Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-25
A DISASTROUS WRECK
Frightful Railroad Accident
at Harrisburg, Pa.
Passenger Cars Of an Express
Train Telescoped.
Nine People Killed and Number
Fatally Injured.
The Number OF Wounded Placed as
High as Forty Rain Retards the
Work OF Rescue-Horribly
Mangled Bodies.

HARRISBURG, Pa, July 25.-The most
disastrous wreck that ever occurred in
Harrisburg took place this Saturday.
morning at IL 80 o'clock at Dock street.
The second section Of the western ex-
press ran into the first section, COM
pletely telescoping two cars. Among
the killed are Richard Adams and wife,
furniture man of this city, an un-
known man from Altoona, and a man
from New York. A lady on the train
missed her infant child and it has not
been found. Five dead bodies have
been taken to the morgue at the Penn
sylvania railroad depot. The number Of
injured is placed as high as forty, but at
this hour (2:30 a. m.) it is impossible to
authenticate the report 1t is raining
hard, which greatly retards the work Of
rescue.
The first section of the train stopped
at the Dock street tower for orders, and
when it was about to start, the second
section crashed into it, wrecking five
cars and the locomotive of the second
of the city were aroused and all hurried
to the hospital, where the wounled and
dying were taken as fast as recovered
fiom the wreck.
At 3 o'clock this morning large gang
OF men is at work. Operator A. Steel
ton is alleged to be responsible for the
accident in having given Engineer Kelly
OF Philadelphia wrong signal. The
sharp curve at Dock street made the
disaster more serious than it would
otherwise have been. None of the
trainmen were hurt.
The private car OF George Westing-
house. OF Pittsburg, was the last on the
first train, and its weight crushed the
day coaches ahead of it into kindling
wood. Nobody in the Westinghouse
car was hurt except the porter.
The drenching rain made the work of
rescue exceedingly difficult, and owing
to the excitement, 1t is almost impossi-
BILE toobtain the names of the dead and
injured. The city hospital is full of
injured, and their moans and cries can
be heard square away. 1t is said John
Raymond, one of three brothers, horse
dealers of this city. is among the dead.
At the moreue nobody was admitted,
and the names of the dead could not be
ascertained.
Many bodies recovered were so man.
gled as to be unacceptable. Follow
ing is partial list Of the dead and in
jured:
Mrs. Whitman, Pittsburg, broken
ankle; her two daughters, slight
bruises; Charles Lee, Allegheny,
dead; Mrs. Uriah Hebner and
son, Norristown, aged II, both
killed; Uriah Hebner, Norristown,
slightly injured; F. g. o. Ely, Buffalo !;
J. J. Gone, Jersey City; w. r. FIeck,
Philadelphia; 7. W. Forthing, Buffalo,
are all slightly injured; Professor
Smith, Baltimore, dangerously hurt !;
Coolidge, Brooklyn, hurt internally, and
likely to die; Dan Mason, Clear Springs,
Md, will die; E. M. Whitelock, Cleve-
land, dead; DeCosta Pomerane, Phila.
delphia, dead; Fred Galberg, Brooklyn,
will die.
Among the injured are William T.
Eastwack, East Liberty, Pa. u. N. Ait
ken. Philadelphia, baggageman second
section, slightly; May Anderson, Jersey
City Heights; George Burnett, Trenton,
N. j.; W. B. Parsons, New York
j. A. Furck, Palmira, N. j.; Miss Alma
S. Cartetter, Pittsburg; Perry Landins,
Philadelphia; w. H. woodward, Phila-
delphia; porter, of the Westinghouse
car, slightly injured.
~, At 4:20 nine are dead and three or
four otherscannot live.