Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-20
THE DEAD AND DYING.
Details Of the Awful Disaster on the
Reading Road.
A VERY QUIET DAY AT CRESS0N.
A French Ship Conquers the So
ciety Islands.
THE DAYS NEWS eY TELEGRAPH
A VERY QUIET DAY AT CRESSON.
THE DAYS NEWS eY TELEGRAPH
THE SCENE DESCRIBED.
Daylight Revealed a Horrible Sight
at ShoemakersvilleL

at ShoemakersytlIe.
kFApi>e, Pa, Sept 20.-when daylishs
dawned on the scene OF last nights wreck on
the fhiad elphia and Reading railroad near
Shoemalersyhle the full realization of the
indescribGble horrors of the night before were
hrst fully revealed, and the sickening spectacle
OF the wrecked train and its victims was pro-
sented in startling picture and a terrible
scene. There lay the engine in A., feet Of water,
while the body OF the engineer, John White,
was still pinned underneath the heavy IRON
work, his arms extended in an appealing man
ner above the water. The engine is all bat
tered out OF shape and Its ponderous machin-
cry bent and twisted like plaything. Next
lay the tender on its side and then the baggage
and mail cars and passenger coaches in the
succession in which they left the track, the
timbers broken and the cars overturned,
pinning the unrescued victims in a death en-
brace at the bottom of the river
The speed at which the tram was running
can be imagined when il is stated that the
distance from the point whsre the engine left
the tracks, going down the steep 25-foot en-
bankment and then dashing over the rocky bed
OF the river, is fully $50 feet The work Of
searching for bodies continued all night and
mp to s O'Clock this morning number had been
taken. nov making the total number recovered
at about twenty
MR.. KAERcHSER WAS KILLED.
There is now no longer any doubt as TO the
fate of George X. kaerchner, general counsel
of the Reading railroad His body was taken
out of the wrecked parlor car early this morn
ing almost unrecognizable and badly disfg-
ured. The scene on the banks Of the river was
CHASTITY one. There lay long row Of the
dead, which were increased as one
after another OF the bodies were
brought out OF the water. The force
employed by the railroad company is
sufficiently large but il will be difficult work
to meet the ponderous cars Thousands have
hocked to the scene OF disaster, and while they
are willing to assist their aid is OF very little
service where experienced men are required
The wreck occurred in this way: A down coal
train separated above Shoemakersyille another
coal tram following after ran into the rear sec
tion. Two loaded coal cars we're thrown over
on TO the other track, just the passenger
train came dashing past, and the engine
striking this obstruction, the wreck OF
the passenger train followed. II is claimed that
the passenger train followed so soon after the
crash of the two coal trains that the employees
had no time TO go back TO warn the approach
ing passenger train, which crashed into the
wreck at the rate Of sIxty-five miles al hour.
The coal regions were more heavily afflicted
than any other section along the Reading rail-
road, and large majority of the victims, both
dead and injured, came from that region.
This forenoon delegation of Mahanoy City
citizens arrived to take charge of their dead
melancholy coincidence is presented in the
fact that the ill-fated train, the Pottsyllle ex-
press, Is the same which wrecked at Tuck
erton on the down trip on the 23d Of June last
and Engineer White and Fireman Tempting,
who were killed In yesterdays disaster, flied
the places of the Heller brothers, Lewis and
George, engineer and fireman, who lost their
lives in the aforementioned accident
TWENTY BODIES TAKEN oUr.
Up to 10 o'clock this forenoon a total Of
twenty bodies had been taken out and the list
of injured is now about fifty.
One OF the fremen who was taken out of the
wreck at midnight has since been identified az
Frank Hassman of Mahanoy City. He was
thirty-three years Of age, and was member Of
the Citizens Fire Company. His chest was
crushed in and his face presented sickepinp
agent
leaves widow and two small children In
Pottsville. Mrs. ]. Z. Fredericks Of
Pottsville, forty years old was the
second lad- found drowned in the Pullman
car. j. L. FrederIcks, her husband. was found
dead by her side. Joseph Bausman. Phila-
delphla and Reading fireman, of Philadelphia
Qn doubt, badly disfgured, found dead under
the smoker. \. q. Nanderslice Of Pheni.yille
found dead under the smoker John Shadle. A
Reading engineer, well known. lives in Phila-
deiphia, was found dead under the smoker.
Michael Summers of Mahanoy CITY member of
the Humane Fire Company. found dead under
the smoker: An arm, supposed 10 be that Of
Engineer White, was found in the water The
engineer and fireman are still under the engine
The body OF Mrs. Edward J. Fox was taken
out at $50 this morning. She was the first
lady taken out found drowned under the Pull
man car, lived in Pottsyille and was thirty-nine
years old Edward J. Fox husband of Mrs.
Fox, was found dead, lying alongside of
his wife: Both had drowned together,
and hole was cut in his forehead
George Il. kaercher's body was taken out al
6:2O a. m. lie was badly cut on the forehead
and about the eyes, He was drowned in five
feet Of water In the Pullman car His arms
and lower limbs were drawn up. Mr.. Kaercher
was very able lawyer and the Philadelphia
and ReadingC Company's general solicitor. Harry
Logan, aged thirty-hve, conductor OF the
express train, was found dead under the Pull
man car in the water. His hands
were on his face. as though he had anticipated
danger. He was badly mangled He leavesa a
wife and one child in Pottsville. solomon
Hoovers body was taken out at $50 am. He
is from Pottsyille and forty years old; he was
found in the water under the Pull
man droSned Joseph Becker, chief
burgess Of Mahanoy City, prominent
member of the fire department, was found
under the smoker crushed 10 death. He vas
found in a heap OF seven dead bodies at dawn.
The body of John Osborn, Philadelphia, ON
4. So al d.. H. n.
found He was a fne-iooking man, six feet
tall. with beard. about thirty years Of age.
GONE FOR THE DAY.