The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-01
TIE DARK PAIL OF SORROW.
.xr1c CITY's GAIETY IS
HUSHED.

,,o.-t of Humanity Answers to
a. Tears of Those Stricken by
-. Hand of GOd-The Authorities
- IN Place the Fault of the
,.otdent-FOur Disregarded Sig
.,.-Faith in Railroads. Safety
shaken.
,s,,tfe city. n. J., July S1.-A horrible
-, hangs over this city to-day, and
5,..vrlsss thousands mourn for the dead
s-i wounded who were ground up IN the
--r-,s4 carnage Of last night. No one,
-. remote in thought or feeling from
49, sraering mass of humanity, cares to
INN 10 the gaiety and revelry that tes-
.fy this metropolis by the sea in the sea-
.,-.s bfeht as the merriest summer resort
an the Atlantic coast.
To-Dights dreadful scene in the Streets
ct the TWO railroad stations, and away
o,r IN the meadows. are followed to-day
~. silent contemplation and sorrow, save
.,,o,, those whose duty happens 10
y, +o 5ispose of the dead or lend minis
,arir- hands to the wounded and dying.
T-is railroad accident, possibly the
MOST i'm all the experience OF eastern
sts will he felt in Atlantic CITY IOr
w9ntbs perhaps years, to come, ana lts
5ipbt v-iil certainly destroy the nope that
has bs+n strong in hotel keepers that the
roniine month would rescue them from
what has been notably DackMaIU SUM- %
mer Ii makes travellers tlmld' SNAKES
-he faith i'm railroad caution ana hlSS-
rgirr and drives hurriedly to their MONIES
bunireis whose sojourn here means ually
mil to business men journeying up ana
down The lines. -. 49,, %,
ii is loo late to reason out how the col
-ision might have been averted, and yet II
seems ineXp.icable that on that Droau
stretch OF march land, in the early IWl-
UgHt when the eve can see miles OF as
tance. TWO trains should 80 crashing INTO
each other without a single chance Oh es-
cape. o,..-s o,.,,
ade.ph!a and intermediate points in this
state is maintained by three lines OF rail-
road They are the West Jersey ana the
Camden and Atlantic, incorporated IN the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company.s sys-
rem Of New Jersey lines, and the Atlanuc
CITY railroad. controlled and operated by
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Company. All three lines run out OF At
lantic City on two approximately parallel
tracks, the two Pennsylvania lines going
out of one depot and crossing the same
thorOughfare bridge, and the Reading nne
making its start about eight blocks be-
low and crossing a bridge of its own Few
hundred yards below the other.
When once across the draw bridge, a
diverging single track swings the West
Jersey trains off to the left, and carries
them out i'm an Oblique courseto a point
about a mile ana a half from the Reading
draw bridge, where they cross obhquely
and at grade the double tracks of the
Reading Railroad Company. This inter-
section is marked by a single tower, pass
" I xg q
with the Reading and go on to the main.
Watching trains approaching the shore at
distance il is difficult for the inexperi-
enced eye to determine upon which tracks
they will enter the city, and possibly while
numbering shoreWard last evening, the
Reading Engineer FaTr could not tell
whether the special was coming out on
the West Jersey or Camden and Atlantic
tracks.
An excursion party of about 400 people
o. the laboring class, men, women and
cmldren, were brought down in the morn
lns from Bridgeton, Millville and Morris
RIVER. II was the one day of outing In
lhe year Tor them, and they had a merry
Lme. Iney represented four tribes OF
HE'D Men, and on account of their num-
osts TWO trains were made up for the
evening return, one to depart at $50 and
ue other few hours later. The 6:30 was
d rev minutes behind in starting. and
dIler crossing the drawbridge was halted
5- 'tiN 'ADauUNS " walt Tor a couple OF
downward trains. 1t was this delay tina,
drought collision and DEATH and the solll-
uon OF the action falls upon George
HHolser, the man in the tower. and John
uIeIHer, the engineer of the ill-fated OK
C1Isloh train. Edward Farr, the Reading
engineer, remained at his post, while his
NsMe ploWed her way through the spe-
~ 'Tdln and was killed outright His
HH.IS tdhe, II he made one, resulted in his
tealh, and his lips can never tell the
sosy; but the living, who We're in the
Il awful wreck, furnish a reason for the ac-
SIehI which goes to Indicate that Farr
eeSIesarded the red signal when it was
I4Shed his way.
ne was running the fast express whic,,
%I%'es Fhladephia at $40 D. m. and is
, Tue mere at 6:55. He thundered across
st ste meadows at the rate of from forty to
Ivy miles an hour, and came i'm siehi
TnSg iHg excursion train just as the latter
irg i'9q y tnsad IN the direction of the cross
g-7t ne uouDtlesS was unable to distin-
T1r,it. I-,3 upon which track the special was
se''.llHs' HIS only source of informatior
tn ,o Nhat he should do was the lignt
ore ,G5relner, holding the throttle on the
iotb engine, knew one thing sure-thal
IA" IA rams must go over the Intersection
"a So lle white light to go over frs
goal i-9 ,uVing say, and tried to make Inc
Toyre He tailed, and one of the most har.
pas..1"s railroad collisions of the times
PASSES INTO history.
PASSED THREE SIGNALS.