The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-02

Atlantic City, n. j., Aug. Now that
| the excitement has more or less suhsiGcd,
| the actual fatalities and injured in Thurs
| day'srailroad a ccident are definitely known.
| The dead hunter forty-four, and 1orty-
three persons were seriously enough hurt
| To be taken to the hospital.
Or those III the hospital twenty eight
| were SO FAR recovered today as 10 be aDlo
| to go to their homes. Or the fifteen per-
| sons remaining in the hospital several are
| suffering from terrible injuries, the ma
| ture of which makes their recovery doubt
| full.
The uncertainty as to the exact number
killed arose from The confusion and excite
| ment following the accident and the mutt
| lated condition OF some of the bodies, which
were disniembered, and one was headless
Further, several bodies were at first
| wrongly identified, and this added to the
confusion of identification.
The ordinary quiet and order which pre-
walls in hospital returned today to t.,
Sanitarium after yesterdays narrowing
| scenes. The first agony OF grief was
over for the uninjured and the hurt were
lying more quietly. The more seriously
wounded have little room to them
selves and their relatives were admitted
to them. and passed the day in watcirful
dhu eCiuSi dI tHtii DtuSitC
THE CoRONER's INQUEST.
The interest now centers in the coroner's
inquest on Monday, at which something
definite toward fixing the responsibility
for the accident will be brought to light
There are still people here who contend
that the Reading train was racing with n
train on the track or the Camden and At
lantic, and that the Reading train was
going at such Il terrific rate OF speed that
it could not be stopped when the danger
signal WAS suddenly shown.
But the story that the train was racing
when the accident occurred cannot be sub
stantiated with any accuracy. If the two
trains were racing the engineers were vio-
lating one OF the strictest rules oftheirroGds
and We're liable to instant discharge if dis
covered. On the other hand. man whose
name is withheld and who witnessed the
accident says the trains were not racing.
This man. who will he Il witness u [ the
inquest. was riding a bicycle on the road by
the block tower
The bicycler saw the shift OF the man in
the signal tower as Nick Long, the day
operator left. and Night Operator George
HaGser took charge. As the west Jersey
excursion train approached the tower he
noticed it slack its speed and saw the
Reading express coming. He saw the III
Engineer Greiner turned on steam TO rush
his train If POSSIBLE over the crossing, as
the white signals authorized him TO do.
IMPOSSIBLE TO VERIFY.
Then came the crash and the man on the
bicycle, when he recovered from the shock
OF the sight. sped way Do the City for AS
sistauce. The impression Of the man is
that the Camden and Atlantic express came
along about two minutes after the crash
and that the two trains were not racing.
The crash occurred exactly at $40, one
minute before the Reading flyer was due at
the station and nineteen minutes after the
excursion train was due to start for At
Iantic City.
The Camden and Atlantic City express
was due at the station at S:35 and corse-
quentiy must have been considerably be-
hind time to have beeB racing with the
Reading. =
No verification OF the racing between
the two trains can be obtained from the
railroad people here, as they either refuse
totaik or fatty deny that the engineers could
have been racing. Nevertheless, people
who daily use the two roads, assert that
races occur frequently on the level stretches
where the tracks are parallel and bets
among the passengers would he made over
the result.
A little incident that is not without
pathos is connected with the sufferers
in the sapitarium Directly across the
street from the hospital is the Protestant
Episcopal Church of the Ascension. Every
Sunday MORNING. the chimes in the beifry
are runr.
Today Rev. ]. Fl. Townsend. rector OF
the church. came across to the hospital
and inquired il the ringing OF the chimes
would affect the patients. Each of the
InI aCl-n -n,,Id has
that the church chimes would not ring
tomorrow W. and each replied in the negative.
Strangely enough. several asked that
Nearer Ny God. to Thee" be rung to-
morrow. and this hymn will be pla yed into
the dying ears OF the men and women.