Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-07-31
1BLBGRAPHIC.
MANY LIVES LOST.
PLEASURE SEEKERS nSD DEATH.
4, r7nrfs, Crashes ln0 an lNcrrsioh
IRAN, killing aud lnjirhg
Gren' Numb r..

ATLANTIC CRY, n, j., July ~
.ilfogd accident, horrible In Its de-
,.us and slckening In It's fe'ultT,
,c,urred this evening outside Of this
e,,y, and NJ result nbout hundred
rsr,fs are either killed or blurred.
Tho Reading railroad exprts', which
lat Philadelphia at $3.50 O'Clock this
,y,ning for Atlantic CITY, crashed into
Pennsylvania railroad excursion
,pin at the SECOND signal tower about
,sut miles out from here. Tho Penn.
,ylyapia train was returning to
middleton with n party Of sxcursloni'ts
rom that place, Mlllville aud neigh
b ring towns. IL was loaded with pas
icngtfs.
At the second signal tower the tracks
,fihr Two roads cross diagoBally. The
Reading train was given the signal 10
400, but II ,ithor failed % worn OF the
spepi " the express was too great to
be checked In time. IL caught the
excursion train btoadsido and Iloughoj
Though, literally cleaving u la twain.
Inu eugiueOi the Rsadiug train was
shattered 10 pieces. Every car on the
excursion train was damned to Its fell
ct capacity.
AZ soon NJ the news reached Allan
Tic city the utmost CONSERVATION pre-.
vailed, but the authorities were equal
u tue emergency. Relief trainA were
dispatchcd to tho soenc, loaded with
cots aud bearing etstls OF surgeons. AZ
f6ou ne tho bodies were recovered they
were carried into tho local hospitals
ami undertaken shOpe. A general flfc
alarm was sounded, and tue depart.
muut promptly responded and aided In
tho hrart.ronding work VI digging for
the victims. Fear grew into despair
aud horror ms tho disastrous work Of
the relief gangs revealed the awful ex-
tent VI the disaster. Tho first Reading
relief train bore into the city twenty.
seven mangled oofpsee, men, women
and children. Tho next train, not m
hour later, carried fifteen Of the
manned aud wounded anu two OF thosc
died soon after reaching tue city. A.
train SITTER train piled TO this scene u
the wreck and came back WITH It's
ghuslly load, the ainitArium which
do,s DUTY us the city hospital quickly
found it, capacity Overtaxed. Mean
while otheTs OF the dead and Injured
were being carried 10 the private hos
pllhls ut Ocean and Pacific avenues.
EIwAfd Fafr, engineer on the
RtaIing train, was killed outright, ~
was another railroad man who rode on
the engine with him. This man,
whose name has not yet been lesrned,
Jaw the collision coming and luAptd
from tho cab mn Instant before the
crash came. Almost at the same In.
slant tho ougiro cut ia way through
ana caught him directly In It's path.
His bouy aRd that OF Fatr were found
undcr heap Of debris, but the engin.
Ger lay IN what remained OF the cAb,
aud bis right hand still clabpod the
throttle. lie had been faithful unto
death aud met It at his post Tue hft-
man on that train loaped u few Gee.
onls before anu escaped with tTihiug
iuluTley,
samuel ThorlOn, baggage. masleT on
tue healing train, IL dead. Jam d
Batemnn, Btiugelou uudertsket, T.
known TO DO killed. lie was In the
third car, and his hat was found ~ iny
among the mass OF broken timber,
Richard Trenchsrd, n Btidgeton ma
ohiulst, aud hit wife are both dead,
A. lime progressed u seemed nlmOs
certainty that fully nty person.
were killed. Conductor Kelly Of 10,
Pennsylvania train had bOtn arms ant
los broken and was internally IN
lutet.
The oxoufslon train was made up o
fifteen carr, the foremost Of whish wal
baggage car. This and tbs next twl
coaches cAught tho iull force Of tn