Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1896-08-06

Mrs. Richard Freis, Yorktown.
VIM. Wentzell, Alloway.
John +. Tullis, Camden,
VIM. Spaulding.
Ella johnson.
j. f. Watson, York etown.
Samuel Wilson, Alloway.
Sanford Wilson, Alloway.
Lillian Tyler, Bridgeton.
Mrs. Lizzie Smalley, Bridgeton.
ATLANTIC CITY, 2.3O p. m.
The following persons, in addition to
those already given, are identified among
the dead.
Additional Dead.
Jennie Sheppard.
Lydia Wentzell.
James M. Bateman.
Morris Peters.
Ed. Farrell.
Mrs. w. c. Loper.
Harvey Hughes.
Mizeal May.
Reba Loper.
Three more persons in the hospital are
expected to die at any time
At 3 O'Clock the Reading Railroad will
place an extra train at the disposal of the
friends of the dead to convey their re-
mains home.
At o'clock the Coroner's Jury will,
take special train for the scene of the
disaster. The Jury is composed of the
following prominent business mem
Charles Evans, Jos. Champion, c. G.
Adams, P. J. Dickinson, Levi Albertson
and L.aAdams. VANSYCKEL,
ATLANTIC CITY, 3.35 D. m.
special train left here this afternoon
at 3.23 for Bridgeton. The train was
made up of two passenger coaches and
one baggage car.
In the baggage car were twenty-five
cotfins containing the bodies of the un-
fortunates who met their death in the
awful accident yesterday. Just before
the train pulled out, an ambulance rush
ed up to the depot in which was the body
of poor Fred Cheney.
He was the last of the victims to die.
and the undertakers not having sufficient
cof1ins the body was wrapped in linen
and laid on the caskets.
The bodies were in charge of under
taker Clayton Mcpherson.
In the passenger coaches were eleven
of the injured ones, who were able to be
removed.
The other seats were taken with the
friends of the deceased, and the injured.
On the train is City Solicitor Trench
ard who has been doing yeoman service
hara in aSSiStirr
On the train also, were Mayor Appel
gate and County Physician Thompson.
+ Mrs. Florence Fralinger, who was
badly injured and taken to the hospital.
died this morning.
Miss Lizzie Brannin, of Millville, is
also dead, and the gentleman who was
with her cannot discover her body.
The PIONEER representative heard to-
day the officials of the Reading Railroad
admit that the blame for the accident is
attached to them.
was scene that one will not forget
for years. Down at the Pearl street sta
tion there were thousands of people,
They were crowding the platforms, on
the roofs of the cars, and all over the big
freight yard.
Many of them were curiosity seekers,
anxious to crafty morbid sensation;
many were friends, others were repre-
sentatives of secret organizations, while
few were relatives of the unfortunate
victims of the awful accident of the Red
Mems Atlantic City excursion.
1t was just past five o'clock Friday
afternoon when silently the two passen-
ger coaches and long baggage car rolled
slowly in the freight yard. Within the
baggage car were twenty-one bodies of
the unfortunate people whose deaths are
so lamented. In the passenger coaches
were few of the injured ones of that ex-
cursion, while accompanying them were
various friends.
What sad return of the excursionists,
who but the day before had left that same
station so happily anticipating a day of
rare pleasure in gay Atlantic City. Who
could have pictured the ending of that
carefully planned pleasure trip?
The train referred to was the special
placed at the disposal of the people, by
the West Jersey Railroad Company. 1t
had left Atlantic City at 3.23, and made
the run to Irving avenue station in one
hour and fifty seconds. 1t had been in
the care of Conductor d. A. Clapp, while
the engine was obedient to the command
and aet OF that splendid engineer iona.
Bruden. All through the trip the officials
had given the living passengers every
possible care and attention, and the
sacred dead, the respect due to their