The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-08-01
FORTY-SEVEN KILLED
In the Terrible Railway Wreck
Near Atlantic City.
DEATH LIST MAY BE INCREASED.

| ATLANTIC ClTY, Aug. 1.-f0rty-SeVeD
dead and forty-three injured. These
IRE today's figures on the appalling disas'
ter on the meadows Thursday evening.
or these forty have been identified. -Four
OF the unidentified are women, one man
and one boy. The odd one consists of an
arm to which no body has been found, The
official list of dead follows:
| The following among the dead all re-
sided in Brldgeton Charles Muta and his
daughter Pearl, John Griner, Charles p.
McGear Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Trenchard,
Joseph Peters, ]. d. johnson, Charles d.
| Burroughs, Mr. and Mrs H, Frazier Bell,
Mr.. and Mrs. William G. Lopez, Mr. and
Mrs Philip c. Goldsmith, Miss Tillis
| Leeds, Elmer Vented, Henry Hughes,
| Mrs Mary Frcas, James N Bateman, Mrs.
James N. Bateman. Frederick Cheney,
Nina Cheney, Joshua Earnest, Morris
Peters and Harvey Hughes
The dead who resided in other places
| than Bridgeton are as follows: William
Prickett, Jeanette, Pa. Samuel Thnrne
Reading bnggagemaster Atlantic City;
Lydia Carl, Hancock's Bridge; William
Spauldng, Philadelphia; Edward Farr
engineer of the Reading train; Atlantic
City; Michael May, Palatine, N. j.. Mrs.
Ella May, Palatine N. j.; Frank Dubois,
Hustled, N. j.. Charles Ecker, Salem, N.
j.; S. P, Murphy, Millville, N. j.; Mary
Vented Alloway, N. j.; Reva NJ. Lopez,
Yorktown, N. j. In addition there are
four unknown women, an unknown man,
anunknown boy and an unidentified arm.
A ring was found on tingero Of one of the
unidentified women bearing the inscrip.
ton &c to L..
Spaulding, Cheney and Elmer Vented
died at the Sanatarium yesterday after
noon.
OF the injured 1t Is more than probable
that four or five will die. Many Of the
others are injured only specifically.
The investigation into the cause of the
collision and the fixing Of the RESPONSE
bility began yesterday in earnest Coroner
Mclaughlin empanneleda jury consisting
of six of Atlantic City's wealthy and in.
fuential citizens. After formal organiza-
ton in the coroner's office the jury, headed
by that official, visited the old Excursion
House, which has been utilized as morguc.
The dead had oil been taken there and
placed in Ice boxes. The jurymen viewed
the bodies and after few min6r formal
tiles adjourned to meet again in the after
noon. At o'clock they again met for the
purpose of visiting the scene of the wreck.
A special train on the Reading had been
engaged, and the party was soon on the
scene. The police kept the crowd at n re-
spectful distance and tho jurors went over
the ground.
The relief gangs had done effective
work. Both tracks were now clear, the
articles OF clothing which belonged to VIC
tins had been taken to ponce heauquar-
tiers, and much OF the wreckaGe had been
removed. Beside the ditch, however, there
still lay great mass OF broken timber,
and here and there portion OF the third |
car, which felt the heaviest effects OF the /
crash and was cut into so much kindling |
wood. A little beyond lay what remained |
OF the Heatling engine The force or the |
collision was so great that the engine was |
not only turned upside down, but also
completely turned ar nd. There Is
very general impressin.. that under the
mass of debris Mt least six more bodies lie.
The jury made an exhaustive examinn-
ton OF the ground and devoted consldera-
Bile time to the inspection OF the signals,
which still remain as they were at the
moment Of the accident, that facing the
Reading being the red, Or danger signal
and that towards the Pennsylvania mean
Ing come ahead
George r. Hauser, who had charge of
the tower, and who is now under arrest,
has made several statements to the police.
lie told them he saw both trains coming
when both were sufficiently far away to
admit Of the full display OF signals, but as
the West Jersey was the nearer, he gave
the Reading the red light aud signaled the
other train to come ahead. The Reading,
however never Stacked speed, but came
on. The men in the cab either thought
they could easily clear the point in time,
or the brakes failed to work, and they
could not stop in time. The only living
man who positively knows this is Fireman
o Houlahan, who saved his life by leaping
from the cab.
Newspaper men had been unable to To-
cate o Houlahan until last night, though
his whereabouts were known to the au-
thorities. He was finally located last
night at boarding house at 81 south Ar
kansas avenue, but despite all kinds Of
pressure, probably acting under instruc-
tons, he refused to discuss the accident
from any point of view.
Last night Coroner Mclaughlin called
Hauser before him and gave him Il hear.
ing. TWAS purely perfunctory, however,
and but little was said. IIausor refused
to make any statement whatsoever at this
time, and was held in $500 bail for fur
ther hearing. Bail was furnished and ho
was released.
All the dead so far found and identified
were removed to their former homes yes
terday afternoon. The first train used for
this purpose left the Pennsylvania station
at $40 o'clock for Bridgeton. 1t carried
cornscs were sent IN lotor trains
One woman. whose identity was estab-
]ished bv hsr clothing. was decanitoted in
the wreck, and her head WINS fnund nj
consdero distance from the bodv The
theory that more bodies are unier the
wreck 10 strcngtbenel Inv the fact that
many inouiries ore being made Nv reln.
tives and close friends for persons who
cannot he found md who nre nat amor,
The unidentified dead mr. injured
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