The Minneapolis observer., 1890-09-27
Deaf. oNITnE=RAIll.
A Terrible wrook on the Reading
- Railroad.
An Express Train Goe. over an En-.
bankmcnt and Twenty-ons Lives
Are Lost-other Railroad
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bankment and Twenty-ons Lives
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= Casualties.
SCORES KILLED.
READING, Pa, Sept .-Shoemakers-
vile, station on the Reading railroad
htteen miles north Of this city, was the
scene OF terrible railroad wreck at 6:l5
Friday evening. The latest reports in-
dictate that between hfty and seventy
persons were killed and that an equal
number received injuries more or less
serious. Thirteen bodies have been
taken from the wreck some of which
have not yet been identified.
The Inflated train is No. express,
better known as the cannon-hall train,
which leaves Philadelphia at 4 o'clock
in the afternoon, 1t left on time Fri
day at Philadelphia, but was several
minutes late leaving the outer sta
ton here owing to the large crowds
who were returning home from the
Berks County fair and who had
gathered at that station to take the
train. Seven moro cars had to be add
ed to the already-filled coaches, and q
delay OF fifteen minutes was caused
When the train was once beyond the
numerous side-traeks about a mile
north OF the city the engineer
| began making up the lost time and In
a few seconds the train was running at
| lightning speed. Suddenly there was
crash, a rumbling of the passenger
coaches over the ties, and down went
the engine, tank. baggage, express, and
parlor cars and the passenger-coaches
into the creek which borders the road
at that point.
READING, Pa, Sept. eat was not
until $3.50 Saturday afternoon that the
wreckers reported that all the bodies
had been taken from the Schuylkill
river at the scene of the wreck OF the
fast express on the Reading railroad
Friday evening. Their labors ended
with finding the mangled body OF
the engineer, John White. His head
was cut off and lost IT, the river. His
right arm was found floating in the
wreck. Twenty-one dead and thirty.
two injured is the record OF the awful
plunge of the train after 1t had struck
TEN KILLED IN MEXICO.
Cry OF MEXICO, via Galveston. Sept
90 A terrible accident happened Fri
day on the Mexican railroad. TIVE
trains going in opposite directions rar
into each other at Rincenada, and thu
cars were piled on one another and com
pletely wrecked. Ten persons Wer,
killed and several others wounded.
DISASTER NEAR CHICAGO.
CHICAGO Sept. 20. Tho DowneF.
Grove Chicago, burlington & Quincy
express train while running at TOT
speed at 7:I0 o'clock Sunday evening
plunged hoadlong into the rear coach o
an Illinois Central excursion train re-
turning from Addison Park and crowded
with excursionists. The accident oc
Cured just west OF Kedzie avenue
on the 20" tracks which the Illinois
Central uses for its Western service
The train consisted OF fifteen cars, all
crowded, and the thirteenth and four
teenth cars were telescoped, killing -four
people instantly and injuring a score
more, several fatally. One of the lat
ter died soon after. The dead were all
residents OF Chicago. Their names are
Lily Diener, Margaret Diener cousin
of Lily, Otto Schloeif Theodore Boil
ger and an unidentified man. Three
young ladies' were fatally injured and
nine other persons we're badly hurt
THREE MEX KILLED IN IOWA.
Council BLUFFS, Ia. Sept %. "A dis
astrous wreck occurred on the Wabash
railway eight miles southeast OF this
city at $50 o'clock Sunday morning
An incoming freight train from St
Louis. consisting Of eighteen cars
all loaded with merchandise, ran
into burning bridge or tres.
tle-work and the engine and thir.
teen cars went through 10 the ground,
forty feet below. The bridge is over 4
deep ravine. When the fire was sighted
by the engineer IL was too late 10 pre-
vent wreck. The killed were: Martin
Eskridge, the engineer: Joseph Burke,
fireman; Robert Williamson. head
brakeman. Eskridgc was buried under
his engine and was burned ID
death. All that could be found OF his
remains was quantity OF bones that a
man could hold in his two hands. The
fireman was caught under car contain
ing tank OF oil and met horrible
death. His clothes we're saturated with
the stuff and when the fire reached him
he was literally roasted alive. When
discovered by the conductor and another
brakeman he was not yet dead and
talked freely about his perilons situa-
tton. His companions could do Hsthing
but console him. The head brakeman
was thrown about fifty feet He lived
two hours