The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-07-31

falls and slckcn!ng In It's results, oc-
Cured this evening lust outside OF this
city, and as a result about one hun
drei persons are either killed .or InJur-
ed.
The Reading railroad express which
lsu Philadelphia at $40 o'clock this
evening Tor AtlantIc City. crashed Into
a Pennsylvania railroad excursion train
at the second signal tower. about four
miles out from here, The Pcnnsylva-
MA train was returning to BrldGeton
with party OF excursIonlsts from that
place. MIllvalle, and nelghborinS towns
when II was loaded with passengers
and a rough estimate OF the killed and
Injured at a late hour places the num-
Ser at one hundred.
It is hoped that this Is an e1Iggera-
ton, but the number Is undoubtedly
more than fifty AT the second signal
lower the tracks OF the two roads dag
onHlly cross. The Reading train was
given the signal, but Il either failed TO
work or the speed Of the express was
too great TO be checked In time. II
caught the excursion train brOadshe
and plouEhed through. literally clear
Ing In twain. The engine OF the Read
inE train was shattered TO pieces. Ev-
cry car was iammcd TO It's fullest ca
pacity.
As soon as the news reached Allan
tic City, the utmost CONSERVATION pre-
vailed. but the authorities were equal
10 the emergency. Relief trains were
dispatched to the scene loaded with
cots and bearing stats Of surgeons. As
quick as the bodies were recovered,
they were carried into tn. local hos
pIrals and undertakers' shops. A gem
sral fire alarm was sounded and the
departments PROMPTLY responded. aid
Ing In the heartrending work OF digging
iOr the victims. Fear grew into de-
spair and horror aS the vigorous work
q! the relief gangs revealed the awful
extent OF the disaster.
GhR,tly Loads.
The first Reading relief train bore into
this city twenty-seven manglcd corpses.
mon. women and children. The next
train not an hour later, carried fifteen OF
the MANNED and wounded and two of
these died soon after reaching the city.
As train after train piled TO the scene OF
the wreck and tolled back each with It's
ghastly load, the sanitarium which does
duty as the city hospital quickly found
It's capacity oYertaXed. Meanwhile
others NJ the dead and injured were be-
ing carried TO the private hospital at
Ocean and Pacific avenues.
Edward Farr. engineer on the Read
ing train, was killed outright as was an
other roadman who rode on the engine
with him. This man, whose name has
not yet been learned. saw the collision
coming and leap-d from the cab an In
slant before the crash came. Almost at
the came Instant the engine cut Its way
through and caught him directly in Its
path. His body and that OF Farr were
found under heap Of debris, but th.
engineer lay In what remained OF the
cab and his right hand still Clasped the
throttle. He had been faithful unto
death, and met Il nt his post. The fire.
man on the train had leapAd few sec
onds before and escaped with tr!fiIng In
turIe5. Samuel ThOrne, baggage master
on the Reading train IL among the dead.
James 81 Bategman. BrldSrtOn under
taker, Is known to be killed. lie was In
the third car and his hat was found iy-
ing among the mass OF broken tlmberS.
Richard Trcnrhlrd. BrIdgcton ma
Ch.nlst. and his wife, ara both dead. Az
time progresses II seems almost GER
ta!nty that fully fifty persons We're kill
ed. Conductor kcrrey, Of the PennSyl-
vanIa traIn, had both legs and arms
broken and was internally injured. Al
bert ]. MoScbach, OF Is North Eighth
street, Philadelphia, was on the Reading
train. He escaped unhurt.
Tho excursion train wns made up OF
.ittcen cars, the foremost nf which was
baggage car. This and the next two
coaches caught the full force Of the
crash, and were utterly demolished.
What remained of n third car was tum-
blcd into ditch at the roadside.
A PnWrngrr's SiDry.
The responsibility for the accident
cannot he fixed. Charles C. RynIck, OF
BrdSeton, who was In tho excursion
party. wns In one OF the roRr cars. lie
cScarcG with severe bruises and 40 far
rs his agitation would permit. told the
story OF hls experience.
when We saw that collision was
unavoidable" h. said, the scene in our
tar was terrific. Women tainted and
men rushed IN mad pnnIc for the door,
but 1t came almost before we knew It.
The third car wag cut right In two and
the lower portion OF 1t lifted bodily from
the trnck md tumbird over. Every car
was cTnweded and It Is horrible to think
OF the numbers who must ho lying under
those ruins. Tho roof OF one OF the cnrS
fel In as mnsa and everybody IN that
car was buried under It. It simply
dropped In on the people. know many
"f ihOgG on board, hut win hope for the
hcrt. know positively Of two In our
car who were killed. They were Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Bell. Of Brdgcton. Their
daughter was In another car further
back and WAS not hurt. I don't know
who Ia to blame. When VIC were about
twn miles out from Atlantic City we
came 10 n stop out In the meadows and
stayed there for several minutes, but
fn not know why. / think there must
have been fully eighty or n hundred
Killed. Thc only person with me was
my slx-ycar-Old son, and he waG not
hurt, thank God"
An Associated Press reporter was on
"nc Of tho NrSt relief trains sent out by
N" Pennsylvania road and ho was the
hrst newspaper representative on thu
fc"nr, The train was In charge OF q
number NJ railroad officials and Prose.
rlIt0r Perry of Atlantic county. II
nFow up In the darkness few feet this
"iAc of tho fatal point
Tho Wori of NcGGur.
tn" sccne was wildly picturesque,
c"noplrd by Utnr-lt sky, with u blood.
feh inoon nlmoHt at full, shining In thc
iar hack ground and the brilliant maze
oI lights gllinmcrlng from thn city be-
yyoh,l, the galuty Of which has been sud
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