The record-union., 1896-08-01
Several of Whom Are Not Expected to
Recover.
The Responsibility for the Accident
Hard to Place, Though the Burden
of 1t is Placed Upon the Engineer
of the Reading Train, Who Met
His Death When the Collision Oc-
Cured.

ATLANTIC CITY IN. ID, July 81
AS result of the terrible collision on
the Meadows last evening between the
Reading express from Philadelphia and
the Bridgeton excursion train out of
here, forty-seven people are dead and
forty-four are lying in the hospitals
mere, more or less seriously hurt OF
the injured in the hospital several are
expected to die. Besides those serious
~ enough hurt to be in the hospital a
score or more of people were bruised
and shaken up and went to cottages.
The fearful shock of the collision is
illustrated from the fact that of the
1orty-seVen dead forty-tWo We're killed
outright. OF the dead forty-two have
been identified, and the bodies of three
women, one man and boy are lying
at the undertaking shops awaiting
claimants
The responsibility for the accident is
hard to place at this time, but the
burden of it seems to rest upon the
dead engineer of the Reading train,
Edward Farr, though an official inves-
tisation may clear his name
The list of dead and injured, almost
all of whom are from Bridgeton, fol-
lows:
The dead are Charles Muuta, John
Greiner, Charles f. Ackler, Charles P.
McGear, Richard Trenchard. Mrs.
Pichard Trenchard, S. P. Murphy, Mill
Vile, Joseph Peters, J. d. Johnson.
Charles d. Burroughs, body supposed
to be Charles Soy, Fl. f. Bell, w. c.
Loper, Mr.. and Mrs. T. H Goldsmith,
Samuel Thorn, baggagemaster, Frank
lin Dubois. Joshua Ernest, Mrs Mary
Wentzell Mrs. Lydia Carl, Pearl Muu-
ia, Mrs. Ellen May, Mrs. H. F. Bell,
Mary Anna Frees, a child, Mrs. Mary
Frees, Mrs. j. d. Bateman. Ed Farr,
engineer Reading train, Charles Sell
bert, James NJ. Bateman, husband of
Mrs. Bateman, a. Peters, a son of Jo-
seph Peters, Robert NJ Lopez. Mrs.
Tillie Leeds, Mrs. Hattie Loper, Mamie
Chimney, Misal May, d boy. William
Spaulding;S4Ienry hughes, William p.
Rickett, Z. e. Taylor, Joseph Cheney,
Charles May, Mrs. SalIie Frees. three
unknown women, one unknown boy
and one unknown man.
The injured are: Howard Woodland,
Mrs. A. E. Bott, Lizzie Smalley, Caro-
line Smalley, c. d. Wrafier and wife.
Robert Irwin Dubois, y years: Mrs.
NJ. Keiger, Jacob Johnson, Stanley
Wenzel, Mrs S. Johnson, Mary Shipp.
Z. {. Rinick, Violet Alfred, Mrs. Laura
Pierce, William Simpkins, Mason
Worth, Albert Trader, Edward Seeley,
Chester Burger, Howard WoodlaWn,
ex-Judge Hitchman, Mrs. Hitchman.
Mrs. E. A. Abbott, Howard Smith. Da-
vid Friers, Mrs. Job Rieger, Albert
Taylor, Jacob Hilton, Charles Horner,
Harry Watson, Lizzie Ruter, c. w.
Horner, Mrs. Fannie Freilinger, Albert
Fl. Taylor, K. S. Watson, w. Johnson,
Mrs. Lizzie NJ. Muuta. Samuel Muuta.
Howard Woodlin, Samuel Wilson and
Stanford Wilson.
Many of the injuries are more than
ordinarily serious.
All through last night the city was in
an uproar. Thousands thronged out to
the scene of the wreck and crowded
around the railway station, and pushed
and crowded to watch the trains dis
charge their loads of dead and injured
AS it was gradually learned that nearly
every one on the Reading express had
escaped uninjured, the crowd gradu-
ally thinned out, the anxiety of rela-
tives and friends being relieved by the
dead or MANNED.
The uninjured and the slightly hurt
among the Bridgeton excursionists were
in frenzy of agony. The train struck
was the first section of the excursion
train, and those on the second section
flocked to the hospital and morgue as
the victims were brought in.
Two miles out on the Meadows the
toiing by the light of huge bonfires
to clear away the wreck and splinters of
broken cars. BY dawn they had practi-
cally cleared the tracks. Broken and
battered out of shape. the huge engine
Of the express lay on its side by the
track. Pinned beneath it was the dead
body of Farr, the engineer.
Not until this morning were the work
ers able to raise the wrecked engine and
draw from beneath it the crushed body
of the engineer. 1t was placed in box
and taken to Fairs home here
1t was reported last night that when
Mrs Farr heard of her husbands death
she fell dead. This was not so. She
fell in swoon, and tonight she is in
serious condition.
The operator certainly set the danger
lSlidl IOI the ISedulIS lItilll Wllcn ne
gave the excursion the right of way
The question is, did he set the signal
in time for Engineer Farr to see it. or
Gid he become excited when he saw a
collision imminent, and set it too late
for Farr to stop the train? Farr was
an experienced engineer, and it seems
incredible that he would rush past a
danger signal down TO a crossing that
was being approached by a train he
could clearly see. Further, the Reading
has the right of way at the crossing
over Pennsylvania trains, and still fur
ther, an express has the right of way
over an excursion. Still, in view of the
statement of the engineer of the ex-
cursion train, who was interviewed in
Camden to-day, and the position of the
signal arrangements, the burden of the
responsibility at present rests with the
dead engineer.
1t is reported that last nights ride,
which ended in disaster and death, for
Engineer Farr at least terminated in
change of circumstances and a hap
pier life. 1t was to have been his last