Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-08-06
TERRIBLE
RAILROAD
ACCIDENT
Nearly One Hundred Persons
Mangled in a Collision a
Few Miles From At
lantic City Thurs
day Evening.
FROM JOY TO SORROW
~ Train ThrOnsed With ExeurSiOniStS
Struck by an Express
DEATH OF FORTY-TAREE VICTIMS
The List of Those Killed and
Injured.
FROM JOY TO SORROW
X Train ThrOnsed With ExcurSiOniStS
Struck by an Express
DEATH OF FORTY-TAREE VICTIMS
The List of Those Killed and
Injured.

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Atlantic City, N. j.. July 3I.-Tho
most awful disaster in the hietory of
A tlantic City occurred last evening
just outside the city limits, when
= nearly hundred persons were manglod
in railroad collision. half of whom
| were believed at midnight to be dead.
Tho Reading railroad express which
left Philadelphia at 5. 40 o'clock for
Atlantic City crashed into Pennsyl-
vania excursion train at the second
signal tower, about four miles out
from Atlantic City. The Pennsylvania
train was returning to Bridgeton with
. party of sxcursionists from that
place, Millville and ueighboring
towns. 1t was loaded with passengers.
AT the second signal tower the tracks
OF the two roads cross diagonally. The
Reading train was given the signal,
but it either failed to work or the
4 speed of the express was too great to
be checked in time. 1t caught the
excursion train broadside and ploughed
through, literally ceaving it in twain.
The engine of the Reading train was
shattered TO pieces Every car was
jammed to it's fullest capacity.
Edward Farr, engineer of the Read
ing train. was killed outright, as was
another road man who rode on the
engine with him. This man, whose
name has not yet been loarnod.. saw
that the collision was inevitable and
-leaped from tho cub an instant before
the crash. Almost at the same instant
the engine cut its way through and
caught him directly in its path. His
body and that of Farr were found
- lnI, he.
gineer lay in what remained of the
cab and his right hand still clasped
the throttle. The fireman on the tfain
had leaped "a few seconds before and
escaped with trifling injuries.
LIST OF DEAD AND INJURED.
The midsummer sun burst this
morning upon sleepless, horror
stricken community. The gaiety
which will mark this resort from
now until the end of the season will
be but faint echo of days past. A
death pail has fallen upon it. On
every street corner and hotel piazza
trembling lips discuss last nights
fearful catastrophe and persons await
the additional details revealed by the
break of day. The list of dead, as re-
vised, now numbers 43 and this is
thought to be correct, although there
is possibility that more bodies are
under the debris in the pond beside
the wreck The injured, so far as
known, aggregate 49, The revised list
follows:
The dead Charles Muta. Bridge
ton; John Griver, Bridgeton; Charles
Eckler, Salem; Charles p. McGear,
Bridgeton; Mr.. and Mrs. Trenchard.
Bridgeton; S. P. Murphy, Millyille;
Joseph Petus, Bridgeton }. d. john
son, Bridgeton; Charles d. Burroughs,
Bridgeton: body supposed to be that of
Charles SoIy; Ii. f. Bell, Bridgeton;
W. O. Looper, Bridgeton; Mr.. and
Mrs. p. @. Goldsmith, Bridgeton Samuel
boia, Clearfield, Pa; j. Earnest,
be that of Mics Jennie Sheppard; Mary
Wentzell, Alloway, N. J. Lidie Carr
Bridgeton; Pearl Muta, Bridgeton;
Mrs. Elmer May, Palatine, N. j.;
Mrs. II. F. Bell, Bridgeton; Anna
Freis, Bridgoton; Edward Farr, Read
ing engineer, Atlantic City: man sup
posed to be Charles s. Ebert, Bridge
ton; Charles May, Palatine; d. e.
Wood, Camden; G. b. Taylor, no ad-
dress James M. Bateman, Bridgeton ;
part OF shirt found, with name
stamped "a. II. Fox;'' boy supposed
to be A. Peters; Reva M. Loper.
Yorkstown, N. J. There are now at
the excursion house, where the dead
have been gathered, nine bodies that
have not been identified.
The injured-Henry Watson, York
town, legs broken Albert II. Taylor,
-Bridgeton; Mary Pittman, Yorktown; |;
John S. Kelly, Camden, fractured
femur; William Spalding of Philadel-
iphia, a Reading railroad transfer agent,
will die; Della johnson, Shiloh, N. j.,
collar bone fractured; j. S. Watson,
. Yorktown; Mrs. j. s. Watson, York
town; W. Jones, Bridegton; Mrs. Lizzie
Mutta. Bridgeton Charles Helmslee,
Bridgeton; Mrs. Richard Frees, York.
town; Samuel Mutta, Bridgeton Wes.
ley Lee, Bridgeton; Howard Woodlin,
Bridgeton; Samuel Wenzel, AIloway /;
Elmer Wenzell, Alloway; Charles W.
Horner, Lillian Tyler, Lizzie Smalley,
Caroline Smaley and Howard Smalley,
all OF Bridgeton; Rachel A bbott, Roads
town, N. j. ; William Sheney, Bridge
ton; j. S. johnson, Shirley; Samuel
Pittjan, William G. Helmslee, Frank
Moroville and ii. Mutta, all of Bridge
ton; Samuel Wilson and Hanford Will
son, Alloway; William Boughton, Ed
ward Seley, William Winkler, David
Kitchman, S. p. Frazer, Chester Burk-
sail and Howard Woodland, all of
BIidgeton; Irwin Dubois, Woodruff /;
Mrs. Fannie Fralinger, Philadelphia /;
Jacob johnson, Shirley; g. Homer.
Alloway.
CLEARING AWAY THE DEBRIS.
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