Evening journal., 1900-09-03
Victims ExCurSiOniStS Bound
for Atlantic City
PITIFUL SCENES AT WRECK
RGar-end Collision Between Atlantic
City Special and Milk Train
at Hatfield Station

Philadelphia, Sept. 3.-Thirteen per-
sons killed and over thirty others in
1ured is the appalling record of a rear
end collision between an excursion
train and a milk train on the Beth
lehem branch of the Philadelphia and
Reading railway yesterday morning at
Hatfield, Pa, q miles north of this
city.
The killed are: Miss Annie Sherry,
aged p years, South Bethlehem; Rob-
ert Miller, p, South Bethlehem; Rich
ard Bachman, 40 South Bethlehem;
William Ehret, %, South Bethlehem;
Ira Ehret, 20, brother of William,
South Bethlehem; Joseph Mordaunt,
%, South Bethlehem; Charles Melon
igle, Allentown; Thomas Day. Allen
town; Miss Mamie Kaelin, IA, Telford;
Godfrey Kaelin, father of Mamie; Will
lam Blackburn, Amber; Harold Lam
dis, Hatfield; - Ackerman, Philadel-
phia.
The injured: John David, Philadel-
phia, engineer of excursion train,
skull fractured, critical; Albert J.
Wagner, Philadelphia, fireman excur-
sion train, cOntusiOns chest and legs,
lehem, baggagemaster OF milk train,
head lacerated. serious; Michael J.
pighe, Allentown, legs crushed and
burned, serious; John German. South
Bethlehem; foot crushed; John Nc
Hugh, South Bethlehem, leg and thigh
injured and hurt internally, not seri-
Gus; Abraham Transue, Jr., South
Bethlehem, deep scalp wounds. con-
fusion of back and internally injured.
serious; Mrs. William Burkhardt,
South Bethlehem, injured internally;
Miss Gertrude Burkhardt. South Beth
lehem, both legs broken; p ]. Nc
Mahon, South Bethlehem. ankle
broken; John Reichley. South Beth
lehem, internally injured; Mrs. George
Harrison, arm broken and confusion
Of body; Irwin Newhsrd, head badly
cut; Mary Newhard, South Bethlehem.
crushed ribs; Miss Carrie Bachman,
daughter of Richard Bachman. who
was killed, chest crushed. serious;
Miss Brennan, South Bethlehem. arm
broken; l.. T. Hartzog, South Beth
lehem, arm broken; Harry Schlott.
South Bethlehem, leg confused: Ed
ward Reese, Allentown, confusion of
shoulder and legs; Mrs. S. Haber. AL
Schantz, Allentown, toes crushed:
William Schantz, Allentown. thigh in
1ured; Miss Schaeffer, Allentown. legs
broken; Mary Koch. fractured legs:
Lewis knecht, Bethlehem. confusion |
of legs; George Lands. Bethlehem. !
scalp wounds; Mrs. Alfred Schmoyer. |
Bethlehem, badly lacerated; Annie |
Miller, South Bethlehem. hips crushed. /
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badly lacerated; Mrs. Wilmeyer. legs
crushed Hon. w. H. Rosenberg of 4
Lansdale, jaw broken and internally
injured, serious.
The wrecked train consisted OF ten
day coaches, and was the first section
OF large excursion made up Of people
from Bethlehem, Allentown and sur
rounding towns to Atlantic CITY. This
section carried only those persons who
lived in Bethlehem and Allentown. and
left the Union depot in Bethlehem at
O:Oo a. m, exactly 35 minutes behind
the milk train. The latter train con-
sisted OF two milk cars and two pas
senger coaches, and had stopped at
every station on the road from Beth
lehem en- route to Philadelphia. At
o:o4 the milk train drew up at the
mix platform at Hatfield and in less
than TWO minutes the special excursion
train running at the rate of So miles
an hour, crashed into the rear of the
mix train. The locomotive ploughed
through the two passenger coaches
anu crushed them as if they were egg
smells. The milk car immediately in
1ront was also badly wrecked. Four
persons, Godfrey Kaelin, his daughter.
Mamie, Harold lands and William
Blackburn, in the passenger cars of
the milk train, were almost instantly
Killed. Fortunately there were very
few persons on this train.
The excursion train was a nietura
OF iAdescribable horror. The locomo-
tive was mass Of bent and broken
iron' and firmly held the bodies of its
and fireman beneath its great
weight Behind the engine six of the
ten cars were also mass of wreekage
The first car was broken in twain and
the other hve cars were thrown on /.
their sides, completely demolished !
Nine persons were killed in the first
two cars, and the others in these /.
coaches were badly MANNED.
AS soon as the crash came a terrible !
Try arose Fl IN the smashed cars. and
hose who had not been injured quick =.
" crawled or jumped from the cars :