The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-31

ATLANTIC CITY, n. J., July 3d.
A railroad accident, horrible in its de-
tails and sickening in its results, &C
CURED this evening outside of this city,
and as a result about a hundred pas
Fingers are either killed or injured.
The Reading railroad express which
left Philadelphia al $40 o'clock this
evening for Atlantic City, crashed into
a Pennsylvania railroad excursion
train at the second signal tower, about
four miles out from here.
The Pennsylvania train was returning
,a Bridgetown with a party OF eAcur-
sioniots from that place, MAlVllle anu
neighboring towns.
n was loaded with passengers and
rough estimate of the killed and injured
at a late hour places the NUMBER at
hundred.
The Signal Unheeded.
It is hoped that this is an eXaggera-
zion but the number is undoubtedly
more than fifty.
Al the second signal tower, the tracks
IF the two roads diegonally cross.
The Reading train was given the sig
nal 70 stop. but it either failed to work
or the speed of the express was TOO
great to be checked in time.
II caught the excursion train broad
side and ploughed through, literally
eleaving it in twain
y The engine of the Reading tram was
Ihatte-ed to pieces.
Every car on the excursion train was
damned to its fullest capacity.
AS soon as the news reached Atlantic
CITY. the utmost CONSERVATION prevail
ed but the authorities were equal TO
the emergency.
Relief trains were dispatched to the
scene. loaded with cots and bearing
STATS of surgeons.
As soon as the bodies were recovered
they were carried into the local hos
pitals and undertaken shops.
A general fire alarm was sounded
and the department promptly respond
cd and aided in the heartrending work
of digging for the victims.
GhastIy Train Loads.
Fear grew into despair and horror
as the disastrous work OF the relief
gangs revealed tine awful extent of the
disaster.
The nrst Reading relief train bore
6nGo this city twenty-seven mangleo
Acorpses, men, women and children
\ The next train, not an hour later,
,,ar,.ieI fifteen of the nain1ed and
wounded and two of these died soon
after reaching the city.
AS train after train ran to the scene
Of the wreck and came back with its
rhastlv load, the sanitarium which does
dury as the city hospital, quickly found
its capacity overtaxed.
Meanwhile others of the dead and in
iured were being carried to the private
hospital at Ocean and Pacific avenues.
! on fha cad
;ug train. was killed outright, as was
another railroad man who rode on the
engine with him. This man. whose
name has not yet been learned, saw the
collision coming and leaped from the
cab an instant before the crash came.
His Hand Still on the Throttle.
Almost at the same instant the en-
gine cut its way through and caught
him directly in its path.
His body and that of Farr were found
unoer a heap Of debris, but the engi-
neer lay in what remained of the cab
and his right hand still clasped the
athrottle.
Il He had been faithful unto death and
met it at his post.
The fireman on that train leaped a
few seconds before and escaped with
trihing injuries.
Samuel Thornton, baggage master on
the Reading train, is dead
James Bateman, a Bridgeton under
4aler. is known TO be killed.
He was in the third car and his hat
was found lying among the mass of
broken timber.
Richard Trenchard, Bridgeton ma
chinist, and his wife ere both dead
AS time progressed, it seemed almost
certainty that fully fifty persons We're
killed.
Conductor Kelly. of the Pennsylvania
train, had both arms and legs broken
and was Internally injured
Albert J. Mosebach, of No. Is North
Eighth street. Philadelphia, was on the
Reading trasu. He escaped unhurt.
The excursion train was made up OF