Show THE MUD RUN WRECK I II I I The Details of Wednesd lY Nights Catastrophe NEARLY FIFPY PEOPLE KILLED Toe Scene of Untold Agony as Observed Ob-served on tbe Anival of dtollstbuce The Mud nun Wreck WILKIt BAaRK Pa October nThe first word of the dreadtul accident at Mud Ran on the Lehigh Valley road was received at 10 oclock last night There were nearly six thousand people from Luzerne and Lackawanna counties coun-ties iu the excursion at Hazelton Tnere were seventy igoht cars from Wilkesbarre toe number of passengers being ab uc 5 500 roe sections wt all crowded to suffocation furnisbing conditions for tha terrible loss of life People flocked to the depot wringing theIr hands in agony Railroad of fie als could not or would not give any information nor would they furnish facilities for any one to go to the scene though anxious ones offered to pay any price Throughout tue night the depot was thronged b 7 hundreds of persons suffering untold agony over the uncertainty Tne throng was loud in i its denunciation of the company for iaformition causing ieed less suffering IVHTYFIVB VICTIMS At 330 u a rumor was in circulation circula-tion that arrangements had been made for the receipt of a large number of wounded at the hospital The rumor was soon confirmed The officials were expecting twentyfive of the victims With such a list of wounded coming in this direction the public pulse stood still over the horrible possibilities and thousands of fainting hearts quivered in dread Many persons after waiting during the Ions weary hours from 10 to 3 in tbe morning took sonhbjutn train which passed here at 610 and went to the scene of the disaster It was there learned that toe third section of the excursion train had stood on the track a few hundred yards Irom Mud Run waiting for the sections aaead to get out of the way A flagman some say had been sent back with a lantern to guard the ram from the rear suddenly sud-denly the passengers on the rear platform plat-form saw a tram approaching at s high rate of speed deveral jumped and escaped es-caped In an instant toe flash of the headlight illuminated the interior of the illfated rear car There was a frightful crash and the engine plunged full length into A CROWDED MASS OF HUMANITY The shock drove the rear car through the next one twothirds in length the second car was forced into the third Not a snse a person escappd from the rear car ihe second a as oo vd d with maimed bee lng bodies The third car had but a few passengers who escaped es-caped The uninjured of bath trains made their way out cf the ctrs and on tfoiug to the telescoped engine end cars fund tae shattered engine p urinj forth streams of scalding steam ant watfr which hid iruiu their eyes tae fullest measure of the horcnle scene while ita listing sound deadened the shrieks and groans of those imprisoned in the wreck Ghastly wbi o faces peered into the windows to be greeted by faces far more ghastiy borne of the dead sat pinioned in the seats en ct as life staring openeyed as it aware of THEIR HORRIBLE SURROUNDINGS A train from the scone of the acci dsnt arrived this morning bringing a number of those who went down to make inquiries and from whom the foregoing facts were gleaned Tee scenes about tbe depot are of the most distressful character A special train of three cars arrived here at 5 oclock this morning Irom the wreck with tWln tyfour injured They were placed in the city hospital Many ot h injured were lal Ij 1 Jlnrned by sparks iroin the engine stack The killed as far as can be learned are Machi Ellen Girton Hyde Park Miss Kate FeatherstOBe Pleasant Valley Andrew or Barney ileighan and two daughters Pleasant Valley Thomas Redy Pleasant Valley John M Coleman Cole-man and two sons Scranton Owen Kilkulliu Scranton Mike Tyrcll Dodgetown As the steam and smoke cleared from the rear Car G AN AWFUL SIGHT was revealed Timbers were crushed and wrenched while on all sides hung m ingl d bodies and limbs There were few bodits that were not mangled burned or scalded by the sttam and little lit-tle remained in the rear car which bor I human resemblance When the shock of the first crash had in a measure subsided sub-sided the unmjnr d began to do what could be done for their unfortunate companions The few light tools on the train proved feeble instruments iadeed The St Francis pioneer corps who were on the train plied with zeal broad axes meant for heavy occasions which were however but little adapted to the work and were soon rendered useless In the meantime the windows of the cars were smashed in and brave men entered tnd released those least hurt or least J tangled tan-gled John Lynch of Wilkesbarra was HANGING FROM THE ROOF by one leg His cries brought friends who stood upon the wreckage and held the weight upon their backs until he was released A young lady was found caught by her lower limbs j one limb was quickly released but the other could not be freed Unfortunately a misdirected blow of the axe severed it from the body She heroically bore ner torture but could not survive the shock and sood died To free the hod lea in the rear crrthe trainman attached tached locomotive to the wracVJ ibe engine started to pull it frooi tt e wreck The first movement ot tie nattered wreck brought from t e wounded such awful cries of distre s bat surrounding friends ordered the rgineer to desist on pain of his life They did not wish to see the mangled forms still further mutilated The ew houses about the spot were thrown open to the suffering and bonfires were lighted to aid the work of relief It is not probable the work will be completed com-pleted before noon Passengers sin the rear train state they saw the train ahead when far down the road They sprang from their seats or stared in wonder and surprise that their train did not slacken speed Suddenly the engineer and fireman fire-man were seen to jump then came tbe shock Engineer Harry Cook and Fireman Fire-man Hugn Gallagher sustained slight injuries The fireman saw a red light and informed the engineer and then jumped Passengers give many different accounts ac-counts of tne probable cause of the accident ac-cident some attributing it to negligence negli-gence of the flagman in not going back with a red light LIsT OF THE KILLED Ai e Reilly Bellevue Mrs Melvin Mrs Callahan Mary Connor M Gibson Gib-son Willie Noon Richard Powell all of Hyde Park E Mulhoyn J S Whalen fleasant Valley Harry Burke B llevie Miute Rosne Dodsetown Miss Lizze Featherstone Pleasant Valley Patrick Welsh Pleasant Valley Val-ley James Kline Providence Mary or Ellen Durkin Scranton Jon Welsh Miners Mills John Rogan Winton j Anthony MUlligan Olypham Patrick Dolan Providence Mis Dolan Providence Frank anti Harry Jackson Pleasant Vallev 8 e e tary L ° Jly Pleasant Valley John Coa ooy Minooka j Ralchtord a b > M noolm Mrs r B Brehony Peasant Valley Willie Kellie Pleasant Valley Ben OBrior Pleasant valley Mrs McAndews and two sons Pleasant Valley Oscar Gibbons P easant Valley Mary Ann Cannon Hyde Park Mi heel 11 effi t Bellevae Kate Kennedy Ken-nedy Hyd Park Annie Parr Hyde Pak F Mulherrin Minocka Patrick Doran Mrs P Farrel1 Lewis Doran William Eirly Patrick Curran James Jackson Mamie Atkinson all of Pleasant Plea-sant Valley James Flynn of Miners Mills Annie Lottus of Olymphtint TWO MDBE DrAD Two of the wounded at the hospita died this morning Six or eight mcr will die The bodie of the dead will be brought to White Haven this aer noon where they will be place in caskets and forwarded to their homes There are still a number of dead unidentified un-identified Bullelin The most reliable estimates give the number of killed as fiftyfive with forty wounded |