The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1896-08-08
DEAD AND MANNED
OVER TWO SCORE KILLED IN THE
WRECK At ATLANTIC CITY.

PsAnsylvania Railroad Excursion Crashed
Into by . Reading Express-Cars Crowd
cd with Passengers Plowsd Through by
the Huge Engine.
ATLANTIC CTY, N. J., Aug. 1.-Forty-
seven dead and 4S injured. These are
the figures in the appalling disaster on
the Pennsylvania road. OF these 40
have been identified. Three Of the uni.
unusuled wct0 men 2nd three women.
The odd one consists of an arm to which
no obody has been found. OF the injured
tits more than probable that four or FIVE
win die. Many Of the others are In.
tuxsd only superfcially.
How the Wreck Occurred.
The Reading railroad express. which
left Philadelphia at 40 for Atlantic
City, crashed into Q Pennsylvania rail-
road excursion train at the second signal
tower. about four miles out from here.
The Pennsylvania train was returning
TO Bridgeton with party Of excursion
lists from that place, Millville and neigh.
boring towns. At the second sig.
nal tower the tracks Of the two roads
diagonally cross. The Reading train
was Given the Signal,
but It either failed to work or the speed
Of the express was too great to be
checked in time. It caught the excur-
sion train. broadside and ploughed
through. literally cleaving it in twain.
The engine Of the Reading train was
shattered to pieces. Every car was
jammed to it's fullest capacity. As
soon az the news reached Atlantic City
the utmost CONSERVATION prevailed, but
the authorities were equal to the emer.
gency. Relief trains were dispatched
to the scene loaded with cots and bear
Ing STATS Of surgeons. A general fire
alarm was sounded and the department
promptly responded, aiding in the
heartrending work Of digging for the
victims. The first Reading relief train
bore into this city ....
Twsnty-seven Mangled Corpses,
men, women and children. The next
train. mot an hour later, carried 18 Of
the manned and wounded and two Of
these died soon after reaching the city.
As train after train went to the scene
OF the wreck and came back with its
ghastly load, the city hospital quickly
found its capacity overtaxed. Mean
while others Of the dead and injured
were being carried to the private hos
pital at Ocean and Pacific avenues.
po,.r. a., -; :, oou -, kb< d an 1irc,
train was killed outright, his hand still
clasping the throttle. He had been
faithful unto death and met it at his
post. The fireman on the train had
1eaped q few seconds before and escaped
with trifling injuries.
The excursion train was made up Of
IS cars, the foremost Of which was q
baggage car. This and the next two
coaches caught the
Full Force Of the Crash
and were utterly demolished. What
remained Of the third car was tumbled
into ditch at the roadside. The re-
sponsibility for the accident cannot
now be fixed.
The investigation into the cause Of
the collision and the fixing Of the re-
sponsibility has begun in earnest. Cor
oner Mclaughlin impanelled jury
and they have viewed the bodies Of the
victims and visited the scene Of the
wreck. 4. III
81 All the dead 10 far found and identi.
fed were removed to their former
homes during the afternoon. The first
train used for this purpose left the
West Jersey station At 8;lO o'clock for
zilgeton y carried e bodies The