The Washington weekly post., 1900-09-04
The Killed.


Michael J. Tighe. Allentown. serious.
+eAn Sermsl. south Bethlehem: foot crushed
john AcHgEh South BstAlshem, leg and Thigh
!aigrrd and hun internally
Abraham Tfsnsus. jr.. south Bethlehem; inter-
Haiiy insarss serious
hrs- ~Hiisfa BurkhsTdt South Bethlehem; Ia
iared igfsnauy
Kiss Gertrude Barkhsrat. South Bethleh.m. 10th
lsgs broken.
p. ]. NeNzhon. South Bs,hIehsm: ankle broken.
JoaH Es'sA.y. south Bsthlshsm; Internally IN
Jgrsd
Nm. Georgs Harrison; arm broken sAa eoatuzios
q b9dy
Irwin Neshard, head badly cut
1a7y AewhaTd. South BsthlsheIa; crushed fibs.
Miss Carrie hartman. daughter Of Richard Bach
mEu. who vas Killed. serious
Aiss hreHHsa. south Bethlehem; arm broken
L 7. iiaUzoE. south Bethlehem: arm brokea.
Harry schloti, South Bsthlehem leg confused
EdvaTd Reese. AlshtosH. confusion Of shoulder
and iegs.
8rs 8 Habsr. Allentown; beth legs brokea
Soha SehantI Allentown; toss crushed
william slhsHiE. Alisuiown: thigh Injured
&ia sehssasr. AleEtovni legs broken.
May Koch. fractured legs
Lewis AEeeht Bethlehem confusion Of legs
George Lsndis, Bethlehem; scalp wounds
Ns- Alfred Sela0yer. BethleAsm badly lseeT-
ztea.
Aanis Miller. South Bethlehem; hips crushed.
Wiiiism WineyeI. s4th Bsthlehem; badly lsoer-
atsd.
Mrs. Wilmsyer; legs crushed
'" =, hossnbeTTy. Lsns9zle; aerioss
Overlook Milk Train ut Hatfield.
The wrecked train consisted Of ten day
coaches ana was the first section of a
large excursion. made up Of people from
Bethlehem. Allentown, and surrounding
towns y Atlantic City. This section car
Hed only those persons who lived in
bethlehem and Allentown. and left the
Union Depot. in Bethlehem az Cos a. m.
thirty-iive minutes behind The milk train.
The latter train consisted of two milk
ears and two passenger coaches, and had
stopped ar every station on the road from
Bethlehem en route 10 Philadelphia AT
t;5i the milk train drew up al the milk
platform al Hatfield, and in less than TWO
minutes the special excursion train, run
ming a. the rate OF thirty-ive miles an
hour, crashed into the rear Of the milk
train. The locomotive plowed through
two passenger coaches, and crushed them
as II they We're egg shells. The milk ear
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 exclusion train was a picture Of in
dcsCFibablc horror. The locomotive was a
mass OF bent md br0kea iron, and held
the bodies of its engineer and fireman be-
meath its great weight. Behind the en-
gine six of the ten ears were Also a mass
OF wreckage. The first car Was broken in
twain. and the other five cars were
thrown on their sides, completely de-
molished.
Nine persons were kill.l in the first two
cars and the others In these coaches were
badly mairned.
A. soon a. the crash came a terrible
cry arose from the smashed cars, and
thOss who had not been injured quickly
crawled OF jumped from the cars and
went 10 the assistance Of the injured
Many were pinned down by wreckage and
has 10 be freed by The liberal use OF axes.
Win three or four exceptions the dead
we're killed instantly, the others dying on
their way 10 the hospitals. All the in
jured were first taken 10 shed at the
Hatfield station, and the dead were re-
moved to a barn. Messengers were sent
10 the nearby villages Tor physicians, and
relief train was lelegTaphed for from
Bethlehem. With nfteeD doctors and half
a dozen nurses a special train was sent
from Bethlehem, bur before IL reached the
scene or the wreck. II was signalcd 10 rer
turn 10 Bethlehem, as special carving
ntSFiy all the injured had started Tor the
hospital al that place on the gun from
Halheld 90 The hospital three of the in
juTrd- died. Great trouble was eXperlenc-
"a in keeping the relatives away from the
injured On the traiH, so that the doctors
gathered from near Hatfield could at
tend 70 Jhe wounded.
The special train arrived at bethlehem
al ID - ana WAS met by fully 5.sO per-
sens. ali clamOring TO get a b!t OF news
~ the wreck or trying 10 learn whether
loved ones were among the victims. The
news ~ the wreck reached Bethlehem at
O'Clock, ard spread ike wildfire. All
the police 0f the town were gathered al
tha station, and u was with great diff
Guilty that the injured were removed 10
the ambulances and other vehicles which
conveyed them 20 the hospitals. All dur
ms the day people from Allentown. Cat
asauqua, and other places came pouring
into Bethlehem. and confusion Teigned
throughout the day,
philadelphia, Sept at seems 10 be The
generally accepted conclusion that the ap-
paliing wreck yesterday on the Philadel-
pAia and Reading Railway, at Hatfield,
twenty-seyes miles from this city. whieh
resulted IN the loss Of thirteen lives AMI
more or less serious injuries 20 fifty-three
persons. Wss due 10 negligence or direct
disregard 81 signals. While the Reading
Company VIII got be- prepared 10 make
any formal statement until Tomorrow,
The principal line OF investigation Is being
drawn about ". :. Groves. the train dis
patcher at Philadelphia: %. Il. Beidler. the
oFefat0r az SoudeTt0n. two and One-half
miles ,rom Hatfield. and John Davis, en-
F.H"sr 0l the colliding excursion train,
Who is diving In a hospital at Bethlehem
According 10 james Beuner fagman a:
ssp'eTton station, the milk train passed
that station on dine. and following The
rule Of the company, which requires anv
train coming after another within i've
minutes 20 BE- stopped. he placed & rea
fag beiweea the tracks. In three minutes
the excursion train came laundering
along, with Davis al the throttle, and the
train making forty miles an hour Davis
made 40 e1OTt 10 STOP and waved Benner
% one side. The latter had only time 20
secure his flag and spring out Of danger
a. the train swept by. Looking upward
he saw that Beidier had clear signal set
Beidlrr, when questioned. said he mad
received 10 orders 10 stop the train. This
would seem % conflict vita a statement
made by General Superintendent sweig-
1rf later ln the day that an agents must
stOD train. orders Or NJ orders, II az