Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-08-06
MANY ARE KILLED
HORRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT
NEAR ATLANTIC CITY.
100 KILLED OR INJURED

Relief Trains Loaded With CorpSes
and MANNED and Dying Ply Between
Scene OF Disaster and the Popular
Seaside Resort Partial Last OF
Dead and Wounded.
Atlantic City. \ j.. July Sl.-A rail
road accident, horrible IN its details
and Sickening III its results, occurred
last evening. just outside OF this city
and as a result about hundred per
sons were either killed or injured
The Reading railroad express which
left Philadelphia At $40 last evening
for Atlantic City crashed into Penn
Sylvauia excursion train at the secoha
signal tour four miles out from here.
The Pennsylvania train was return
ing from Bridgeton with a party OF
eAcursionists from that place TO Mil
Nille and ueishhorins towns. II was
loaded with passengers and roush
estimate of the killed and injured is
placed AT one hundred. At the second
signal tower the tracks OF the two
roads 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 i'll time. 1t
caught the excursion train broadslde
and plunged through il, literally CleaN-
ing it III twain. The engine of the
Reading road was shattered to pieces,
Every car was damned to its fullest
capacity. As soon as the news reached
Atlantic City relief trains We're dis
patched to the scene with cots and
surgeons. AS quick as the bodies were
recovered they We're carried into local
hospitals and uudcrtaktrs' shops. \
general fire alarm was sounded and the
department promptly responded and
aided in digging for the victims.
The first relief train bore into the
city twenty seven uangled corpses of
men, women and children. The next
train carried fifteen MANNED and
wounded and two OF these died soon
after reaching the city The baggage
master of the Reading train is among
the dead, James NJ Bateman, an under
taker at Bridgeton, is known TO have
been killed Richard Trenchard, n
Bridgeton machinest, and wife, are
both dead. The excursion train was
made up OF fifteen cars the foremost
of which was baggage car. This and
the next two coaches were caught in
the full force of the crash and We're
utterly demolished What remained
of the third car tumbled into ditch
at the roadside.
There are seventeen unidentified
women four men and female child
! all dead. Fireman Kelly, of the Read
ing train was fatally injured.
1t is said that the Reading signal
was displayed and that the whistle of
the train was sounded. The Reading
had the right of way at the crossing
VIM. Burlow, telegraph operator in the
tower house, was arrested and is being
held pending an investigation.
The known dead are: p $, Murphy
Melville; j. d. Johnson, Bridgeton;
Charles ID. d. Baunough, Bridgeton
G.. b. Taylor, =. II. Goldsmith, Bridge
ton Samuel Thorn, baggagemaster Of
Reading train; G. t. Wood. Philadel-
phia John Greiner Bridgeton; Charles
Eackler, Salem; Charles McGcar,
Bridgeton Franklin Dubois, Woodruff
Mrs Joshua Earnest, Bridgeton; a
middle-aged woman with a ring bear
ing g. to V. as initials; small boy
about four years Of age; Frazier Bell
and wife, Bridgeton; Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Trenchard, Bridgeton; Ed
ward Farr, engineer Of Reading train.
The seriously injured are:
Samuel Muta, BridgetGn, internally IL
jured; w. II. Spaulding, Philadelphia
internal injuries, head cut; VIM
Baughman, Bridgeton, back hurt. head
severely cut Charles G. Cenick, Bridge
ton badly cut about head Howard
Smaley, Bridgeton, body bruised, head
cut Mrs +. A. Abbot Rh0destOwn
n j., lower limb and arms broken, G.,
ID. Fraser and wife, Bridgeton both
badly cut on the head; Lizzie NJ Mnl-
Ter, Bridgeton, conclusion OF back;
Charles W. Horner, fractured leg, in
ternal injuries; Wesley Lee, Bridgeton
internal injuries; Fred Cheney, Bridge
ton, internal INJURIES; Mrs. taunce Fra
linger Philadelphia, broken leg, John
Shelley, Camden, n. j., internal I.
juries.
Mr. Edward Farra, wife OF the Read
ing engineer who was killed, when in
formed Of her husbands tragic death
-1rew up her hands and with a frantic
fOrmant
HOOP PARINGS A PANACEA.