Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-05-16
KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK
Second Section Crashes Into First
Near Exeter, Pa.
FAST TRAINS COLLIDE.
The Dead Number Twenty-Five to
Thirty-More than Fifty
We're Injured.

We're Injured.
Reading, Pa, May 13.-Many of the
dead of last nights wreck on the Phila
delphia & Reading road at Exeter, have
not yet been identified and they now lie
in the morgue awaiting the arrival of
relatives or friends to make the identif-
cation
Daylight today revealed last nights
accident as one of the most disastrous
in the history of the company.
List of the Dead.
The number of killed is at least TWEEN
! ty-eight.
The following dead were taken to
Pottsville:
FRANK D. SHANER of Norrstown.
EX-POSTMASTER GEO. W. SCHALL,
Nor1istown, aged 60 years.
CAPT. S. T. STIRk, 1913 North Twenty
MISS ANNIE MCRAW of Ashland.
Other fatalities were:
HARRY HUNCHBERGER. Gulf Mills.
FRANK Sewers, NoEristown;
GEORGE H.. ANDERs, deputy county
SAMUEL BATTY, Conshohocken.
HIRAM SHELLY.
THOMAS LEES. Bridgeport.
WILLIAM CRAMM, Norristown.
- HOLMES q 13-year-Old boy.
TWO MEN. unidentified, badly mangled
- TAYLOR, residence unknown.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN, 40 years old, both
legs cut off
UNIDENTIFIED MAN, supposed to be
c. II. Hartman, probable residence Phila-
delphia
JOHN JOHNSON, Mount Carmel.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN, supposed to be
Louis Fisher. residence unknown.
WILLIAM STAHLER, Norristown body
terribly mutilated.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN. supposed to be
ial of pnffS
UNIDENTIFIED MAN, wearing clothing
with initials e. l. H;
William NJ. Keen. Norristown.
CAPT. GEORGE H. COULSTON, Norris
town; died at o'clock this morning.
c. l.. LAVERTY, Harrisburg.
LUCIEN ]. CUSTER, Pottstown.
List of the Injured.
George w. Holmes, Norristown. aged 81
years, fracture of left knee and body bad
~ lacerated. His leg was amputated here
this morning.
H. T. Johnson of Philadelphia. two deep
cuts in the scalp. He had his injuries
dressed at POttstoWn.
The following injured were taken TO
PottstOwn:
Edward Smith Norristown
Charles White, Norristown.
Nathan O'Neil, Norristown.
John Johnson, Mont Claire.
Robert Briefly 1913 MarsaIl street, Potts
town.
Patsy Kern, Norristown.
r Walters. Swedland
Henry +. Lester, PhoeniXville.
l.. b. Vandersice. PhocniXvile.
Thaddeus $. Andle. Norristown.
Charles Maths, ConshOhocken.
Lucian Custer, Pottstown
Harry kautZ. NOrriStoWn.
Harry Jacobs. Norristown
Special officer kirkpatrick, Philadelphia
The following are at the Reading hos
pital:
T. H. Adle leg broken and cut about face,
MONTGOMERY
David Carney, Norristown. arm fractured
and jaw broken, Montgomery Hose com
William Frieden, Norrstown. leg frac-
tured, head cut and hurt about chest.
Benjamin. Silvis. Reading, hurt about
chest and limbs and internally
George w. Lewis, 1923 Willow street,
Norristown hurt about limbs; Fifty-irst
A J. Ashenfelder. Norristown, hurt on
chest; Fifty first regiment.
George Holmes, Norristown, injured about
head.
Harry Stauffer. Norristown. injured about
chest and legs and face lacerated.
Proper Signal Not Displayed.
The signal man should have displayed
the red and green danger signal for the
special, but it is said he failed to do this.
whether Oh account of the signal failing
to work or not Is not known. While the
express was standing or the ira ckS the
crowded special came laundering along.
the special could not see the train stand
ing on the tracks ahead of him until too
late The special tore into the express
with a crash, and shrieks Of agony soon
filled the air.
The railroad at the scene of the acct
dent runs over a hollow, and the en-
bankment on which are the tracks is
about 90 feet high
Several passengers were hurled to the
bottom of the embankment, but the cars
all remained on the roadbed.
The dead and wounded were strcwn in
heaps IN the debris of the two cars Lit
tie damage, however, was done to the
rest of the trains.
Most Of the injured were brought to
Reading, but many were sent to Norris
town and Pottstown and some were TAX
| en- to Philadelphia.
Some Distinguished Passengers.
Gen. E. Burd Grubb of New Jersey,
eX-United States minister to Greece and
United States Senator Penrose of Phi!a.
delphia were among the passengers iii the
Pullman car on the first train. Both
were badly shaken up, but neither sus-
tanned any injury.
Senator Penrose, when questioned by
a reporter regarding the accident, said:
Il was on the ordinary train. but es-
capped with no injuries except a severe
shaking up. The train is what is known
as the 'cannon-ball express and the spe-
cial extra section Of if crashed into the
ordinary train. The regular train passed
the signal tower all right, but orders
were given for it to back toward Ike
ter, and this was done, and we had only
got back very short distance when the
second section crashed into the rear por-
! ton of our train. It is said that the
second section started within two min-
utes after our train started. | do not
know how many people We're killed. but
| think there must have been at least
twenty and akeut fifty injured. There
were about $50 IN our train and the sec
ond section was also crowded.
Soldiers Render Timely Aid.
'There was d number of soldiers in
| the train and | am glad they We're, for
they rendered invaluable assistance in
| getting the dead and injured from the
cars.
when the crash came / thought we
would have been all killed 1t was q
terrific crash, people were thrown in all
| directions, and those who were not in