Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-20
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
From All Quarters.
FIFTY PERSONS KILLED.
Horrible Wreck on the
Reading Railroad.
FIVE. HUNDRED PEOPLE DROWNED.
The Double Team Trotting
Record Broken.
THREE TRAIN-WRECkERS INDICTED.
Destructive Floods in
Halifax.
AN AWFUL WRECK.

Large Loss of Life on the Reading
Raf1rOad-A Passenger Train is
Thrown Into the Schuylkill River
How the Accident Occurred-A
Scene of Great HorrOr-Ra1lrOad
officials Reticent-List of the Killed
and Injured.
READING, Pa. Sept. ia wreck occurred
on. the Reading railroad seventeen miles
above here about 6:45 tonight in which
at least six persons were killed and twenty
five injured The car went into the river
and one estimate says at least twenty-five
bodies remain in the wreck OF have been
swept away by the current. Six bodies
have been taken out. The train which
met with the disaster left this city at 6:05
o'clock, ten minutes late It is known as
the Pottsville express and was running at
the rate of thirty-eight to forty miles an
hour. 1t had on board possibly 1875 to $50
passengers and consisted of engine, tender,
mail and express cars and three passengers
Above Shoemakersville there is curve
where the railroad is eighteen to twenty
feet higher than the Schuylkin river
Here shortly before o'clock freight
train ran into coal train, throwing seve-
raj cars in the latter on the opposite track,
and before the train hands had time to go
back to warn any approaching train of the
danger the Pottsville express came around
the curve and ran into the wrecked coal
cars on the track.
The engine went down the embankment,
followed by the entire train with it's hu-
man freight. The scene was one or great
horror. The cries of the imprisoned pass
engers were heartrending. Some of the
passengers managed to crawl out of their
prison and arouse the neighborhood.
help summoned, but all information was
refused at this point by railroad officials.
Physicians and and force of three hun
dred workmen were taken to the spot by
the company, and with the aid of a travel
ing electric light plant the work of clear
ing away the wreck was at once proceeded
with. Work was slow and the dead and
dying were taken out with great difficulty.
Up to 10 o'clock to tonight six dead and
forty-five wounded had been taken out.
They are as follows:
THE KILLED AND INJURED.
Killed-William D. Shomo, Reading;
John White, engineer, Pottsville; James
Templin, fireman, Pottsville; Harry Lo-
gan, conductor, Pottsville; David Angus
tadt, Mahoney City; E. w. Logan, bag
gagemaster. Shenandoah.
Iniured-Harrison Riland, Philadelphia,
leg broken and internally injured; Joseph
Southwood, Centralia, badly cut and in
ternally injured; James F. Merkel, Bethle-
hem, badly cut about head and internally
injured; John Thornton, Lockport, badly
cut about head and body, serious; Joseph
Knoll, Shenandoah, cut about head and
left shoulder broken; Frank B. Hall agent
of Frank Mayo's company, cut about
head and body, bruised about arms and
legs; John Carroll, St. Clair, back hurt
Mahanoy City, bruised about the body and
legs; William Glassmayer, Port Clinton
badly cut about breast; Thomas Cooney,
Philadelphia, head and legs injured; Rob
ert Cotton Pottstown, injured internally;
Samuel Shellenberger, Hamburg, legs in
iured; B. W. Cithler, Girardville, foot and
leg smashed; John Coolick, Mt. Carmel
hurt internally and hand smashed w. w
Johnston, Shedandoah, head badly cut and
leg broken; George Sanders, Reading, badly
hurt about the back; Benjamin Franklin
Beecher, Shenandoah, left hip badly cu
and leg hurt; James Bernhardt, Shenan
doah, left hip crushed and legs hurt; JONI
Hess, Mahanoy City, legs badly hurt; Da
vid G. Young Mahanoy City, head badl.
cut and legs sprained; Lyman Dick, Ham
burg, both legs broken; DR.. B. F Salade
New Ringgild, right arm badly hurt; Jacol
Ulmer, Pottsville, both legs broken; Sam
uel Coomb, Mahanoy City badly hurt abou
body and leg broken; William Sommers
Ashland, hurt.
II p.m.-The Associated Press agent ha
Just had direct communication with hi
representative at the scene of the wrecl
and the latter says that conservative est
mates place the number of killed at fort
| to fifty. 1t is almost impossible to est
mate the exact number and the horror c
the situation will not DO known befor
morning. At IL o'clock Mail Agen
Greenwald's body was taken out, followe
by the horribly mangled remains of tw
Mahanoy City firemen on their way hon
from the Chester convention.