The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-04
RAN INTO A MILK TRAIN
Thirteen Persons Were Killed and
Thirty Injured.
WERE ON THEIR WAY TO ATLANTIC CITY
Terrible Scenes of Blood and Suffering After
the Accident. Blame Said 10 be With
the Engineer and Train De-
patcher's Office.
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the ASSOCldCeu HTeSS.
Philadelphia Sept. 3.-Thirteen persons
killed and over thirty others injured IS
the appalling record of rear-end col
lision between an excursion train and
milk train on the Bethlehem branch of
the Philadelphia and Reading Railway
Sunday morning at Hatefild, Pa, twenty
seven miles north of this city.
THE KILLED.
MISS ANNIE SHERRY, aged twenty one
years, South Bethlehem.
ROBERT MILLER. twenty-one, South
Bethlehem.
RICHARD BACHMAN. forty, South
Bethlehem.
IRA EHRET, twenty, South Bethlehem.
WIN. EHRET. twenty-five, brother of
Ira, South Bethlehem.
JOS. MORDAUNT, twenty-five, South
CHARLES McFONIGLE, Allentown.
THOMAS DAY. Allentown.
MISS MAMIE MAELIN. fourteen years
old, Telford.
GODFREY KAELIN, father of Mamie.
WILLIAM BLACKBURN. Amber.
HAROLD LANDS. Hatfield.
-- ACKERMANN, Philadelphia.
THE INJURED.
John David. Philadelphia, engineer of
excursion train; critical.
Albert j. Wagner, Philadelphia, fireman
of excursion train; serious
Wilson Crosland, South Bethlehem; bag
gage master of milk train; serious.
Michael J. Tighe, Allentown; serious.
Da|h oh fnpf
crushed.
John McHugh, South Bethlehem, leg and
thigh injured and hurt internally.
Abraham Transue. Jr, South Bethle-
hem; internally injured; serious.
Mrs. William Burkhardt, South Bethle-
hem; injured internally.
Miss Gertrude Burkhardt South Beth!e-
hem; both legs broken.
p ]. McMahon, South Bethlehem ankle
broken.
John Reichly, South Bethlehem; inter-
nally injured.
Mrs. George Harrison arm broken and
confusion Of body.
Irwin Newhard: head badly cut.
Mary Newhard, South Bethlehem; crush
ed ribs
ard Bachman, who was killed; serious.
Miss Brennan. South Bethlehem; arm
broken.
L. T.Hartzog, South Bethlehem; 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 cushed.
William Schantz, Allentown; thigh in
iured
Miss Schaeffer, Allentown; legs broken.
Mary Koch. fractured legs.
Lewis Knecht, Bethlehem; confusion of
legs.
George Lands. Bethlehem; scalp
wounds
Mrs Alfred Schmoyer, Bethlehem bad
ly !acerated.
Annie Miller, South Bethlehem; hips
crushed.
William Wilmeyer, South Bethlehem
badly incerated.
Mrs. Wilmeyer, legs crushed.
w. E. Rosenberg, Lansdale; serious.
OVERLOOK A MILK TRAIN.
The wrecked t. in consisted of ten day
coaches, and was the first section of a
| large excursion. made uD of people from
Bethlehem. Allentown. and surrounding
towns, 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,
thirty-fve 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
6:54 the milk train drew UP at the milk
minutes the special excursion train, run
ming at the rate of thirty-fiv miles an
hour crashed into the rear of the milk
train. The locomotive plowed through
| two passenger coaches, and crushed them
as if they were egg shells. 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 in
describable horror. The locomotive was a
| mass Of bent and broken iron. and held
! the bodies of its engineer and fireman pc
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