The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-03
FIXING THE BLAME.
COrOner's Inquest Into the Reading
Disaster to Be Held Today


ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Aug. 2.-No
additional deaths have occurred yet as
a result of Thursdays collision and the
roll still stands at forty-four There is
possibility that it will remain at that
inquire, but 1t is only remote one At
the Sanitarium this afternoon it was
reported that the fifteen patients still
there were doing as we'll 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 are Frank Morele, of East
Orange, N. j.; William Johnson. Of
Bridgeton, and Lizzie Branin, Of Mill
Vile. Miss Branin has not recovered
consciousness since the collision, des-
pite reports to the contrary She is the
nineteen-year-old girl engaged to be
married to Charles Homer the Bridge
ton grocer, who lies on the cot next to
her, severely hurt The chances are
however, now in favor Of his ultimate
recovery.
1t must have been a dull Sunday for
the pent-up, broken-limbed unfortu-
Mates Almost with the dawn came a.
violent rain storm and while it abated
early in the morning the sun shone but
ntfully throughout the day, and when
1T did the heat and the humidity were
intense. At 8 o'clock in the morning
the patients request made last night
to Rev. J. H. Townsend, rector Of the
Episcopal Church of the Ascension.
was granted. The sonorous chimes Of
the little church which stands lust
across the way, a mammoth hotel in
congruously towering overhead, pealed
forth the tones of Nearer Nv God to
Thee. The faces of the patients made
a pitiful study as they hardened to the
music Some simply gazed with long
ing eyes into vacancy; others with rapt
looks and quivering lips formed the
words OF the hymn in unison with the
chlmes and someasoftly wept A num-
Der OF priests of various denominations
nave, at their own request, been per-
mitted access to the sick ward. and
While all the patients have welcomed
| them and eagerly listened to their
words of consolation, there has been
no ceremony of a purely religious
character.
The inquest tomorrow will be held
upon the bodies of Goldsmith and one
or two others by way of formality.
me railroad officials will be called
first, including Superintendents n
Dyce, of the Reading, and E.. o. Day-
ton, of the Pennsylvania Albert PINK
erton, conductor of the Reading train
VIII also be called. There will he
about twenty-five witnesses in all
BRIDGETON, N. J., Aug. 1.-The fu-
nerals Of eleven of the victims of the
Atlantic railroad collision took place TO-
day. Everywhere could be seen the
clothes and badges of mourning. and
many sad scenes were witnessed as
the relatives of the dead watched the
heavy clods Of earth fall that shut
their dead from sight forever Lodges
turned out in full force and escorted
the dead to the grave. The churches
all held special services at which
prayers were said for the unfortunate
dead and living. Those buried were
Mr.. Fl. Frazier Bell and wife, Joshua
Ernest, Charles Sooy and son, Mr..
Richard Trenchard and wife. Mr.. James
N. Bateman, and wife and Joseph Pc
ters 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 Olivet.
There will be many more funerals to-
morrow and Tuesday. Tomorrow will
/ be generally observed as a day of
mourning and it Is thought there will
/ be a general cessation of business.