Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 33, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1887 — Page 2

THE INDIA ITA STATE L SENTINEL. WKDNE6DA. AÜGCST 17. 18b7

All the Railway Horrors ia tie History of His Ccanlry Bupissai. As Excursion Train on tha T., P, mi W. Drcpa tiroogb. Barnin Bridgs. Over One Hunirei Kills! and FaarTimss tilt Nanbr Hsro or Lsm IrjareJ. Sapeihan&a Eiarts ta Siva tha Woaaid from Bairg Earn:! to DsitL Tha Town of Eutsworth, Illinois, Tamed Into iMorgas, Ill tha Kmi-Hsirtai Citiziti Giva Gantla AJrainiatritioa to ths Saffarerf. Ihsories u t3 ths Origin cf ths Fira Which Waxkenad tha Bridga. Wm it t Dälifcentsly Piianad Ciaa of Train Wrecking? Ennis Hjesis Kuniirths Dili, liking tha Sa:83 Whica Covered Their Fee!. The Awful Deed of a Crazed Ilasband and Father Complete List or the Killed and Injured.

Chicago, August 11. The Chicago Times special from Forest, in,, says: All the railway horrors in the history of this country were eurpae&ad thre miles east of Chat3worth la3t night, when an excursion train on the Toledo, Teoria and Western road dropped through a burning bridge and oyer one hundred people were killed and four times that number more or less badly injured. The train waa composed of six sleeping cars, day coaches and chair can and three baggage. It was carrying OCO passengers, all excursionists, and was bound for Niagara Falls. The train had been made up all along the line of the Toledo, Peoria and Western rood, and the excursionists hailed from various points in Central Illinois, the bulk of them, however, coming from Peoria. Some of the passengers came from Canton, from El Paso, Washington, and In fact all stations alorg the line; eome from as far west as Burlington and Keokuk, Iowa. A special and cheap rate had been male for the excursion and all sorts ofpcjple took advantage ot iL When the train dre out of Peoria at 8 o'clock last evening, it was loaded to its utmost capacity. Every berth in the eix sleepers was taken and the day cars carried sixty people each. The train was ao heavy that two engines were hitched to it, and when it passed this place it was an hour and a half behind time. Chatsworth, the next station east of here, is six miles off, and the run there was made in seven minutes; so the terrible momentum of those fifteen coaches ani two heavy engines shooting through space at the rate of a mile a minute can be understood. No stop was made at Chatsworth, and on and on the heavy train with its living freight sped through the darkness ot the Bight. Three miles erjt of Chatsworth ia a little slough and v 'here the railroad track crosses a dry run ibout ten feet deep and fifteen feet wide. Orer this was stretched an ordinary WMxiea trestle bridge, and, as the excursion train came thundering down on it, what was th9 horror of the engineer of the front engine when he saw that this bridge was afire. Bight up before his eyea leaped the bright flame?, and the next Instant he was among them. There was no chance to stop. Had there been warning, it would have taken half a mile to stop that on-rushing mass of wood, iron and human lives, and the train was within 100 yards of the red-tongned messengers cf death before they Sashed their fatal aign ala Into the engineer's face But he passed ever in safety, the first engine keeping the rails. Aa it went over the bridge fell beneath it and it could only have been the terrific speed of the train which saved the lives ot the engineer and his fireman. Bat the next engine went down and instantly the deed of death was done. Car crashed Into car; coaches piled cue on top of another and in a twinkling of an eye, nearly one hundred people found instant death and fifty more were so hurt tLey could not live. As for the wounded, they were everywhere. Only the sleeping coaches escaped and as the startled and half dressed pauengers cams tumbling out of them tty found ETCH A SCBW 0 DXATB as Is rarely witneseed, and such work to do, that it teemed as if human hands were utterly Incapable. It lacked but five minutes of midnight. Down In the ditch lay the second engine, engineer McClintock dead, and fireman Apnlegate badly Injured. On top were piled the three baggage cars, one on top of another, like a child's card house after he has swept it with his hand. Then comes the six day coesbe. They were telescoped as cars zmx T7f:e t.';;?, r -j cf tV?a tt::?

pressed Into just enongh space for one. The second car had moan ted off its trucks. Crashed through the car ahead of it, crushing the woodwork aside like tinder and lay there resting on the tops of the seats, while every passeegpr ia the front car was laying dead or dying underneath. Oat of that car but four people came oat alive. On ton of the ßSCOlld Cir lay the third, and although the latter did not cover Its bearer as completely as beneath, its bottom was smeared with the blood of Its victims. The other three cars were not so badly crushed, bat they were broken and twisted in every conceivable way, and every crushed timber and beam represented a crushed human frame and a broken bone. Instantly the air was filled with the cries of the wounded and the shrieks of those about to die. The groans of men, the screams of women united to make an appalling sound, and above all could be heard the agonizing cries of little children aa, in some instances, they lay pinned alongside of their dead parents. And there was another terrible danger yet to be met The bridge was still burning, and the wrecked cars were laying on and around the fiercely burning embsrs. Everywhere In the wreck were wounded and unhurt men, women and children whose lives could be saved if they could be gotten out, but whose death, and death In a most horrible form, wai certain If the twisted wood of the broken can caught fire. And to fight the fire, there was not a drop of water and only some fifty able-bodied men who had still presence of mind and nerve enough to do their duty. The only light was the light of the burning bridge, and with so much of its aid the fifty men went to work to subdue it. For four hours they fought like end3 and for four hoars the victory hung in the balance. Earth was the only weapon with which the fire could be fought and so the attempt was made to smother it out There was no pick or shovel to dig it up, no baskets or barroTS to carry It In, and 0 desperate they dug their fingers down into the earth, which a long drouth had baked almost as hard as stone, and heaped the precious handfuls thus hardly won upon the enexuaching fiames, and with this earthwork build, handful by handful, kept back the foe. While this was going on other brave men crept underneath the wrecked cars, beneath the fire and the wooden bars which held prisoners so many precious lives, and with pieces of board, and sometimes their hands, beat back the flames when they Hashed up aioDgaide some unfortunate wretch who, pinned down by a heavy beam, looked on helplessly while it seemed as if his death by fire was certain; and while the fight was thus going on, the ears of the workers were filled with the groans of dying men, the anguished entreaties of those whose death seem certain, unless the terrible blaze could be extinguished, and the cries of those too badly hurt to care In what manner the end were brought about, so only It would be quick. So they dug up the earth with their hands, reckless of the blood streaming out from broken fingers nails, and heaping it up in little mounds while all the while came the hear trendering cries: ' For Gods sake dont let us burn to death." But finally the victory was won, the fire wa3 put out after four hours of endeavor, and as its last spark died away, a light came up in the east to take their place and dawn came upon a scene of horror. While the fight had been going on, men ban been dying and there were not so many wounded to take out of the wreck as there bad been four hours before. But in the meantime, the country had been aroused ; help had come from Chatsworth, Forest and Piper City, and as the deal were hid reverently alongside of each other, out in the cornfield, there were ready hands to take the a Into Ch&tsrorth, while eome of the wounded were carried to Piper "City. One hundred and eighteen was the: awful roll of .the dead, while the wounded numbered four times that number. The full tale of the dead cannot however be told yet for days. TCEKED INTO A MORSUE. Chatsworth was turned into a morgue today. The town hall, the engine-house, the depot were all full of dead bodies, while every house in the little village had its quota of the wounaed. There were over a hundred corpses lying in the extemporized dead house and every man and woman was turned into an amateur but zealous nurse. Over in a lumber yard the noise of hammer and taws rang out in the air and In It busy carpenters were making rough coffins to carry to their homes the dead bodies of tha excursionists who, twelve hours before had left their homes full of pleasurable expectations of the enjoyment they were going to have during the vtcatioa which had begun. When the news of the disaster was first flashed oyer the wires, prompt aid wai at once sent Dr. Steele, chief surgeon of the Toledo. Peoria & Western Railroad, had come at once on a special train, and with him were two other surgeons aud their assistants. From Teorla alio came Drs. Martin, Baker, Flagloer and Johnson, and from evary city whence the unfortunate excursionists had come, their physicians and friends hurried on to help them From Peoria had also came delegations of Red Men and the Ancient Order of United Workmen, numbers of both societies being on the ill-fated train, and so after 8 o'clock in the morning there were plenty of people to do the work that needed such prompt attention. In the town hall was the main hospital and in it anxious relatives and sorrowing friends sat and fanned gently the suQerer's faces, watched the attending surgeons as they bound up the wounds and insisted that there must be hope. Down in the dead houses, fathers, husbands, brothers, sisters, wives and children tearfully inspected each face as it was uncovered and sighed as the features were unknown or cried out in anguish when the well-known face, sometime fearfully mangled, was uncovered. The entire capacity of the little village was taxed, and kind-hearted woman drove in from miles to give their gentle administrations the sufferers. R0BBIHO Trig DEAD. No sooner had the wreck occurred than a scene of robbery commenced. A band of anspeaiable ralacreants heartless sad with enly crini il instinciJ wei on hsnd, and

like the guerrillas who throng a battlefield the night alter the conflict and rob from the dead the money which they received for their meagre pay, stealing even th8 bronze medals and robbing from the children of heroes the other emblems of their father's bravery, so last night did these human hyenas plunder the dead from this terrible accident and take even the 8hoe3 which covered their feet. Who these wretches are is not known. Whether they were a band of pickpockets who accompanied the train, or some robber gang who were larking In the vicinity cannot be said. The horrible suspicion, however, exists and there are many who give it credit, that the accident was a deliberately planned case of train wrecking; that the bridge was set on fire by miscreants who hoped to saiza the opportunity offered, and the fact that the bridge was bo far consumed at the time the train came along and the fact that the train was an hour and a half late, are pointed out as evidence of a careful conspiracy. It seems hardly possible that man could be so lest to all the ordinary feelings which animate the basest of the human race, but still men who will rob dead men; who will steal from the m dyin tnd will plunder the woundeJ, he'd dowj by broken teams of a wrecked car, whoje death by fire seemed imminent, csn do most anything which is base, and that is what these fiends in human form did. Tbty went into the cars when the fire was bnmirg underneath, aud when the poor wretches who were pinned there begged them for God's sake to help them out, stripped them of their watches and jewelry and searched their pockets for money. When the dead bodies were laid out in the cornfield these hyenas turned them over in their search fcr valuables, and that the plundering was done by an organized gang was proven by the fact that this mornln, out in the cornfield, sixteen purses, all empty, were found in one heap. It was a ghastly plundering, and had the plunderers been caught this afternoon they would surely have been lynched. A HORRIBLE SCENE. There was one incident of the accident which stood out more horrible than all of those horrible scenes. In the second coach was a man, his wife and little child. His name could not be learned, but it is said he got on at Peoria. When the accident occurred the entire family of three was caught and held down by broken wood.

work. Finally when relief came the man turned to the friendly aid and feebly said: "Take out my wife first, I am afraid the child is dead, So they carried oat the mother, and as a broken seat was taken off her crushed breast, the blood which swelled from her lips told how badly she was hurt. They carried the child, a fair haired, blue eyed girl of three, and laid her in the corn field dead, along side her dying mother. Then they went back for the father, and brought him out. Both his legs were broken, but he crawled through the corn to the Bide of his wife, and feeling her loved features ia the darkness, pressed some brandy to her lips and asked her how she felt. A groan was the only answer, and the next instant sne died. The man felt the forms ot his dead wif a aud child, and cried out: "My God! there is nothing for meto live for now," and taking a pistol out of his pocket pulled the trigger. The bullet went surely through his brain, and the dead bodies of that little family are now lying side by side in Chats worth waiting tobe identified. THEOniES AS TO THS OEIGIS OF THE FIEE. There have been many guenes as to the origin of the fire which weakened the bridge and caused the accident, but eo far they are nothm but guesses. The most probable one ia that a spark from the fuTcace of the engine of a train which paisfd two hour3 before caused the blaze. Tee season has been very dry hereaboat fcr a long time, almost no rain has fallen, and so the wooden work of the bridge was like tinder. A live coal dropped on it would fire it at once and the resulting ac cident soon follow. Another startling theory is the one of train wrecking. This ii an awful one to contemplate, but it has its adherents. They point to the fact that there were a lot of thieves about. To the additional fact that they seemed to be members of an organization working together and the diabolical heartlessness with which they went about their work, indicated devilishness which would stop at nothing, EXCCT.SIOHISTS KETCBMXÖ. The Times, Galesburg, III., special says: "A number of Galesburg people who were on the excursion train returned to eight. W. Gucker and wife were in the rear end of a chair car. The shock came about ten minutes to 12; I was roused," said Mr. Gucker, " by the smashing of glass and the breaking of car timbers and by shrieks of pain and cries for help. Our car had been telescoped and was standing nearly cn end, our end being twenty-five feet in the air. I broke a car window and managed to slide down the side. Others of our party did the same. The car was a sight; the top parted, the sides crushed in. At the time of the accident there were thirty in the car. Six of us got out alive. It was horrible. There were hardly any lights to be had. There was no water. The cars caught fire. Willow switches and earth were used to put out the flames with. I saw most pathetic sights, parents carrying dead children in their arms, children clamoring for their parents, wounded persons crawling painfully Into the adjacent cornfields, cries for water and fcr help prevailing on all sides. A woman sitting In front ot me had her head taken off. Bix young men from Canton In the front car were saved by being thrown by the shock through the parted roof. I heard that one man,' who had lost his wife and child, committed suicide. The bridge was a wooden concern, no iron or stone, and looked to me like a weak structure for a double header. The hot rails spread about the time the locomotives were fairly on the bridge. The two locomotives ran into the embankment and rolled down its side, then cars went ia every direction, piling Ui in a huge mi's. The other Ga'.eümrg people agree in the statement about the flimsy character of thebrtds. T. T. Yin L'eu tf Galesburg

was on the "chair car mentioned. A moment before the accident he walked to the end of the car that suffered most and w&3 dacgerously injured. The Galesburg party, save those men Cloned, were in ons of the sleepers, and so escaped uninjured. So intense was the excitement in Abingdon that business was suspended.

AH AWIIL SIGHT. What a Reporter Saw Flats aad Coats Kecklnc With Blood. Forest, 111., August 11. About five o'clock one of the Times' sta3 was driven out to the wreck. The driveway led along to the left of the railroad, and to the south of the road was an old-fashioned osage orange hedge. The road was very muddy and full of chuckholcs. A stream of humanity was pouring in from the wreck some had checks in their hats, aud carried valises. They were evidently passengers on the ill-fated train. Country boys and girls came along swinging hands and talking In low tones about the terrible disaster. A photographer dragged his weary limbs along the track. He was carrying a camera and a lot of negatives. The road bed was almost level, just a little grade running up to the wreck at a raise of ten orjfifteen feet to the mile. About two and one-half or three miles from the town on a little raise was the debris of the wreck. The sleeping car Tunis waa at the end of the train. It was jacked In the air, supported by the trestle. The front end of the car was directly over the place where the biidge stood. To the right lay a coach, all broken Into kindling wood, and directly on the road was piled up what was left of six or seven coachc3, turned bottom side up, and broken beyond recognition. Across the track in front of the pile of debris was a coach, lying crosswise, at ieaet ten feet in air; beyond were the two tenders and one engine; one tender was to the left of the track and the other to the right. They were turned bottom side up and rent asunder. On the side of the cab wob the Ill-starred number 13. Only a big pane of glass marked 13. Along the hedge there were valises, shoes, boots, hats, all manner of articles of wearing apparel, broken lanterns and seats from the cars. It was an awful sight. Hats of men and women broken and smeared with blood, coats reeking with gore, and ladies' underwear smeared with life blood. It was plain to be eeen from the looks of the baggage that the travelers were well-to-do people. A rASSESGEB'S ST0RV. "It was simply horrible," said Mr. E. A. Vaczandt, of Peoria, to a reporter for the Times. "Ko words of mine can describe theawfulness of the scene. I was on the rear sleeper and so was in no danger, as no one in the Bix sleepers was more than Bhaken up. But even there we got a bad shock. I felt three distinct bumps and then rushed out of the car and ran forward to the wreck. There the scene was horrible, horrible. The only light was the flames of the burning bridge and above it the day coaches were piled up on top of one another in a hetrogeneous mass. The engine was buried in the ditch aad the headless tody of the engineer, Eugene McClintock, was underneath it. From all sides came groans and cries for aid, so we went to work, and we had to work hard too. If the wreck ever caught fire three hundred people would have been burned to death and the only thing we could do was to smother the fire with dirt. It was hard and slow work, and took bs four hours to do it, but we did it and when the fire was out other help came and we got the dead and wcundedout and daring the morning carried them over to Chats worth where we took what care of them we could. There was an Incident in the affair which was not only remarkable in it3 way, but shows how terribly those six coaches were jammed and mashed together. When tbe accident occurred, Andy Mooney, of Peoria, and Conductor Stillwell, who waa In charge of the train, were three cars from each other. Mooney was in the second car and Stillwell in the fifth. The next instant they found themselves literally in each others arms, the car in which the conductor was riding having been carried over the two in front and dropped on top of the one which Moony was in. The strange part of it was neither man was hurt. The most horrible death of all was that of Eugene MoClintock, engineer of the second eBgine of the double-header, The first engine, which Engineer Sutherland was driving, passed over the burning brieve In safety, but it was under its weight that the half consumed bridge gave way, and the tender dropped back into the dry slough. Sutherland's engine kept the rails and ran on in safety, such was the awf of tpeed of the unfortunate train. McClintock's engine plunged down into the back bole, and as the tender mounted on top of the cab it took McClintock in the back of the neck and cut his head clean o2 bis shoulders. The trunk was found under the engine, but tbe head could not be discovered, and the presumption is that it was ground to atoms in the horrible millstones of the engine and the tender. The news of the disaster was brought to Chatsworth by one of the passengers about midnight and the inhabitants around secured buggies, lumber-wagons and every kind of vehicles to reach the fatal spot. As fast as the corpses were taken from the wreck they were laid out on the aide of tbe track. Before daylight the work of recovering the dead and moving them to Chatsworth was begun. As soon as the corpses were recovered they were placed In a large empty building lately occupied as a store, also in the public school house, and in the depot waiting room. The residents of the town threw open their houses for the reception of the dead and wounded, but the former were taken to the improvised morgues. Friends and relatives of the dead came to Cbatdworth with the remains, and the scenes In the different places where the bodies lay was most heartrending and diattnüng. As tbe day passed bodies were being continually brought in from the scene of the wreck. The majority ot them were mangled in the moat frightful manner, many of tbun having their faces entirely to:n awsy, Icavlrg .their brains ex-

posed, while their jaws, fingers and legs had been torn off.

Arrival of the Woundea at Peoria, 111. Pxoria, I1L, August 1L Several thousand people was at the depot this afternoon when the train arrived bearing the first of t he wounded Irora Chatsworth. The crowd va3 ro large and so eager to obtain a view that it was difficult to control it Accounts of the disaster were obtained from several passengers on the train. Mr. J. N. Tennery who was In the first sleeper said: "I felt three distinct shocks and soon heard a grinding sound, and on looking out saw that the car in which we were was directly over the fire which was slowly blazing on the stringers of the bridge. I got out safely, and the scene presented to the eye aud ear was one I wish I could forever eSace from my memory, but I know I never can. The shrieks of the dying and the glaring faces of the dead will always stay with me. To add to the horror it was pitch dark, Eave the fitful light of;the fire under the sleeper, which lighted the faces of those about, only to make their anguish visible. On the mouths of most of the corpses ccuid be seen foam, which ehowed that they died in agony. At last we secured some feeble lights, but the wind blew them out and about two o'clock the rain poured down In torrents on the unprotected dead and dying in the hedges and cornfields adjacent. Our efforts were divided between trying to put out the fire and rescuing the dying whose cries for help were heartrendiDg ladeed. Mothers ran wildly about crying for lost children and wives for husbands. Strong men were weeping over the forms of their beloved wives. Prayers, groans and enentreaties filled the air until daylight, when relief par'ies got to work and removed the dead and wounded from the scene. The scene in the cars was beyond description. One young child was found fastended near the roof of the car, head dovro, where in the jar and concussion it had bf en thrown, and was dead when taken down. Others were found In all conceivable shapes, all thrown out of their seats, piled In the end or aisle of the cars, bleeding from gashes in the face, arms or other portions of the body." WHAT A PASSEXGEIi SAW. Experience of Dr, Oaten, of Fort Madison, Iowa, Chatsworth, Hi., August 11. Dr. Ilazen, of Fort Madibon, Iowa, says tbe train was running about thirty miles an hour when the accident occurred. He felt a sudden jar and found himself and wife fastened under the seats. He pulled the backs off of two of the Beats before he could get his wife out. She wa3 bruised on the tjdy and both of her feet were crushed. His shoulder was dislocated and he had it pulled into place as eoon as he could get out of the wreck. In helping others he put it out of place a second time. There were nine persons in his party and he can only hear of three of them so far. He sajehesaw Mr. E. L. Stoddard hand his boy out to a lady, while he crawled back to get his wife, who was killed. USX OF THE WOUNDED. The following are the names of the wounded as far as taken : E. W. Walker and wife, Peoria; wounded in head and limbs. Mrs. Emma Regen and son, Peoria; slightly injured. John Fry, Peoria; leg broken and back injured. II. T. Ogden, Gray ton, I1L; head and foot injured. Florence Boucher, Bayard, Ia.; arm hurt. Pat Brady, Gilman, 111.; injured in foo and bead. Sophia Pauline. Peoria; head. C. W. Young. West Jersey; hands. W. S. Zdnk, West Jersey; shoulder and foot. G. A. Bcott, Tolono. 111.; ankle. Thos. Trimms, Park liidge, 111.; arms and legs. Theo- Godel, Peoria; head and legs. Mrs. Edith Chellow, Giasford, Iii.; leg broken and ankle bruised. Mr. Chellew, Glassford, leg dislocated. Joe Neal, Mossville, I1L; head and lirabs. Mrs. JoeKeal, arm and lez broken; baby killed. Miss Jnlia Valdejo, Peoria; internally. Abbie Edmonds, ankle. Dr. E. P. Hazen and wife, Fort Madison, Iowa; beads burned. Miss Emma Y. Uiters, Westpoint, Iowa; head and limbs. Mrs. H. G. Thorne, Bisk, Iowa; internally, H. H. Bond, Colchester, 111.; internally. Mrs. Thomas McVery, Peoria; Internally. Mrs. I. W. Grant, Peoria; Internally. Mary Morries, Peorie; bruised. Mr. PwObert Seimmerman, Peoria; head and epine. E. F. French, Peoria; hips and body. Eaton Waters, Peoria; hips andboJy. Otto Johnson, Burlington, Ia.; legs. Mis. B. H. Clark, Riolston, Ia.; head and arm and leg. G. R. W. Cross, Washington, 111. ; head. J, D. Deacbam, Peoria; ankle. Madge Harris, Peoria; ankle. Arthur McCarty, Eureka, III. ; both eyes gone. David Crawford, Pitton, 111.; head, limbs and hips. A. F. McGee, LaHarp, I1L; leg and shin. Mr. R- 8. Korden, Tonico, IlL; foot. Wm. F. Ford, Elm wood, IlL; chest and head. Elizabeth Sellers, LaHarp, limbs. Mrs. Lydia Walters, Peoria; nose, jaw and leg. H. Abraham. Peoria; internally. Wm. Smith, Peoria; bead crushed. Frank Taylor, McCombe, III; internally. John Steer, Bushville, 111; leg. J. W. Stearns, Greenvalley, III: legs. Adams H. Shomberger, Peoria; hip, side and bee I. S. T. Belstry, Deer Creek, IlL; head and ankle. Paton Cross, Washington, 111 ; leg. J. B. Kelly, Breeds, IlL ; hip and leg broken. Frank 8. Nadyer, Washington, 111. ; head and lee broken. Daniel ßoek, Rosewield, 111.; head, leg and hands. A. C. Jordan, Danrille, Ia.; leg. C. A. Gregg, Danviüe, Ia.; leg. Mrs. C. E. Allen, Galesburg, HL; head. W. E. Ellis, Peoria; head. Minnie Vaugbsdale, Peoria; leg broken. Calvin Davis, Teorlajarms. Conductor Stillwell, head, arm and leg. C. H. Carter, Jr., Burlington, Ia. ; body. Harrold B. Latrence, Burlington, Ia.; body. John McMaster, Peoria; body. Frank Brown, Peoria; head, juis. Kellogg. Tremont; body. Mr. K. J. Wells, Teoria; body. Mis. Isaac. Whiteside, 111.: body. Patbtrine L;it, reoria;body. M. Blance Allen, Peoria; body. THE DEATH ROLL. R. E. Stock. Pforia. Mfs Stephens and father, Mike Regan, BirgbarrtptoD, K. Y. Wm, Craig. Cuba, 111. H.nry Micken, Pekln, III. Noah Ilavermer, Canton, III, M. KrfMh. Msmora, 111, G. A, Smith, Peoria.

Mrs. Zimmerman, Peoria. Pwosa and Maggy Murphy and mother, Peoria. Mies Maggie Malvoa, Peoria. MissKeaJ, Mosellle, III. Emiline Carrnthers, Evans, III. Jess Meek, Enreka, IlL, S. Sherman, Bradfield, III. McClintock, engineer, Peoria. Klizabeth Cross, Washington, 111. Mrs. E. D. Stoddard, West Point, Ia. Hr3. Pearl Adams, Peoria. Pearl Frecch, Peoria. W. II. Potterf Bashnell, Id. MrsJ.M. Clay, Earesa, 111. J. D. Richards. Mrs. Breeze. Peoria. W. Gerretson. Peoria. E. F. Adams. Fairbnry. W. H. Lot, Elmwood. Addie Webster, Peoria. Mrs. Wm. Alien, Peoria. Mr. W. Vale jo, Peoria. Mrs. H. B. McClure and daughter, Mrs. Miller, Peoria. Mr. Wright, Peoria. Mrs. James Dale, Peoria. Mrs. Wm, Ballan and daughter, Peoria. Mr. F. B. Wymette, Peoria. Mr. E. Goddell and Bon, DrJ Nm. Collins, Galesburg, Illinois. J. Eody, J. S. Kaler, Breedstation, 111. Mr. John Murphy, Peoria, 111. Henry Siegleson, Keokuk, Iowa. O. N. Spaith, Greenvalley, III. John A. Moore, Jacksonville, III. J. R. McFadden, Peoria, IlL -tpt. Auisei Martin, Bionmington. J. A. Gren, Bieedstation. and absut twenty dead at Piper City. Charnel-houses and hospitals rnske up tonight what has been the peaceful viiltge of Chatsworth. O 800 merry exenrsiouist journeying by here to the Falls of Niaira twenty-four hours ego, fully half thit number have since passed through a maelstrom more fearful thaa all the whirlirg waters they were triveiling far to Eee. E'ghtj-four of them, blacsened, ruared rorrs?p, are scattered in the depots, s hola and engine-houses here and at Fiper City, or are being carried on trains in all directions to their homes, while 115 bsudageo', moaning cripples are still held on all the available mattresses, bed?, chairs, and floors in the vicinity, struggling for a little lease of life. The streets of Chatsworth are filled with crowds of anxious seekers for friends and relatives, aud with crowds of hustling people hurrying for medicine?, slowly bearing rude pine coffins to the trains, or talking earnestly of the horror that had caused the consternation. Mr. Arch Croswell and wife, of Peoria, were on their way to visit their parents in Kankakee with their six weeks old baby. Mrs. Croswell occupied a spet at the front end of the car next to the door. Mr. Croswell being unable to get a seat with his wife took another position a few seats back. When the concussion came, the front end of the car was crushed in and Mrs. Crcsjwell killed. The baby was fouad in the center of the car with but slight inj vries. It was taken to a farm housa near by and cared for.

HOW IT LOOKED LAST NIGHT. A Visit to the Scene of the Wreck la the Gathering Darkness. Chatsworth, III , August 11. A short ride brought one from the sickening sights of the city to the place where the catastrophe occurred. It was a wild scene at the wreck in the gathering darknes. The tangled iron and wood and the various debris presented much the same appearance as it did at the time of the accident. The engine, shattered out of all shape, lay in the ditch about 200 feet beyond tbe culvert, and the broken cars were strewn all over the track. The culvert, which was about thirty-two feet in length, showed broken and burned timbers and gave evidence at a glance of the cause of tbe accident The little ditch which the culvert spanned was about ten feet deep and the timbers had been burned away by the fires which have been ragiiig in this vicinity. At 9 o'clock this evening, when the Associated Press Correspondent left the eceae of the Wieck it was estimated that all but six or teven bodies had been removed. The only man on the wrecked tram, who lingered at the scene until to-night unharmed was the porter of the only Pullman car that was damaged. It was the foremost of the string of six sleepers attached to the end of the train. The tenth ccach was a total wreck, as was all it3 predecessors, but the sleeper stopped with Its forward end over the burning bridge. THE COLORED BOY'S STORY. was about as accurate an account as could be eotten from any of the passengers on the ill-fated train. "I was awake," he began, "when we crossed the Illinois Central tracks at Chatsworth and pulled up to ths fetation. There was a large crowd at the depot, a number of thtm being people from Piper's Station, the next station east of Chatsworth. It had bean announced that the train would not stop at Piper's and eiccriionists who wanted to take the train had to come down on the evening train as well as by wacon to Chatsworth to do so. Jolly farewells were shouted to the departing friends br those at the depot and little did their joyful anticipations suggest their dreadful end. We pulled away and I want inside my car again. All tbe passengers were asleep but two. They had all stayed up late, sirg'cg and making fun, as they seemed to know one another eo well, but as I said, when we left Chatsworth they were all asleep but two. It was 11:30 o'clock aud the train had been sailing along about thirty miles an hour when we reached the top of the hill about two miles beyond. At the top of this gra.ie there is a turnpike crossing and I remember the engineers whistling for it as is the custom. Then down the grade we went with a daeh. A moment later came the crash; every body was shaken violently and many of those in our car more or less bruised. It was simply an awfnl jerk, a large and then an abrupt stop and we were standing still. When we in the car looked out we were so awe-stricken that we did not know what to do. Our car was afire in front and all efforts were directed to extinguishing the flames. The people in the sleepers behind us were not bo roughly handled as we, and came to our rescue and hustled out as many as were able to work, to help thosa in the day coaches ahead, ft was dark as pitch and the cars were heaped up so promiscuously that we could not get at them at all. The awful groaning of the wounded and the sight and terror of the whole thing was more than I could stand. Tbe news was sent to adjoining towns as soon as possible. It was a dreadful wait before any assistance came, but I suppose in reality it was only a few minutes. We were little better o2 then, for their provisions were altogether inadeqnate for tbe great work in hand. Physicians were Boon summoned from all the neighboring towns, and by 3 o'clock in tbe morning the officials of the read were on the way from Springfield with all the doctors they could muster. Two hours efter the wreck, and to add still more suffering to its horrors, tbe rain began to pour in torrents and for several hours drenched the suffering and dying. But the horror might have been worse had not the burning culvert been extinguished when it was, the debris would have bartel causing a dnadfnl holoacust In which hundreds who either escaped from tbo wrck uain jured or wounded would have been burned to death. Not a soul in the forward cars would have eurvlved. Bat tbe engineer of the )t Btlirg engine returned to the tcere of the reck and gave us what water he had nd afur hat gave out. we extinguished the flan.es with d'rt thrjwn npoa the burn'wg timbers. Thaak God ihatonly rn'ocrh rf t rin ld mi Continued On Thirl Pace.

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