The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-09-22
THE i;EAt,tNG utSAST'ER,
The Long Death L,st-ilow the DIsnsto or
Occurred.

Occurred.
READING, Sept. 2l.-The complete de.
tails Of the terrible railroad disaster
about quarter OF n mile above Shoe
makersville, which is twelvemites above
the city on the main line Of the 'Pnila.
delphia 4 Reading Railroad, are known.
and they show that the accident was the
most shocking that has ever occurred in
the history Of the county.
The revised list OF the casualties at
tending the wreck shows that twenty.
two persons were killed and thirty.two
injured. The following ore the names
OF the identified victims:
THE LONG LIST OF KILLED.
John +. Miller, Cressou; George E.
Greenawald, mail agent, Pottsville; John
White, engineer, Pottsv!llc; Jas. Temp
lin, fireman, pottsville; VIM. D. shomo,
Reading; Harry Jacoby, stone cutter,
Pot,stown; Joseph Becker, Chief Bur.
CESS Mahauoy City; Solomon Hoover,
aged GO, Pottsvillc; Mrs. Edward J. Fox,
aged II, Pottsvil|e; Edward J. Fox. aged
Al, Po,tsville; George I. kaercher, aged
is, Po,tsville; Harry Loughlin, conduc.
tor Of express; John Osburn, Philadel-
phia; Mrs. J. T.. Fredericks, Pottsviile;
!. l.. Fredericks, husband OF above; Jos.
Bausmnn, Philadelphia; N. s. Wander
slice, phmnixville; John Sheedle, Phila.
delphia, 2. 4 r. engineer; Michael Sum.
mers, Mahanoy City; Frank Hassman,
Mahanoy City.
THE SEVERELY INJURED. =
Joseph Noll, Shenandoah, cut about
head and left shoulder broken; Frank
3. Hail, Manager Of Frank Mayo's Dra-
matte Company, cut about head and
body, bruised about arms and legs; John
Carroll, St. Clair, back and internallyin-
jured; James Carroll, son OF John Car
roll, badly bruised; Joseph Ashheld,
Nlahanoy City, bruised about body and
legs: William G!assmoyer, Port Clinton,
badly cut about breast; Thomas Cooney,
Philadelphia, head and legs injured !;
Robert Cotton, rottstown, injured in-
ternatly; Samuel Shalenberger, Ham
burg, legs injured" Harrison .Rylaud. !
Philadelphia, leg broken and internally
injured; Joseph Southwood, Centralia,
body cut and internally injured; John
Thornton. Leesport, badly cut about
head and body, severely injured; b. w.
Eithler, Girardville, foot and leg mashed !;
John Kulick, Mt. Carmel, hurt internal
ly and hand mashed; W. J. Johnston,
Shenandoah, hand badly cut and leg
broken; George Soulers, Reading, badly
hurt about hack and neck; Frank Conk.
lin Beecher, Shenandoah, left hip badly
cut and legs hurt; james Befnhart, She
nandoah, ieft hip crushed and legs hurt
John Heus, Slahanoy City, legs badly
hurt: Joseph J. Didoung, Mahauoy
City, head hady cut and legs sprainea
Lyman Dick, Hamburg. both iege
broken; Dr.. y. +. Solliday,, New R'ng'
gold, right arm badly hurt; Jacob W
mer, Pottsyille, both legs broken; Sam
uel Coon, Mahanoy City, badly hurt
about body and leg broken; William
SINNERS, Ashland, hurt; Robert Collin
parlorcar conductor, very badly bruised
bruised; Edward Logan, baggage mas
ter, pottsville, badly njured IN back ant
head; John Strouse, Pottsyille, badly
bruised; L. F. Merkle, Cresson, In
structor OF Civil Engineering at Lehigh
Uniyersity. arm, broken and hurt In
terna]ly: John A1cDonough, Shenan
doah, badly hurt, and John straub
Schuylkill Haven, injured.
scEIE or THE DISASTER. 4
Tho point at which the accident occur
red was about midway on very SHARP
curve in the road, one-half mile aboyt
the shoemakersville station, on the west
ern bank OF the Schuylkill river. I'M
road is double.tracked. the track run
ming along the edge. Of the river belni
used for nor.h.bound trains and to!
other for trains going in the opposite di
rection. A steep hill OF, blul about slxtl
feet high ovcrhangs the tracks. and th'
water Is thirty feet deep below the sur