The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-05
TERRiBLE RAILWAY DISASTER.
Forty-Seven Killed and Forty-Four In-
juPed In New Jersey.

Forty-Seven Killed and Forty-Four In>
jured In New Jersey.
Atlantic City, N. j., July 31.-A ter
rible railroad catastrophe took place en-
the meadows. about two miles out Of
this city. about $3.50 Thursday evening.
A train left there, consisting of seven
cars, over the West Jersey railroad,
bearing special excursion of red men
and their friends of Bridgeton, N. j.,
and Salem, and had reached the cross
ing of the Reading railroad, when il
was struck by the $40 down express
from Philadelphia, demolishing two
cars and telescoping the two following.
The engine of the Reading train be-
came total wreck, killing the engineer
and fatally injuring the fireman, and
the car behind it also was thrown from
the track and many of it's occupants
killed or injured.
Atlantic City, n. j., Aug. las re-
sult of the terrible collision on the
Meadows Thursday evening between the
Reading railroad express from Phila-
delphia and the Brighton excursion
trnin out of here. AZ people are dead and
A are lying in the hospital here more or
less seriously hurt. OF the injured in
the hospital, several are expected to
die. Besides those seriously enough
hurt to be in the hospital, score or
more of people were bruised and shaken
up and went to cottages. The fearful
shock of the collision is illustrated in
the fac. that of the AZ dead, AZ were
killed outright. Of the dead, AZ have
been identified and the bodies of three
women. one man and boy are lying at
the undertaking shops awaiting claim
ants.
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 investi
cation may clear his name. The list
of dead, almost all of whom are from
Bridgeton, follows:
Charles Mutta, John Greiner, Charles
Eacl:ler, Charles p McGear, Richard
Trenchard, Mrs. Richard Trenchard, S. p.
Murphy, Millville: Joseph Peters, J. L.
Johnson, Charles D. Burroughs, body sup
posed to be Charles Soy, H. F. Bell, W. G.
Lopez, Mr. and Mrs, P. H Goldsmith, Sam
uel Thorn. baggagemaster; Franklin Du-
bois, Joshua Ernest. Mrs. Mary Vented,
Mrs Lydia Carl, Pearl Mutta. Mrs. Ellen
| May, Mrs H. F. Bell, Mary Ann Frees,
child, Mrs. Mary Frees, Mrs. j. D. Bate
| man, Ed Farr, engineer Reading train:
Charles Seibert, James NJ. Bateman, hus-
band of Mrs. Bateman; A. Peters, a son of
Joseph Peters; Reba NJ. Lopez, Miss Tillie
| Leeds, Mrs. Hattie Lopez, Mamie Chimney,
| Mjsal May, boy: William Spaulding. trans
| fer agent Reading railroad, Philadelphia;
| Henry Hughes, William P. Rickett. E. E.
| Taylor, Joseph Cheney, Charles May, Mrs
| Sallie Frees, three unknown women, one
| unknown man. one unknown boy.
Camden, n. j., Aug. 1.-Stationmaster
| John Bodine, of the West Jersey Il Sea-
shore road, says that he learned that
Engineer Farr. of the Reading train,
| passed three signals, all against him,
before the train crashed into the West
Jersey excursion train. The first sig
nal was 1000 feet away, and is known as
the distance signal. Then he had to
pass home signal, and finally the block
signal at the crossing. Engineer Griner,
of the excursion train, told Bodine that
| he had stopped before reaching the
crossing and blew his whistle TO get
the operator to give him the clear sig
nal. He got clear signal and started.
He could not see the Reading train, but
! he saw a cloud of dust, indicating it's
approach. Farr had ample time to stop
his train. but made no effort.