The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-09-20
At LEAST FORTY KILLED
BY a Terrible Wreck on tho
Reading Railroad.
AN awful CRASH OF TRAINS.
Tho Disaster u Scene OF Horror and
Dismay..Thc Passengers arc Drag.
gcd From tho Debris In a
Mansled Condition.

READING, Pa, Sept. l0.-A wreck oc
Cured on the Reading railroad seven
teen miles above this place about 6:4j
tonight. II everything is borne out b!
subsequent Developments, It Is the wors
wreck that has ever occurred in this sec
tion in the history Of the Reading rail
road. The train which met the disaster
left this city at G:05 o'clock, ten minutel
late. It Is known Us the Pottsville Tx
press, and was running 3s miles III
hour. Ithad on board possibly l25 te
loo passengers. and itconsisted OF an en
gine, tender, mail and express cars and
three passenger cars. ....rr,.
Above Shoemakersville, this county
about Is miles above this city, there Is a
curve where the railroad is about IS OF
20 feet higher than the Schuylkill river
Here shortly before Q o'clock freight
train ran into coal train, throwing sew.
eral cars into the latter on the opposite
track, and before the trim 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 embankmert,
followed by the entire train, with its
human freight. The scene was one Of
great horror. Word Was teephoned 10
this city and help summoned. Physi.
clans and surgeons and a force OF 800
workmen were taken to the spot by the
company and the work Of clearing away
the wreck was Mt once preceded with.
Work was slow, aud the dead and dying
were taken out with great difficulty.
THE DEAD AND WOUNDED.
Up to 10 o'clock tonight six dead and
thirty wounded had been taken out.
Tho dead 80 far recovered are still on
the ground. The dead aud wounded
taken out up to this time arc as follows:
Killed
VIM. b. shomock. Reading. badly maugled.
John White, engineer. Poltsville. Pa.
James 1nmplln. fireman, louisville, Pa.
Harry l.ognn, conductor. P0ttsville, III.
David Aucsta,it, Mahanoy City, died after be.
Ing taken from the wreck: his hend and body
were crushed.
+. W. Logan. baggage master. Shenandoah.
The injured are
iIMtri,on Rylnnd, Philadelphia, leg broken and
internally injured. Il.
j"serh ,". l soa!hwood. ccnsrn'a badly Gu. and
John Thornton. Lcesport, badly cut abou.
head and body seriously injured.
jaime. I. Merkel. bethlehem, badly cut about
head nnd injured internally
Joseph SOll Shenandoah, cut about head aud
left shoulder broken.
Frank u. Hoil, manager OF Frnnk Alayo's drs.
matte company, cut about head and body und
bruisad about arms aud legs.
John Carroll, St. Clair, buck and Internally In.
jurcd. :"
James Asfcld. Mahauoy City, bruised nbou.
body aud legs. -.
wlllIsm Gls..maycr, Port Clinton, badly cut
about breast.
Thomas Cooncy, philadclphia, head aud legs
Injured. >''
Robert Cotton. Pottstown. injured internally.
Sammel shollenberger. Hamburg, legs injured
X: v. Cilhler. Girnrivillc. foot and Lex
John coclict, Mt, Carmel, hur. internally aud
! v, ". Johnson. Shenandoah, head badly Gu.
| hIltt lCS DEOkeu.
George Sanders, Reading, badly hurt about
| buck aud neck.
l'srj. franklin Bcecher, Shenandoah, left hip
badly cut and leg hurt. i
James f liernhatt, Shenandoah, left hips crush.
John Hess. Mahauoy City legs badly hurt. c
cut and legs sprnincd.
Lyman Dlck. Hamburg. both legs broken.
nt. y. T. salada, c. ". Rinzgold,. right arms
Jacob ulmer. rottsvllle. both legs broken.
| eamuel Coomb. Mnhnnoy City, badly hurt
about body. and leg broken.
| William sommers, Ashland, hurt.
The wrecked train is still lying at the
bottom OF the river tonight. The exact
number on the passenger list is not
known, and tho reporter who is still on
the ground telephones that he believes
there are still twenty-five or more bodies
underneath the wreck or were carried
away by the current. p,. y
At LEAST FORTY KILLED.
The Associated Press Agent has just
had direct communication with his rep.
resentativo at the scene OF the wreck,
and the latter says that conservative es,
Inmates place the number OF killed at 4(
to so. It is almost impossible to esti
mate the exact number, and the full
horror OF the situation will not be
known before morning.
At IL o'clock Mail Agent Green's bod,
was taken out, followed by the horribiy
mangled bodies of,two Mahanoy Ci.y
firemen, on their way home from tho
Chester convention. There is rumol
at the scene Of the wreck that George +
kaercher, Of Pottsville, is in the wrecked
parlor car. Whether this refers to Geo
r. kaercher, the famous lawyer OF thi.
place, is not known, but If this is 80, tn,
State loses one Of its brightest legal or
naments. The scene in the city is one
OF great excitement.
The latest reports from the scene OF lh,
wreck are that fifteen dead have bee,
taken out. ,,-.,.