The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-31
CHESTER burgess. Bridgeton. hip in

broken.
HOWARD sMALLEY. Bridgeton. back
broken.
DAVID FRIESE, neck dislocated.
ALBERT TAYLOR, Bridgeton, three
scalp wounds.
JACOB HITCHoN. bruised badly about
head.
THOMAS F. MoRRALD. Bridgeton,
compound fracture of the arm.
CHARLES HoRNER, Bridgeton. COM
pound fracture of the arm.
HARRY WATSON, Yorktown. N. j., leg
broken, head injured.
LIZZIE Nj. MULLER, Bridgeton, con-
fusion OF back.
CHARLES w. HORNER. age twelve,
fractured leg, internal injuries.
FRANK MORRELL, East Orange, N. j.,
dslocated shoulder and lacerated head.
WESLEY LEE, Bridgeton. internal in
juries, confusion of face.
FRED CHENEY, Bridgeton. internal in
juries and scalp wounds.
MARY PITNEY. age eleven, Yorktown,
n. j., lacerated and wounded head.
MRS. FRAUNCE FRALINGER. Phila-
delphia, broken leg, have to be amputated.
JOHN SKELLY, Camden, N. J., COM
pound fracture of femur, internal injuries,
probably fatal
RACHAEL ABBOTT, Rhodestown, N. j.,
broken leg.
The ringing of the fire bells gave the At
lantic City public the first intimation they
received Of the disaster. The utmost ex-
citement prevailed. The board walk was
deserted, and the crowds that surged about
the two railroad stations rendered the
streets IN those sections almost impossible
gineer who was killed, when informed of
her husbands tragic end. threw up her
hands with a frantic shrek and fell dead
at the feet of her informant
AT the second signal tower the tracks of
the two roads cross diagonally. The Read
ing train was given the signal, but 1t
either failed to work or the speed of the
| express was too great to be checked in
time. 1t caught the excursion train broad
| side and plowed through literally cleaving
it in twain. The engine of the Reading
train was shattered to pieces. Every car
was jammed to its fullest capacity.
AS soon as the news reached Atlantic
City the utmost CONSERVATION prevailed
Relief trains were dispatched to the scene.
surgeons AS quick as the bodies were re-
covered they were carried into the local
hospitals and undertakers' shops. gen.
| eral fire alarm was sounded and the de-
partment promptly responded, aiding in the
heartrending work of digging for the vic
tins. Fear grew into despair and horror
as the vigorous work of the relief gangs
revealed the awful extent of the disaster.
The first Reading relief train bore into
| this city twenty-seven mangled corpses.
men. women and children. The next train.
not an hour later, carried fifteen of the
manned and wounded, and two of these
| died soon after reaching the city. AS train
| after train piled TO the scene of the wreck
and toiled back each with its CHASTITY load,
the sanitarium which does duty as the city
hospital quickly found its capacity over
| taxed Meanwhile others of the dead and
injured were being carried to the private
hospitals at Ocean and Pacific avenues
| Edward Farr, engineer on the Reading
was killed outright as another road
man who rode on the engine with him
| This man. whose name has not yet been
learned. saw the collision coming and
ieaped from the cab instant before the
crash. Almost at the same instant the en-
gine cut it's way through and caught him
| Farr were found under a heap of debris
| but the engineer lay in what remained OF
the cab. and his right hand still clasped
the throttle.
DEAD WILL REACH FIFTY.
The fireman on the train had leaped a
few seconds before and escaped with
trif1ing injuries. Samuel Thorne. baggage
master on the Reading train is among the
dead. James NJ. Bateman. a Bridgeton un-
deftaker. is known to be killed He was
in the third car, and his hat was found
lying among the mass of broken timbers
Richard Trenchard, Bridgeton machinist
and his wife are both dead. AS time pro-
greses 1t seems almost a certainty that
fully fifty persons were killed. Conductor
Kelly, of the Pennsylvania train. had both
legs and arms broken and was internally
injured. Albert j. Mosebath, of No. /,
North Eighth street. Philadelphia, was or
the Reading train and escaped unhurt.
The excursion train was made up of If
teen cars. the foremost of which was q
| baggage car. This and the next two
| coaches caught the full force of the crash
and were utterly demolished. What re-
mained of the third car was tumbled into q
| ditch at the roadside The responsibility
for the accident cannot now be fixed
Charles C. Rynick, of Bridgeton, who wa.
in the excursion party. was in one Of the
! rear cars. He escaped With severe bruises
and so far as his agitation would permi
told the story of his experience.
when we saw that a collision was un-
avoidable." he said. 1.-THE scene in our car
was terrific. Women tainted and mer
rushed in mad panic TO the door. But il
came almost before we knew it. The third
car was cut right in two and the lower