Show I i SCENE OF HORROR A Passenger Train on the Reading Read-ing RoadS 18 DITCHED IN THE SCHUYLKILL By Running Into a Coal TrainSome Fifteen Dead Hare Been Recovered An Injured In-jured Victims Description READING Penna 19 Onejof the worst wrecks ever known in this section occurred tonight on the Reading railroad seventeen seven-teen miles tom here Near Shoemaker vie there is a curve where the railroad is about eighteen or twenty feet higher than the Schuylkill river Here shortly before 0 oclock a freight train ran into a coal train throwing several cars on to tho opposite track Before the train hands had any time to warn any approaching train of the danger the Pottsville express carrying about a hundred hun-dred and fifty passengers came round tho curve at the rate of forty miles an hour and ran into the wrecked coal cars The engine went down tho embankment followed fol-lowed by the entire train with the human freight The scene was one of great horror hor-ror The cries of the imprisoned passengers were heartrending Some of tho passengers managed to crawl out of the prison and aroused the neighborhood Word was telegraphed tele-graphed to this city and surgeons and a lorce of 300 workmen were taken to the spot The work was slow and the dead and dying were taken out with great difficultly Up t 10 oclock tonight six dead and thirty wounded had been taken out Of the latter some werebrought to this city and others taken to Mycrs hospital hos-pital at Ashland The dead taken out so far are William D Shones Reading John White engineer Pottsville James Templen fireman Pottsville Harry Logan conductor Pottsvillo David Augstad Mahoney City E Logan baggagemaster Shenandoah Theinjured are Harrison Riland Phila delphia Joseph Southword Centralia James E Markel Bethlehem John Thorn ton Joseph Moll Shenandoah Frank B Hall manager of Frahk Moyos dramatic company John Carroll St Chad Joseph Asfield Mahoney City William Glass Port Clinton Thomas Coony Philadelphia Philadel-phia Robert Collins Pottstown Samuel Shellenberger Hamburg Jl W Ciller Girard John Coolisk Mount Carmel W W Johnson Shenandoah George t Sanders Rolling Benjamin Franklin James Bernhardt Shenandoah John Hess David G Young Mahoney City Lyman L Dick TTnmhinfT Dr R F Walnfln N Wringgold J Jacob UlmarPottsvile Samuel I 3oomb Mahoney City William Sommers Ashland The wrecked train is still lying at the t bottom of the river The exact number on I 1 the passenger list is not known and lst a reporter 1 re-porter who is still on the ground telephones he believes there are still twentyfive or more bodies underneath the wreck or who were carried away by the current Later 1180 The Associated Press agency has just had direct communication with a representative at the wreck who says a conservative estimate places the number of killed at forty to fifty I is I almost impossible to estimate the exact number and the full horror of the situa tion will not be known until a later hour At 1 oclock Mail Agent reenwalds body was taken out followed by the horribly mangled bodies of two Mahoney City firemen on their way homo from Chester At midnight thirteen bodies had been recovered re-covered The names of those known are already given Five bodies are exposed to view in the wreck pinned under tho tim bers One of the passengers who escaped with slight inujries said to an Associated Press reporter at midnight When the crash came I was hurled from my seat One end of the car splashed into the river and I was thrown against the side of the car with a force that partially stunned me I quickly recovered myself and managed to climb upon the seats on that side of the car which lay against the embankment I was a prisoner in the car and while I was nursing my sprained ankle and wrist out of joint I realized I was in a scene of veritable horror Around and about me were human beings struggling in the water screaming 1 in fright and some almost dragged me back into the water again A few saved themselves them-selves a I did and the romainderstruggled in the water and then quietly sank out of sight Professor Mitchell of Lehigh university Bethlehem is amongthe injured at the Reading hospital Lawrence Barnes of Philadelphia had his arm dislocated Tho body of John L Milner of Cresson was taken out at midnight At 3 oclock this morning 303 men are still at work but making slow progress Fifteen bodies have been taken out None of the bodies have been taken from the scene of the disaster Kahn McDonohugh JacU Noll and William Johnson of Shenandoah andL I John Strauss of Schuylkill Haven are among the latest Injured reported re-ported It is still believed that twenty or more bodies are beneath the wreck Noth ing definite will be known until the wreck is raised which will probably be tomorrow night No more names can bo secured The telephone office has closed and that was the only means of getting news The only reporter re-porter to get to the scene was one or the Eagle men and he telephoned down nearly all that was secured to the Reading papers |