Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-08-06

engineer 90 the Reading train, Edwnrd
Earr, though an official Investigation
may clear his name
/ I The list NJ dead, almost all of whoH
are from Rridgrtru. follows
Mrs. j. y, Batcmau, Chas Srihcrt.
Joseph Peters and son. Rcha VI. Lopez
I Miss Tile Leeds. Hattie Lopcr. Man
ME Chimney. Nm Spauldnr. Henry
Hughes Nm. 4. Eicl,ctt, Dos cheney.
thaTlcs May. Mrs.. Sallir Frees. three
unknown women, one unknuwn man.
che unknown boy. :. j. Nuurhy,
Millvillc. y. j.: !. u. Johnston. BRIDGE
ton; Charlie ~ Bourrou"hS. Bridge
tVr' e. T. jay"'r, tao adsirr>s: Mr.. and
MSs. L. 4. Goldsmith No address;
Samuel rhnrnr. haggagrmastrr. Al
lauiic City: n. r. Wood. Philadelphia:
John Gr,vcr, Bridgrtou; thaS. Eaclllcr
salem, y. j: harlcS McCcar. Bridge
ton, I. u. Dubois. Woodruff. y. J.:
! Mrs. Joshua Earnest, Brid.cton: Mr..
and Mrs Trcnchard, Il idgcton; Ed
ward Earr. engineer: Samuel THORN,
nHglraEcmastrr.l CharllS Muta. Fridge
toni n. 7. Bell, Bridgcton: W. C. Loop
ct. Rlidvctoni Mary Wrntzcu. AlIn-
Nay, y. J.:Lidic Carr. Eridgctnu; Pearl
Muta, EridgCton; Mrs Elmer Nav,
raiatirc y j.; Mrs. II. +. Bell Eri lrc-
ton; Anna frees, Bridgcton; Char.cs
May, Ialatinr, y. J.: James NJ. Bate
man, Bridgcton.
The known injured are:
Howard Woodland, Bridgctnn; Sam
ucl Null, Bridgcton; W. H. Spaulding.
Philadelphia Howard Smallcy. bridge
ton; w 4. llcn>lcy, rhiladclphia;
Lizzie e. llcnslry: Mrs \. L.
Ahhott, Rhoadrstown, y. j.;
Lizzie Smallcy. Hridgcton; Caroline
Nmallry, 1ridgcton; G. u. Frazier ard
wife, Bridrcton; Irwin puhosc Bridge
ton; Mrs. VI. kcigcr Elmer. y. J.:
Jacob johnson, shirley. y j.: Stanley
Ncnzrl, Alloway, y. j.; Fred >hccnry,
Bridg, ton: Mr.. Susan johnson. Shirley.
y. j.; Mary Shines. FrccSborough, Nj;
VIM. Baughnr. Hridgctou: Charles
Cryinick, Eridgeton; Violet Alfred,
l;riigcton; VIM. SimpllinS Salem,
y. j. Mason Worth. Philadelphia: Al
bert Taylor. Bridgcton; William
ionghton. Bridgeton; Edward Sccly,
Gridgcton. Chester Burgess, Bridrutun:
Howard Nonilaw. Eridgcton: cx-
Judge Jacob Iiitchncr, Hridgeton;
Mrs. lIitchman: Mrs. +. 4. ABBOTT,
David Fr.czr. Hridgcton; Mrs. job
Kcro.r. Elmer. y. j.: homas T. Nor
rcl. Er.drcton: Charles Homer.
l;r;dugtcu; II. Watson. Yorktown. y. j.:
Fred Ch,nwav, Eridgcton: Mary Pill
nry. aged II. Norktown: Mrs. f. +.
Fralingsr. rhiladelphia; John :. ke,-
ley, Camden, y. J.: Rachel Abbott,
Thunderstorm. y. J.
The uniniurc and those only slight
~ hurt among the Bridgeton excursion
party were in Il frenzy of agony. The
train struck was the first section of the
excursion train, and those on the see
ond section hoclicd to the hospital and
rorIuc Is the victims were brought in.
Two mics out on the Meadows the
Wrcclling crews of the Reading and
ives. .ICr.cy railroads were toiling 10y
tee light of hug, honiircs TO clear
away th, wreck and splntcrs
II broken cars Ey dawn they
had practically cleared up the
tracks Broken and battered
1ut Of shape. the huge engine If the
express lay on its side by the track.
Pinned beneath, with bis pale. blood
sta n,i acc staring into those of the
mon y,,r',in~ W., Farr, the cnginec~
The Old Excursion house at the FL
Of Mississippi ayenGc had been II ... ...
into a temporary morgue. Her
-, s,1,. a..
allel rows were the dead in boxes.
Some attempt had been made to clean
| he corpScs, but some We're half nude,
their torn and tattcrcd clothing not
covering their limbs, and nearly all
were horribly mutilated.
| The scenes as the bodies were iden-
titled were sad and pathetic beyond
words.
lious'r, the operator in the signal
tower. certainly set danger signals for
the Reading train when he gave Tie
cXcurs on the RICH; of way. The qucs-
tion is, did he set the signal in time for
| Engineer Farr to see il? Or did he be-
come excited when he saw collision
imminent and set it too Ia for Farr to
stop his train? Farr was an cxrericuccd
engineer and it seems incredible that
ho would rush past danger signal
down TO a crossing that was being ap-
preached by train he could clearly
| see.
Further, the Reading has the right
of way at the crossing over Pennsyl-
vania trains. aud still further, an eN-
press has the right of way before an
excursion special Still, in view of the
statement of Engineer G-cincr, OF the
excursion train, who was interviewed
in Camden Friday. and the position of
the gnal arms, the burden of the re-
spoasibihty at present rests with the
dead engineer.