The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-08-06

open for him to 60 on, and, knowing
that II such be the case, that the block
must be against the Reading train, he
expected the latter to stop. Before he
realized it he saw a collision was inev.
table, and he was about to jump az
the point where the Reading engine
now lies, but he took q desperate
chance and stuck to his post.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Aug. 1.--As a
result of the terrible collision on the
Meadows Thursday evening between
the Reading railroad express from
Philadelphia and the Bridgeton excur-
sion II ain out of here, Al people are
dead and A are lying in the hospital
here more or less seriously hurt. OF the
injured in the hospital several are ex.
pected to die.
Besides those seriously enough hurt
to be in the hospital, score or more
of people were bruised and shaken up
and went to cottages. The fearful
shock of the collision is illustrated in
the fact that of the AZ dead 42 were
killed outright. OF the dead, 40 have
been identified and the bodies of three
women, one man and boy are lying
at the undertaking shops awaiting
claimants.
The responsibility for the accident is
hard to place at this time, but the bur-
den of it seems to rest upon the dead
engineer of the Reading train, Edward
Farr, though an official investigation
may clear his name.
The list of dead, almost all of whom
are from Bridgeton, follows:
Mrs. J. d. Bateman, Chas Seibert,
Joseph Peters and son, Reba M. Loper,
Miss Tillie Leeds, Hattie Loper, Man
ME Chimney, VIM. Spaulding, Henry
Hughes, VIM. P. Rickett, Jos. Cheney,
Charles May, Mrs. Sallie Frees, three
unknown women, one unknown man,
one unknown boy. S. p. MURPHY,
Millville, N. j.; j. D. Johnston, Bridge
ton; Charles D. Bourroughs, Bridge
ton; q. b. Taylor, no address; Mr.. and
Mrs. P. c. Goldsmith, no address;
Samuel Thorne, baggagemaster, At
lantic City; d. E. Wood, Philadelphia;
John Grever, Bridgeton; Chas. Eackler,
Salem, N. j.; Charles McGear, Bridge
ton, f. d. Dubois, Woodruff, N. J.;
Mrs. Joshua Earnest, Bridgeton; Mr..
and Mrs. Trenchard, B idgeton: Ed
ward Farr, engineer; Samuel Thorn,
baggagemaster.; Charles Muta, Bridge
ton; H. F. Bell, Bridgeton; w. c. Loop
er, Bridgeton; Mary Wentzell, Allo-
way, N. j.; Lidie Carr, Bridgeton; Pearl
Muta, Bridgetou; Mrs Elmer MAY,
Palatine, N. j.; Mrs. Fl. F. Bell. Bridge
ton; Anna Frees, Bridgeton; Charles
May, Palatine, N. j.; James M. Bate
man, Bridgeton.
The known injured are:
Howard Woodland, Bridgeton; Sam
uel Mulz, Bridgeton: W. H. Spaulding,
Philadelphia; Howard Smalley, Bridge.
ton; W. c. Hensley, Philadelphia;
Lizzie c. Hensley; Mrs. A. E.
Abbott, Rhoadestown, N j.;
Lizzie Smalley, Bridgeton; Caroline
Smalley, Bridgeton; c. D. Frazier and
wife, Bridgeton; Irwin Dubose Bridge
ton; Mrs. M. Keiger. Elmer, N. j.;
Jacob johnson, Shirley, N j.; Stanley
Wenzel, Alloway, N. j.; Fred Sheeney,
Bridgeton; Mrs. Susan johnson, Shirley,
N. j.; Mary Shines, Freesborough, Nj;
VIM. Baughne, Bridgeton; Charles
Cryinick, Bridgeton; Violet Alfred.
Bridgeton; VIM. Simpkins, Salem,
N. D.; Mason Worth, Philadelphia; AL.
bert Taylor, Bridgeton; William
Boughton, Bridgeton; Edward Seely,
Bridgeton; Chester Burgiss, Bridgeton;
Howard Woodlaw, Bird geton; ex.
Judge Jacob Hitchner, Bridgeton;
Mrs. Hitchman; Mrs. E. A. Abbott.
David Frieze, Bridgeton; Mrs. Job
kegeir, Elmer, n j.; Thomas F. Nor.
rell, Bridgeton; Charles Horner,
Bridgeton; H. Watson, Yorktown, N. j.;
Fred Chenway, Bridgeton; Mary Pill
ney, aged II, Yorktown; Mrs. F. F.
Fralinger, Philadelphia; John S. Kel.
ley, Camden, N. j.; Rachel Abbott,
Rhoadestown, N. J.
The uninjured and those only slight.
ly hurt among the Bridgeton excursion
party We're in frenzy of agony. The
train struck was the first section of the
excursion train, and those on the sec.
ond section flocked to the hospital and
morgue as the victims were brought in.
Two miles out on the Meadows the
wrecking crews of the Reading and
West Jersey railroads were toiling by
the light Of huge bonfires to clear
away the wreck and splinters
OF broken cars. By dawn thew
had practically cleared up the
tracks Broken and battered
out OF shape, the huge engine of the
express lay on its side by the track.
Pinned beneath, with his pale, blood.
stained face staring into those of the
men working was Farr, the engineer
The scenes as the bodies were iden-
tilted We're sad and pathetic beyond
words.
Houser, the operator in the signal
tower, certainly set danger signals for
the Reading train when he gave the
excursion the right of way. The oues-
ton is, did he set the signal in time for
Engineer Farr to see it? Or did he be.
come excited when he saw a collision
imminent and set it too late for Farr to
stop his train? Farr was an experienced
engineer and it seems incredible that
he would rush past danger signal
down to a crossing that was being an.