The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-03
Many of the Wounded So Seriously
Injured 1t Is Believed They
VIII Not Survive.
TWO COACHES TELESC0PED
EXCURSION TRAIN WAS RUNNING
THIRTY-FIvE MILES AN HOUR.
And the Locomotive PIOwed Through
the Rear of the Milk Train,
with Terrible Results.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2-Thirteen per-
sons killed and over thirty injured is the
appalling record of a rear end collision be-
tween an excursion train and a milk train
on the Bethlehem branch of the Philadel-
phia & Reading railway this morning at
Hatfield, Pa twenty-seven miles north of
this city.
The Killed.
MISS ANNIE SHERRY, aged twenty-ene
years. South Bethlehem.
ROBERT MILLER, twenty-one. South
RICHARD BACHMAN. forty, South
Bethlehem.
WILLIAM EHRET, brother of Ira, South
JOSEPH MoRDAUNT, twenty-five.
CHARLES MFONIGLE, Allentown.
THOMAS DAY, Allentown.
MISS MATTE KAELIN, fourteen, Tel
ford
GODFREY KAELIN. father of Matte.
WILLIAM BLACKBURN, Amber.
HAROLD lands, Hatfield.
- ACKERMAN. Philadelphia.
The Injured
John David Philadelphia, engineer of ex-
cursion train, skull fractured, critical.
Albert j. Wagner, Philadelphia, fireman
excursion train, confusion OF chest and
WILSON CRosLAND, South Bethlehem,
baggagemaster of milk train, head lacer-
MICHAEL ]. TIGHE. Allentown, legs
crushed and burned, serious.
JOHN GORMAN, South Bethlehem, foot
crushed.
JOHN M'HUGH, South Bethlehem. leg
and thigh injured and hurt internally, not
ABRAHAM TRANsUEE. JR.. South
Bethlehem, deep scalp wounds, confusion
Ilx- s,s,. c.rtr.t
MRS. WILLIAM BURKHARDT, South
Bethlehem. injured internally.
MISS GERTRUDE BURKHARDT, South
Bethlehem. both legs broken.
p. ]. MMAHON, South Bethlehem, ankle
broken.
JOHN REIcHLEY, South Bethlehem. in
MRS. GEORGE HARRISON, arm broken
| and confusion of body.
IRWIN NEwHARD, head badly cut.
MARY NEWHARD, South Bethlehem.
MISS CARRIE BAcHMAN, daughter of
| Richard Bachman, who was killed, chest
MSS MISS BRENNAN, South Bethlehem, arm
| broken.
L. T. HARTZOG. South Bethlehem. arm
HARRY sCHLoTT, South Bethlehem.
EDWARD REESE, Allentown, confusion
| of shoulder and legs.
MRS 8. HABER. Allentown, both legs
JOHN scHANTz. Allentown, toes
WILLIAM scHANTz. Allentown. thigh
MISS sCHAEFFER. Allentown. legs
| broken.
MARY KOCH. fractured legs.
LEWIS KNECHT. Bethlehem. scalp
wounds
MRS. ALFRED scHMoYER. Bethlehem.
ANNE MILLER, South Bethlehem, hips
crushed.
WILLIAM wILMEYER. South Bethle-
| hem, badly lacerated.
MRS. WILMEYER, legs crushed.
WALTER H. ROSENBERG, Lansdale,
| jaw broken, internal injuries, serious.
THE MILK TRAIN SUFFERED.
The wrecked train consisted of ten day
coaches. and was the first section of a large
excursion made up of people from Bethle-
ham. Allentown and surrounding 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 thirty-five
| minutes behind the milk train. The latter
| train consisted of two milk cars and two
| passenger coaches, and had stopped at
EN- route to Philadelphia. At 6:54 the milk
train drew up at the milk platform at Hat
( field. and in less than two minutes the
| special excursion train. running at the rate
| of thirty-five 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 car Immediately in front was also
badly wrecked. Four persons-Godfrey
| Kaelin, his daughter Matte. Harold Lam
dis and William Blackburn-on the passen-
| ger car of the milk train were almost in
stantly killed Fortunately there were
very few persons on this train.
The excursion train was a picture of in
| describabe horror. The locomotive was a
mass of bent and broken iron, and firmly
held the bodies OF IT'S engineer and fireman
beneath its great weight Behind the en-
| gine six of the ten cars were also mass
| of wreckage The first 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 crfsh came a terrible cry
rose from the smashed cars. and those who
| had not been injured quickly crawIed or
| jumped from the cars and went TO the as
sistance of the injured. Many were pinned
down by the wreckase and had to be freed
by the liberal use of axes. With three or
| four exceptions the dead we're killed In
sttntly. the others dying on their way q