The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-10-29
N A RAILROAD COLLISION.
TERRIBLE COLLISION ON THE
READING.
Seven Are Killed and Twenty more
or Less Injured In a Terrible
Collision on the Reading
Railroad In Penn
sylvania.
A Day Of Fatalities.

A Day OF Fatalities.
Philadelphia, Oct. 25.-The Shamokin ex-
press on the Philadelphia & Reading rail-
road, which is due in this city at $3.50 a. M,
cOllided with a train of empty coal cars OF
West Manyunk tunnel, north OF this city
this morning. Seven persons were killed
outright and nineteen injured. The follow
ing is a list of the dead and injured:
Dead-Thomas Welsh Of Auburn, fireman
of the express train; james Kilrain OF
TamaQua, brakeman on the coal train; Frank
Seeieff Of Reading, newsboy on express
train; Mrs. Margaret Devine, David s. Herr,
member of the legislature from Harrisburg;
James Boynton Of Reading; Annie Atchison,
Minersville, Pa. Baggagemaster J. Clayton
Eppler of Pottsville, Pa, Is missing.
IOnjured-S. u. Rhodes, of Phoenixvillc
Pa, express messenger, condition very Sc
rious; NJ. D. Cowen, Harrisburg; Moritz q.
Leppert, both legs broken; Mrs. NJ. g. Lep-
pert; Ella Devine, Philadelphia; Annie
Kemp, Hamburg, Pa; Miss Mary Tees, VAL
ley Forge, Pa; Annie NJ. Sides, Reading,
Pa; Mary c.. Pretzman, Pottstcwn, Pa; w.
H. Embre, Reading; James Z. Burfeld, ke-
move, Pa; H. G. printz, Reading, conduc-
tor of passenger train; Thomas Fitzpatrick,
engineer Of express, very serious; Hiram
Gottshall, Reading; DR.. Joseph f.. wright,
Phoeuixville, both legs broken; W. II. Beck
er, pottstown; James H. Chillson, Reading,
employed by company; John +. Wymcoop,
Port Kennedy, Pa, forearm crushed ana
afterwards amputated; William Haisey' Al
lentown; w. II. Gerlocher, Tamaqua' Ia''
conductor of coal train; Charles Bling "a
maaua, engineer Of coal train; Bernard dal-
lagher, fireman of coal train; Kew. .. M.
Hare. Phoenixville; Il. +. Shrek, brakeman
ON coal train; Charles Miller, PottsV1lle; A.
Schartz, pottsville; Miss Lizzie Smith, fhoe-
nixville; H. Rosefelt, New York.
A number of other persons VIVA were only
| slightly hurt proceeded to Philadelphia
without having their injuries attended 70:
The Shamokin express left Pottsviiie at
| o'clock. At phoeMxviile orders dated at
| Reading were received to run the north
bound track frem West Conshohocken 10
West Falls regardless Of all other trains:
From West ConshOhocken IN pursuance OF
these orders the iii tated train TOOK Lne
north bound track. Train No. oSS, Of empty
| coal cars, started north from west Mana
0 o'clock. The railroad officials say that
| positive instructions had been given that
| the coal train should lie up at West Falls
south Of where the collision occurred untll
the ShamOkin train had passed.
The two trains came together on q curve
with a terrible crash. A moment later the
shrisks and groans 81 a., the Dying ana Was w1 riLIsi
with passengers. The engines p~loughed
their way through each other and rolled
| over on their sides i'll one conglomerated
mass of shattered machinery. -,
The front Of tht baggage car was crushed
completely in, and Baggagema' ,Eppler and
John Steif, the news boy, We're buried IN Q
were subsequently taktn out dead. The
| end Of the smoker crashed together. The
greatest force Of the collision occurred with
the smoking car and the passenger coach
next to it, and the scene presented here
| gives some indication Of the speed at which
| The train was moving and the terrific shock
Of the collision, The smoker telescoped its
way into the other coach fully. one-half its
| length, and how any one In either car eS-
| capped death is a mystery. The baggage car
! was literally smashed to pieces and thrown
over on the north bound track in a heap
soon burned up. Except for scratches and
bruises, the passengers in the tail cars all
| escaped unhurt.
Rumors are current that some arrests
might be made, but the chief Of the Read
ing Coal 4 Iron police said that nothing
| oner's inquest is held. This is set for next
| Thursday, when the proper place to lay the
blame for the accident will probably be
brought out.