Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-09-20
STATEMENT nY ONE OF THE PAS
sEHoERs.
Two Murders in New Mexico Attrib-
uted TO tie Work OF
Indians.
REMARKABLE FREsk OF NATURE
IN MANITOBA
Colorado Republican csnTention.-
Honduras NAY Be B-anR
49, Into War;.
AWFUL cArasrRorHE
On the Reading Railroad Between
Forty and rIny Killed

Forty and rIny Killed
READING, Pa, Sept. 19.-One Of
the worst wrecks ever known in
this section occurred tonight on the
Reading Railroad, seventeen miles
from here. Near ShOemakerville
there is n curve where the railroad
Is about eighteen or twenty feet
higher than the Schukill River.
Here, shortly before 6 O'Clock, a
freight train nan into n coal train,
throwing several cars on 10 the OPP
p1site track.
Before the train hands had any
time 10 warn approaching trains Of
the danger, the Pottsville express,
carrying about $50 passengers, came
round the curve at rate Of forty
miles an hour aud ran into the
wrecked coal cars.
The engine went down the EN-
bankment, followed 10y the entire
train with its human freight.
The scene was one Of great hOr-
TOR, and the cries Of the imprisoned
passengers were heartrending. Some
Of the passengers managed to crawl
out OF their prison and arouse the
neighhOrhoOd.
Word was telegraphed 10 this city,
and surgeons and a force Of 800
wOTkmen taken 10 the spot The
work was slow, and the dead and
dying were taken out with great
difficulty. Up 10 10 O'Clock tonight
six dead and thirty wounded were
taken out. OF the latter some were
brought To this city and Others taken
to Myen' Hospital at Ashland.
TIE DEAD
taken out 50 far are: William ID.
Shores, Reading; john White, en-
ginecT, Pottsvillr; James Temple,
fireman, Pottsville; Harry Logan,
conductor, Pottsville; David Au-
gustad, Mahoney City; +. W.Logan.
haggagemaster, Shenandoah.
The wrecked trliu Is still lying mt
the bottom OF the river. The exact
number Of passengers j. not known,
and reporter, who is still on the
ground, telephones that he believes
there are still twenty-five more
o0dies Underneath the wreck OF
carried away by the current.
Later-The Associated Press
agent has just had adirect eommuni-
cation with his representative at the
wreck, who says: Conservative esti-
mates places the number OF killei at
forty - fry. IL + almost impOssi-
DE 10 estimate the exact number,
and the full horror Of the situation
viii not be known until a later hour.
At IL O'Clock Mail Agent Green
wald's body was taken out, followed
by the horribly mangled bodies u
two MahOney City firemen, on their
way home from Chester. At mid
night thirteen bodies have been ~
covered. The namts Of those known
are already given Five bodies are
exposed TO view IN the wreck, pinned
under the timbers.
ONE OF THE PASSENGERS
who escaped with slight injuries
said 10 an Associated Press reporter
at midnight: "When the crash came
/ was hurled from my seat. One end
Of the car splashed into the river,
and l was thrown against the side II
the ear which lay against the en-
,nnkment. / was n prisoner In the
car, and while ] was nursing my
sprained ankle AM wrist out 81 joint
| reaiizei that | was in n veritablg
scene Of horror. Around and about
me were human beings struggling
in the water, screaming ia fright,
and some almost dragged me Lacl
into the water again. a few saveI
themselves as 1 did, and the r,
mainder struggled in the water aud
then sank quietly out Of sight.''
Prof. Mitchell, Of the Lehigh Uni
yersity, Bethlehem, is among TIN
injured ut the Reading Hospital
Lawrence Barnes, OF Philadelphia
had his arm dislocated. The bodl
Of John l.. Milner, OF Cresson, wa
taken out AZ midnight.