The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-07-31
MANY NCURSIONISTS KILLED
Fearful Railroad Accident Near Atlantic
City.
FULLY A HUNDRED VICTIMS
Of These 1t is Believed That at Least Fifty
Are Dead-A Reading Engine Crushes
Into a Pennsylvania Train, Cut
ting 1t in Two.

ATLANTIC CITY, July 3l.-A railroad ac-
cident, horrible in its details and sicken-
ing in its results, occurred last evening
lust outside this city, andas a result about
a hundred persons are other killed or in
jured. The Reading railroad express
which left Philadelphia at $40 o'clock
last evening crashed into "A Pennsylvania
excursion train at the second signal tower,
about four miles from here. The Penn
sylvania train was returning to Bridgeton
with u party of excursionists from that
place, Millvillc and neighborinR towns.
1t was loaded with passengers, and rough
estimate Of the killed and injured mt a late
hour places the number at 100. 1t is hoped
that this is an exaggeration, but the num-
Der is undoubtedly more than fifty.
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 speed of the
express was too great to be checked in
time. 1t caught the excursion train broad
side and ploughed through, literally cleav-
ing it in twain. The engine Of the Read
ing train was shattered to %splinters, and
under it lie many of the dead.
As soon as the news reached Atlantic
City relief trains were dispatched TO the
scene, loaded with cots and bearing stalls
of surgeons. As quick as the bodies were
recovered they We're carried into the local
hospitals and undertakerR shops. A gen
eral fire alarm was sounded and the de
partment promptly responded and aided
in the work of digging for the victims.
The first Reading relief train bore into
this city twenty-seven mangled corpses,
men, women and children. The next
train, not an hour later, carried fifteen Of
the manned and wounded, md two Of
these died soon after reaching the city. AS
train after train piled to the scene of the
wreck and toiled Jack with zach CHASTITY
load the sanitarium, which does duty as
the city hospital, quickly found its capac-
ity overtaxed. Meanwhile others of the
dead ard injured We're being carried to the
private hospital at Ocean and Pacific
avenues
Engineer Faithful Unto Death.
Edward Farr, engineer on the Reading
train, was killed outright, as was another
road man who rode on the engine with
him. This man, whose name has not yet
been learned, saw the collision coming
and leaped from the cab an instant before
the crash. Almost at the same time the
engine cut its way through and caught
him directly in its path. His body N
that of FAIR were found under a heap Of
debris, but the engineer lay in what re-
manned of the cab, and his right hand
still clasped the throttle. He had been
faithful unto death, and met it Mt his post.
The fireman on the train had leaped a few
seconds before and escaped with triling
injuries.
samuel Thorne, baggagemaster on the
Reading train, is among the dead. James
NJ. Bateman, a Bridgeton undertaken, is
known to be killed. He was in the third
car, and his hat was found lying among
the mass of broken timbers. Richard
Trenchard, q Bridgeton machinist, and
his wife are both dead, Conductor Kelly,
of the PENNSYLVANIA train, had both legs
and arms broken and was internally in
jured. All the killed and injured We're on
the PENNSYLVANIA train. As time pro-
crosses it seems almost certain hat fifty
people were killed. Fourteen of the in
jured have died at the Sanitarium.
An Associated Press reporter was on
one of the first relief trains sent out by the
PENNSYLVANIA railroad, and he was the
first newspaper representative on the
scene. Staggering in and out of bitches
and stumbling over masses of broken
INNER WITH only Il IeW ntLul lallterIs 10
help thelr stralhlhg eyes uhe rescue gung
set bravery TO WORK Axes ana sloYeis
We're plled WIN the greatest N'Bor' anu az,
most at every nan uozeh Strohes" lnaIgleu
form was prought up ana Ialu ueh'erIy on
the waiting palletS'
a Human Heart in the Ruins
A heap Of bloodstained timbers, turned
aside by one of the rescuers, brought TO
sight q woman's arm. 1t had been
wrenched off almost by the roots, and
nothing remained but a dripping stump,
even the hand being gone. 1t had been
clad in a dainty white linen glove, the
sleeve of which still chung to IL, Not five
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