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Show NEARLY 50 KILLED By a IUilroad Catastrophe On The Beading Railroad, In r-mnsjlranbj. STATEMENT DY ONE OFTHE PASSENGERS. PAS-SENGERS. Two Xnrders In w Xexlco Attributed Attrib-uted to tie Work of Indian. REMARKABLE FREAK OF NATURE IN MANITOBA. Colorado KepnbllcannTtntlon. HondnrawJ(arerann -.XsaWlntvjr.4 - Br Tclezripli to the Xxwx. AVfll-I. CATANTBOrlfE On tbe Itrsullnr ltIlroI: nelween 1'orlr I'iriT Killed. Keadixg, Pa., Sept 19. One of the worst wrecks ever known lu tills section occurred tonight on the Reading Railroad, seventeen miles from here. Xcar Sboemakcrville there is a curve where tbe railroad Is about eighteen or twenty feet higher than the Sdiuklll River. Here, shortly before G o'clock, a freight train ran into a coal train, throwing se viral cars on to theop-p-elte track. lkforo'lho train bands liad any time to tram approaching trains of the danger, the Pottsvlllc exrress, carrying about 150 passengers came round tbo curve at a rate of forty miles an hour and ran into the wrecked coal cars. The engine went down the embankment, em-bankment, followed by the entire train with its human freight. The scene Mas one of great horror, hor-ror, and the erica of the imprisoned passengers w ere heartrending. Some of the ia--scugers managed to craw 1 out of their prison and arouse tbe neighborhood. Word was telegraphed to this city, and surgeons and a farce of 300 workmen taken to the spot. The work was slow, and the dead aud dying were taken out with great dinicully. Up to 10 o'clock to-night six dead and thirty wounded wire Liken out Of the latter some were brought to this city and others taken to Myers' Hospital at Ashland. THE DEAD taken out so far arc: William D. -shores, Reading; John White, in gineir, Pottsville; James Temple, iircnian, PottsAille; Harry I.ogAu, conductor, Pcttovllh-; David All. gutad, Mahouey City; K. W.Logan, baggagemastcr, Shenandoah. The wrecked train Is still lying at the liottom ofthe riter. - Tiie exact number of passengers is not know n, and a reporter, wbo is still on the ground, telephones that he believes there arv still tuenly-flvu more bodl-s underneath tiie wreck or carried away by the current later The Associated Press agentbasjujt had adlrectcomniuui. cation Willi his rejrt-entllivc at tbe wreck, who says: Conservative estimates esti-mates places tbe number of killed at forty to fifty. Ills nlmut Iniposs! bis to estimate the exnet number, and the full horror of the situation will not bu known until a UUrhoiir. At II o'clock Mall Agent Greeu-w Greeu-w aid's body was taken out followed by tbe horribly mangled bodies' of two Mahouey City flremeu.on their way home from Chester. At midnight mid-night thirteen bodies liavulieen recovered. re-covered. Tbo names of those known are already given Five liodienare exjiosed to view ln(hewreck,pluncd under the timbers. ONE OF THE rASSENGKRS who escaped with slight injuries said to an Associated Press rrKirter at midnight: "When tiie trash catuo I was hurled from my teat. One end of the car splashed into the river, and I was thrown against the side of the car which lay against the em-janLment em-janLment I was a nrboncrln the car, and while I was nursing my sprained ankle an- wrist out of joint i readied that I was lu a veritable scene of horror. Around ami nbout me were hunnu bw-iiigsMrugglliig in the water, screaming iu fright, and some almost draped me back into the watir again. A few saved themselves as 1 did, and the remainder re-mainder struggled iu the water aud tbeu sank quietly out of sight" Prof. Mitchell, of thoLeblgb Un-yeivlty, Un-yeivlty, Bethlehem, is among tiie injured at the Reading Hospital. Lawrence Barnes, of Philadelphia, bad his arm dl-docatcd. Tiie body of John L. MilntT. of Cresson, was taken out at midnight |