Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-09-21
THE READING WRECK.
A Frightful Scene as Yesterdays Daylight
Dawncd-The Killed.
rBy telegraph to the Dlspatch.l

fBy telegraph 70 tho Dlspatch.I
READING, Pa. September 20.-The horror
of last nights wreck on the Reading rail-
road seemed even worse when daylight
dawned, the scene being simply frlghtiul:
Up to 10 o'clock twenty bodies of the dead
had been taken from the wreck. The IN
iured will number fifty. The body OF
George r. Kaercher. general counsel of the
Reading road. was taken out badly DIS
figured. He was drowned IN 1--WE feet ~
water in Pullman-car. de was regarded
as very able lawyer.
REVISED LIST OF THE DEAD.
Tho following Is a revised list Of the
dead thus far taken from the wreck: John
i. Miller, Cresson; George Greenwale,
mail agent, Pottsville; John White, engi-
neer, Pottsyille: James Iemplen, fireman.
Pottsville: William ID. Shomo, Reading;
Harry Jacoby, stone-cutter, Pottstown;
Joseph Becker. Chief Burgess, AlahanOy
CITY: Solomon Hoover, aged sixty, Potts
Vile Mrs. Edward j. Fox, aged forty-one.
Pottsyille; Edward j. Fox, aged forty-one,
Pottsville; George Il, kaercher, aged forty
five. Pottsville: Harry Loughan. conduc-
tor of the express; John Osoourn, ihila-
delphia. Pa. Mrs. J. j.. Fredericks, Potts
Vile; J. T.. Fredericks, husband of the
above: Joseph Bausman, Philadelphia: n.
c. Vanderslice, Phenixvllle, John Shee,;
die, Philadelphia. Pa, engineer. Mitchell
Summers, Mahanoy City; Frank hassman'
Mahanoy City.
CAUSE OF THE CALAMITY.
PHI ,prLPHIA, September 20.-Accord-
inc TO advices received at the iDain
Office in regard 10 the cause OF the
calamity it appears that two coal trains
left Perry, further up the road, twelve
minutes apart and south bound. After
proceeding some distance the first tram
of ears parted in the middle, aud as the
rear half stopped the second tram plunged
into it and threw heap Of d65J7S upon the
passenger track. IL was a minute and a
half after this collision, and almost before
the freight crew could turn around. that
the express came laundering along,
plunged into the obstruction, and went
into the river
MELANCHOLY Conscience.
A melancholy coincidence is presented
in the fact that the Inflated tram, the
Pottsville Express" IS the same when
was wrecked at Tuctown on the down trip
on the 23d Of June last and Engine
White and Fireman Templen, who were
killed in yesterdays disaster. filed the
places Of the Heller brothers, Lewis anu
George. engineer and fireman, VINO lost
their lives in the aforementioned accident.
The body of an unknown man who wai
among the victims of the disaster at shoe
makersyille, and who was among the last
to be taken out of the wreck, was identl-
fed as George Lambert. of Tamaqua. This
places the mum her of fatalities a. twenty
one. All the wrecked cars were taken out
of the river tonight. IL is now believed
that there are no more bodies IN the water
and that this ends the death loss.
The Coroner subpmnaed o Jury to-day
and will hold an inquest early next week.
The tracks have been repaired and trains
are now running a usual. The railroad
officials here say that they will make the
most searching investigation "a to the
cause Of the wreck. A number Of the
least injured who were in the Reading
Hospital were sent to their homes to-day.