The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-09-20
FORTY PEOPLE KILLED
Prlshtful Railroad Accident In Penn.
SylVania.
A Passenger Trains Disastrous
Collision With Frelght-Many
Persons Drowned Before
Assistance Came.


occurred tonight on the Reading railroad.
l6 miles from here, near Schoemakers-
vile. There is curve where the railroad
Is about 1sor - feet high there. Shortly
before 6 o'clock freight train ran into a
coal train, throwing several cars onto OPP
posite tracks before the train hands had
any time TO warn any approaching train
OF danger. The Pottsville express, carry
ing about l5O passengers, came round n
curve at the rate OF As miles an hour, and
ran into the wrecked coal cars. The en-
gine wentdown an embankment, followed
by the entire train with its human freight.
The scene was one of great horror. The
cries Of the imprisoned passengers were
heartrcnding. Some Of the passen-
gers managed 10 crawl out of
their prison and arouse the neighborhood.
Word was telegraphedto 10 this city aud sur
geons and force of three hundred work
men were taken 10 the spot. The work
was slow aud the dead and dying were
taken out with great difficulty. Up to 10
o'clock tonight six dead and 30 wounded
have been taken out. or the latter some
were brought 10 this city and others taken
TO the miners hospital at Ashland.
The dead taken out so far are:
WILLIAM ID. SHoNIs. Reading.
JonN WHITE, engineer. Pottsville.
JAMES TEMrLIN, fireman, Pottsville.
HARRY LOGAN, conductor, Pottsville.
DAVID AuGsTADT, Mahoney City.
+. w. LOGAN, baggagemaster, Shenan-
doah.
The injured were:
HARRISON RILAND, Philadelphia.
JOSEPH SouTHwooD, Ccntralia.
JouS THORNTON, Freeport.
JOSEPH NoLL. Shenandoah.
FRANK b. HALL, manager OF Frank
Mayo's dramatic company.
JOHN CARROLL, st. Clare.
JOSEPH AsFIED, Mahoney City.
WILLIAM GLAssMAyER, Port Clinton.
THOMAS LooNEy, Philadelphia.
RoBERT COLLINS, Pottstown.
SAMUEL SHELLEYBERGER, Hamburg.
b. w. CILDER, Girardville.
JOHN CoolLcR. Mt. Carmel.
w. w. TOMBSTONE, Shenandoah.
GEORGE SANDERS, Reading.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Shenandoah.
JAMES BEipIART, Shenandoah.
JOHN Hess Mahoney City.
LYMAN DICK, Hamburg.
DAVID G. YoUNo, Mahoney City.
DIR. r. p,eS.raDE. Newringgold.
JACOB ULMER, Pottsville.
SAMuEL C6oMBs, Mahoney City.
WILLIAM IMMERs, Ashland.
The WRECK I'D train is still lying at the
bottom of tlt river. The exact number
of the passe4ger list is not known. and
n reporter w.io is still on the ground tele-
phones he believes there are still 25 or
more bodie, underneath the wreck, or
who were carried away by the current.
Later, IL 10 p. m.-An Associated Press
agent just had direct communication with
a representative at the wreck who says
conservative estimates place the number
| of killed at from 40 20 So IL is almost
impossible 10 estimate the exact number.
| The full horror of the situation will not
| be known until later hour. At11 o'clock
Mail Agent Greenawalld's body was taken
out, followed by the horribly mangled
bodies of two Mahoney City tlremen on
| their way home from Chester.
At midnight IL bodies had been re-
covered. The names of those known have
been already given. Five bodies are ex-
posed 10 view In the wreck, pinned under
| timbers.
One passenger who escaped with light
| injuries said to an Ass ,ciated Press re-
porter: "At midnight, when the crash
came, was hurled from my seat. One
end of the car splashed into the river and
/ was thrown against the side
| OF the car with such force that II
| partially stunned me. | quickly re.
| covered myself and managed 10 climb
upon seats on that side of the car which
lay against the embankment. | was q
prisoner in the car. and while was nurs.
ing my sprained ankle and wrist, out OF
joint. realized was In scene OF terri.
BILE horror. Around and about me were
human beings struggling In the water
screaming in fright, aud some almos,
dragged me back IN the water again.
| few saved themselves as | did, and the
remainder struggled in the water and
then quickly sank out OF sight"
Professor Mitchell Of Lehigh university
at Bethlehem, is among the injured at th,
Reading hospital. Lawrence Barnes o
Philadelphia had his arm dislocated.
brother OF John l.. Miller OF Cresson wa.
taken out at midnight.
At o'clock this morning 300 men were
still at work, but making slow progress
| Fifteen bodies were taken out. None o
the bodies have been taken from tn,
scene ~ the disaster. Kahn McDonough
Jack Noll and w. n. Johnston Of Shen
andoah and John Strauss Of Scbuylkil
are among the latest injured reported
II is still believed that 25 NOR,
bodies lie beneath the wreck. NotbinG
definite can be known until the wreck Il
No more names can be secured, as thu
| tataplana OfVea has flneah That wa,