A Railway Horror

WiMtESBARBB, Fa., Oct. 13.- The terrible accident on the Lehigh Valley road at Mud Kun Wednesday uight grows more horrible as the details are made known. Ttie official reports place tbe number of killed atflfty-seren.all bat ten of whom have been ideutined. It is impossible to teil the num ber of injured, but the best estimates place tbe figure at forty. Twenty-flye of the Beriouslj wounded were brought bere to the hospital. The collision oooairred between the fifth and slzth sectioDS of aa excnrson train, consisting altogether of eight sections and flfty-seven coaches, which were conreying 5,505 passongcrs f rom the Bt. Matthew's celebratioa at Haxelton. The flrst four sectiens passed Mud Run in safety. The fourth and flfth sections lay at Mud Rúa together to let a regular train pass, whea the foorth section pulled out The fifth seetion Uien ran down to the depot ready to start after the ezpiratioa of ten iontes, the time fixed as the división hetweea the running of the excursión sectioas. White it was waitiag the accident occnrred. Tbe Ul-fated rear car waa sddenly illuminated by the headllsht of the locomotivo ef the sixth aectioa, and tbe next instant the engine plunged its fuU length into the crowded masa of hamanity. The sbock ürove tbe rear car two - thirds its Icngth througb the next, whioh in tora was foroed into the third. Met a single oeupant of the rear car escaped. The Iighte were extinguished by the shock, adding darkness to the horror of the soene, while almost iinmedlately the shrieks of the in jnrod and the groaus of the éjimg arose on erery Bide, makiog the stroiigeet hotvrt quaiL After the first shock thoae who were uniujured (sprang to 'the work of rescue and were soon busy with hands and axes releasing the injured and recovering the dead bodies frora the wreek. The colliding engine was stuck fast in the middle of the wreek it had oansed, actually eooking the uniortunato Tictims witti its eBcaping steam. An effort was made to withdraw the locomotiTO fro the car into which it had plonged, but the first movement brought forth sbrieks of agony f rom the imprisoned victinss, nd the attempt had to be abandoned. Many horrible sipfat were met by the rescuers. In ooe plaee a youag woman was pinioned in sueh a way that her leg had to be severed with an axe in order to set her free. A ma was found with one arm held tipjhtly in tbe wreek, while with tbe othor be was dasping a prattling babe. A yoang woman was jammed between two seats in the agony of deatfc, white her father lay dying upon the smokestaok of the snorting engine. As lar as can be learaed the blame for the disaster seems to rest npon the engineer of the leading train, which was drawa by two locomotivos. Officials of the road claim that the daoger signal was displayed at Mud Rus, and that the rear hrakeman of the standing train was sent baok with a red light, aaé that he signaled Cook, the leadiag oajriaeer of the following train, to stop, bat the latter faUed to faeed it and dashed by the signaL Hunntgan, the rear brakeaaa, corroborates the latter part of this testiMnjr, and says that bis light could hare bees seca half a mil down the track. Coo 't, tbe engiaeer, was foand at hls homo ia this city. He was in bed with a bruised ankle. He did not care to talk aboat the aecideat, bat declared that he was neither asleep asor drunk. He said therc were no air hrakea on hls englae, the train brakes being controllod by the aeoond eagine. The loss to the Lehigb Valley Kailroad Company will be orer tl.WO.OCM