Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-09-20
TWENTY DEAD FOUND
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT ONTHE
P. g. r. RAILWAY.
SOME OF THE KILLED ARE WELL
KNOWN MEN.
THE VICTIMS wERl: l:ITHI:R
nROwNED OR CRUSHED.

train on the Reading ROAD WAS Throw"
into the Schuylkill river near Shoe
makcrsville, fifteen miles from Reading
last night at about 7 o'clock. Twenty
nersons were killed, and thirty injured,
MANY of them very seriously.
The train was the fast cxprcssand was
running forty miles an hour.
what Caused the Accident.
An accident to the coal train ON the
,tbcr track n few minutes before had
thrown several cars on the track, ana the
men on the coal train had no time cither
to clear the track or warn the passenger
train. The latter ran into the obstruc- |
ton, and the entire train went down
bank into the river.
Upto midnight thirteen bodies han
hccn recovered. Five bodies were exposed
TO view in the wreck, but were pinned
under heavy timbcrs.
Eiueeu Bodies Taken out.
; AT three O'Clock this morning the s'tua'
ton was as follows: Three hundred men
were still a, work but they were making
slow progress. Fifteen bodies had been
taken. None of the bodies have been
i. taken from the scene oi the disaster.
William u. Howe, one oi Reading
c wcalthicst citizens, was passenger on
II the train and was one OF the first persons
el A spccisl train left this CITY for the
=. scene of the wreck, taking Philadelphia
,c and Reading railroad surgeon Dr. "e'"
o man. and corps OF eight assistants Az
electric light plant was also dispatched
re- On the same train. which was speed'i,
ID mt in operation, and greatly iae'i'ta'e'
1t the work of removing the wounded
n. No passenger trains arriving after =
RS m. were permitted to so beyond tins e',y
4, All messengers from Philadelphia ana II
he tcrmediate points for destinations nor,
to of Reading were compelled to leave l"
~. train. 49,, ..,,,
'n Prof. Mitchell. of Lchigh un'vers''!
he po,h,cbem. is among the injured at u
II Reading hospital.
III The scene To-Day.
o ~, The horror of the wreck seemed e''
, in worse when daylight dawned ,o'd"y''
ion scene being simply frightiul.
,h, Up to ten o'clock 20 bodies o' '"' '''
vos had been taken from the wreck
the The injured will number fifty
the The bodv of George X. kacrchcr' y
.ro, counsel of the Reading railway "
,"w taken out badly disiigured. lie "
dis. drowned in five feet OF water III u ~
rail- man car. lie was a very able lawyer
yes, The following is a revised list o'
the dead thus far taken from the wreck
c oI ISo. T.. MILLER, cresson'
one cvn GRguSgwAr.pE, mail agent, 70
/, the willie. ,.u.
, ,,,as t"' J,us W,uTg, engineer, pottsville.
They I,vps TpMri.iS, ircmcn, Pottsville
=" wM. d. SuoM, Reading.
HARRY IAcony. stonccutter, kn'is'"
,,spru BECKER, chief burgess MI
minis '' ,.,..,
:, noy City. , ,,
H. to- So,oMoS HOOVER. aged GO, r"tls'
u "' Mps. EpwARpJ Fox ased ~ ~
Inson
,.iour ''.' , r,y nyed II, pottsvill
cot Ep"""' ,,,,d A, r.
II the GEORGE H. N"hN@"""'" "e>'
, from vile,
surgi- u,ppy LorGlliS, conductor oi eSi
t,ux OSBORNE, Philadelphia
MR. and MRs. ]. Il. fREpEnieks'' -
III con. vile. ,..
hemp, Josgrn RASsMES, fh'l"ue'P"'a'
formal n r. vAspgRsLicg, PhTniSville'
pnday. ,e,,,v,,p philadelphia.
,tcd to JOHN SUNNI ..,. N,h,,,v q,
FRANK HAssMAS, Mahonoy CITY,