The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-08-03
THE DEATH LIST
From the Atlantic City Disaster
May Remain at M,
But, IT IS ONLY A POSSIBILITY.
As Others are Expected to Dio--A Pathetic
sceno Among the Wounded In tho sani-
tnrium s tho Church Chimes wero
Heard Yesterday srorning-Burial OF
Eleven oftho Victims at Iiridgeton-To
Inycstigato tho Cause or tho Wreck.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. mo
additional deaths hnve yet OCCURRED as
q result OF Thursday nights collision.
and the death roll still stands at forty
four. There Is a possibility that It may
remain at that figure, but II Is only a
remote one. At the sanitarlum this az
ternoon 1t 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 arc Frank Morelc, of East
Orange, N. j.: William Johnson. OF
Bridgeton, and Miss Lizzie Branin. OF
MIllvllle. Miss Branln has not rccov-
cred consciousness since tho collision.
| despite reports to the contrary. She Is
| the pretty ninetcen-ycar-old girl who
was engaged to be married 70 Charles
| l1orner, the Bridgeton grocer, who lies
on the cot next to her. Horncr, too, 10
very seriously hurt, but the chances are
now In favor Of his ultimate recovery.
II must have been dull Sunday for
| the pent-up. broken-llmbed untortu-
| mates. Almost with the dawn came a
| violent rnin storm, and while It abated
| early In the morning, the sun shone but
| iltfully throughout the day and when 1t
| did the heat and the humidity we're In
| tense.
| At s o'clock In the morning tho pa
tients' request made last night to Rev.
| ]. II. Townsend. rector of tho Episcopal
| church OF the Ascension, was granted.
The sonorous chimes OF the little church,
1 ut "a .1ff Ca tgrt In
mammoth hotel anonymously towering
| overhead. pealed forth the tones OF
| Nearer My God To Thee"
| The faces OF the patients made ptti-
| ful study us they hearkened TO the mu-
sic. Some simply gazed with longing
eyes Into vacancy: others with rapt
looks, and qulverlng lips, formed the
| words OF the hymn In unison with the
chimes; and some softly wcpt
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 q purely religious
| character.
Relatives and friends OF some of the
dead visited Coroner Mclaughlin to-
day and received the money and valu-
ables which had belonged to their deae.
The son of William Prickett. sr., OF
Brldgeton. took few articles OF jewelry
| and SEC OIL in money.
Alfred Sharp, n brother of Mrs. Liz
| Zlc 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
Branin, looked for q watch which be-
longed to her daughter, but IL 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 way Of formality. The
railroad officials will be called first, in
Guiding Superintendents A. T. Dice, OF
the Reading. and E. o. Dayton. OF the
Pennsylvania.
Albert Pinkerton, conductor OF the
Reading train. will also be called. There
will be twenty-five or thirty witnesses
In oil.
Mrs. Burns, German woman from
"uo ilclt lO-uds u
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. w
City councils viii 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, md 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 forca
and escorted the dead to the graves.
The churches all held special services
at which prayers werc said for the un-
fortunutes. 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 Palatine, were buried In the village
cemeteries at Friendship and Ollvet.
There will be many more funerals to-
morrow and Tuesday. Tomorrow will
be generally observed rs n day of
mourning. und II is thought there will
be general cessation OF business.