The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-08-01
Last Nights Figures on the Appall-
ing Disaster Near Atlantic City.
ALL BUT SEVEN IDENTIFIED
One Arm for Which No Body Has
Been Found-A strange spec
tacle for City of Prov
erblal Cayety.


40 have been identified Three OF the un-
identified were men and three women.
The odd one consists of an arm to
which no body has been found.
Following are additional names of
the dead: Tillie Leeds, Lydia Carl,
Mrs. Hattie Loper. Nance Cheney, un-
known woman. unknown boy, Mizael
May, William Spaulding. Elmer Went
zell, Henry Hughes, unknown woman,
Mrs. Mary Frease, Mrs. ]. ID. Bate
man. William Pricket. Joseph Cheney.
unknown man, Samuel Thorne. Charles
p. McGill, unknown woman. unldenti-
Ned arm. unknown woman. A ring
was found on a finger of one OF the un-
identified which bore the inscription.
&c. to L."
Spaulding. Cheney and Elmer Went
zell died at the Sanitarium this a.'ler-
noon. OF the injured 1t is more than
probable that four or five will die.
Many Of the others are injured only
slightly.
The investigation into the cause of
the collision and the fixing of the re-
sponsibility began to-day In earnest.
Coroner Mclaughlin impaneled jury
and they visited the scene of the wreck.
There is very general impression
that under the mass of the debris at
least six more bodies lie. The jury
made an exhaustive examination of the
ground and devoted considerable time
to the inspection of the signals which
remain as they were at the moment
of the accident.
George F. Hauser. who has charge of
the tower and who is now under arrest.
has made several statements to the po-
lice. He told them he saw both trains
coming when both were sufficiently far
away to admit Of full display Of sig
mails. but as the West Jersey was the
nearest he gave the Reading the red
light and signaled to the train to come
ahead The Reading. however, never
slackened speed but came on. Tonight
Coroner Mclaughlin called Hauser be-
fore him and gave him a hearing.
Hauser refused to make any statement
whatever at this time and was held In
$500 bail for a further hearing. Bail
was furnished and he was released.
After viewing the ground. the coroner's
jury again separated until tomorrow
afternoon, when another meeting will
be held.
All the dead so far found and identi-
fled were removed to their former
homes this afternoon. The first train
used for this purpose left the Jersey
station at $40 o'clock this afternoon
for Bridgeton. 1t carried 20 bodies.
The remaining corpses were sent In
later trains. One woman whose identi-
fication was established by her cloth
ing was decapitated in the wreck and
her head was found at a considerable
distance from the body.
The center Of interest to-day was the
improvised morgue and strange spec
tacle for this city of proverbial gayety
was the continual procession of under
takers wagons bowling along Allan
tic avenue, the principal thoroughfare,
carrying bodies to that place, and later
to the Pennsylvania railroad station.
Inside the morgue tragic scenes were
being enacted throughout the day.
Scenes of a like character were occur
ring at the same time at the Santa
rum. where the injured lie and where
three died. Almost every incoming
train brought crowds Of grief-stricken
relatives and friends and as the dark
ness came on, II Is safe to assert that
1t found answer in darkness In the
hearts Of many thousands here.
8 archIng for the Dead.
Atlantic City. N. j.. July 31.-The
sight of the searchers for the dead
working among the wreckagc last
night was a most terrible one in the
Pickering light of the huge bonfres
which shot sheets of yellow flames in
to the night. The gang of men went
crawling over the debris. hacking at
the cars with axes. straining to raise
heavy timbers with crowbars and peer
ing by the light of their lanterns into
the heap of wreck. A great part of the
work had to be carried on in the midst
of miry ground. and often as they la
bored they stepped from a wet board
and fell into the foul mud of the mead
ow land. But still clamoring over un-
certain passageways and clinging to
piles Of wreckage and risking their
necks on slippery timbers. they worked
steadily on to find the bodies of the in
jured and dead. Every now and then
a number of lanterns clustered around
one spot and in the freight the spec
tators could see the grimy. sweating
workingmen straining on their crow
bars or swinging their axes into splint-
cred wood and then one or two would
stop, lower their lanterns and work
with their hands while their comrades
stopped. leaned on their tools and drew
out a black, shapeless mass. Some
times II was a man. sometimes a child
and sometimes a woman, whose long
hair hung i'm strings and tangles from
the head. Then the cry would go up
"Chief," and the men would carry their
grewsome burden, its face covered with
a bloody handkerchief through the
crowd. Chief of Police Eldredge. who
looked at the body gave orders for its
disposition. Then II, was carried TO
where the corpses lay and the men
looked with their lanterns like great
flies floating about the ruins.
Curious crowds
While this was going on the crowd
was lined seven or eight deep around
the splintered cars and interfered con-
siderably with the gang Of laborers.
Word had been sent Immediately on
the occurrence OF the accident 10 the
city for police to-day and the patrol ap-
peared almost as soon as the vanguard
of the crowd. They took charge Of the
entire affair but notwithstanding the
excellent management. the crowds per-
sisted in pushing through the watch
men. The use of commands and even
Of clubs was wholly in vain and IL was
chiefly by the execution Of brute force
that protection was secured FOR the