Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-09-25
WRECK ON THE READING.


Fearful Accident Near Shoemakerviile.
Pa, on the Reading Road-An Entire
Train Load of Human Freight Hurled
Over an Embankment-A Scene OF Hor-
ror that Battles Description-A Heart
rend;ng List of Casualties, the Extent
of which it is Difficult to Ascertain.
READING, Pa. Sept ia wreck oc-
cured on the Reading road seventeen
miles above this place at about 6:45 p.
m. to-day. If present reports are
born out by subsequent developments,
it is the worst wreck that has ever oc-
CURED in this section in the history OF
the Reading Railroad Company.
The train which met with disaster
left this city at ten minutes past SIX
o'clock, ten minutes late. 1t is known
as the Pottsville express, and was rum
ming at the rate of at least forty-fve
miles an hour. Ithad on board probably
125 to 80 passengers, and consis ted OF
engine, mail and express cars, and
three passenger cars. Above Shoe
makersville, about fifteen miles above
this city, there is curve, where the
railroad is about eighteen to twenty
feet higher than the Schuylkill river.
Here shortly before six O'Clock a freight
train ran into a coal train, throwing
several cars of the latter on the oppo-
site track, and before the train hands
had time to go back to warn any APP
preaching train of the danger, the
Pottsville express came around the
curve and ran into the wrecked coal
cars on its track. The engine won't
down the embankment, followed by the
entire train with it's human freight.
The scene was one of great horror,
and can be better imaginedS than de-
scribed. The cries of the imprisoned
passengers were heartrending. 1t was
scene never to be forgotten by those
who participated and survived. Some
of the passengers managed to crawl out
of their prison and aroused the neigh
borhood. Word was telephoned to this
city and help summoned, but all infor-
nation was refused at this point by the
railroad officials.
Physicians and surgeons and a force
OF three hundred workingmen were
taken to the spot and with the aid of
travelling electric-light plant the work
of clearing away the wreck was at once
proceeded with. Work was slow and
the dead and dying were taken out with
great difficulty.
Up to ten o'clock six dead and some
thirty wounded had been taken out. Of
the latter some were brought here and
others taken to the Miners Hospital at
Ashland. The dead so far recovered
are still on the ground. Tie dead and
wounded taken out up to this time are
as follows:
TIE KILLED.
VIM D. Shone, Reading; badly
mangled.
John White, engineer; Pottsrille.
James Templin, fireman; Pottsville.
Harry Logan, conductor: Pottsville.
David Augstedt, Mahoney City; died
after being taken from the wreck
E. W. Logan, baggagemaster; Shen-
aadoah
THE INJURED.
Harrison Riland, Philade phia; leg
broken and internally hurt.
JOS. Southwood, Centralia; badly cut
and internally hurt.
James F. Merkle, Bethehem; badly
cut about head and internally hurt.
Joseph Noll, Shenandoah: cut about
head and left shoulder broken.
Frank B. Hall, manager of Frank
Mayo's Dramatic Company; cut about
head and body, bruised about arms and
legs.
John Carroll, St Clair; back and in
ternally injured.
Joseph A. Asfeld, Mahoney City;
Iv,, cd IoI
Robert Cotton Pottstown; injured in
ternally.
Samuel Shellenburger, Hamburg; legs
injured.
d. w. Cithler, Girardville; foot and
leg mashed.
John Coolick, Mt. Carmel; hurt in
ternally and hands mashed.
w. w. Johnston, Shenandoah; head
bailey cut and leg broken.
Geo Sanders, Reading; badly hurt
about back and neck.
Benz Franklin Beecher, Shenandoah;
left hip badly cut and leg hurt
James Bernard, Shenandoah; left hip
crushed and legs hurt
John Hess, Mahoney City; legs badly
hurt.
David G. Young, Mahoney City; head
badly cut and legs sprained
Lyman Dick, Hamburg, both legs
broken.
DR. b. F. Saloda, New Ringgold; right
arm badly hurt
Jacob Ulmer, Pottsville: both legs
broken.
Samuel Comb Mahoney City; badly
hurt about the body and legs broken
VIM. SINNERS, Ashland, hurt in
formally.
VIM. Glassmaier, Port Clinton; badly
cut about breast
Thomas Cooney, Philadelphia; head
and legs injured.
The wrecked train is still lying at
the bottom of the river The exact
number of the passenger list IS not
known, and reporter, who is still on
the ground, telephoned his belief that
there are still twenty-five more
bodies underneath the wreck or carried
away by the current.
Direct communication has just been
had with the scene of the wreck and it
is reported that the number of killed
will reach forty or forty-fve. 1t is i'm
possible to get the exact number and
the full Horror of the situatio will not
be learned before morning.
Cal Woods Found Guilty and Sentenced
to Death by Electricity.
GLENs FALLS, n. Y, Sept. 2o.-Judge
Fish charged the jury yesterday morn
ing in the Cal Wood murder trial. His