Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-06
MANY ARE KILLED
HORRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT
NEAR ATLANTIC CITY.
100 KILLED OR INJURED
and Manned and Dying Ply Between
Scene of Disaster and the Popular
Seaside Resort-Partial List of
Dead and Wounded.

Dead and Wounded.
Atlantic City, n j., July 31.-A rail
road accident, horrible in its details
and sickening in its results, occurred
last evening, just outside of this city
and as a result about a hundred per-
sons were either killed or injured
The Reading railroad express which
left Philadelphia at $40 last evening
FOR Atlantic City crashed into Penn
Sylvania excursion train at the second
signal tour four miles out from here
The Pennsylvania train was return
ing from Bridgeton with a party of
eACursiOniSts from that place to Mil
Vile and neighbOring towns. 1t was
loaded with passengers and a rough
estimate of the killed and injured is
placed at one hundred. At the second
signal tower the tracks OF the two
roads cross. The Reading train was
given the signal, but it 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 plunged through it, literally cleav-
ing it in twain. The engine of the
Reading road was shattered to pieces
Every car was damned to its fullest
capacity. AS soon as the news reached
Atlantic City relief trains were dis
patched to the scene with cots and
surgeons. AS quick as the bodies were
recovered they were carried into local
70 oil
general fire alarm was sounded and the
department promptly responded and
aided in digging for the victims.
The first relief train bore into the
city twenty-seven nangled corpses of
men, women and children. The next
train carried fifteen manned and
wounded and two of these died soon
after reaching the city. The baggage
master of the Reading train is among
the dead, James NJ. Bateman, an under
taker at Bridgeton, is known TO have
been killed. Richard Trenchard, a
BridgetOn machinest, and wife, are
both dead. The excursion train was
made up of fifteen cars, the foremost
Of which was baggage car. This and
the full force of the crash and were
utterly demolished. What remained
of the third car tumbled into a ditch
at the roadside.
There are seventeen unidentified
women, four men and a female child
all dead. Fireman Kelly, of the Read
ing train was fatally injured.
ic clio
was displayed and that the whistle Of
the train was sounded. The Reading
had the right of way at the crossing.
VIM. Burlow, telegraph operator in the
tower house, was arrested and is being
held pending an investigation.
The known dead are: p. S. Murphy
Millville; J. D. Johnson, Bridgeton;
Charles D. d. BaunOugh, BridgetOn;
G. B. Taylor, p. H. Goldsmith, Bridge
ton; Samuel Thorn, Daggagemaster of
Reading train; G. E. Wood, Philadel-
phia; John Greiner, Bridgeton; Charles
Eackler Salem; Charles McGear,
Bridgeton; Franklin Dubois, Woodruff;
Mrs. Joshua Earnest, Bridgeton; a
middleaged woman with a ring bear
ing G. to V. as initials; small boy
about four years of age; Frazier Bell
and wife, Bridgeton; Nh and Mrs.
Richard Trenchard, Bridgeton; Ed
ward Farr, engineer of Reading train.
The seriously injured are:
Samuel Muta, BridgetOn, internally N
jured; W. H. Spaulding, Philadelphia,
internal injuries, head cut; VIM.
Baughman, Bridgeton, back hurt, head
severely cut; Charles c. Cenick, Bridge
ton, badly cut about head; Howard
Smalley, Bridgetor, body bruised. head
cut; Mrs. E. A. Abbot, RhodestOwn,
N j., lower limb and arms broken; G.
D. Fraser and wife, Bridgeton, both
badly cut on the head; Lizzie NJ Null
Ter, Bridgeton, conclusion of back;
Charles w. Horner, fractured leg, in
ternal injuries; Wesley Lee, Bridgeton,
internal injuries; Fred Cheney, Bridge
ton, internal INJURIES; Mrs Faunce Fra
linger, Philadelphia, broken leg; John
Shelley, Camden, N. J., internal in,
juries.
Mr.. Edward Farra, wife of the Read.
ing engineer who was killed, when in
formed of her husbands tragic death,
threw up her hands and with a frantic
shrek, fell dead at the feet of her in
formant.