Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-09-20
TERRIBLE DISASTER
A Reading Express Tran
 Plunges Into the River.
MANY PEOPLE WERE KILLED
4 Scene Never to bs Forgotten by
 Those who Survived.

rwo Carloads of Injured-Ghastly Search for the Dead and Wounded = Bodies Still fin the Schuylkill-wOrkmen Hunt ing for VIotima-Partial List of the
 Killed and Injured. L
 READING, Pa, Sept. 20.-The wiIliams- port express train left the main Phila- dslphia and Reading station in this city at 5:55 o'clock last evening, ten minutes late, with two baggage cars, one Pullman parlor car, four day coaches and one sleeper attached to the engine in the order named. The train was packed with people, every car being crowded.
 The train was running at e hi gh speed, thirty-eight or forty miles per hour. when, without . moments warn ing, it dashed around a sharp curve into the rear of a coal train that had been wrecked but a few minutes before.
 There was an awful crash, the passen- ger engine leaped high in the air a nd then topplsd over and rolled if ty feet down the steep embankment in to the Schuylkin River, dragging with it four cars.
 The collision of the trAins was in stautaneous. The engine was plunged beneath the surface of the rushing waters, and the engineer, John White, of Pottsville, Pa, and John Templin, his fireman, of the same place, were pinned beneath the frightful wreck. The cars turned over three times and two were submerged at the first crash.
 Heartrsnding shrieks.
 The air was immediately filled with heartrsnding shrieks and pathetic n all a; Not passenger escaped from the first Pullman car.
 The cars were crushed into splinters and do not bear a semblance of their original shape.
 Very few, if any, of the ill-fated pas sengers escaped without some injury the wreck was complete.
 The doctors on duty at the wreck estimate that at least forty dead bodies are still under the wrecked cars in the river and that 1t will be impossible to get them out before this afternoon.i
 The Killed and Injured.
 The following is a list of the dead that have been identified:
 William D. Shomo, Reading; John White, engineer, Pottsville; James Templin, fireman, PottsviIls; Harry Logan, conductor, Pottsville; David Augstadt, Mahanoy City, died after be- ing taken from the wreck; E. W. Logan, baggage master, Shenandoah.
 The injured are: Harrison Rimand, Philadelphia, leg broken and internally injured; Joseph Southwood, Centralia, l badly cut and injured; James F. Mer- kel, Bethlehem, badly cut about head and internally injured; John Thornton, Leesport, badly cut about head and body seriously injured; Joseph Noll, Shenandoah, cut about head and left shoulder broken; Frank B. Holl, mana | ger of Frank Mayo's dramatic company, cut about hcad and body and bruised about arms and legs; John Carroll, St. Clair, back hurt and internally injur- cd; Joseph Ash6eld, Mahanoy City, bruised about body and legs; William Glassmayer, Port Clinton, badly cut about breast; Thomas Cooney, Phila- delphia, head and legs injured; Robert Cotton, Pottstown, injured inter naily; samuel shellengeEger, Ham eqFs ifs iGSESd f6os Saa ds mV:aSd W. GialS HS, Coolick, Mt. Carmel, hurt internally l and hand smashed; W. W. Johnston, head badly cut and leg | broken; George Sanders, Reading, badly | hurt about back and neck; Benjamin | Franklin Beecher, Shenandoah, left hip | badly cut and leg hurt; James Bern | hart, Shenandoah, left hip crushed and 1 legs badly hurt; David G. Young, Ma hanoy City,Ihead badly cut and legs | sprained; Lyman Dick, Hamburg, both l legs broken; Dr. B. F. Salade, New Ring | gold, right arm badly hurt; Jacob Ul- | mer, Pottsville, both legs broken; Samuel Coomb, Mahanoy City, badly | hurt about body and leg broken; Will jam Sinners, Ashland.
 Robbing the Dead,
 Two Italian laborers working on'a contract near by were detected in rob | ping the dead and dying, and they were | arrested by Detective Wunch of this | city.
 The scene was one of great horror. and can be better imagined than des- cribed. The cries of the imprisoned | passengers were heartrending. It was scene never to be forgotten by | those who participated and survived. Some of the passengers managed to crawl out of their prison and arouse the neighborhood.
 Caring for the Injured.
 The injured had their wounds dressed on the bank and those who live near were taken to their homes and thos @ | whS reside in this section were brought to the Reading hospitals. The company put about 200 men at work in getting | out the dead and dying.
 MT. Shome, who was killed, was worth | over half a million dollars, being a | large owner of real estate and one of | the directors of the Citizen's Bank and | one of the owners of the Academy of | Music.
 Engineer White took Engineer Lew Heller's run, the latter having been | Killed at the Tucksrton wreck . few