The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-08-08
NEW JERSEYS HORROR
FOrty-SeVen Dead and Forty
three Injured in the Re-
cent Disaster.
Impression Also General That
the WreCkage Contains
More Bodies.
Investigation Into the Cause
Of the Accident Begun
in Earnest.

ATLANTIC CITY. \. J. Aug. 3.-Forty-
seven dead and a. injured. These are
the figures in the appalling disaster Oh
the Pennsylvania road. OF these 20
have been identified. Three Of the UNI
IDENTIFIED We're men and three women.
Theodd II consists Of All arm to which
no body has been found. OF the injured
it is more than probable thatfour or five
will die. Many of the others are in
jured only specifically.
The investigation into tho cause Of
the collision ana the fixing of the re-
sponSibility has begun in earnest. Cor
Oner Mclaughlin %intpanelled a jury
and they have viewed the bodies Of the
victims and
Visited the Scene Ell the Wreck.
The scene was very different from that
of the previous night. The relief gangs
had done effective work, both tracks
being clear. There is a very general
impression that under the mass of
debris at least six more bodies lie. The
Jury made an exhaustive examination
Of the ground and devoted considerable
time to the inspection of the signals,
which still remain as they We're at the
moment of the accident.
AL the dead 50 far found and identi-
fed were removed t. their former
homes daring the afternoon. The first
train used for this purpose left the
West jersey station 1T %;Io o'clock for
Bridgeton. 1t carried 4# bodies. The
remaining corpses were sent OIL later
trains.
SwiteA Tender 1lcTSaeesi On Bail.
Corone- Mclaughlin called Switch
Tender E3uscr before him and gave
him Il hearing. Ii was purely perfume
tiOnary, however, and hut little was
said. Hausor refused tn make Il state
ment Whatsoever at this timc, and was
held in $500 bail for q further hearing.
Bail was furnished and he YVES rrlcased.
The center OF interest S}uriNg the day
was the ~imnr0yised 1nolgue and Il
strange spectacle for .llts city OF pro-
verbal gaj9ty was the continual pro-
cessiOn Of T1ilertakers' wagons hOwling
along Atlantic venue tie ~pTancipal
thOroughfare, carrying lNnlies to that
place and later to the PENNSYLVANIA
railroad station. Inside the morgue
tragic scenes We're being enacted
: throughout he nay.
Raced Ecr the Crossing.
John Peters of this city. who was on
the West Jersey train, and whc jumped
when he saw the collision Was iney-
liable, arrived here in the morning.
Said he:
The trains were crossing the mead
Ows at "A terrific rate, and it seemed to
me ~ il II was racing to catch the
Switc3, before the other. So far as /
could see. the red light i'll the signal
tower was up. blocking the Reading
train AID giving the right of way to the
Pennsylvania.
Neither train stopped. and then the
Reading rlowed its way through the
center Of the other. The escaping steam
covered she wrecked trains for a few
minutes. and when it lifted [ could see
the broken cars and the dead and ill.,
jured. Isaw the resc11ers lift ont bodies
scalded frem the trunk upwards. and
others with she heads crushed to a pulp.
hanging at.tile side.
Seeaes at the ~ reck.
Several nlen We're taken 1IOm the
wreck and before they could be placed
in a comfortable position. they died.
The demand for vehicles was SO great
that in many Instances wagons were
hauled TO the wreck by men. ant the
bodies taken away in this manner"
A Philadelphia physician who al.
rived from Atlantic City. told an inter
estiIg story Of the scenes at the hospital.
after the injured Were brought there.
He said that he assisted in caring for. IS
people. Soon after the accident at least
80 doctora, who We've sojonrning at At
1antic City, hurried 30 the hospital and
assisted III caring 70, the injured. Many
OF those taken to the Atlantic City hos
pitai We're i'll a dying condition. and
some of then survived only a few min
utes.
Nineteen Bodies at ~Eridgcton.
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