The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-13
DISASTER AT A CROSSING
Eleven Mourners Returning From
a Funeral Killed.
Ten Probably MortaIIy Injured-A
Railway Train Crashes Through an
Omnibus Containing Twenty-four
Persons Homeward Bound After
Attending the Burial of Friend.

SlATINGTON, Pa, Aug. 12.-An omni-
bus drawn by four horses, containing
twenty -four persons. mostly women. left
here shortly after l o'clock today to at
tend the funeral services of Mrs. James
/ Shafer at Walnutport, who died last Fri
| day. The services were held in St. Paul S
Lutheran Church, Walnutport. and the in
terment took place in the Cherry Hill Gem
etery. about 3 miles from this place. The
| burial services were concluded at about
! 4:30 p. m and the party started on its re-
turn journey. About one mile from Cherry
| Valley the Lehigh and New England sRail-
road crosses the road at grade. There is
also a very sharp curve at this point and
it is said that it is impossible to hear a
train approach the crossing. At any rate
the 4:50 p. m. train from Slatington, drawn
by engine 10, bound for Portland, rounded
the curve just as the vehicle was on the
track. The driver, it appears, was power
less to avoid what followed, for the next
moment the engine plowed through the
centre OF the bus, hurling the occupants
in all directions. Two OF the bodies were
picked up sixteen hundred feet from the
scene of the accident.
The train was stopped and when the
train hands returned to the crossing they
found that eleven of the occupants of the
vehicle had been killed and about ten We're
badly injured that their lives are de-
SPARED of. Only three Of the party es-
capped injury.
The dead are:
SAMUEL MUMMY, aged sixty years, Walnut
port
MRS. SAMUEL MUMMY. aged ffty-eight years.
ELI $. REMALEf, seventy years old. Slatington.
MRS. ELI s REMALEY, aged sixty-five years.
MRS. JAMES KERN. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Eli S. Remaley, aged thiGty-two years.
MRS. ELIAS soURWINE, a widow, ffty-three
years, Slatingfon.
WILLIAM KANE aged fifty-one Walnutport.
MISS CARRIE SMITH, twenty-five years old.
Walnutpogt.
MRS. TIL Kt'NTz, aged thirty-ive years, Wal
nntport.
MRs. JAMES MINNICH, aged thirty three,
Walnutport.
One not accounted for
The injured:
Mrs William Resch Of wslnutport. seriously
hurt internally, will die; Miss Alice Nagle, Wal
nutport, slightly bruised, will recover; Louis
Kuntz, Slatington, dangerously cut about the
head and hurr internally; Miss Carrie Nagle, Wal
nutport, badly hurt internally, may die; Harry
Minnich, aged ten wears. may die; George Min
mich, badly cut about head and seriously injured
port, badly hurt internally and badly cut. will
die; Miss Lizzie Jones, Slatington, hurt internally
and badly cut about head and face. cannot live,
Miss Distlee, WalHutport, hurt internally, may
recover
The three-year- son of Mrs. James
Kern, Slatington, died tonight at his
home. shortly after being brought there.
None Of the horses attached TO the bus
was hurt When the train struck the bus
the force of the collision broke the traces
and the horses ran down the road short
distance. where they were caught by
farmer.
Many OF the injured were hurled into
creek which parallels the railroad at that
point, and were only saved from death
by drowning by the prompt work of res
cuers.
Word was at once despatched to this
place. and all the physicians available in
the surrounding towns were hurried to
the spot.
There are reports current tonight that
the engineer of the train failed to blow
his whistle before approaching the cross
ing.
At a late hour tonight most of the citi-
zens of these two otherwise quiet towns
were at the railroad stations enquiring for
fuller details of the accident, and for the
condition of the injured at the hospital.
The coroner will hold an inquest tomor-
row