The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-20
A TRAIN IN A RIVER.
EIGHTEEN CoRPsES IN SIGHT AND
MORE IN 7 HE RUINS.

From 125 to $50 Passengers on Board
When the Crash Came-The Train
Dashed Into Another Wreck Only q
Minute or Two Before-W orking in
the Ruins.
READING. PA. Sept. ia passenger
train oE the Reading road was thrown into
the Sohuylkill river near Shoenlakersville.
fifteen miles from Reading, tonight about
O'Clock.
The engineer, fireman. conductor, bag
eagemaster. mail agent and two passengers
were killed, and thirty passengers were in-
jured, many Of them very seriously.
As further reports come from the wreck
the magnitude of the disaster increases.
CROWDED WITH PASSENGERS.
The traiu was a fast express. and was
running forty to forty-five miles per hour.
and had l25 TO 80 passengers. The train
was composed of the engine, mail, express
and three passenger cars, An accident to
coal train on the other track a few min
utes before had thrown several cars on the
track the passenger was on and the mon on
the wrecked coal train had no time either
to clear the track or warn the passenger
train. The latter ran into the obstruction
and the entire train went down twenty.
foot bank 10 the river.
All sorts or wild rumors are afioat Some
place the probable number of killed at forty
or fifty.
EraHrEEN coRPsEs IN SIGHT
Up to midnight thirteen bodies have been
recovered. Five bodies are exposed to view
In the wreck, but they are pinned under
timbers, and have not yet been taken out
The wreckers of Cresson and Reading have
been summoned, and they are all hard at
work. good many passengers seem to
have been drowned in the partially sub.
merged cars
SOME OF THE KILLED.
PHILADELPHIA, PA, Sept. ia special
from Reading to the Inquirer says: George
X. kaeroher, an eminent railroad lawyer
OF Pottsville, who has also a law office in
Philadelphia, is among the killed. Persons
wDo were well acquainted with him have
identified his crushed body In the debris OF
the Pullman car.
"Wiliam D. Shermo, one of Readings
wealthiest citizens, was passenger on the
train, and was one of the first persons re>
ported killed.
cat 7:30 o'clock special train Iefr
ohis oity for the scene Of the wreck, taking
the Philadelphla and Reading railway
surgeon, DR. Wredman, and a CORPS of eight
assistants An electric light plant was also
dispatched on the same train, which was
speedily put In operation, and greatly facil-
itated the work of removing the wounded.
mo passenger trains arriving after 9
| o'clock were permitted to go beyond this
| city. All passengers from Philadelphia and
| intermediate points, for destinations north
OF Reading. were compelled to leave the
trains"
A PROFESSOR INJURED.
READING, Sept. 20, "a M-Prof. Mitchell
OF the Leghigh university at Bethlehem 10
| among the injured. Ho Is at the Reading
hospital.
At this hour the situation was
as follows: Three hundred men
were still at work, bat they wera
making slow progress Fifteen bodies
have been taken out. None Of the bodies
have been taken from the scene Of tho dis
aster. IL is still believed that twenty OF
more are underneath the wreck. Who
they are Is not known. because it IS not
known who was on the train, and how many
were actually killed will osly be disclosed
with che removal Of tho engine and cars
from the bed Of the ruins tomorrow.