Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-22
.ON THB READING.
Wreck in Which at Least a Score
of Lives Are Lsst.
A Crowded Excursion Train Crashes
Into O Freight Wreck
Before Proper Signals Are Dis
played to Stop 1t.

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The Engine and Train Thrown Down
steep Embanlinent Into tho Schnyllsill
River While Banning ut the Rte OF
Mile a Minute to Make Up Lost Time
List of the Identified Dead and the In
jnred So Far as Known--othcr Wrecks
READING, Pa, Sept. %. Express No
3, on the Reading railroad, left Phila
delphia on time at a p IN. Friday, bu'
was delayed here fifteen minutes to add
extra cars to carry a crowd returning
from the Berks county fair, near here
To make up lost time the train was put
at full speed, and thas it sped pas
Shoemahel syillc, a few miles west Of
here. AHEAD Of it had gone q coal train
and u freight, vhich collided and made
a bad wreck jnst west of Shcemalers.
vile.
Into the Wreck and River
Before the express could be tagged il
crf shed into the wreck, and engine and
train went down steep embankment
into the Schuylkill river. or creek,
which ut this point is eight feet deep.
Within half an hour special trail with
SUI geons AID nurses WAS hurriel from
here 10 the wreck, and all possible aid
was GivoE.
BY midnight the engineer, fireman,
conductor baggagemas.er, mail agent
ard two others were taken out dead
~ Seen by Daylight.
II e full realization of the indoscrib-
abe hnrors Of the wreck were more
fully revealed at daylight Saturday
m rning. The engine lay in four and
half feet of water with the body Of
the engine er, Joha White, still pinned
beneath it. The engine is lattered out
Of shane, and its machinery bent and
twisted like IL toy. The tender, bagg lge,
mail cars and passenger coaches lie in
the succcss ion in which they left the
track, the timber broken and the cars
overturned. pilning the unrescuel vic
Tins in II Gcath embrace ut the bottom
of the river.
The distance from the point where
the engine left the tracks, going down
the steep twenty-iivc-foot embankment
and then dashing over the rocky bed of
TIE river, is fully 40 feet, showing that
the train at the time of the accident
must have been going at terrific
speed.
The work of searching for bodies was
earned on without cessation through
ont the night. A number had been
taken cut by 8 o'clock Saturday mora
ing. The number Of bodies recovered
up to that time had reached twenty.
a CHASTITY Scene.
The scene at the wreck was n ghastlv
one. A long row of dead lay along the
banks of the river, which increased as
another body was recovered from the
river. Thousands flocked to the scene
of the disaster, and their aid, though
kindly profTcred, was of little service
where experienced men were required.
How II Occurred.
The wreck is sail TO have occurred in
the following manner: A down coal
train separated above ShoemaGersville,
another coal train following after ran
into the rear section Two loaded coal
cars we've thrown over the track Just as
the pas enger train came dashing past,
and, the engine str king this oh 'truc-
ton, the wreck of the passenger train
followed. 1t is estimated that the pas.
fenger train was running at a speed of
sixty-five miles an hour.
A large maj rity uf the victims, both
dead and injured, belonged in tue coal
region along the Reading road.
A delegation of citizens from Mahanoy
City arrived at the wreck Saturday fore
noon to take charge Of their dead. II is
said that the list Of injured now com
prises about fifty people. Engineer
VIII and Firemaa Templin, who Were
killed, filed the places of Louis and
George Heller, engineer and fireman.
who lost their lives on the same train III
the wreck at Tuckelton on June 23
last.
Killed.
The identified dead taken from the
wreck so far are:
,Ionn +. Miller, Of CTesson.
George Greenwlle, mail agent, of
PottsSiiie.
John White, engineer. of Pottsvillc.
James Templin, fireman, of Potts
Vile
William D. Sherman.
Harry Jacobs, stonecutter, of Potts
town.
Joselh Becker, chief burgess, OF Ma
hanoy City.
solomon Hoover, aged &C, Of Potts
Vile.
Mrs. Edward J. Fox, aged Al of Potts
vile
Edward J. Fox, aged Al, If Potts
Vile
George K. Kaercher, aged A, of Potts
vile.
Harry Loughin, conductor of ex.
press
John Osburn, Of Philadelphia.
Mrs J. +. Fredericks. of pottsyille.
J. Z. Fredericks, husband OF the
above.
Joseph Bansman, Of Philadelphia.
N. G. NandeTslice. Of Phunixville.
john Sheedle Of Philadelphia.
Engineer on the Reading.
Michael Summers, of Mahanoy City.
Frank Hassman, Of Mahanoy City.
Injured.
The injured are
Joha Noel. of Shenandoah, cut abont