Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-12

hours Will elapse before the eyact n,,m-
per OF dead and injured will be known.
Twelve of the dead are at the morpue
an" o'ner bodies are being brought to
Tue uead house as quickly as recovered.
lhefe are about 20 injured at tn,
Harrisburg hospital Will. Others ara
under care Of physicians In houses near
the scene of the wreck. The indentif;eI
dead up to II o'clock are:
| Jack L. Silverman. Phila M.s
robert G. Dougherty. 1905 South 2Ott,
street. Phiia.; c. kuhlrlan. 1903 Ninth
anvenue. Altoona, Pa: II. X. Thomas
Parspurg. Pa, engineer of the passen.
ger train.
Passengers and trainmen were h,rpe5
| TO crisp while others were pjnned
helplessly in the debris. So compulsory
|incinoratcd were the bodies that onI,,
four could be identified up to II A NJ
| The two who were ;mmadiat elv raoog-
| n'zed after their remains were founs
were Engineer Thomas Of Parkershnr,
Pa. and Mrs. Dougnerty of Philadal-
phia. both or whose bodies were thrown
clear OF the debris instead of into it as
was the case of several others.
| The women in the wreck suffer,,,
greatly ana many OF those who escaped
were found almost naked. Among those
who got out without injury were Mrs
Albert j. Barr. wife of the editor of the
Pittsburg Post and her two daughters
who were on their way tc Pittsburp
| They were taken to the hospital where
one of the attending physicians gave
them attention and then sent them tn
| his home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tindle of pittsbure the
latter the daughter Of United States
Senator 7. c. Knox were slightly iniur-
| ed by flying glass. Gov. Pennypac,er
| Immediately dispatched his private seq
| rotary, Bromley Wharton to the aid of
Mr.. and Mrs. Tindle. Mr. Wharton was
| unable to find any conveyance to carry
him to StceltOn and procured a horse
and started TO ride. On his way he met
| a cabman who lent him his cab and Mr.
and Mrs. Tindle were brought to tn.
executive mansion where they were fur
nished with clothing and medical atten-
ton.
| The Harrisburg hospital is crowded
with the most seriously injured Othe~s
of the injured are at the hotels and will
be able to resume their Journey during
| the day. The railroad company is doing
everything possible COR the relief of the
| injured. many of whom escaped from
the wreck in their night clothes and lost
all their clothing and other belongings
| The passenger train Of Eine cars and
| locomotive was wrecked.
| The wreck was caused by a smaller
| wreck to the freight train which was
east bound. Passing the plant of the
| PaXtang Electric Co.. near Cedar street
an air hose burst and several cars in
| the middle of the train buckled up and
fell across the passenger track at tn :
side.
Almost at the same moment the ex-
press train. with ten coaches dashed
| along and plunged into the wrecked
| freight cars. The boiler of the passen-
ger locomotive blew up and the con-
cueson caused the immediate explosion
Of TWO cars of dynamite in the freight
| tram. The force of Che collision crush
| ed all the passenger cars which piled
mp in a huge mass with those Of the
| freight. Instantly the two cars Wera
masses of flames. With the crash the
| pasSc:, gers all of whom were asleep in
their borths. We're hurled in all direc-
tiOnS. Many were tossed free Of the
wreckage. some down TIE railroad en-
| Eanknent. some into the Susquehanna
river which parallels The railroad in the
locality.
| All who were not Dinrt1 i'm the debris
or totally Incapable ran away from the
perfect volcano of flames. intcrmingle1
with small explosions. 1t was impossi-
BILE at the time for those who escaped
uninjurcd to reach tho Imprisoned pas
| " 10 nj fnr
blocks.
| AS soon rs some of the Gead and in
jurcd were removed they were laid in
| long CHASTITY rows along the track
Many were carried into the offices and
even into the working rooms of the
Paxtang plant and other manufacture
ing establishments. There are few pri
waite dwellings near The scene of the
| disaster which is in the industrial dis
trict. The PaxtanS i,',,I.t was trans
| formed into an emergency hOspitl
lwhere everything was done for the
mangied ard dying waiting for convey
anccs to take them to the various Har-
risbUrg hospitals. a police Iatrol wagon
Twas among the first ,iIveyance to ar
rive on the scene. Into it were pack 4.
as many wounded as possible. Until
long AFTER daylight us EDTSeS were uIlN-
en- at breackncck speel to and from the
hospital. Special trains were immedi-
ately made up by the Pennsylvania rail-
road company. and conveyed the injur-
ed to Union station whence they were
taken to the hospital and other places.
| At the hospital every available bed
was soon filled. Shortly afterward the
throng of injured was 40 great that all
who we're able to walk were compelled
to give their cots to the more seriously
injured and the corridors were filled
with injured waiting their turn for
treatment.
Every physician and surgeon avail
able in the city was called up by tele-
phone and Immediately rendered his
lscrvicns in the task of caring for and
ldrcssing the wounds Of the mangled.
TRAINED nurses volunteered their ser
vices and all who had any knowledge
lof first aid to the injured proved of in
calculable service.
AS fast as the injured who were able
to be removed from the hospital had re-
Lceived attention they were sent away.
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