Show MANY KILLED IN COLLISION 4 Terrible Accident On Pnila delphia Reading Road TWENTYFIVE DEAD MANY MORE INJURED t Excursion Train Crashes Into An Express 4 Both With Their Loads of Human Preignt Are TelescopedTen Mangled Victims Are Already Taken From the Wreck Information Informa-tion Meagre and Details of the Catastrophe Cannot Be Obtained Special Trains Go to the Scene Reading Pa May 12A collision of passenger trains occurred on the Philadelphia adelphia Reading railroad at Exeter about six miles south of this city tonight to-night and a great number of people were killed and wounded There Is no telegraph office at Exeter and details are therefore difficult to obtain at this writing The number killed Is variously stated to be from fifteen to twentyfive umber um-ber were injured The regular express train from Potts yule for Philadelphia connected at the station in Reading with a train from Harrisburg which was crowded with excursionist who had been to the state capital to witness the ceremonies in connection with the unveiling of the Hartrandt monument Many of the Harrisburg passengers at Reading went aboard the Philadelphia express but it being found that all could not be accommodated ac-commodated It was decided to send an extra train to Philadelphia to run as the second section of the express The extra train left twenty minutes later than the express At Exeter the express stopped for I orders and while standing still the extra train crashed into it while moving I at great speed Three ofthe rear cars at geat spee of the express were telescoped and the first car of the extra train was also I I wrecked The passengers in these cars were terribly mangled many being killed outright while others had limbs and bodies maimed I Word was at once sent to Reading I and a special train with physicians and nurses was tent to the scene as quickly as It could posslbjy be ut in readiness I A special train has arrived here vvth lad and injured The Identified Killed John Leaf Montgomery county William Stalon Norristown Colonel George Shaw Norristown Chief John Slingsnuff Norristown James Johnston Montclair William Lewis Norristown Harry Hunchentger Norristown George H Annis Norristown Harry Wents Norristown Samuel Batty Consochten Harry Thompson Norristown Hiram Shelby Hathoro I Benton Silvas Reading The Identified Injured Eddy Smith Norristown Charles White Norristown Nathan ONeill Norristown Luther Custsr serious Pottstown John Johnson seriously Mountclair Patrick Kehren Norristown Pascal Walters Swedeland Harry Lesiter seriously Phoenix I ville L B Andcrslice Phoenixville Theodore Adde Norristown Charles Maddis Consochten John Earle Consochten Harry Kantz Norristown David Carney Norristown A J Ashenfelder Norristown hurt in chest The second relief train left Exeter at I 250 a m I brought to Reading I twenty additional bodies The names are not yet known Most of the seriously ser-iously Injured were brought here on the first train The rest of the injured were taken to Pottstown and Norris town The northbound track has been cleared and the first train to this city from Philadelphia was the Buffalo express ex-press which left Philadelphia at 1136 l m |