The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-08-03
NEARER, NY GOD, 70 THE
Chimed for Consolation of
Collision Victims
MI THE WOUNDED Still LIVE
Though Three are Expected
to Die
PITIFUL HOSPITAL SCENES
Anxious Relatives are Still Searching
for Missing People
Special Services Held. With Prayers for
Dead and Living
Formal Inquest on Some of the Victims Win
Be Held Today, and Many Witnesses
Will Be Examined-FuneraIs
Are Held
PITIFUL HOSPITAL SCENES
Anxious Relatives are Still Searching
for Missing People
Special Services Held, With Prayers for
Dead and Living
Press special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
ATLANTIC CITY, n. j., Aug. 2.-No
additional deaths have as yet occurred
as a result of Thursday nights collision,
and the death roll still stands at forty
four. There is still a possibility that it
may remain at that figure, but it is only
a remote one. At the sanitarium this af-
ternoon it was reported that the fifteen
patients still there We're doing as well
as could be expected, and, while there
was bare chance of pulling all through
safely, the odds were against three.
These are Frank Morele of East Orange,
N. j.. William Johnson of Bridgeton and
Lizzie Branin of Millville. Miss Branin
has not recovered consciousness since
the collision, despite reports to the COR
trary. She is the 19-year-old girl wlo
was engaged to be married to Charles
Horner, the Bridgeton grocer, who lies
on the cot next to her. Horner, too, is
very seriously hurt, but the chances are
now in favor of his recovery.
1t must have been a dull Sunday for
the pent-up, brokenlmbed unfortu-
nates Almost with the dawn came a
violent rainstorm, and, while it abated
early in the morning, the sun shone but
fitfully throughout the day, and when
it did. the heat and the humidity were
intense.
At 2Hl9w & IL fh rectonri atrni1F n be 5hf EMS
copal Church of the Ascension, was
granted
The sonorous chimes Of the little
church, which stands just across the
way, a mammoth hotel incongruouslv
towering overhead, pealed forth the
tones of Nearer, My God, to Thee. The
faces of the patients made a pitifuI study
as they hardened to the music. Soma
simply gazed with longing eyes into va
cancy; others, with rapt looks and quiv-
ering lips, formed the words of the
hymn in unison with the chimes. and
some softly wept.
A number of priests of various de-
nominations have, at their own request.
been permitted access to the sick ward.
and. while the patients have welcomed
them and eagerly listened to their words
OF consolation, there has been no cere-
mony of purely religious character.
Relatives and friends of some of the
DEAD visited Coroner Mclaughlin to-
day and received the money and yalu-
ables which had belonged to the dead.
The son of William Pickett of Bridgeton
took a few articles of jewelry and s2S NJ
in money. Alfred Sharp a brother oa
MIS-. Lizzie Bateman of Bridgeton, who
was Killed with her husband, secured
the effects of the unfortunate couple.
Mrs. Feighan of Philadelphia, widow of
Patr1ck Feighan, the liquor dealer. who
was Killed, secured the money found on
MS body. Mrs. Branin, mother of I,izzis
Branin, looked for watch which he
longed to her daughter, but it could not
be found. The watch of Philip III. Gob1-
smith, the Bridgeton clothier. who died
hand in hand with his wife, bears on the
race the picture of his wife and two bows.
1t had stopped at 2:4O.
Ihe inquest tomorrow will be held IN
the bodies of Goldsmith and one or two
others, by way of formality. The rail-
road officials Will be called first incIud-
ing superintendent A. T. Dyce of the
Reading and E. o. Dayton of the Penn
sylvania. Albert Pinkerton, conductor
of the Reading train, will also be called.
There will be twenty-five or thirty
witnesses in all.
Mrs. Bruins, German woman from
was here today, trying to
find her boy. William, who had been re-
ported as being badly injured in the
wreck. He was not at the hospital and
there was no trace of him. He had been
living at Shiloh, Pa, and may possibly
be there now.
The city council will meet t--,o---,o.v-
night and pass resolutions vi .J-
lence.
FUNERAL HELD.
BRIDGETON, N. j., Aug. 1.-The
funerals of eleven of the victims Of the
Atlantic City railroad collision took
place today. Everywhere could be seen
the clothes and badges of mourning, and
scenes were witnessed as the relatives
of the dead watched the heavy clods oil
earth fall that shut their dead from
their sight forever. Lodges turned out
IN full force and escorted the dead to
their graves. The churches all held spe-
,ial services at which prayers were said
,or the unfortunates. dead and living.
Those buried were Mr.. H. Frazier Bell
Ind wife, Joshua Earnest. Charles Sooy
md son, Mr.. Richard Trenchard and
son, Mr.. ]. NJ. Bateman and wife, and
Joseph Peters and son. The bodies of
Franklin Dubois of Yorktown and Mrs.
Ellen May and son of Palatine were
buried in the village cemeteries at
Friendship and Olivet. There Will be
many more funerals tomorrow and
tuesday. Tomorrow win be generally