The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-05-13
AWFUL COLLISION.
Passenger Trains on the Philadelphia
and Reading Wrecked.
ONE AN EXCURSION TRAIN.
twenty-five Reported to Have Been
Killed and Fifty Injured.
SCORE OF BODIES UNDER THE DEBRIS
Trainload Of Wounded We're Taken to the
Reading Hospitals.
SURVIVING PASSENGERS SEEM DAzED
Can Give No Connected story OF the
. Observation-Disclosures 0fhciais Have
No Definite Information.

o'clock tonight collision Of passenger
trains occurred on the Philadelphia and
Reading at Exeter station. six miles below
Reading. The express train, which should
have left here at s 80 for Philadelphia, was
behind schedule time in leaving and stop
ped at Exeter for orders special train
from Harrisburg. bearing excursionists
who had attended the Hartranft monument
unwilling at the capital, left here twenty
minutes later than tho express train. and
at Exeter, while going at a. rapid speed,
crashed into the express train. Several
cars of the express train We're wrecked.
The number of dead is fully twenty ave
and the injured Atty.
The first train ploughed through three
cars OF the forward train, completely
wrecking them. Eight dead were brought
here at a. m. A score are under the
debris. The trainload OF wounded were
brought to the hospitals here.
Great excitement prevails throughout the
city The railroad officials oflcr no ex-
PLANTATION for the accident The coroner
VIII institute an investigation at once.
Returning passengers at 80 u. m. say the
scenes around the wreck are fearful.
Among the dead are;
CAPTAIN STREET, Philadelphia.
JOHN LEAF Montgomery county,
WILLIAM SLATER.
GEORGE SHAW.
JOHN SLGNGHUFF.
FRANK SHOWERS
SAMUEL BEATTY.
MILTON LEWIS.
HENRY VENT.
HENRY VENT.
JOHNSON, Mount Clair
HENRY HUNCHBINGER
GEORGE Sewers.
HENRY DIES
MARY THOMPSON.
HIRAM SHELLEY, Hathboro.
BENTON SIGVES. Reading
The Injured as far as names can be oh.
tanned are
Eddie Smith, Charles White. Nathan
o'Neill, Pat Kerr, Theodore Addle Wlll-
lam Frederick Harry Krantz, David Car
ney. A. j. Ashcnfelder, all OF Norristown:
Luther Custor. serious, Pottstown: John
Johnson. serious, Mount Clair; Pascal
Walters, Swedeland; Harry Lester,
serious. Phoenixvllle Charles Maddis, Co
sbocton; John Earl. Coshocton.
The second relief train left Exeter al
$50 a. m. 1t brought to Readrg twenty
additional bodies The names are not yet
known
Most OF the injured were brought hora
on the first relief train. Tho rest OF the
injured were taken to Pottstown and Nor
rlstown. The northbound track has been
cleared, and tho first train through this
city from Philadelphia was the Buffalo
express, leaving Philadelphia at. 1906.
Philadelphia. May 13.--The Plttsvillc ex-
press, which was run into at Exeter ar
rived here after midnight with few Of
the injured. They w.re. George W.
Kucker of this city, injured about the legs.
Francis 7. s.einbeck of Camden. n. j.,
cut about the head and bruised about the
body; c. A. Beaver OF Philadelphia, arm
bruised and head cut; y. Barney of PhlIa-
delphia, leg. arm and nip badly bruised.
Among the reported dead are John
sllnghuff OF Norrltown. and an unknown
man said to be real estate dealer. also
OF Norristown,
When the train left the scene of the
wreck a man named Street. living in this
city. was lying unconscious in the wreck, I
The passengers could give no connected
story Of the wreck andsthe number of dead 4
and injured was not known to any Of them.
1t is generally believed that six passengers I
We're killed..
A. midnight the officials here have re-
ceived no information as to the number
of killed or injured. or any list of names. I
Shortly before midnight train bearing (
nurses and doctors was sent to the sceue
of the wreck Exeter Is a flag station and Z
has no telephone communication. II Is /
stated that the passengers on the second
train were mostly from Norristown and
that several from that borough were killed
and many injured,