The age-herald., 1899-05-14
Fifty People Injured and Many
 Will Die. ONE TOWN IN MOURNING Thirteen of Her Leading Citizens
 Among the Dead. SENATOR PENROSE ON THE TRAIN Passenger Held Up At Exeter By Coal Train, and One of the Most Hor-
 rible Catastrophies of Re-
 cent Years is Result
SENATOR PENRosE ON THE TRAIN

Reading, Pa, May 1S.-The wreck which occurred last night on the Philadelphia and Reading railway at Exeter, six miles south of here, was probably the worst that has ever occurred in this state.
 Twenty-eight dead and fifty injured and many of them may not recover, is the aw- ful result of the disaster. The cause of the disaster is still involved in mystery and officials of the road are investigating in order to place the blame. The man in the signal tower at Exeter station claims to have had the signals properly displayed. In a statement today General Superinten- dent Swigerd, of the Reading railway, said the prime cause of the accident was a block of freight cars on the track which were taking a siding at Birdsboro and which compelled the express 10 stop at Exeter. It is not known as yet whether
 signal man was sent back to notify the special or second express.
 The travel from Harrisburg was very
 heavy owing to the large number of people
 who attended the Hartran for the monu-
 ment unveiling ceremonies
 A special train was brought into requisi-
 tion to accommodate the crowds. At Exc
 ter the first train stopped briefly for orders and had just started when the special crashed into it.
 Many prominent men were passengers on the forward train, among them Senator Boiess Penrose, Colonel Henry D. Paxton, of Philadelphia; General John W. Schau, of Norristown and Colonel George Schall, the generals brother, who was killed On the second train were some twenty veterans of
 Hartranfts Fifty-first regiment, which he commanded in the civil war and a com pany of the Seventh Pennsylvania infan- try, national guard, few of whom were injured.
 A strange feature of the disaster was the fact that not one woman was killed
 and only one was injured.
 Norristown is in mourning, as the great est number of dead and injured were resi-
 dents of that place.
 The corrected list of kiIled and injured
 is follows:
 Killed-John Sllngtuff, Norrstown; H.
 Thompson, Norristown Elmer Shelley,
 Hatboro; Frank Sower, Norristown; Henry
 G. Wentz, NorristoWn; William Stahler
 Norristown; Joseph Taylor, Norristown;
 J. K. Kuntz, Norristown; Charles G. Leaf,
 Fort Washington; Samuel R. Beatty, Con-
 shohocken; Charles H. White. NorTistown;
 Captain G. c. Echoltz, Dowingtown George Schall, Norristown; William Lewis Nor ITS town; Il. Hunchberger, Gulf Mils J. E,
 
 John Johnston, Hatboro; John t. Couston. Norristown; c. L. Laverty, Harrisburg; Daniel H. Yoder, Pottstown; Lucien J. Gus ter, Pottstown; William C. Camm, Norris town; H. J. Hartford, Norristown; Norman Holmes, Norristown; Captain s. T. Street, Philadelphia: M l.. Lawn, Germantown: one unidentified man.
 lnjured-T. II. Adle, Norristown, legs broken, face badly cut; William Freeborn, Norrlstown, head cut, chest crushed; Henry K. Stauffer, Norristown, chest and face injured; D. B. Silvis, Reading, legs and internally, serious; G. H. Lewis, Nor ristown, legs crushed George Carney, Nor ristown, arm and jaw fractured; A. J. Ashenfelter, Germantown, chest crushed; Robert Brierly Philadelphia, scalp and face lacerated; George ". Holmes, Norristo town body badly lacerated, left leg amputated; John M. Engle, Swedeand, hip fractured; John N. Earl, Conshocken internally in- jured, serious; John s. Jones, Norristown head injured, serious; Albert Hardness, Philadelphia, bruised and unconscious; John M. Foose, Harrisburg, head injured; Joseph Edwards Germantown, chest and body, serious Harry P. Robbins, Phladel- phia, neck and internal; F. H. Taggert, West Chester, legs broken; Wil liam Jenkins, Norristown, head cut; Annie Madgeburg Ashland, large scalp wound; Amandus Garges, Norrstown, unconscious; J. z. Adler Norristown, legs broken; Ed ward Smith. Norristown, body and arm
 bruised. Nathan ONein. Norrstown, bruis- ed; Patrick Curren, Norristown, bruised; Pascoe Walters, East Swedeland, back sprained; J. H. Leister Phoen'xville, in- formally injured serious; Charles Maddisi ConshoclSken, bruised; Harry Orell. engin- eer of the special, head cut H. G. Krantz, Norristown, head cut; special policeman Robert Kirkpatrick. Philadelphia, head cut i; Captain H. Jacobs, Norristown, bruised; II Tnht Councilman George w. Kucker, Philadel- phia legs injured; Mrs. H. Brewer, Nor
 ristown. body and head injured; Fillmore Jones, Norristown, bruises of body; T. J. Baker Norrstown. bruises of body; H. B. Tyson, Norrstown, bruises of body: G. w. Brady. Norrlstown, bruises of body; F. Harrington. Philadelphia; Captain Smith, Norr stown: J. M. Doran. Phoenixville; Harrison Fetterman Philadelphia G. W. Shaffner. Norristown B. Barney, Philadel- phia; c. W. Weaver, Philadelphia; F. T. stelnbach, Camden, N. J.; A. s. Leedon, wost consochocten L. G. Fitzinger, Nor ristown; !. Johnson. Mt. Clair, Pa; L. Vanderslice, Phoenxville.
 How It Happened
 Fast express train No. 132, which origin ally ran through from Reading to Potts town without stop was held up at Exc ter by a coal train which was using the cross-over switch there.
 While standing there awaiting orders, special through train running from Harris burg to Philadelphia on account Of, Hart ranft day and laden with excursionists, came along and crashed into the rear cars | of No. l2, wrecking two day coaches and one Pullman, and crushing the lives out | of many of their occupants. The special was running as second section of No. IF, allowing that train about ten minutes headway and the engineer, it is presumed, l did not sec the light which is displayed at