The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-07-31

Atlantic City, N. j., July 30.-A rail-
road accident horrible In Its details
and sickening In its results occurred
this evening outside of this city and as
a result about a hundred persons are
either killed or injured.
The Reading railroad express, which
left Philadelphia at $40 o'clock this
evening for Atlantic City. crashed into
Pennsylvania railroad excursion
train at the second signal tower. about
four miles out from here The Penn
sylvania train was returning to Bridge
ton with party of excursionists from
that place, Millville and nsighboring
towns. 1t was loaded with passengers
and rough estimate of the killed and
injured at late hour places the num-
Der at 100. 1t Is hoped that this Is an
exaggera ton, but the number Is un-
doubtedly more than so.
At the second signal tower the tracks
of the two roads diagonally GROSS. The
Reading train .Uas-n1lss-s sfgnaf 70
stop, but 1t either failed to work or
the speed Of the express was too great
to be checked In time. 1t caught the
excursion train broadside and ploughed
through, literally cleaving II In twain.
The engine Of the Reading train was
shattered to pieces. Every car on the
excursion train was janmed to Its full
est capacity.
As soon as the news reached Atlantic
City the utmost CONSERVATION prevail
ed, but the authorities We're equal to
the emergency. Relief trains were dis
patched to the scene. loaded with cots
and bearing staffs of surgeons. As soon
as the bodies were recovered they were
carried into the local hospitals and un-
dertakers shops. A general fire alarm
was sounded and the department
promptly responded and aided In the
heartrending work of digging for the
victims. Fear grew into despair and
horror as the disastrous work Of the
relief gangs revealed the awful extent
of the disaster. The first Reading re-
lief train bore into this city "a man.
gled corpses, men. women and children.
the next train, not an hour later car
ried Is of the manned and wounded and
two of these died soon after reaching
the city.
AS train after train piled to the scene
of the wreck and came back with its
ghastly load, the Sanitarium, which
does duty as the city hospital, quickly
found hts capacity overtaXed. Mean
while. others OF the dead and injured
were being carried to the priva.e hos
pital at Ocean and Pacific avenues. Ed
ward Farr, engineer on the Reading
train, was Killed outright, as was an
other railroad man VINO rode on the
engine wltn MN. rms man. whose
name mas not YET been learned, saw
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