Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-09-06
An Excursion Train Crashes Into
Mix II ain.
THIRTEEN KILLED MANY INJURED,
The Accident Occurs at Hatfield, Pa,
on the bethlehem Rranch of the
Philadelphia Reading Rail-
way, Sunday Morning.

of the Philadelphia & Reading railway
Sunday morning at Hatfield, Pa. q
miles north of this city.
The killed: Miss Annie Sherry. aged q
years. South Bethlehem; Robert Miller,
q, South Bethlehem; Richard Bachman,
40, South Bethlehem; Ira Ehret, TO- South
Bethlehem; William Ehret brother of
Ira, South Bethlehem; Joseph Mordaunt,
%, South Bethlehem; Charles McFonigle,
Allentown: Thomas Day, Allentown; Miss
Mamie Kaelin, IA, Telford; Godfray Kae-
lin, father of Mamie; William Blackburn,
Amber; Harold Lands, Hatfield;
Alderman, Philadelphia.
The injured: John David Philadelphia.
engineer OF excursion train, skull frac-
tured, critical; Albert J. Wagner, Phila-
delph1a, fireman. excursion train, contu-
sions of chest and legs, serious; Wilson
Grassland. South Bethlehem, baggagemas-
ter OF milk train, head lacerated, serious:
Michael ]. Tighe. Allentown, legs crushed
and burned, serious; John German, South
Bethlehem. foot crushed; John McHugh,
South Bethlehem, leg and thigh injured,
and hurt internally, not serious; Abraham
Transue, Jr., South Bethlehem, deep scalp
wounds confusion of back and internally
injured. serious; Mrs. William Burkhardt,
South Bethlehem, injured internally; Miss
Gertrude Burkhardt, South Bethlehem,
both legs broken; P. ]. Mcmahon, South
Bethlehem, ankle broken; John Reichley,
South Bethlehem. internally injured; Wei
lington H. Rosenberg, jaw broken and in
ternally injured; Mrs. George Harrison,
arm broken and confusion OF body; Irwin
Newhard. head badly cut; Mary New
hard. 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; Edward Reese,
Allentown, confusion OF shoulder and legs;
Mrs. S. Haber, Allentown, both legs
broken; John SchantZ, Allentown, toes
crushed; William Schantz, Allentown,
thigh injured; Miss Schaeffer, Allentown,
legs broken: Mary Koch. fractured legs;
Lewis Knecht, Bethlehem, confusion of
legs: George Lands. Bethlehem, scalp
wounds: Mrs Alfred Schmoyer, Bethle-
hem, badly lacerated; Annie Miller, South
Bethlehem, hips crushed; William Will
meyer, South Bethlehem, badly lacerated;
Mrs Wilmeyer, legs crushed.
The wrecked train consisted Of ten
day coaches and was the first section of
a 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
sos a. M, exactly 35 minutes behind
the milk train. The after train con-
sisted Of two milk cars and two passen-
ger coaches and had stopped at every
station on the road from Bethlehem en-
route to Philadelphia. AT 6:45 the milk
train drew up at the milk platform at
Hatfield, and in less than two min
utess the special excursion train, run
ming at the rate of IS 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 eggshe.ls. The
milk car Immediately in front was also
badly wrecked. Four persons, Godfrey
Kaelin, his daughter Mamie, Harold
Lands and William Blackburn. on the
passenger car of the milk train, were
almost instantly killed. Fortunately
there were very few persons on this
train.
The excursion train was picture of
indescribable horror. The locomotive
was a mass of bent and broken iron,
and firmly held the bodies of it's en-
gineer and fireman beneath its great
weight. Behind the engine, six f,the
ten cars We're also a mass of wreck
age. The first canvas 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 these
coaches were badly manned. AS soon
as the crash came a terrible cry rose
from the smashed cars. and those who
had not been injured quickly crawled
or jumped from the cars and went to
the assistance of the injured. Many
were pinned down by wreckage and
had to be freed by the liberal use of
axes. With three or four exceptions
the dead were killed instantly, the
others dying on their way to the hos
pitfalls. All the injured were first taken
to shed at the Hatfield station, and
the dead were removed to barn. Mes
sengers were sent to the nearby vii
lagos for physicians, and relief train
was telegraphed for from Bethlehem.
With IS doctors1 and half dozen
nurses a special train was sent from
Bethlehem. but before it reached the
scene of the wreck it was signaled to
return to Bethlehem. as special car
rying nearly all the injured had start
ed for that place. On the run from
Hatfield to the hospital three Of the
injured died. Great trouble was ex-
perienced in keeping the relatives away
from the injured on the train SO that
the doctors gathered from near Hat
field could attend to the wound ed.
The special train arrived at Beth
.lehem at 1880 and was met by fully
5000 persons, all clamoring to get a
bit Of news Of the wreck or trying to
learn whether loved ones, were among
the victims. The news of the wreck
reached Bethlehem at eight o'clock,
and spread like wildfire. All the 20
licemen of the town were gathered at
the station, and it was with great diff
ticulty that the Injuries were re-
moved to the waiting ambulances, and
other vehicles which conveyed them
to the hospitals. All d uring the day
people from AllentoWn, Catasauqua