Show ATLANTIC CITY RAILWAY ACCIDENT ATLANTIC CITY N J july SOA soe laii jali road accident horrible borrini e iu in its details and sickening in its if reso re ltv occurred this evening outside of this thin city and so as a result about a hundred s are either killed or injured the reading beading railroad ex which left philadelphia at this evenin st for atlantic city crashed into a pennsylvania railroad excursion traio train at toe second signal tower about four miles out fro from m liere the peon penn sylvania eyl vania train was returning to Brid bridgetown bridgeton geton with a party of from that place milleville millville Mill ville aud and braug clug it was waa loaded with passengers gers at the second signal tower the trucks tracks of the two roads roada croon diagonally the reading beading train was given the signal to 90 stop but bin it either cither failed to work or of the speed of the express was too grot great to be checked chocked in time it caught the excursion train broadside bru adside and ploughed sloughed hed literally cleaving it iu in twain the neof the reading train wits was shattered to pieces every car ov on the be excursion train was to its fullest capacity an us an the news reached atlan allan tic city the utmost consternation pro availed but the authorities were equal to the emergency relief belief trains were dispatched to the scene loaded with cots cote aud and bearing staffs of sura an A soon BM an the bodies were recovered they were carried into the local hospitals and undertakers undertake rss shops shoes A general fire alarm was wae sounded and the depart ment promptly responded and aad aided in ID the heartrending heart bear rending trending work of digging for the victims fear grow grew into despair and horror as the disastrous work of the relief gangs revealed the awful ex tent of the disaster the first bead reading I 1 OR relief train irain bore ioto into the city twenty seven even mangled corpses men women and aad childred Childr er the next train not an hour later carried fifteen of the maimed and wounded and two of these died soon after reaching reao bing the city As an train after train plied piled to the scene of the wreck wreak and came back with lie its load the sanitarium which does duty as aa the city hoo hospital hosn ital quickly found its capacity overtaxed meanwhile others of the dead and injured were being carried to the private bos boo at ocean and pacific avenues avenue 9 edward farr engineer oo on the reading beading train was killed outright as was another railroad man w abo b 0 rode on the engine with him this man whose name ban bag not yet bedou learned saw aw the collision coming and leaped from we the cab an instant belore before the craid came almost at the same instant the engine anglo e out its ita way and caught caugh him thim directly in its path his body and that of farr were fou huud ud under a heap of debris but the angia engineer lay jay to in what remained of the cab and his bis hand still clasped the throttle he had bad been faithful unto ideath death and met it at his bla post roe tire in man on that train leaped a few seconds before anti and escaped with trifling injuries jurlee In camuel therlon Tb Th orlon baggage waster oo on the reading train la Is dead james jamee Ba batemen Batem temma nn a bridgetown bridgeton Bria Brid gelon geton undertaker is known to be killed he was in the third car and his bat was found lying among the mass maea of broken timber richard trenchard a ma ebin lat and his hie alie are both dead As time progressed it seemed almost a certainty it that ant fully clity persons were killer conductor kelly of the pennsylvania train had bad botn both arms arme and legs babken and was internally iu in auret the excursion train was waa made up of fifteen carp care the he foremost ore moat of obiah was a bagi baggage rage oar car this and the next two coaches caught the full force of the crash craehn and were utterly demolished demoli ebed k what remained of the third car wag tumbled into a dziob at the roadside ron deide the responsibility for the accident cannot now be fixed charles C U rv BV f 4 nick of bridgetown bridgeton Brid geton who was au on the ex cureton train was in one of the rear cars care he escaped with several bruiser and 0 so o far a as his bis agitation would permit told the story atory of his bis experience 1 when we saw that a collision was wae unavoidable 11 1 1 be eald the scene in car our was wag terrible women fainted anti and men rushed in mad panic before f the door but it came almost before we knew it the third car was cut right in two and we lower portion of it lifted bodily from the track and tumbled fumbled over every oar was crowded nd ad it was waa horrible to think oi 01 the numbers who must be lying under those ruins the rhe root roof 0 jone ions af 6 the earn care fell in lait and every everybody bridy to in the car was waa hurried under it it dropped in on OB the people when we were about two miles mile from atlantic city we came to a stop atop oat ant in the meadows meadow aud stayed there for several minutes minu tee but I 1 do not know why I 1 think there must most have been fully eighty or one hundred killed ly an associated press reporter was on one of the first relief trat train no sent rent out by the pennsylvania railroad and be was the first newspaper reporter ou on the scone the train was in charge of a number of railroad officials and prosecutor perry of atlantic coat county ty it t drew draw up in the darkness a few feet from the fatal point staggering in sad out of ditches and stumbling over masses of broken timber with only a few fitful lanterns to help their straining eyes the rescue gang set bet bravely to work axes and shovels were plied with the greatest vigor and at every half bait dozen strokes a mangled form was brought up and laid tenderly on the waiting pallets ballets pal lets it was a gigantic and sickening task and the strongest of men turned selde aside faint from a revelation of the work ot the spades A leap heap of bloodstained blood stained timbers turned aside by one of the rescuers brought to sight eight a woman homana Is arm arac it had bad been wrenched aff almost by the roots and nothing remained but a dripping stump even the hand band was gone it had bad been clad in a dainty white linen glove the sleeve of which still clung to it not five minutes later a blow from a pick revealed a still more ghastly remnant a human heart that a few short hours before had been throbbing with life and love onu no woman abose body was recovered still held in her lead hand a plate bearing a picture of at was waa about together near the wreck were many pieces of clothing had bad been tutu toru from the bodies of the vict lini hato dainty parasols pa raeola fans baua and gloves glove J just as aa one of the relief tra trains ins reached ivan ia with its terrible load one man who toy fay in a corner jr it aured ared regained his bis bouses souses for a moment and clasping clas his bis hand band to his hie head oried cried in heartrending agony who did ieh my goj where ale aie my wife and cr Aldron A late report says ray a that fourteen 0 ol 01 I 1 the injured have since died at the sanitarium rt 1 I N of the philadelphia compau company y places the number of dead at thirty sever and the injured at about ane same number he oel t a telegram to philadelphia this thie eveni evening iiii which said there were 87 37 persons killed as folloni fol follo lowi wt twelve women 21 meu men 2 boys and 2 girls about abe same number 11 durej just where mr Bw Sw eigard elgard obtained his cannot be learned as aa it will be impossible lo 10 give the correct number or even an approximate aati mate of the dead until the debris ie removed this will consume several hour work la is progressing and the ibe rescuers will remain at work until the last booy Is taken from the wreckage ATLANTIC CITY july 31 the killed in iasi fast accident foots up to lu 43 injured 43 ATLANTIC CITY N W J aug 1 1 so tar far as can be determined the number of persons killed in the rati railroad rowl accident on thursday night was forty four forty bodies have been identified and four are unidentified tho the body of thomas kelly elmer N J was identified today sev bev injured are in a critical conditi mra faunce fralinger Fralin Kr of philadel p whose leg was waa amputated yes yeata day la is still very low and there Is IBM hope of her recovery oberer jg in ran perplexity here over a dispatch if milleville millville Mill ville to the effect B S H blur gumbl P who has haa been numbered among amon t kr dead Js ia alive an and d well at hat hons the body supposed to be his big j identified as such by 15 people an I 1 pres Blon slon prevails pr evalla that the for the accident rests upon the d engineer edward farr there le la dispute that the signal to go ah ahei was wae given to the west jersey exoa axe I 1 sion aion train and if so go the danger siaa must necessarily have teen leea g given ri van the reading beading truck track by the automatic u ran gement the theory Is ia that past did not slow blow up and could not stop ston is time lime when he be saw the went jer jerah irain it is sald eald that bit had bad been laid oft off two weeks not to io ago for not making good time and ilk its it supposed he was waa trying to make mabe UP un I 1 tsa this thia by running at a high rate of 81 anee rhe coroner oo roner ls inquest will beglau at i on monday morning fass p man ot of the reading beading tra arati who saved nia his life by jumping wa i probably be betau the principal witness wiio eee an arm supposed to belong to a for fortl fitt body has baa been found to be part the remains of mrs trenchard rl ton the corpse supposed to be that t samuel P murphy of to d was shown to be t ibe he remains maitia re I 1 lt pi ilok Wei gaa a retired liquor dealer frederick cheyne one of the i 1 aured died aleu last 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