The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-11

Twenty more were brought on trolley
cars and were carried a block to the
| hospital on stretchers. The stretchers
| ran out and shutters were town on
| houses and utilized to carry the in
/ jured.
permit it had been sent away from the
hospital there were fully 100 left. At 8
| O'Clock this morning most of these had
been put into wards, two to narrow
bed It is believed that of these. Is are
| fatally injured.
Many of Harrisburg's wealthy citi-
| zens sent their equipages to carry the
bleeding injured and sent great guam
/ titles of cotton and linen oandages.
! Some who resided near the hospital
! sent their best table linen.
A reporter at the scene of the wreck
| found on the coat Of a dead man, who
/ was so badly burned that his features
were obl1terated, Masonic emblem
! bearing the following inscription:
Postmaster, Jacob F. Silverman,
Presented December Il, 1908, by Sheki-
| nab Lodge.
On the mans clothing was found the
name of a tailoring firm in Bridgeton,
Fatally Injured
Among those who were not expected
| to recover We're:
George Ziegler, Pittsburg. and Victor
B. Crabbe. Pittsburs, a son-in-law OF
Dr. Hugh Pitcairn, formerly of this city,
who was appointed United States min
lister to Germany.
Superintendent w. B. AIcCaleb of the
Pennsylvania road who was seen by
reporter this morning said:
I do not know how many are dead.
! We have not been able to identify posi-
/ lively any of the dead with the eXcep-
/ ton of Mrs. Robert A. Dougherty of
Philadelphia. Mrs. DOugherty's death
was fraught with narrowing circum-
| stances. Her corpse was the first to be
recovered as she was hurled away from
the debris instead Of into it and her
4 body was not burned. On the train
were her husband and little boy, not
yet in his teens. They hunted for
| long time in the dark with terrible fore
! bodings until they were Mortified to find
that the loved mother and wife was
! dead"
It has been stated that the express
| train was twelve minutes late leaving
Afiddletown, nine miles east of this city,
and that it was moving at great speed
at the time the collision occurred.
Stopped the Clock.
The exact time the wreck occurred is
/ believed to be 10 o'clock from the fact
| that the hands of the clock of the Pax
| tang electric plant, twenty yards from
the explosion, were stopped THAT time
At o'clock this morning three bodies
/ had been taken to the dead house near
union station. None of the bodies could
| be identified
Mrs. Dougherty's body was taken to
an undertaker's.
Before the tracks were cleared suffi-
GENTLY to permit trains to run the
! roundabout route via York was used.
! At 6:15 o'clock four more bodies had
! been removed from the burned train.
( Two Valises were found beside the four
! cOrpses. In one the name of Samuel
/ P. Brown Germany" in the other the
name of Samuel Stern, 234 Broadway,
! Cleveland, Ohio" A man named Sam
| uel Stern was among those not serious
/ Nv injured who sent TO the hos
pital.
At $50 o'clock the flames were
still raging fiercely in two Pullman
cars that up to that time had not been
entered by the rescuing party 1t was
believed then that there were a num-
Der OF corpses inside that could not be
rescued for hours. Very few of the
passengers who escaped had any
clothing to speak of. Most of them
/ had been in their berths at the time
of the explosion, and escaped only in
pajamas or other light apparel.
In Bath Robes and Slippers.
When daylight broke upon Market
street this morning the pedestrians on
/ the capital city's principal thorough
I fare presented grOtesque appear
ance. In the districts where the hotels
are located men who had passed
| through the wreck without injuries or
merely slight ones and who had de-
| clined to take rooms in the hotels be-
/ cause there were WearleQ women VINO
needed the rooms, walked around with
nothing on save raincoats and bed
room slippers, and a few of them had
merely bath robes and overshoes- 1t
was not long, however, after the
| sleeDine CITY began to learn of the
catastrophe that every one was amply
provided for. It was impossible to get
/ the names of the most seriously injur-
ed who are at the hospitals. Many of
them are in such critical state or
! hon 10 rne a
talking is out of the question One
man was kept busy at a telephone
sending out messages from the injured
and dying at the hospital to the tele-
graph companies, which dispatched
| hundreds of messages to friends OF the
people who were in the wreck At 8
/ o'clock it was estimated that the dead
| mum ered between 25 and 80.
One hundred and twenty-five re-
! ceived treatment for injuries at the
/ Harrisburg hospital, most of whom
are confined in the institution. Ten OF
only three dead have been posi-
lively identified, so completely were
the bodies cremated.
Financial Loss 100000.
To clear the tracks the wrecking
crews threw the debris over the bank
into the Susquehanna river.
The fire in the two last Pullman
cars was finally exting1ished this
morning. The contents of these,
where it is believed number OF
bodies were burned, were so COM
pleteIy consumed that it was not pos
sible to tell whether there were any
bodies in it or not. If there were they
were reduced to ashes. It is unOf1-
cially estimated that the financial loss
will amount to 100000. This in
cludes $4,000 for cash, jewelry and
other personal effects of the pas
sengers that were destroyed.