The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-03

uSty coaches, which was the first seq
uon or a large excursion made M NJ
people from Bethlehem, Allentown and
S9uT.rouhding towns to Atlantic CITY.
1nls section carried only those persons
who lived in Bethlehem and AIIeDto,,-TI
ana LEFT the union depot in Bethlehem
al 0-O0 a m. exactly thirty-fye min
utes behind the milk train. The Isrt1r
tram consisted of two milk cars ana
TWO passenger coaches and had stOrre5
al every station on the road from Beth
lehem en- route to PHILADELPHIA. At ga
the mix train drew I'D at the milk
PLATFORM at Hatfield and in less than
Two minutes the excursion train. nm
hIhs at the rate Of thirty-ive miles an
hour, crashed into the rear of the milk
train The locomotive pIowed tbro17ab
the Two passenger coaches and crushed
them as if they We're egg shells.
The milk car Immediately in front
was also badly wrecked. Four per
sons, Godfray Kaelin. his daughter
NAME, Harold lands and William
Blackburn, on the passenger car Of the
milk train, were almost Instantly kill
ed Fortunate there We're very few
persons on this train.
Engine Pins Down Two Men.
The excursion train was a. picture of
lndeScr1bable horror. The IOcOnOtfy-a
was a mass Of bent and broken iron
and firmly held the bodies OF its engi-
AACNA anu IIGIldu DeDeaTn lrE
weight Behind the engine six of the
ten cars were also a mass of VrecL-aaa
Inc nfsL car was broken in twain and
the other five cars were thrown on
their sides, completely demolished.
Nine persons were killed in the first
TWO cars and the others in those
coacheS were badly MANNED As soon
as the crash came. a terrible CRY. rose
from me smashed cars. and those who
had not been injured quickly crawIed
or Jumped from the cars and went 10
Ihe assistance OF the injured. Many
were pinned down by Wreckage and had
70 be freed by the liberal use of axes.
with three or four executions those
who died We're killed instantly. the
others dying on their way TO the hos
pltal- All the injured were first taken
TO shed at the Hatfield station. and
the dead were removed to a barn
Messengers We're sent TO the nearby
villages for physicians, and a relief
train was telegraphed for from Beth
lehem- With fifteen doctors and half
a dozen nurses a special train was sent
from Bethlehem. but before it reached
the scene of the wreck II was signaIed
20 return to Bethlehem, as a special
carrying nearly all the injured had
started for that place On the return
from Hatfield to the hospital three Of
the injured died Great trouble was ex-
per1enced in keeping the relatives away
from the injured so that the doctors
gathered from near Hatfield could at
tend to the wounded
Crowd Meets Train Bearing Injured.
The special train arrived at Bethle-
hem at 11:30 and was met by fully 5000
persons. all clamOrin@ to get bit of
news from the wreck or trying to learn
whether loved ones were among the
victims.
The news of the wreck reached Beth
lehem at O'Clock and spread like Wild
fire All the policemen in town were
gathered at the station, and il was with
great difficulty that the injured were
removed to the waiting ambularCes and
other vehicles, which conveyed them TO
the hospitals All during the day peO-
pie from Allentown, CatasaQua and
other places came pouring into Beth
lehem, and confusion reigned through
out the city The second section Of
the excursion. made up OF persons from
towns other than Bethlehem and Allen
town, left soon after the first section.
but il was tagged before 1t reached
Hatfield AS il could not get through