Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-09-25
HURLED INTO ETERNITY
THIRTY-FIvE LIVES LOST IN A
WRECK.


banlSment While Running at Full Speed
Awful Scenes of Horror as the Debris
Is Cleared Away.
Reading (Pa.) dispatch: A fatal and
disastrous wreck occurred on the Read
ing railroad, seventeen miles above this
place. The train which met with dis
aster left this city ten minutes late.
1t was running at the rate of thirty
eight or forty miles an hour, 1t had on
board 1875 to $50 passengers, and 1t
consisted Of engine, mall and express
cars and three passenger cars.
Above Shoemakersville, about fifteen
miles above this city, there is curve
where the the railroad is from eighteen
to twenty feet higher than the Schuyl-
kill river. Here, shortly after o'clock
a freight train ran into coal train,
throwing several cars OF the latter
train on the opposite track. Before
the train hands had time to go back 10
warn any approaching train OF the
danger tho Pottsville express came
around the curve and ran into the
wrecked coal cars on It's track.
The engine went down the embank-
ment, followed by the entire train with
It's human freight Some OF the passen-
gers managed to crawl out of the wreck
anu uiOuoO bhO VOAN
was telegraphed to this city and help
summoned. Physicians and surgeons
and force OF 800 workmen were taken
to the spot by the company, and the
work of clearing away the wreck was at
once commenced.
Work vas slow and the dead and dy-
ing were taken out with great difficulty.
Up to 2 o'clock q. m. fifteen dead and
thirty wounded had been taken out or
the latter some were brought to this
city and others taken to the miners
hospital at Ashland. The dead so far
discovered are still on the ground.
The dead taken out and identified up
to this time are as follows:
WILLIAM ID. SHoME, Reading; badly
mangled.
JOHN WHITE. engineer, Pottsville, Pa.
JAMES TEMPLIN. fireman, Pottsvllle, Pa.
HARRY LOGAN, conductor, Pottsvile,
Pa.
DAVID AUGUsTADT, Mahony City; died
after being taken from. the wreck.
LOGAN. baggagemaster Shenandoah.
MAIL AGENT GREENAWALDSBERY
TWO FIREMEN.
JOHN l.. MILLER.
The injured so far taken out are:
HARRISON RILAND. Philadelphia, leg brolc-
en- and internally injured.
JOSEPH SOUTHWOoD. Centralia; badly Gu
and internally injured.
JAMES +. MERKEL, bethlehem; badly cut
about head and internally injured.
JOHN THORNTON, Leesport; badly cut
about head and body; seriously injured.
JOSEPH NoLL, Shenandoah; cut about
head and left shoulder broken.
FRANK Il. HOLL, manager OF Frank Mayo 8
company; cut about head and body, bruised
about arms and legs.
JOHN CARROLL st Clair; back and inter
About body and legs.
WILLIAM GLAssMAYER, Port Clinton; badly
cut about breast.
THOMAS CooNEY Philadelphia; head and
legs injured.
ROBERT CoLLISG, Pottstown; injured in
termally.
SAMUEL sHoLLENBERGER, Hamburg; legs
injured.
II. w. CfrHLER, Girardville; foot and leg
smashed.
john CuL1cK. Mount Carroll hurt intern
ally and hand smashed.
w. w. JOHNSTON, Shenandoah; head badly
cut and leg broken
GEORGE sAUEDBRs. Reading; badly hurt
about back and neck.
BENJAMIN FRANKLYN, Shenandoah; left
hip badly cut and leg hurt.
JAMES BERNHART, Shenandoah; left hiI
crushed aud leg hurt.
JoHN 1fEss Mabonoy City ;leg badly hurt
DAVID @. YOUNG, Mahonoy City;head bad
1y cut and legs sprained.
LYMAN DICK, Hamburg; both legs broken
DIR. b. f. sALADE, New Ringgold; right arm
badl hurt.
JACOB ULMER, Pottsvillej both legs broken
SAMUEL CooMB Mahonoy City; badly hurt
about body and legs broken.
WILLIAM SINNERS, Ashland.
The wrecked train is still lying at the
bottom of the river. The exact number
llatf 10 In hnI
conservative people estimate the num-
Der killedat til rty-five.
At IL o'clock Mail Agent Green
awaldsbory was taken out, followed BY
| the horribly mangled bodies OF two
Mahanoy City fireman.
Prof. Mitchell Of Lehigh University,
| Bethlehem, is among the injured al
| the Reading hospital. Lawrence Barne;
| of Philadelphia has his arm dislocated
| The body of John Il. Miller of Cress
| onia was taken out at midnight.
| George Ii. Kaercher, ESQ.,, the emil
| nent railroad lawyer of Pottsville, whC
| had also a law Office in Philadelphia, !.
| among the killed. Persons who were
we'll acquainted with him have identi
| fed the crushed body In the debris o
the Pullman car. William ID. Shone, on'
| OF Readings wealthiest citizens, was {
passenger on the train and was one o
the first persons reported killed. HI
leaves a widow and two sons.
A gentleman who escaped from the
wreck said:
1.-THE train was going at lively rat'
OF speed. The passengers appeared |
happy crowd, many Of them ladies
chatting and laughing after a day.
pleasure at the Berkes county fair.
was viewing the country through which
we were passing. when there was {
terrible crash. was hurled from my
seat, while the cars rolled down thu
twenty-foot embankment, and / wa
thrown from one side of the car to .th,
other. One end OF the car went int
water and / was thrown against TIL,
side OF the car with forcethat partial
ly stunned me. i quickly recove
cd myself aud managed +
climb upon the seats o.
that side OF tho car which lay agalns
the embankment was prisoner u
the car, unable to get out Around m
were human beings struggling In tn
water, screaming in their fright, an
some almost dragged mo back into tn
water again. A few saved themselve
as did and the remainder struggled i
tho water and then quietly sunk out o