The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-08-03
NEARER MY GOD TO THEE"
Victims Of the Reading Wreck at
Deaths Door.
PEALS OF THE SABBATH DAY CHIMES
Friends and Relatives Of tho Dead Ones
seeking Trtnkets and vaiuabies of
Those Who Have Passed Away.

Atlantic CITY. n. j., August mo ad-
ditional deaths have yet occurred as a re-
suit of Thursday nights collision and the
death roll stands at forty-four. There is
possibility that 1t may remain at that
figure, but 1t is only remote one.
AT the Santarium tonight the fifteen
patients there are doing well as could be
expected, but the odds were against at
least Frank Morlee of East Orange, n.
j.. William Johnson. Bridgeton. and Liz
zie Brantn of Millsvile. Miss Branin has
not recovered consciousness since the
collision. She is thcNpretty l9-year-oid girl
who was engaged to be married to Chas
iiorner, the bridgeton grocer who lies on
the cot next to her. liorncr, too. is very
severely hurt but the chances are now
in favor OF his ultimate recovery.
1t must have been dun Sunday for the
pent-up, broken-l mbed unfortunates. AL
storm and while II 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 s o'clock N the morning, the patents
request made last night TO Rev. j. II.
Townsend, rector OF the Episcopal Church
norous chimes of the little church. which
stands just across the way, a mammoth
hotel incongruouslv towering overhead,
to Thee" The faces of the patients made
Il p.tifu study as they heard the mourn
ful peals. while Others looked heayenward
with rapture and culver ng lips, forming
the words Of the hymn in union with the
chimes and some softly w-pt.
number of priests of various denomi-
nations have at their own request been
permitted access TO the sick ward, while
al the patents have welcomed them ana
eagerly listened TO their words of con
soiation, there being no ceremonies of a
purely religious character.
Relatives and friends OF some of the
dead visited Coroner Mclaughlin and
received the money and Valuabes which
William Prckett, Sr. OF BrIdgeton. took
few articles articles Of Jeweiry ana s7s-oi -, IN
Lizzie Bate man OF oi Eridse5on, who was was
killed with her husband, secured the ct
iects of the unfortunate couple. Mrs.
Feighan of Philadelphia, widow ~ Pat
killed. secured the money found on his
body. Mrs, Branin. mother of Lizzie
Branin. looked for a watch winch be
longed TO her daughter. but Il could not
be found. The watch of Phillip II. Gold.
smith. the l3ridgeton clothtcr who GIN
hand in hand with his wife, bears On the
surface the picture of his wife and TWO
boys. 1t had stopped at $40 o'clock;
The inquest tomorrow VIII be held upon
the bodies of Goldsmith and ono or Two
others, by way of formality. The railway
officials will be called first, including SUI
pcrintendent A. 7. pyce of the Reading
and superln,endsnt f. @; Dayton of the
ductor of the Reading train, will also be
called. There Will he twenty-five or thirty
Witnesses in all.
Mrs. Burns. German woman from
Philadelphia. was here today trying to
find her no, William. who had been re-
ported as being badly injured IN the
wreck. lie was not at the hospital and
there was NJ trace of HIM He had been
living AT Shiloh, Pa, and may possibly
have gone there.
city councils VIII meet tomorrow night
and pr- sent resolutions Of confidence.