Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-20
FRIGHTFUL WRECK.
Lightning Express on the Reading Rail-
way Hurled Down an En-
bankment.
Forty Dead and Many Wounded Taken from
the Wreck-List of Dead and Injured,
Which Nay Be Increased.

READING, PA, Sept. IA wreck
occurred on the Reading railroad seven
teen miles above this place about 6:45 to-
night. The tram which met with dis
aster left this city at :05 O'Clock, ten
minutes late. 1t IS known as the Potts
vile express ana was running at the rate
of ct least thirty eight miles an h our.
It had on board possibly $50 passengers,
and it consisted of an engine, mali aud
express cars and three passenger
coaches. Above ShoemakeTsville, this
county, about fit, Ell miles above this
city, is sharp curve where the rail-
road IS about eighteen to twenty
feet higher than the Schuylkill
river. Here shortly before 8 o CLOCK 4
freight train running i'll to coal, threw
several cars off onto the opposite track,
and before the train hands had time to
go back to warn the approaching train
of the danger, the express came around
the curve and ran into the wrecked coal
cars on its track. The engine went down
the embaukment followed by the entire
train with its human freight. The scene
was
ONE OF GREAT HORROR.
The cries of the imprisoned passengers
was heartrending. 1t was q scene never
10 be forgotten Big those who participated
and survived. Some of the passengers
managed to crawl out of their
prison and arouse tie neighbour
hood. Word was telegraphed TO this
city and help summoned, but all in
formation was refused at this point by
the railroad officials. Physicians and
surgeons and q force of 800 workmen
we're taken TO the spot by the company,
and with the aid of travelling electric
light plant the work of
CLEARING AWAY THE WRECK
was at once proceeded with. The work
was slow and the dead and dying were
taken out with great difficulty.
Up to 10 o CLOCK tonight six dead and
some thirty wounded had been taken
out. OF the latter some were brought
to this city and others were taken to the
miners hospital at Ashland. The dead
so far recovered are still on the ground.
The dead and wounded taken out up to
this time are as follows:
KILLED.
WILLIAM D. SHoMo, Reading.
JOHN WHITE, engineer. Pottsville.
JAMES ToMPLIN, fireman, Pottsville.
HENRY LOGAN, conductor, Pottsville.
D.. DAVID AUGHsTADT, Masonic City.
E. W. LOGAN, baggagemaster, Shen-
andoah.
INJURED.
The injured are:
HARRISON RILAND, Philadelphia, in
jured internally.
JOSEPH SoUTHwooD, Centralie, badly
cut and internally injured.
JAMES MERKERT, Bethlehem internally
injured.
JOHN THORNTON, Leesport, seriously
Injured.
JOSEPH NoLL, Shenandoah.
FRANK B. HOLL, manager of Frank
Mayo's dramatic company, cut about
the head and body.
JOHN CARROLL, St. Clair, back hurt
and internally injured.
JOSEPH AsHFIELD, Mahony City.
WILLIAM GLAsswAYER, Port Clinton,
badly cut about the breast.
THOMAS CoONEY, Philadelphia. head
and legs injured.
ROBERT COTTON, Pottstown, injured
internally.
SAMUEL SHELLENBERGER, Hamburg.
B. W. ASHLEY, Girardville, foot and
leg smashed.
JOHN CooLICK, Mount Carmel, hurt
internally.
W. H. JOHNSTON, shenan doeh, head
badly cut and leg broken.
GEORGE SANDERS, Reading, badly hurt
about the back and neck.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BEECHER, Shen-
andoah, left hip badly cut.
JAMES BERNHART, Shenandoah, left
hip crushed.
JOHN HESS, Masonic City, leg badly
hurt.
DAVID YOUNG, Masonic City, head
badly cut.
LYMAN D. HUCK, Masonic City.
JACOB ULMER, Pottsville.
SAMUEL CoOMBs, Mahonys City, badly
hurt about the body.
WILLIAM SINNERS, Ashland.
The wrecked tram is still lying at the
bottom of the river tonight.
1l:30 p. m: The Associated Press
agent has just had direct communication
with his representative at the scene of the
wreck, and the latter says that a conser-
vative estimate will place the number of
killed at forty TO fifty. Il is almost i'm
possible to estimate the exact number and
the full horrors will not be known before
At IL O'Clock Mail Agent
Greenwall's body was taken out, fol-
owed by the horribly mangled bodies OF
TWO of the Mahony City firemen on their
way home from the Chester convention.
The scene in this city is one of exotic