The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-08-03
THE ATLANTIC HORROR
The Number of Dead Now Placed
at Forty-four. .....a ,..>
THREE OTHERS MAY NOT SURVIVE.
The Condition of Miss Lizzie BranlD. Frank
Morele and William johnson Still tx
temeIy CrIticaI-The other Twelve at the
Hospital Will Probably Recover.

| ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 3-No additional
deaths have yet occurred as result or
Thursday nights collision, and the death
| roll stands at forty-four. There is pos
| sibility that 1t may remain at that figure,
| but Il Il only {. remote o4s. At the Ssns-
| tarium last evening It was reported thac
| the fifteen patients still there were dong
as well as could be expected, and while
there was bare chance Of pulling them
| all through safely the odds were against
OF least three. They are Frank Morele OF
East Orange, Nj; William johnson OF
Bridgeton, apd Lizzie Branin of Millville.
Miss Branin has not recovered conscious
ness since the collision, despite reports to
the contrary. She Is the pretty l9-year-
old girl who was engaged to be married
to Charles Horner, the Bridgeton grocer,
who lies on the cot next to her Horner,
too, is very severely hurt but the chances
are now in favor Of his ultimate recovery.
At So'clock in the morning the patients
request, made Saturday night to Rev. j.
H. Townsend rector of the Episcopal
Church of the Ascension, was granted.
The sonorous chimes of the little church,
which stands just across the way, pealed
forth the tones of Nearer my God to
Thee The faces of the patients made
pitiful study as they hardened to the
music. Some simply gazed with longing
eyes into vacancy, others with rapt looks
and quivering lips formed tho words of
the hymn In unison with the chimes, and
some softly wept
A number of clergymen of various de-
nominations have, ut their own request,
been permitted access to the sick ward
and while all the patients have welcomed
them and eagerly listened to their words
Of consolation, there has been no ceremony
Of purely religious character.
Relatives and friends of some of the dead
visited Coroner Mclaughlin yesterday and
received the money and valuables which
had belonged to their dead. The son of
William Prickett, ST., of Bridgeton, took
q few articles Of jewelry and S26.0l in
money.
Alfred Sharp, a brother of Mrs Lizzie
Bateman, of Bridgeton, who was killed
with her husband, secured the effects Of
the unfortunate couple. Mrs Feighan, of
Philadelphia, widow of Patrick Feighan,
the liquor dealer who was killed, secured
the money found on his body. Mrs.
Branin, mother of Lizzie Branin, looked
for watch which belonged to her daugh-
ter but 1t could not be found.
The watch of Philip H. Goldsmith, tho
Bridgeton clothier, who died hand in hand
with his wife, bears on the face the picture
Of his wife and two boys. 1t had stopped
at 2:i0
The inquest this afternoon will be held
upon the bodies Of Goldsmith and ono or
two others by way offormality. The rail-
road officials will be called first, including
Supcrntendents A. I. Dyce, of the Read
ing, and f. o. Dayton, OF the Pcnnsyl-
vania Albert Pinke-ton, conductor Of tho
Reading train, will also be called. There
win be twenty-five or thirty witnesses
in all.
Mrs. Burns German woman from
Philadelphia, was here yesterday trying
to find her boy, William, who had been
reported as being badly injured in the
wreck. He was not at the hospital, and
there was no trace Of him. IIe had been
living at shiloh, Pa, and may possibly be
there low.
While the city is gradually resuming its
normal conditions, the Sunday crowds
were considerably smaller yesterday.