The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-06-27
THE HARRISBURG WRECK.
Twelve of the Victims Now Dead-An the
Others Likely to Recover.

Twelve of the Victims Now Dead-An the
Others Likely to Recover.
HARRISBURG. Pa, Juno 26-Yesterday's
frightful wreck on the Pennsylvania rail.
road, within few hundred yards of the
Union Station. involving the first and
second sections of the Western express,
was almost the sole topic of conversation
to-day at the hotels, upon the streets and
wherever persons were gathered. Several
city pastors made the catastrophe the
theme of their discourse from the pulpit to.
day.
Most of the injured who were able to
travel have left for their homes. and tho
eleven persons still at the hospital are in
fair way to recover. They are: Miss Alma
S. Karstetter, q teacher of Icksburg. Berry
county. Pennsylvania, whose ankles are
severely sprained; II. Is. Sen sebAch,
of Mattoon, ILL.,. compound fract.
ure of the left leg and numer-
GUS cuts and bruises; Miss Carrie
Golden of Philadelphia. back and knee
sprained and probably internal injuries;
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Burnett and daughter
Edna, Trenton. n. J.--Mrs Burnett suffer-
ing from severe contusions of back and
possibly internal injuries but her husband
and daughter not seriously hurt; Maggie
Smith, Jersey City Heights. contusious of
back and legs; Percy N. Lands, Philadel-
phia. printer. extensive bruises and con-
fusion of left leg; Mrs. Mary Granger,
Seattle, Wash. laceration and confusion of
face, confusion OF spinal bone and cuts on
hands and arms; Maggie Harrison, her
niece, aged five, severe scalp wounds; w.
L. Eastwlck. East Liberty. compound
fracture of the right arm and painful con-
tusions aud bruises of legs.
The sixth death, making the list of dead
twelve. occurred at the hospital this morn
ing. The twelfth victim was Ferdinand
Colberg. of Brooklyn, n. \. He was q large
man. and the partition walls of his nose
seem to have been crushed into his head.
His skull was also fractured and there
were internal injuries. Mrs. COlberg and
two friends of the dead man arrived at tho
hospital a few hours before he died. The
body was shipped TO Brooklyn to-day. The
remains of Miss Lizzie Blair. who was the
com panlon of aer aunt. Mrs. Granger en-
route To Seattle, wcre sent to Pbiladelphis
this afternoon. The body of Prof q. l..
Smith, principal of the normal school at
Baltimore, was ghipped to Canandaigua,
n. Y. tonight in charge OF the brother aud
the wife of the lamentcd instructor, who
came on from Canapda;gua last night
Friends also lefB tonight for Columbus,
u. Win tnc Ttfuhiss Oh hOOtIt
the dealer In horleo, whose partner. Ii. Is.
SeDsebach, Is at tho hospital. He sat In the
same seat with Raymond.
Daniel Mason, whose body was sent to
HagerstOwn, Nd, was killed while retnrn.
ing from Boston, where he had gone 10 ar
range for his approaching marriage with
Miss Charlotte Mendum. The young lady
reached Harrisburg this afternoon and was
compelled TO seek q ply ysician She is broken
hearted ever the awful fate of her att
ianced. The body of the Rev. Dacosta
POmereno, of Philadelphia. was sent to
friends at Millersburg. o., and that of l..
NJ. Whitlock. chief clerk to the general
agent of the Pennsylvania Company. was
shipped TO Cleveland, q. The following 10
a correct list of the dead, as revised to-
night:
ADAMS, RICHARD, Harrisburg.
BLACK, JoBN. Altoona.
BLAIR, LIZZIE. Philadelphia.
CDLBURG. FERDINAND. Brooklyn.
HEEBNER, MRS. URIAH. Norrstown.
HEEBNER, WINFIELD, Norrist0wn.
Mason. DAsTEI, eR., Hagerstown, Nd.
LEE, c. L.. Pittsburg.
PoMERENE, REV. DACosTA. Philadelphia.
RAYMOND, Robert &, Columbus, y.
SMITH. PROF. q. r., Baltimore.
WHITTIER, Il. NJ, Cleveland, o.
II. II. Hayes. the young operator at tho
Steeiton tower who is supposed 70 have
been the responsible party for the disas-
trous wreck which took place in this city
yesterday morning. spent very restless
night in jail last night. lie spent the en-
tire night In dreadful suspense, lying on mis-
cot and sobbIng bitterly. Several physi-
clans say that he is liable to become liz sane
II confined much longer. President Reb-