The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-08-03

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. mo
additional deaths have yet OCCURRED ms
u result OF Thursday nights collision,
and the death roll still stands at forty
four. There Is a possibility that Il may
remain ut that figure. but It Is only a
remote one. At the sanitarlum this az
t%ernoon It was reported that the fifteen
patients still here were doing as well as
could be expected, and while there was a
bare chance OF pulling them all through
safely. the odds were against at least
three. They no Frank Morelc, OF East
Orange. N. j.: William Johnson. OF
Brldgeton. and Miss Lizzie Branin, OF
Mlllville. Miss Branln has not rceov-
cred consciousness since tho collision,
despite reports to the contrary. She is
the pretty nlneteen-ycar-old girl who
was engaged to be married TO Charles
Horner, the Bridgeton grocer, who lies
on the cot next 10 her. Homer, too, is
very seriously hurt, but the chances are
now In favor Of his ultimate recovery.
II must have been n dull Sunday for
the pent-up, broken-llmbed unfortu-
mates. Almost with .he dawn camc a
violent rain storm, and while It abated
early In the morning. the sun shone but
iftfully throughout the day and when 1t
did the heat and the humidity were In
tense.
At s o'clock in the morning the pa
TENTS request made last night 10 Rev.
j.. II. Townsend, rector Of the Episcopal
church OF the Ascension, was granted.
The sonorous chimes OF the little church,
which stands just across the way. a
mammoth hotel anonymously towering
overhead, pealed forth the tones OF
Nearer My God To Thee"
The faces OF the patients made a pitt
full study as they hearkencd TO the mu-
sic. Some simply gazed with longing
eyes into vacancy; othere with rapt
looks, and quivering lips, formed the
words OF the hymn In unison with the
chimes: and some softly wept
a number OF priests OF various de-
nominations have, at their own request,
been permitted access to the sick ward,
and while all The patients have well
coined them and eagerly listened to
their words OF consolation. there has
been no ceremony OF n purely religious
character.
Relatives and friends OF ome of the
dead visited Coroner Mclaughlin to-
day and received the money and valu-i
ables which had belonged 10 their deae,
The son Of William Prickett. sr.. OF
Bridgeton. took n few articles OF jewelry
and SIG OF in money.
Alfred Sharp, q brother Of Mrs. Liz
zie Bateman, of Brldgeton. who was
killed with her husband, secured the ef-
fects of the unfortunate couple. Mrs.
Feighan, Of Philadelphia, widow OF Pat
rick Feighan, the liquor dealer who was
killed, secured the money found on his
body. Mrs. Brnnin, mother OF Lizzie
Brnnin, looked for n watch which be-
longed to her daughter, but it could
not be found.
The watch OF Philip II. Goldsmith.
the Bridgeton clothicr. who died hand
in hand with his wife, bears on the face
the picture of his wife and two boys.
1t had stopped at 2:40.
The inquest tomorrow will be held
upon the bodies OF Goldsmith and one
or two others, by "a OF formally. The
railroad officials will be called first, in
Guiding Superintendent A. T. Dice, OF
tthe Reading. and E. o. Dayton. OF the
Pennsylvania
Albert Pinkerton, conductor Of the
Reading train, will also be called. There
will be twenty-five DE- thirty witnesses
in all.
Mrs. Burns, q German woman from
Philadelphia, was here to-day trying to
find her boy William. who had been re-
ported as being badly injured in the
wreck. He was not at the hospital and
there was no trace OF him. He had been
living at Shiloh, Pa, and may possibly
be there now.
City councils will meet tonight and
pass resolutions OF coincidence.
a dispatch from Bridgeton says: The
funerals or eleven OF the victims of the
Atlantic City railroad collision took
place to-day. Everywhere could be
seen the clothes and badges OF mourn-
Ing. ind many sad scenes were wit
messed as the relatives of the dead
watched the heavy clods OF earth fall
that shut their dead from their sight
forever. Lodges turned out In full force
and escorted the dead to the graves.
The churches all held special services
at which prayers were said for the In
]fortunutcs, dead md living. Those
buried were Mr.. II. Frazier Bell and
wife; Joshua Ernest, Charles Sooy, and
son; Mr.. Richard Trenchard and Wife:
NJ James n. Batcman and wife, and
Joseph Peters and son.
The bodies OF Franklin Dubois, of
Yorktown. and Mrs. Ellen May and son,
Of Palntinc, were buried In the village
cemeteries at Friendship and Olivet.
There will be many more funerals to-
morrow and Tuesday. Tomorrow will
be generally observed as n day of
mourning. and 1t Is thought there will
be a general cessation OF business.