The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-31
TWENTY-SEVEN DEAD FOUND.
THE SURVIVORS TELL DREADFUL
STORIES OF THE CONDITIONS
AT THE SCENE.
THE BLAME is NOT PLACED.
The Engineer of the Express Killed
and His Wife Drops Dead From
the Shock.

tails and aSlckenlng IN 1tS results, Oc-
Cured this evening just outside of this
city, and as result about 100 persons
We're either killed or injured.
The Reading railroad express which
left Philadelphia at $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 Penn
syIvania train was returning to Bridge
ton with a party Of excursionists from
that place, Millville and neighboring
towns. 1t was loaded with passengers
and a rough estimate of the killed and
injured at a late hour places the num-
Der at 100. It is hoped that this is an
exaggeration, but the number Is un-
doubtedly more than fifty.
THE DEAD.
The identified dead are;
P. s. MURPHY, Millville.
]. D. JOHNSTON, Bridgeton.
CHARLES D. D. BOUNOUGHAS, Bridge
ton.
G. B. TAYLOR, no address.
p H. GOLDSMITH, Bridgeton.
SAMUEL THORN. baggage master OF the
Reading train, Atlantic City.
D. E. WOOD, shipping clerk. Philadelphia
JOHN GRIENER. Bridgeton.
CHARLES EACKLER, Salem.
CHARLES M'GEAR. Bridgeton.
FRANKLIN DUBOIS, Woodruff
MRS. JOSHUA EARNEST, Bridgeton.
Middle aged woman with ring &c. to ""
initials.
Small hoy about years Of age.
FRAZIER BELL and wife, Bridgeton
MR.. AND MRS. RICHARD TRENCHARD.
Bridgeton.
train.
THE INJURED.
The list of injured is as follows: Howard
Woodland Bridgeton, broken arm; Samuel
Mata Bridgeton, scalp wound. internally in
jured; T. H. spaulding, Philadelphia, inter-
nal injuries and head hurt; Mary Shimp,
Freesborough, head cut; VIM. Baughan,
Bridgeton, back hurt and head severely cut
Charles c. Renick Bridgeton, badly cut about
head; Violet Alfred, Bridgeton, face cut and
nose fractured; Howard Smalley, Bridgeton,
badly bruised and head cut; T. G. Hamsley,
badly injured; Lizzie G. Hamsley, his wife,
body bruised; Mrs. E. A. Abbott, Rhodestown.
N. j., lower limb and arm broken; Lizzie
Smalley Bridgeton; Caroline Smalley, arms
and legs severely injured; c. D. Frazer and
wife, Bridgeton, both badly cut on head; r.
win Dubois, II years old, head cut and badly
back badly hurt and head cut;
Jacob Johnson Shirley, N j., head cut;
his wife, supposed to be dead and child badly
hurt; Stanley Wensolt, Alloway, N. j., scalp
nearly torn off; Fred Sheney, Bridgeton,
back hurt and internally injured; Mrs. Sus-
anna Johnson, Shirley, N. j., shoulder head
and breast injured; B. B. Fisher and wife,
both seriously hurt; Harry Green head hurt;
! H. Weiss, neck twisted; Mrs. Laura Pierce.
! Bridgeton, badly cut, head and body bruised
! William S. Tompkins, Salem, head lacerated;
Mason Worth, Philadelphia, back injured; Al
| bert Taylor, Bridgeton, head cut; William
Boughton, Bridgeton, internal injuries Ed
ward Seeley, Bridgeton, head cut; Chester
Burgese, Bridgeton, hip injured How
ard Woodlawn Bridgeton, arm broken:
ex-Judge Jacob Hitchner, Bridgeton, inter-
nal injuries; Mrs. Hitchner. concussion OF
brain: Mrs H. A. Abbott, Bridgeton, leg bro
ken; Howard Smalley, Bridgeton, back bro
ken; David Friese, neck dslocated; Albert
| Taylor, Bridgeton, three scalp wounds; Jacob
! Hitchon. bruised badly about the head
Thomas E. Morrald, Bridgeton, compound
| fracture of the arm; Charles Horner, Bridge
! ton, compound fracture of the arm; Charles
! w. Horner, aged twelve, fractured leg, in
| ternal INJURIES Harry Watson, Yorktown, N
| j., leg broken. head injured; Lizzie NJ. Null
| Ter, Bridgeton, confusion of back; Frank
Morrell, East Orange, n. J., dislocated shoul-
der and lacerated head; Wesley Lee, Bridge
] ton, internal injuries, confusion of face; Fred
| Cheney, Bridgeton, internal injuries and
scalp wound; Mary Pitney, aged eleven, York.
town. N. j., lacerated and wounded in head
Mrs. Faunce Fralinger Philadelphia, broken
leg, will have to be amputated; John Shelley
/ Camden, N. j., compound fracture of femur
! bott Rhodestown, N j., broken leg
Seventeen unidentified women. foul
men and female child, all dead, were
brought to the Excursion house after
midnight. Fireman Kelley, of the
Reading train, was fatally injured.
At the second signal tower the tracks
of the two roads diagonally cross. The
Reading train was given the signal
but it either failed to work or the speed
/ of the express was too great to be
checked in time. It caught the excur.
sion train broadside and pIoughed
through, literally cieaving it in twain
The engine of the Reading train was
| shattered to pieces.
| AS soon as the news reached Atlantic
City the utmost CONSERVATION pre-
vailed, but the authorities were equal
to the emergency. Relief trains were