The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-03

ATLANTIC CITY, n. j., Aug. Z-No
additional deaths have yet occurred as
a result of Thursday nights collision,
and the death roll still stands at forty
four. There is possibility that it
may remain at that figure, but it is
only a remote one.
At the sanitarium this afternoon it
was reported that the fifteen patients
still there were doing as well as could
be expected, and while there was a
bare chance OF pulling all through
safely, the odds were against at least
three. They were Frank Morele of
East Orange, N. j.; William Johnson
Of Bridgeton and Lizzie Branin of Mill
vile. Miss Branin has not recovered
consciousness since the collision, de-
spite reports to the contrary. She is
the 19-year-old girl who was engaged to
be married to Charles Horner, the
Bridgeton grocer. who lies on the cot
next to her. Horner, too, is very Sc
verely hurt, but the chances are now
in favor of his ultimate recovery. 1t
must have been
A DULL SUNDAY
for the pent-up, broken-limbed unfor-
tunates. Almost with the dawn came
a violent storm, and while it abated
early in the morning the sun shone but
f1tfully throughout the day and when
it did the heat and the humidity were
intense.
AT o'clock in the morning the pa
tents request made last night to Rev.
j. H. Townsend, rector of the Episco-
pal Church Of the Ascension was
granted.
The sonorous chimes of the little
church, which stands just across the
way, a mammoth hotel anonymously
towering overhead, pealed forth the
tones of Nearer, My God, to Thee
The faces Of the patients made a
pitiful study as they hearkened to the
music. Some simply gazed with long
II ; eyes into vacancy; others. with rapt
looks and quivering lips, formed the
words OF the hymn in unison with the
chimes. and some softly Wept.
A number of priests of various de-
nominations have, at their own re-
quest, been permitted access to the sick
ward. and while the
PATIENTS HAVE WELCOMED
THEM
and eagerly listened to their words of
consolation, there has been no cere-
mony Of a purely religious character.
Relatives and friends of some of the
dead visited Coroner Mclaughlin to-
day and received the money and val
uables which had belonged to the dead.
The son of William Pickett of Bridge
ton took a few articles OF jewelry and
s26.01 in money.
Alfred Sharp, a brother of Mrs. Liz
zie Bateman of Bridgeton, who was
killed with her husband, secured the
effects of the unfortunate couple. Mrs.
Feighan of Philadelphia, widow of Pat
rick Feighan, the liquor dealer who
was killed, secured the money found on
his body. Mrs. Branin, mother of Liz
zie Branin, looked for a watch which
belonged to her daughter, but it could
not be found.
The watch Of Phillip H. Goldsmith,
the Bridgeton clothier who
DIED HAND IN HAND WITH HIS
WIFE.
bears on the face the picture of his
wife and two boys. 1t had stopped at
2:40.
The inquest tomorrow will be held
upon the bodies of Goldsmith and one
or two others, by way of Formally. The
railroad officials will be called first. in
Guiding Superintendents A T. Dyce of
the Reading and Z. .. Dayton of the
Pennsylvania. Albert Pinkerton. con-
ductor OF the Reading train, will also
he called.
There viii be twenty-five or thirty
witnesses in all
Mrs. Bruins a German woman from
Philadelphia, was here today trying to
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 The city
council will meet tomorrow night and
pass resolutions of coincidence.