The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-08-03
THE ATLANTIC CITY HORROR.
The Number of Dead Now Placed at
%FOrty-FOur.
THREE OTHERS MAY NOT SURVIVE.
The Condition Of Miss Lizzie Branin, Frank
Morele and william johnson Still Ex-
tremely Critical--The other Twelve
Will Probably Recover.

ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 3-No additional
deaths have yet occurred ns a result OF
Thursday nights collision, and the death
roll stands at forty-four. There is "a pos
sibility that it may remain Mt thnt figure,
but IL is only a remote one. At the Sana-
tarium last evening il was reported that
the fifteen patients still there were doing
rs we'll as could be expected, and while
there was a bare chance Of pulling them
all through safely the odds were against
at least three. They are Frank Morcle of
East Orange. n. j.; William johnson OF
BridgetOn, and Lizzie Branin of Millville.
Miss Branin has not recovered conscious
ness since the collision, despite reports To
the contrary. She is the pretty l9-year-
old girl who was engaged TO he married
to Charles Horner, the Bridgcton grocer,
who lies on the cot next TO her. Horner,
too, is very severely hurt, but the chances
are now in favor of his ultimate recovery.
At s o'clockin the morning the patients
request, made Saturday night to Rev j.
II. Townsend, rector of the Episcopal
Church Of the Ascension, was granted
The sonorous chimes of the little church,
which stands just across the way pealed
forth the tones of Nearer my God to
Thee The faces of the patients made "A
pitiful study as they hardened TO the
music. Some simply gazed with longing
eyes into vacancy, Others with rapt looks
and quive1ng lips formed the words OF
the hymn in unison with the chimes, and
some softly wept.
A number of clergymen of various de-
nominations have. at their own request,
been permitted access to the sick ward,
and while all the patients have welcomed
them mt eagerly listened to their words
of consolation there has been no ceremony
of n purely religious character.
Relatives and friends of some of the dead
visited Coroner Mclaughlin yesterday and
received the money and v%aluahles which
had belonged to their dead. The son of
William Prickett, ST., of Bridgeton, took
a few articles of iewelry and s2b.Ol in
money
Alfred Sharp, u brother of Mrs. Lizzie
Bateman, of Bridgeton, who was killed
with her husband, secured the effects Of
the unfortunate couple. Mrs. Fcighan, OF
| Philadelphia, widow of Patrick Feighan,
the liquor dealer who was killed, secured
the money found on his body. Mrs.
Branin, mother of Lizzie Branin, looked
for a watch which belonged 70 her daugh-
ter, but it could not be found.
The watch of Philip II. Goldsmith, the
Bridgeton clothier, who died handin hand
with his wife, bears on the face the picture
of his wife and two boys. 1t had stopped
at 2 80.
The inquest this afternoon will be held
upon the bodies of Goldsmith and II or
two others by way Of formally. The rail
road officials will be called first, including
Superintendent A. T. Dyce, of the Read
ing, and L. O. Dayton, of the Pennsyl-
vania. Albert Pinkerton, conductor of the
Reading train, will also be called. There
will be twenty-five or thirty witnesses
in all.
Mrs. Burns, a German woman from
Philadelphia, was here yesterday trying
70 find her boy, William, who had been
reported 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.
While the city is gradually resuming its
normal conditions, the Sunday crowds
were considerably smaller yesterday.