact that
there was bad wreck. 1t is believed that
arrangements will be made with the Penn
sylvania Company to carry the passengers
OF the unfortunate company in the morning
from points below and above the wreck, as
the wreckers will be unable to clear the
tracks before tomorrow noon. About 400
men are at work rescuing the injured and
dead, and just at this writing word comes
from the scene that there are still some 30
or 60 people under the wrecked cars.
1t is simply appalling, every hour swells
the list OF injured and killed. 1t has just
been discovered that Italians were caught
robbing the dead, and County Detective
Wunch at once placed the vandals under ar
rest and locked them up in a horse car.
They will be brought here in the morning
and lodged in Jail.
1t is reported that George Kaercher, the
counsel for the Reading Railroad Company,
of Pottsville, is under the wrecked parlor
car and it is believed he is dead. The voices
heard earlier in the wreck seem to
grow less and less in number as the
time passes on and no doubt the death list
will swell to 80 by morning. Thirty-fve
injured have thus far been removed. The
special train sent. down from Pottsville
took many injured to the Miners Hospital
at that place. Mail Agent Greenawald has
just been taken from the wreck horribly
crushed. Two iremen, who were returning
home from Philadelphia and supposed to
belong to Mahanoy City, have also been
taken out and placed aside.