The record-union., 1896-08-02
Claim That the Accident Was Due to
the Trains Racing.
RiCting Renewed at Cleveland
Strikers Pelt NOn-UniOn WOrkmen
With Stones, and Receive Leaden
Missiles in Return One Striker
Shot and Fatally WOurded-Two
Companies of Militia Called Out to
Restore Order.

ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 1-Now that
the excitement has subsided somewhat
the exact number of fatalities and in
jured in Thursdays accident is definite
ly known. The dead number forty-four
and forty-three persons were seriously
enough hurt to be taken to the hospital
OF those in the hospital tWenty-eigh
We're so far recovered to-day as to be
able to go to their homes. Of the fifteen
persons remaining in the hospital several
are suffering frosn terrible injuries, the
nature of which makes their recovery
doubtful
= The uncertainty as to the exact num-
Der killed arose from the confusion and
excitement following the accident, and
the condition of some of the bodies. which
were dismembered, and one was head
less. Several bodies were at first wrong
ly identified, and this added to the con-
fusion of identification. One case was
that of the body of a man who was iden-
titled as Samuel Murphy of Bridgeton
Murphy turned up alive at his home and
the body remained unknown until to-
day, when it was identified as that of
Patrick Feighan, a retired liquor dealer
of Philadelphia. All the bodies were
fully identified to-day.
The ordinary quiet and order which
prevails in a hospital returned to-day to
the Sanitarium, after yesterdays har-
rowing scenes. The first agony of grief
was over for the slightly injured were
resting more quietly. The seriously in
jured have rooms to themselves, and
their relatives were admitted to them
and passed the day in watchful and ten
der ministrations at their bedsideS.
Although terribly injured, the princi-
pal anxiety of young Charles Horner
was for his affianced wife. She had
been with him when the crash came, and
afterwards he lost her and was in an
agony of fear over her fate. Unknown
to him, the girl was slowly dying and
unconscious in a room close to him. Not
until afternoon was the unconscious girl
identified. Then she was recognized by
her uncle as his niece, Lizzie Brannin.
She had been staying with him at Ocean
City, and had gone to Bridgeton to go on
the excursion with her friends and the
young man. When Horner was told that
Miss Brannin was in the hall his grief
was most affecting. and throughout the
day he made constant inquiry as to her
condition.
The story that the Reading train was
racing when the accident occurred con-
tinues to be repeated, but it cannot be
substantiated with any accuracy If the
two trains We're racing the engineers
were violating one of the strictest rules
of their roads. A man whose name is
withheld, and who witnessed the acci-
dent, says the trains were not racing.
This man. who will be a witness at the
inquest, was riding a bicycle on the road
by the block tower. The bicycle rider
saw the men in the signal tower change
shifts AS the Jersey train approached
the tower he saw it slack its speed. He
saw the increased speed Of the excursion
train as engineer Greiner turned on
steam to rush his train, if possible, over
the crossing, as the white signals au-
thorized him to do. Then came the crash,
and the man on the bicycle, when he re-
covered from the shook of the sight,
sped away for the city for assistance.
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.
No verifcation of the racing between
the two trains can be obtained from the
railroad people here, as they either re-
fuse to talk or fatty deny that the en-
gneers could have been racing. Never
theless, people who daily use the two
roads assert that races occur frequently
on the level stretch.