Evening star., 1896-07-31
Revised List of the Victims of the
Crossing Disaster.
RESCUERS At WORK ALL MIGHT
Statement by the Engineer of the
Excursion Train.
CLAIMS HEHAD RIGHTOFWAY

midsummer sun burst this morning upon a.
sleepless, horror-stricken community The
gaiety which Will mark this resort from
now until the end of the season will be but
a faint echJ of days past. death pail
mas fallen on ii. On every street corner
and hotel piazza people discuss last nights
| fearful catastrophe and the additional de-
tails revealed by the break of day The
| list Of dead as revised now numbers forty-
| three, and this is thought to he correct,
although there is a possibility that more
bodies are under the debris in the pond
| beside the wreck. The injured SO far as
| known aggregate forty-three. The revised
| list follows:
Charles Muta and John Griver. Bridge
ton; Charles Eckler. Salem: Charles p
McGear and Mr.. and Mrs Trenchard,
Bridseton: 8. p Murphy, Millville: Joseph
Peius, j. ID. johnson, Charles ID. Burroughs.
bedy supposed to be Charles Soly. II. r.
Pei, w. c. Lcoper. Mr.. and Mrs p. C.
GOLDSMITH, Bridceton: Samuel Thorne At
lantic City; Franklin Dubois Clearfield.
Pa: j. Earnest and woman's body supposed
to be that OF Miss Jennie Sheppard. Bridge
ten: Mary Wentzel, AlIowav. n Il Iid,e
Carr and Pearl Muta, BriGeeton: Mrs. FL
mer May, Palatine, n. j.; Mrs H. F. Bel
and Anna freis. Rrdgeton: Edward Farr.
Reading railroad engineer, Atlantic CITY.
man supposed TO be Charles Sebert.
Bridgeton; Charles May. Palatine, " J.;
~. T. Wood, shipping clerk, Camden " J.:
u b. Iaylor, address unknown: James NJ
bateman, Bridgeton: part Of shirt found
Win name stamped "A. II. Fox" There
are now nine bodies at the Excursion
Hcuse. where the dead have been gathered
not Identified. boy about twelve wears
old, supposed to be A. Peters: Revs NJ
Lcoper, twelve Years old. OF Yorktown,
y. ].
Injured.
Harry Watson, twelve wears Oil York
town. \. J.. legs broken: Albert n. Taylor
Bridgeton: Mary Pittman twesre wears old
yorktown, y. j.; John S. Kelly, twenty
esht years old, Camden, fractured frInur:
"hilain Spa'dlng Of Philadelphia, Read
ing railroad transfer agent, VIII die. Della
Johnson, eleven Years old, Shiloh. y. J.. col
lar bone fractured: J. g. Watson. York.
| town: Mrs. J. S. Watson. Yorktown. w
Jones, twenty-lhree years old Br:dgeton.
Mrs. Lizzie Muta. Brideeton: Chas. Helms
lee, twenty-eieht years old. Bridseton; Mrs.
Richard Freese, Yorktown: Samuel Muta
fourteen years old, Bridgeton: Wesley Lee
hlty-slX years old, I5ridge;on: Howard
Noodlln, eighteen years Old. Rridgeton:
Samuel Wentzell, Alloway. y. J.: Finer
Wentzell. Alloway, y. j.: Charles W. Horn
er, Lillian Tyler, Lizzie .Smallev Caroline
Smalley, Howard Smalley, all OF Rridgeton.
Rachael Abbott, Rhodestown, y. j.: VIII
liam Sheney, Bridgeton: J. :. johnson Shir-
ley, n. j.; Samuel Pittman. Wm. c Hrlus-
| lee, both of Brdgeiun: Samuel Wilson Allo-
way, n. j.; Frank Moreyille l;ridgaion: II
Muta, Bridgeton: Hanford Wilson Atloway
=. tim 4.
Nlillam Nlnkler, David hitchman. ). H.
Frazer, all of Bridgeton; Irwin Dubois,
| Noodruff, y. j.; Chester Burksau Bridge
! ton. Mrs. Fannie FralinEer Philadelphia.
Jacob Johnson, Shirley. y. J.. Howard
Woodland, Bridgeton; {. Homer, Alioway.
Rescuers Work All Night.
The force of rescuers continued at work
throughout The night, but no more bodies
| were found. Engineer Edward Farr. who
died with his hand the throttle, was
taken ont early this morning. 1t Was with
much difficulty that his rigid fingers were
unclasped from the lever. His head and
face were untouched and his eyes looked
skyward with a CHASTITY giare. He had
been pinned down by the chest and APP
| parently met instant death.
Almost every bone in the body of one
| male victim broken when taken from
| the ruins, and many were so friehifuliy
mangied as to be beyond recognition.
BY s O'clock this morning the greater
part of the debris had been cleared away,
and il is thought that all the bodies have
| been recovered. Ranged along each side
| of the stagnant pool which marks the
| scene wer. stacked in little heaps the hats.
| caps gloves and otner articles of clothing
found on the ground. They We're piiiful
mementos of the disaster. They were
guarded by small force of railroal men
and city police.
The Work Of Rescue.
The sight that met the searchers for the
dead working among the wreckagc was
most terrible one in the fiickcrng light OF
the huge bonfires which spouted sheets of
yellow flames into the night. The gang OF
men went crawling over the debris hacking
at the cars with axes straining to raise
heavy timbers with crowbars and peering
by the light of their lanterns into TIE heaps
of wreckage. great part of their work
had to be carried on in the midst of miry
ground and often they Slipped and fell into
the foul mud of the meadow land. But
still ciamberinS over uncertain passage
ways, cllngng to piles of wreCkaSe and
risking their necks on slippery timbers,
they worked steadily on looking for the
bodies of the injured and dead. Every now
! and then number of lanterns clustered
around a spot in the freight, the specta-
tors could see the grimy, sweating work
men straning their crowbars or swing
ing their axes into the splntered wood.
and then one or two would stop, lower
their lanterns and, cropping in the deprs
with their hands, while their comrades
stood by leaning on their tools. draw out a
black shapeless mass. Sometimes il was
man, sometimes a child and sometimes a
woman whose long hair, broken loose, hung
in strings and tangles from her head. Then
the cry would go up, "Chief, Chief" and
the men carry their gruesome burden, its
face covered with a bloody handkerchief
through the crowd.
An Unruly Crowd.
Chief Of Police Eldridge, who looked at
the bodies, gave orders for their disposal.
Then 1t was carried to where the corpses
lay, and the men looked with their lam
terms like great firefiies floating about the
ruins.
While this was going on the crowd was
lined seven or eight deep around the splin-
tered cars and interfered considerably with
the gang OF laborers. Word had been sent
Immediately on the occurrence Of the acci-
dent to the city for police aid and q patrol
appeared almost as soon as the vanguard
Of the crowd.
They took charge OF the entire affair.