The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-07-31
PHILADELPHIAN'S STORY
Horrible Experiences in Ex-
Treating the Wounded
and Dead.

PHILADELPHIA, July 81 1854
graphic and narrowing account of the
terrible collision last night at Atlantic
City between trains of the Reading and
Pennsylvania Railroads is given by Mr.
julius B. Price, Jr. Mr. Price arrived
here on an early train this morning
..The $40 train Of the Reading Road
in which 1 went down to Atlantic City,
said he seemed to be making its regular
time had a seat to myself, the second
from the rear door of the ruglar smoker,
back of the baggage car. As we came
to the tower half way between Pleasant
vile and Atlantic City, the train came to
halt, with a severe jolt.
''The shock was so pronounced, even
in the second car, that it swayed us all
forward, then back and then forward
again. None of us in the smoker was
hurt; 1 doubt whether any were even
bruised. Several of US hastened to the
forward car of these overturned. BY the
time we reached it those of the passen-
gers whom the collision had left able to
free themselves We're scrambling out of
the windows. We helped as many as
needed it, and then made our way into
the car. Half a dozen people were lying
about inside amid the debris of seats.
1t 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 por-
tion hung by a shred of skin. A man
we took out afterward evidently had his
back broken. We got out as many as we
could, but the cars We're so badly mashed
that it was impossible to remove all
bu he W-a fo II
away portions of the shattered roof of the
second car and carried out number
through the opening.
"The sights that were presented after
the majority of the dead and wounded
had been removed were truly appalling.
l saw at least twenty-five persons lying
apparently dead on the bank. whittier
they had been removed. There were many
| others pinned in the debris who could
| not be freed without the aid of mechan-
zeal appliances. With one of the passen-
gers in my car, helped carry 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
was destroyed--his wife, his child and his
wife's mother and father. AS we lower
! ed him to the ground woman, all ban
daged. came up painting and sank beside
the sufferer, crying, Harry, Harry! oh,
my God he's dyingr .
.tAt another place were a mother and
! child together. The mother, hurt in
| ternally, was unable to move. The child.
also injured, chung to her torn dress and
1 cried to her for aid; but the poor woman
could not speak, much less raise hand
| to aid These sights were everywhere,
/ and the injuries of some of the victims
were too ghastly to Observation-Disclosures,
battered faces on breathing bodies !;
/ crushed and mangled forms with the eyes
lspturned in pain and the lips moaning
inarticuiate anguish
1T seemed a very short time when a
| throng of thousands gathered. and when
the police and firemen from Atlantic
City arrived to complste the work of
/ rescue | came away with others of the
/ passengers who were unl1urt, feeling that
| we would now be a hindrance rather
than help.