The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-20
A Horrible Accident on the
Reading Railroad.
TRAIN HURLED OVER 4 BANK.
Fifteen Bodies Taken Out and Forty
Are In the Wreck.
Thirty Passengers Were wounded--Most
Of the Dead and Injured Were Penn.
sylvanisns-One or tho Victims : Well.
know Railroad Lawyer.

READING, Pa, Sept 19-One Of the worst
wrecks ever known in this section of coun.
try occurred tonight ON the Reading rail.
road. seventeen miles from here. Near
Shoenakerville there is curve where the
railroad is about eighteen or twenty feet
higher than the Schuylkill river. Here,
shortly before 6 o'clock, q freight train ran
into coal train. throwing several cars on
the opposite track. Before the train hands
had time to warn any approaching train Of
the danger tho Pottsville express, carry.
ing about $50 passengers, came around the
curve ct the rate of forty-five miles an
hour and ran into the wrecked coal cars.
The engine went down an embankment,
followed by the entire train with its human
freight.
The scene was one of great horror. The
cries of the imprisoned passengers were
heartrending. some of the passengers
managed to crawl out of their prison and
arouse the neighborhood. Word was tele-
graphed to this city, and surgeons and .
force OF 800 workmen taken to the spot.
The work of rescue was slow, and the dead
and dying were taken out with great
difficulty.
Up to 10 O'Clock tonight six dead and
Will ~ WOAuuC0 udQ VcSAl tdkSu Out. vi tQ0
latter some were brought to this city and
others taken to the miners hospital ct Ash.
land. The dead taken out so far are:
WILLIAM d. sHoRRIs. Reading.
JOHN WHITE, engineer. Pottsville.
JAMES TEMPLIN, fireman, Pottsville.
HARRY LOGAN, conductor, Pottsville.
DAVID AUasrADT. Mahoney City.
\. W. LOGAN. baggage MASTER Shenandoah.
The injured are:
Harrison Riland, Philadelphia; Joseph South.
wood, Centralia. Pa; James f. Msrkel, Bethle-
hem, Pa; Joseph Noil. Shenandoah: Frank b
Hall, manager Of Frank MayO's Dramatic Com.
pany; John Carroll. ST. Clair; Joseph Ashtield,
Mahoney City; william Glassmayer, Port
Clinton, Pa: Thomas Looney, Philadelphia;
Robert Collins, Pottstown: Samuel :Shellen-
berger, Hamburg: B. w. Ciller, Girardville, Pa;
John Collier, Mt Carmel, Pa; w. w. Johnston,
Shenandoah; George Sanders Reading: Benz
jamin franklin, Shenandoah; James Bernhart,
Shenandoah; John Hess. Mahoney City: David
g. Young. Mshoney City; Lyman Dick, Ham
burg; DR.. B. =. Sslade. New Ringold; Jacob
Ulmen, Poetsville; Samuel Coomb, Mahoney
City; William SINNERS, Ashland; John Thorn
ton. Freeport, Pa
The wrecked train Is still lying at the bot
tom Of the river. The exact number Of the
passenger list Is not known, and reporter
who il on the ground telephones that he
believes there are still twenty-five or more
bodies under the wreck or who were car
risd away by the current.
LATER-11:30 p m.-The Associated
Press agent has just had direct communi-
cation with . representative at the wreck.
who says . conservative estimate places
the number killed at forty or fifty. It 10
almost impossible to estimate correctly.
and the full horror of the situation win not
In Hnozp x,v,til taf h<xv,r
At IL o'clock Mail Agent Greenawald's
body was taken out. followed by the horri-
bly, mangled remains Of two Mahoney City
firemen, which are on the way home.
At midnight thirteen bodies had been
recovered. The names of those known
have already bcen given. Five bodies are
exposed to view in the wreck, pinned
under the timbers.
One of the passengers who escaped with
light injuries said to an Associated Press
reporter at midnight:
When the crash came was hurled from my
seat. One end Of the car splashed into the
river and was thrown against the side Of the
car with q force that partially stunned me.
quickly recovered myself, and managed to
climb upon the seats on that side OF the car
which lay against the embankment. was q
prisoner in the car, and while was nursing my
sprained ankle and wrist, realized was in .
scene of terrible horror. Around and about me
were human beings struggling in the water,
screaming in fright, and some almost dragged
me back into the water again. few saved
themselves as did, and the remainder strug-
eled in the water and then quickly sank out OF
sight
Professor Mitchell. OF Lehigh university,
ct Bethlehem, Pa. is among the injured at
the Reading hospital. Lawrence Barnes.
of Philadelphia, had his arm dislocated.
The body of John L. Miller, of Cresson,
was taken out at midnight.
READING, Sept. 20.-3 a. m.--Three hun
dred men are still at work, but are maxi
ing slow progress. Fifteen bodies have been
taken out but none of them have been re-
moved from the scene of the disaster
John McDonough. Jack Noland, William
Johnson, of Shenandoah, Pa, and John
Strauss, of SchuylkiIl Haven, are among
the latest reported injured.
tits still believed that there are two or
more bodies beneath the wreck. Nothing
definite can be known until the wreck is
raised, which will probably be tomorrow.
No more names can be secured. The tele-
phone Office has closed. That was the
only means of getting news all night.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. IA special from
Reading to the Enquirer about the wreck
says that George X. Kaercher, the eminent
railroad lawyer of Pottsville, Pa, is among
the killed.
Ten Killed in Mexican Train-wreck.
Cry or MEXICO, Sept. IA terrible ac-
cident happened today on the Mexican
railroad near Rinconada, two passenger
trains colliding. Ten persons were killed
and several others injured.
Ajax Wrecked ON California Coast.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 19.-The mer.
chants exchange received . dispatch this
morning stating that the steamer Ajax