The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-19

SpeeG The locomotive plOughca CIear
through the tvo rear cars reducing
them to Splint"rs. and then mounted
thc end of the third car from the rear.
The first car of the second train was
also wrecked.
The havoc wrought TO the occupants
of these ears was appalling. Many
We're crushed to death Instantly. while
others were manglcd aud manned in
horrible manner. NorriStuwn was the
home of tie late Gov. Hartranft. and
many of that town had gone to Harris.
burg to 10 honor to his memory by
participating in the Unveling of the
monument.
The first train consisted of two ex-
press cars a mail and baggage car. a
combination car, two day coaches,
parlOr car and a day cisach in the order
mpntiofr' l'hr 500 0d train consist
ed Of the sixth Regiment National
Guards. whose headquarters are mt
NorriStown, and apothcr ear contained
members of the Montgomery Hose
Company. Of Norr StOwn.
The other four cars had regular pas
sengers. including about twenty survi-
vors Of the Fiftv-fr~t PENNSYLVANIA
Volunteers, Harlf.audt's old command.
l'pOn recovering from the effects of
the shock those who escaped injury. or
who had been injured but slightly set
to work to rescue their more unfortu-
nate fellow passengers.
Tclegrams were HI -tily sent to Read
inc for assistance and two relief trains
with surgeons and nurses We're de
spatched to the scene. Medical aid
was promptly rendered to the injured
upon the arrival of these traals at the
Scene. and those who couN be re.
moved were placed on trains and
brought to the hospitals here. The
bodies of twenty lead were also
brought here.
The signal man should have dis
played the red and green signal for the
special. but it is said he failed to do
so: whether on account of the signal
failing to work or not, is not known.
While the express was standing on
the tracks the crowded special came
laundering along. On account of
curve the engineer of the special could
not see the train standing on the
tracks ahead of him until too late. The
enecial tore into Il 2 express with a
-r+h and Shrieks II agony filled the
siR.
The railroad at the scene of the ac-
cident runs over a hollow, and the en-
bankment on which are the tracks is
about fifty feet high.
Several passengers were hurled to
the bottom of the embankment, but
the cars all remained on the roadbed.
Gen. E. Burd Grub, of New Jersey,
former United States Minister to
Greece, and United States Senator
Bois Penrose, of Philadelphia, were
among the passengers on the Pullman
car, on the first rain. Both were bad
ly shaken up, but neither sustained
any injury. Senator Penrose, when
questioned by reporter regarding the
accident, said:
when the crash came | thuoght we
would have been all killed. 1t was
terrific crash; people were thrown in
all directions, and those who We're not
injured by broken wood were more or
less injured by being bumped against
the sides of the cars The scene was
a most distressing one, and shall new
er forget it,
Philadelphia, May l4.-The Pottsville
express, which was run into at Exeter
arrived here after midnight with few
of the injured. They were:
Barney, h., Philadelphia, arm and
hip badly crushed.
Beaver, c., Philadelphia. arm bruised
and head cut
Kucker, George W., Common Coun-
Gilman of the Twentieth Ward, this
city, injured about the legs.
Steinbeck, Francis r., Camden, n. j.,
cut about the head and bruised about
the body.
Three cars of the ill-fated second Sec
ti0n which crashed into the first sec
ton of the Cannon Ball" express
train at Exeter arrived here with a
large number of the injured and others
who escaped injury. Some of the in
jurII were taken Off at Potstown, and
fifteen were removed to hospitals at
Norristown. While the train was
standing at the latter place two of the
injured expired before they could be
removed. Their names were not
learned.
When the train arrived here there
were on board Harry Orrell, the en-
gineer Of the second train; his fireman.
w. l.. Everett, both of whom We're
hurt. There were also on the train
half a dozen of the uninjured passen-
gers, all residents of this city.
The railroad employees warmly con-
graduated the engineer and fireman on
their miraculous pgcaue from death