The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-03
INJURED.

AOh6RMAN, HulldQS1pLldt
INJURED.
John David, Philadelphia, engineer of
excursion train, skull fractured; critical.
Albert ]. Wagner, Philadelphia, ire
man, excursion train; confusion Of chest
Wilson Crosland, South Bethlehem,
baggagemaster of milk train, head lac
Grated serious.
Michael J. Tighe, Allentown, legs
crushed and burned; serious.
as John German, South Bethlehem, foot
crushed
John McHugh. South Bethlehem, leg
and thigh injured andS hurt internally;
not serious.
Abraham Transu Jr, South Bethlehem,
deep scalp wounds, confusion OF back
and internally injured serious.
Mrs. William Burkhardt, South Beth
lehem, injured internally.
Miss Gertrude Burkhardt, South Beth
1ehem, both legs broken.
P J. McMahon, South Bethlehem,
John Reichley, South Bethlehem, in
ternally injured.
Mrs George Harrison, arm broken and
confusion Of body.
Irvine Newnapd head badly cut.
Mary Newhardi South Bethlehem
crushed ribs.
Miss Carrie Bachman, daughter of
Richard Bachman, who was killed, chest
crushed, serious. -
Miss Brennan, South Bethlehem, arm
'7roken.
LsaT Hartzog, South Bethlehem arm
Harry scnlott. South Bethlehem. leg
confused.
Edward Reese, Allentown, confusion of
Mrs, S RabGr, Allentown, both legs
broken.
John shantz, Allentown, toes crushed
William Shantz, Allentown, thigh IN
Miss Schaeffer, Allentown, legs broken.
Mary kock. fractured legs.
Lewis knecht, Bethlehem, confusion Of
George Lands, Bethlehem, scalp
Mrs, Alfred shmoyer, Bethlehem, badly
Annie Miller, South Bethlehem. hips
e. crushed.
William A. Archer. South Bethlehem.
badly lacerated.
Mrs. Wilmeyer, leg crushed.
Wellington H. Rosenberg, Landslide,
Pa.
WAS A BIG EXCURSION.
The wrecked train consisted of ten
day coaches and was the first section of
large excursion made up of people from
Bethlehem Allentown and surrounding
towns to Atlantic City. This section car
ried those persons who lived in Beth
lehem and Allentown, and left the union
depot in Bethlehem at 6:05 a. m, exactly
thirty-f1ve minutes behind the milk train.
The latter train consisted of two milk
cars and two passenger 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 minutes the special excursion
train, running at the rate of thirty-dve
miles an hour, crashed into the rear of
the milk train The locomotive ploughed
through the two passenger coaches AMI
crushed them as if they were eggshells.
The milk car Immediately in front was
also badly wrecked -Four persons, Cod
frey Kalien, his daughter Mamie, Harold
Lands and William Blackburn, on the
passenger car of the milk train, were al
most instantly killed. Fortunately there
were very few persons on the train.
WRECK WAS TOTAL.
The excursion train was picture of in
describable terror. The locomotive was
mass Of bent and broken iron, and firmly
man beneath it's great weight. Behind
the engine SIX OI lIlS lCil Sebl WSIS dlSO
a mass of wreckage.
Nine persons were killed in the first
two cars. AS soon as the crash came a
terrible cry arose 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 the 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 hospitals. All the in
5ured were first taken to a shed at the
Hatfield station and the dead were re-
moved to a barn. Messengers were sent
TO the nearby villages for physicians,
and relief train with fifteen doctors and
half a dozen nurses was sent from Beth
lehern, but before 1t reached the scene
of the wreck it was signaled to return
to Bethlehem, q a special carrying near
~ all the injured had started for that
place On the run from Hatfield 10 the
hospital three Of the injured died
The special train from Hatfield arrived
at Bethlehem at 11:15 o'clock, and was
met by fully 5000 persons, all clamoring
to get q bit of news of the wreck or try
ing to learn whether loved ones were
among the victims
All during the day people from Allen
town. Catasaqua and other places came
pouring into Bethlehem, and confusion
reigned throughout the day. The second