The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-05-15
THE WRECK
AT EXETER.
The List Of the Dead Has Now
Reached Twenty-nine.
SIXTEEN LIVED AT NoRRIsTowN.

The Accident the Result ofsome medody's
duct a Rigid Investigation I'm an En-
deavor to Place the Responsibility.
Reading. Pa, May 15.-The total
number of dead as a result Of Friday
nights rear end collision on the Phil
adelphia and Reading railway at Ex-
eter, six miles below here, reached 2g
yesterday, William d. Jenkins. OF Nor
ristown, dying at the Charity hospital
at Norristown. OF the large number
OF injured persons still in the hospitals
here three are in a serious condition,
and small hope Is entertained for their
recovery. They are William Frieder-
horn, Thadeus S. Adle and George W.
Holmes, all OF Norristown. Holmes
S-year-old son was instantly killed in
the accident, but the hospital physi-
clans have not yet informed the father
OF the boys death All Of the dead
here have been identified and all the
bodies have been claimed by relatives
or friends and have been sent to their
various homes.
The body which was on SATURDAY
thought to be @. II. Howell, OF Phoe-
nixville, Pa, was yesterday positively
Identified as that OF Captain Charles
I. Street. Of Philadelphia. A card
bearing the name Of Howell was found
on the body and this led to the be-.
lief that It was Howell.
Norristown suffered the most Sc
yerely by the disaster, l6 Of the dead
having lived in that city. They are:
William Stahler, druggist: William
Camm, retired Colonel George Schall
retired; John Slinghuff, chief Of FIRE
department William II. Lewis, pro-
duoe dealer; F. D. Sewers, proprietor
Of book store; Harry c. wentz. real
estate dealer; Charles H. White, real
estate dealer; John Kuntz, milk deal
er; Henry ]. Coulson, iron worker;
Joseph Taylor, colored porter; Harry
Thompson, watchman; Samuel Nc
Carthy, contractor; Isaac NJ. Fillman,
fireman; Norman Holmes, aged 8;
William D. Jenkins, laborer.
The other IL victims were: Lucien ], |
Custer, aged 20, and Daniel II. Yoder
40, both OF Pottstown; Jacob w. Mark |
ley Philadelphia; John johnson. Mt |
carmel, Pa; Fl. c. Hartford, Philadel. |
phia; Captain Charles Leaf, Fort /
Washington, Pa; H. L. Hunsberger. |
Conshohocken, Pa; C. L. Laverty.
Harrisburg; E. E. Shelley, Hatboro.
Pa; G. H. Powell, Phoenixville, Pa:
Michael Lawn, 81, Germantown; Cap
tain c. w. Eicholtz, Downingtown, Pa:
Samuel w Beatty, Conshohocken.
AT least 10000 persons visited the
ssfHs sesne qtt h6Iaeasal6 ana SO fHnesT T6hfsz
tant Railroad trains brought crowds,
others came by carriages and bicycles, |
and hundreds came on foot. Relic |
hunters kept the police busy. Almost |
everybody was bent on carrying away
some kind of memento. Many Of the
people did not hesitate to take away
with them pieces of wood thoroughly |
saturated with human blood. Every
thing in the neighborhood Of the wreck |
is bespattered with blood, and the sight !
was a gruesome one.
The question as to who is responsible |
for the catastrophe is still being dis
cussed here. That some one blundered |
is generally admitted by railroad men. |
Who it was that blundered, however,
no one seems to positively know, and |
opinions on this point differ widely. |
The Reading officials here yesterday |
took the statements of the trainmen |
who were concerned in the affair, and |
they were sent to the general Offices Of |
the company in Philadelphia. What |
these statements contain the officials |
refuse to say.
The coroner will begin a rigid in |
quiry this afternoon. He has sum-
moned a large number Of witnesses.