Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-21
THE READING WRECK.
Revised List OF the Killed and Wounded
in the Horrible Disaster.
Thousands Of People Flocking to View the
Awful scence-Ihe Cause OF the
Wreck Explained.

llSnL oaWned on the scene OF last night
wreck on the Philadelphia and Reading
! railroad, near Shoemakersville, q full
realization of the indescrlbable horrors
of the night before were revealed and
the sickeniug spectacle of the wrecked
train and its victims was presented in o
startling picture and terrible scene.
There lay the engine in four and half
feet of water, while the body of Engi-
neer John White was still pinned under
meath the heavy ironwork, his arms eX-
tended in an appealing manner above
the water. The engine is all battered
out of shape, bent and twisted like q
plaYthing. Next lay the tender on Its
side and then the baggage and mail cars
and passenger coaches in succession, in
which they left the track, timbers
broken and cars overturned, pinning the
unrescued victims in deaths embrace at
the bottom of the river.
The speed st which the train was run
ming can be imagined when it is stated
that the distance from the point where
the engine left the track GO
ing down a steep, twenty-five foot en-
bankmeut, and then dashng over the
rocky bed of the river, is fully $50 feet.
The work of searching for the bodies
continued all night, aud up to 8 O'Clock
this morning number more had been
taken out. Now the total number re-
covered is about twenty. There is no
longer any doubt es to the fate of George
kaercher, general counsel for the Read
ing road. His body was taken out of
the wrecked parlor car early this morn
ing almost understandable.
The scene on the banks of the river is
n CHASTITY one. There lay long row of
dead which were increased as one after
another of the bodies were brought out
of the water Thousands of persons
have fiocked to the scene of the disaster,
and while they are willing to assist, their
aid IS of very little service where expe-
rieaced men are required.
The wreck occurred in this way: A
down coal train separated above Shoe
makersvills. Another coal train follow
ing after ran into the rear section. Two
loaded coal cars were thrown over on the
other track just as the passenger train
came dashing past, and the engine
striking this obstruction, the wreck of
the passenger train followed. 1t is
claimed the passenger train followed too
soon after the crash of the two coal
trains, that the employees had no time to
go back TO warn the approaching passen-
ger train, which crashed into the wreck
at rate of siXty-five miles an hour.
The coal regions were more heavily
afflicted than any portion, and large
majority of the victims, both dead and
injured, came from those regions.
This forenoon delegates from Ma
honey City citizens came to take
charge of their dead. a melancholy
coincidence is presented in the fact
that the fatal train (the Pottsvilie eX-
press) is the same which was wrecked at
Tuckerton on down trip on the 23d of
June last, and Engineer White and Fire
man Templin, who were killed in yester-
days disaster, filled the places of the
Heller brothers. Lewis and George, the
engineer and fireman who lost their lives
in the first mentioned accident.
Up TO 10 O'Clock this forenoon total |
of twenty podies were taken out, and the |
list of injured is now about fifty.
The following is q revised list of dead |
thus far taken from the wreck: John f. |
Miller, Cressona; George Green, q mail |
agent, Pottsville; John White, engineer,
Pottsvllle; James Tomplin, fireman,
Pottsville; william D. Shoemo, Read
IuS marry JaCOlG skOho Sut'OAJ L OIlS-
vile; Joseph Brecker, Chief Burgess,
Edward J. Fox, Pottsville; George |
h. Kaercher, Pottsville; Harry |
conductor of express
train, John Osburn, Philadelphia; Mr..
and Mrs. J. E. Fredericks, Pottsville; |
James B. Ausmen, Philadelphia; n. C. |
Vanderslice, Phenixville; John Sheedle, |
Philadelphia; Philadelphia and Reading |
engineer, Michael Summers, Mahoney |
City; Frank Hassman, MahoneY City.
The injured are: Joseph Noll, |
cut about head and left
shoulder broken; Frank B. Hall, |
manager Frank Mayes' dramatic COM
pany, cut about head, bruised about |
arms and legs; John Carroll, St. Clair, |
back hurt and internally injured; June |
Carroll and son, John Carroll, badly |
bruised; Joseph Ashfleld, Mahoney City,
bruised about body and legs; William
Port Clinton, badly cut |
about breast; Thomas Cooney, head aud |
legs injured; Robert Carlton, Pnttstown,
injured internally; Samuel Shellen-
berger, Hamburg county, injured;
Harrison Ryland, Philadelphia. leg
broken and internally injured; Joseph
Centralia, body cut and in
ternally injured; John Thornton.
Lesshoert, badly cut about head and
body slightly injured; b. w. Ethly
Grand Valley, foot and leg mashed;
John Kulick. Mount Carmel, hurt in
ternally and hand mashed; W. J. John
son, Shenandoah, hand badly cut aud
leg broken; George Southers, Reading,
badly hurt about back and neck; Frank
Conklin Beecher, Shenandoah, left hip
cut aad leg hurt; James Bernhart,
left hip crushed
and legs hurt; John Hess,
City, leg bruised;
Joseph J. Didenung, Mahoney City,
head badly cut, leg sprainsd; Lyman
Dick, Hamburg, both legs broken; DR..
D. F. Holiday, New Ringgold, right
arm badly hurt; Jacob Ulmer, Potts
vile, both legs broken; Samuel Coomb,
City, badly hurt about body
aud leg broken; William SINNERS, Ash
land, hurt; Robert Collin, parlor car
very badly bruised; Edward
Logan, baggagemaster, Pottsvllle,
badly injured IN back and head; Mr..
Stroul, Pottsville, badly bruised; G. T.
Merkle, Cresson, Iowa, arm broken and
hurt internally; John McDonough, She
nandoah, badly hurt, and John straub,
injured.