The Portland daily press., 1896-08-03
FORTY-FOuR OF THEM.
All the U nfortunates HaYe Been Iden-
tilted.

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! Incidents e6-one of the Worst of Coils
ions-Proof That Engineer Farr was at
Fault.
Atlantic City, Nj, August FORTY
four person were killed in Thursday g
collision. All Of the bodies have now
been identified. The severed arm
was identified as belonging to the body
of Mrs. Trenchard of Bridgeton.
Several of the injured are still lying in
critical condition at the Sanitarium.
Mrs. Faunce Bralinger OF Philadelphia,
whose right leg was amDuIaUed yesterday
afternoon. is very low. There is no hope
for her recovery.
| A young woman, about 10 years old,
who has been lying senseless at the
hospital since the accident, recovered con-
seriousness for q few moments this morn
ing, but is TOO i'll to admit of questioning
as to her identity. There is strong
probability that she is Miss Lizzie Branin
of Millville, N. j., who was known to
have been in the excursion party, but has
not been heard from.
| There has been much perplexity here
| over the dispatch from Millville, to the
effect that 8. P. Murphy, who has been
numbered among the dead from the time
| of the accident, is alive and well at his
home. The body supposed to be his was
identified as such by fully fifteen per-
sons. Later it was identified as that OF
| Patrick Feighan of Philadelphia.
An impression prevails that the respon-
81 bility Of the accident rests upon the
dead engineer, Edward Barr. There is
no dispute that the signal to come ahead
was given to the West Jersey excursion
train, and If so the danger signal must
necessarily be given to the Reading track
by an automatic arrangement. The Sig
nails then become looked and cannot be
released until both trains have cleared
the point. Before the signals are mani
pulated, the red signal is constantly dis
played to both tracks, indicating to all
engineers that they must slow up on ap-
proa ching the crossing. The theory is
that Fnrr did not slow up, and could not
do go In time when he saw the West Jer-
sey train approaching. 1t Is said that ne
had been laid off for two weeks not long
ago for not making good time and it is
supposed that he was trying to make up
for this by running at high rate of
speed.
The coroner's inquest will begin at
10. 80 O'Clock Monday morning, and Fire
man O'Houlihan, of the Reading train,
who saved his life by jumping, will prob
ably be the principal witness.
Hearing Begins Today.
Atlantic City, N. j., August 2.-Up to
this evening there had been no further
deaths among the victims of Thursdays
railroad collision, lying at the sana-
tarium, but there was a marked i'm
provement in the condition of all but
two or there. Coroner Mclaughlin has
issued subpoenas for twenty Live or thirty
witnesses. The most Important witnesses
will be called tomorrow. Among these
will be George House. the signal tower
man, who gave the right OF way to the
excursion train and danger signal to the
Reading express; Engineer Greiner of
the excursion train; Fireman Hallihan
of the Reading train, and Superintendent
Deioe and Dayton of the Reading and
West Jersey railroad.
Funerals of the Victims.
Bridgeton, N. j., August 2.-The
bodies of II victims of the railroad col
'lision at Atlantic City, were buried here
today. One was buried yesterday. To-
morrow there will be four more buried
and Tuesday nine. There were SO many
funerals that facilities for burial were
overtaxed. Great crowds, largely made
up of fearful women, gathered in the
streets outside the funeral houses and
flooked in groups about the old stone
church and Brook cemeteries where the