New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-01

were toiling by the ngnt VI '"e0 ~
clear away the wreck and spiinters Oh p'oNe"
cars BY dawn they had practically c'eareu inc
t,.cns Broken and battered out Of shape, the
huge engine Of the express la! on i'H S'"e ~
,,o ,rack Pinned beneath, with his pale blood
strsned face staring into those OF the men WI"
,rg was Fnrr. the engineer. Not until this
morning were the wreckers able TO raise 'he
wrecked engine ard draw from beneath 1t the
,.,,s.aa hosv.of the engineer. 1t was placed IN
q box and taken to Fairs home here IL was
ra,or,ed last night when Mrs. Farr heard OF her
h,,shon,s death she fell dead This was not SO
M, che >ell into . swoon and tonight is lying
=. ..r,ous condition from the shock she re-
ceived.
SCENES IN THE HOSPITAL. AND MoRGoh'
The scenes around the hospital ana morsue
this morning We're narrowing The hrst trains
e., recollection Salem and the other towns from
,,,., 10 victims Of the accident came broueh'
ra,o.,,.os and friends Some came with no nope
h,, ~ take home the bodies Of their lost ones
Others came in hope and fear-hopng 10 nho
those they sought alive or not badly injured ana
dreadng TO find treu, dead or dying
THO old excursion house at the foot OF Miss's
sippi-ave had been turned INTO 'e'"po
roorrue Here stretched out on the moor III wv
parallei rows were the dead In boxes "o''ie
temrt had been made to clean the corpses ou.
some were half nude, their torn ana 'a.'''
clothing not covering their limbs. ana hear's al
were horribly mutated. The body OF "ona"
lacked a head another arm: some manu- VI
foot
Outside the morgue great crown was W.
iected Many of these were only OF tha' ihoio'
class which is attracted by death ana suhetine
like carbon birds The pale faces and trembling
fnlH a
thar their GRAND was far different. They sought
their dead Ropes stretched around 'he q"
trance barred out the crowd and the ponce let
10 owe in who they did not think had business
10 take them there. The scenes as the oocles
we're Identified were sad and pathetic beyond
words One will suffice for example:
Among the killed are Joseph Peters and MS
vounr son Morris Mrs Peters and her daughter
came from Bridgeton this morning to look for
+beir relatives They were taken to the morgue
As the two women came into the room ana saw
the two rows Of pine boxes. they shrahk pack
pale. and affrghted. Finally. mastering up
courage they were led trembling to the hrst poH
AS the lid was taken of the mother recoghizeo
Immediately the bruised and battered race as
that of her boy. With a shriek she tottereo anu
fell forward and would have fallen prone across
the coffin IL she had not been caught ana uphelu
Scarcely able to stand and moaning piteously
she was drawn gently toward. the second pox
Mother and daughter recognized at a glance the
husband and father who had left them 50
happily yesterday morning With piteous cries
that wrung the hearts of all around the Two
grief-stricken women were halt carried. half led
away
The scenes at the sGnitarium the hospita! 10
,,b,cb the injured were taken. were repeated
.,oo roll
.ves found those they sought. The character of
the train struck is shown on the dead and in
tured. It was made up OF families who had been
spending a happy day at the shore. ana the
slaughter among these families was awful. In
some instances all we're killed in family; in
others, the Wenzell family particularly. some
were killed and all the others hurt.
The Coroner's Jury viewed tho bodies this
morning and they were all taken away to-day
except those unidentified. The Pennsylvania
Railroad furnished a special train which took
twenty-threc bodies TO Bridgeton this afternoon
The bodies of the others of the identified dead
were taken away on other trains during the Day
THE CORONERs INVESTIGATION BEGUN.
Coroner William Mclaughlin has Teen the
busiest man in Atlantic City to-day lmme-
diately upon hearing of the accident last night
directly into the block tower and questioned
George +. Houser. the operator Houser told
him that ne thought the excursion train had
time to cross the tracks Of the Reading before
the express got there, ard he set the "clear"
signal for the West Jersey train. To under
stand Houser's statement properly. some ex-
PLANTATION of the signalling system is necessary.
The system used is the interlockng block sys-
controlled by the tower on the Reading tracks
and two on the West Jersey. The pole furthest
from the tower on the Reading tracks is distant
about 1000 yards The other two are much
closer When the clear" signal is set the
PENNSYLVANIA track this automatically sets the
"danger' signal on the Reading tracks. and vice
versa The danger signal lis still set tonight
on the Reading tracks. Before Houser could
make further explanation TO the coroner, he
received an order from the railroad officials to
say nothing. He obeyed and would make no
further explanation. Pending an investigation,
Houser was put under arrest by the coroner.
To-day MI Mclaughlin impaneed jury Of
prominent business men. The jury is made up
as follows:
Foreman Charles Evans. president Atlantic
CITY National Bank: T. J. Dickerson. director OF
the Union National Bank County Clerk Lewis
Evans. Charles r. Adams. director Union Ma
tional Bank: Levi Albertson ex-postmaster OF
Atlantic City, and City Hall Commissioner John
b. Champion.
THE DANGER SIGNAL SET.
After .iewing the bodies this morning. the jury
we're taken TO the scene of the wreck this after
noon With the Coroner and jury were Prose-
cu,or of Pleas Samuel f. Perry Law Judge
Joseph Thompson. representing the Reading
Railroad Law Judge Joseph ii. l. Gaskill Of
burlington County. representing the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. and Superintendent Deice, of the
Atlantic Division OF the Reading. When the
party arrived at the scene. Mr.. Deice explained
10 the Jury the signal system in operation The
signal wires had not yet been repaired and there