The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-03
Excursion Train Bound For At.
lantic City Wrecked.
80 PERSONS INJURED.
Locomotive Plows Through Two
Passenger Coaches
Attached to a Milk Train Which
Was at a StandstiIl.

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killed and over 80 others injured is the
appalling record of a rear-end collision
between an excursion train and a milk
train on the Bethlehem branch of the
Philadelphia & Readin grailway yester-
day at Hatfield, Pa, q miles north OF
this city.
MISS ANNIE SHERRY, aged u years.
ROBERT MILLER, 21, South Bethle-
RICHARD BAcHMAN, 40, South
IRA EHRET, 20, South Bethleheh.
EHRET, brother or Ira
South Bethlehem.
JOSEPH MORDAUNT, %, South
Bethlehem.
CHARLES MFONIGLE. Allentown
THOMAS DAY, Allentown
MISS MAMIE KAELIN, IA, Telford.
GODFRAY KAELIN, father of Mamie.
WILLIAM BLACKBURN, Amber.
HAROLD Lands. Hatfield.
- ACKERMAN, Philadelphia.
THE INJURED.
John David, Philadelphia, engineer of
excursion train; skull fractured, critical
Albert ]. Wagner, Philadelphia, fire
and legs; serious.
Wilson Crosland, South Bethlehem;
baggagemaster of milk train; head lac
Grated; serious.
Michael j. Tighe, Allentown; legs
crushed and burned; serious.
John German, South Bethlehem; foot
crushed.
John McHugh, South Bethlehem; leg
not serious.
Abraham Transue, Jr., South Bethle-
hem; deep scalp wounds confusion Of
back and internally injured; serious.
Mrs. William Burkhardt, South Beth
1ehem; injured internally.
Miss Gertrude Burkhardt, South Beth
lehem; both legs broken.
F. J. Mcmahon, South Bethlehem; an
kle broken.
John Reichley. South Bethlehem; In
ternally injured.
Mrs. George Harrison; arm broken and
confusion of body.
Irwin Newhard; head badly cut.
Mary Newhard, South Bethlehem;
crushed ribs.
Richard Bachman, who was killed; chest
crushed; serious
Miss Brennan, South Bethlehem, arm
broker
L. T. Hartzog. South Bethlehem, arm
Harry schlott, South Bethlehem. leg
confused.
Edwar Reese,Allentown. confusion of
shoulder and legs
Mrs. S. Haber, Allentown, both legs
broken.
ohm Schantz, Allentown, toes crushed
William Schantz, Allentown, thigh in
jured.
Miss Schaeffer. Allentown, legs bro
ken.
Mary Koch, fractured legs.
Lewis Knecht, Bethlehem, scalp
Wounds.
Mrs.Alfred Schmoyer, Bethlehem, pad
ly Iacerated.
Annie Miller. South Bethlehem, hips
rushed.
William wilmeyer, South Bethlehem,
badly lacerated.
Mrs. Wilmeyer, legs crushed.
The wrecked train consisted of ten day
coaches, which was the first section of a
large excursion made up of people from
Bethlehem, Allentown and surrounding
W to Atlantic City. This section car
ried only those persons who lived in
Bethlehem and Allentown, and left the
Union depot in Bethlehem at sos a. M.
exactly 30 minutes behind the milk
train. The milk train consisted of two
milk cars and two passenger coaches
and had stopped at every station o the
road from Bethlehem en- route to Phila-
delphia. At 6:54 the milk train drew IN
at the milk platform at Hatfield and in
less than two mute the special excur-
sion train, running at the rate of 35 miles
an hour, crashed into the rear of the
milk train. The locomotive plowed
through the two passenger coaches and
crushed them as if they were eggShellS
The milk a Immediately in front was
also badly wrecked. Four persons, God
fray Kaelin, his daughter Mamie, Har-
old Lands and William Blackburn, or
the passenger car of the milk train were
almost instantly killed. Fortunately
there were very few persons on this
train.
The excursion train was a picture of in
d~eScribable horror. The locomotive was {
held the bodies of its engineer and fremai
beneath its great weight. Behind the en-
CINE, six of the ten cars were also a mas.
of wreckage. The first car was broken il