The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-01
ERADICATION BOWED IN GRIEF
THE TOWN DRAFTED IN MOURNING
 AND SORROW REIGNS THERE.


 Survivors Tales of the Terrible Disaster atAtlantic City-The Cries of the Wound ed and Dying Victims Still Ringing in Their Ears-Deeds of Heroism-Miracu- lous Escapes from Death--The Dead and Injured Fastened Meath the Debris of the Wreck-How the Work of Clearing the Mass of Twisted Iron and splintered Wood is Being Carried On.
 Bridgeton, N. J., July a-Nearly all the victims of the Atlantic City rall- road catastrophe were residents or thls town. Business here to-day was al- most wholly suspended and the place is in mourning The bodies of the dead victims remain at Atlantic City, ana it is not known when they will be brought here. A number of the injured are also at Atlantic City under treat ment. Many of the survivors of the terrible disaster arrived here this morning. Some were cut and bruised, but they had escaped serious injury They are unable to give a clear account of the accident owing to the exciting and terrible experiences they passed through. They say that the cries ot the injured and dying after the crash occurred are still ringing in their ears and will never be forgotten.
 Charles w. Seeds one of the sur vivors, says he was in the fourth car of the train. The front part of the car was smashed to splinters. He called to his wife to follow and he Jumped out through the window. He hurt his leg and side but quickly jumped up and pulled his wife through the window. Her back and one leg were injured Seeds then turned his atten- tion to the rescue of the injured, who were still in the car. He rescued a lit tie girl who was cut about the head and held down by seat. He next came across a woman killed. The top of her head had been crushed in. The flames from the blazing cars were at last creeping towards her, and he pull ed the body away. He thinks it was Mrs. Trenchard. He assisted in taking eleven bodies from the wreck.
 Joseph Allen of Bridgeton sat three seats ahead of Seeds. When the crash occurred he was thrown out in the aisle. He quickly scrambled to his feet and jumped out through the window. He says that the cries of the injured could be heard above the noise of the crashing wood and escaping steam. He had his leg Injured.
 R. M. Allen of Shiloh was in the next 1 -xI.. I--. TTz ,,,+p lty.rr h the door facing towards Atlantic City, The door was closed, but when the crash occurred it opened and he was thrown across the platform against the door of the next car. He was cut about the head and had his hip in jured. His wife and two sons, Roy, aged ten, and William, aged twelve, were sitting in the seat with their mother. The latter escaped injury, but the two boys were bruised about the head and body.
 Miss Lillian Tyler of Bridgeton had her back injured. She came up on train this morning. She was so excited and overcome with emotion at the in- jury and death to her friends that she could not control herself and was con- stantly in tears.
 Philadelphia, July 31-The following account of the terrible collision is given by MT. Julius B. Price, jr.:
 "The 5:1O train of the Reading road in which I went to Atlantic City," said he, seemed to be making it's regular time I had a seat to myself, the sec ond from the rear door of the regular smoker, back of the baggage car As we came to the tower half way between Pleasantville and Atlantic City, the train came to a halt with severe jolt. The shock was so pronounced, even in the second car, that it swayed us all forward, then backward and then for ward again.
 None of us in the smoker was hurt. l doubt whether any were even bruised. Several of us hastened to the forward car of those overturned. By the time we reached it those of the passengers whom the collision had left able to free themselves were scrambling out of the windows We helped those who needed assistance and then made our way into the car. Half a dozen people were ly- ing about inside amid the debris of the seats.
 Ut was here that we fully realized the horror of the accident. The first woman we took out had her leg cut off between the knee and the ankle, the severed portion hung by a shred of skin A man whom we took out af- terward evidently had his back broken. We got out as many as we could, but the cars were so badly smashed that it was impossible to remove all by the doors We set to work dragging away portions of the shattered roof of the second car and carried out a number through the opening.
 ''The sights that were presented after the majority of the dead and wounded had been removed were appalling I saw at least twenty-five persons lying apparently dead on the bank, whither they had been removed There were many others pinned in the debris who could not be forced out without the aid of mechanical appliances. With one of the passengers in my car I helped carry a man who was internally injured to spot where a number of others lay who had been hurt On the way he told us in broken words that he feared his entire family-his wife, his child and his wife's mother and father-were killed. As we lowered him to the ground a woman, all band aged, came up panting and sank beside the sufferer. crying: Harry Harry