Bloomington Telephone, Volume 11, Number 16, Bloomington, Monroe County, 23 August 1887 — Page 2
Bloomington Telephone BLOOMINGTON. INDIANA. WALTER S BRADFUTE, - - PrausHEa "the WIDE WORLD. "
A Catalogaa of the Week's Important Occurrences Concisely Summarised.
Intelligence by Electric Wire from Every Quarter of the Civilized World.
LATEST DISPATCHES.
"WHITE CAPS" IN INDIANA. Several Counties in a State of Terror-Farmers Harrying Away from Danger. An Indianapolis telegram says: A gentleman -who has been prominently identified with Orange County affairs for years ia in the city, and gives a terrible picture of the reign of fear in Orange, Crawford, and Harrison Counties owing to the lawless White Cap" organization. As he started from home he met an honest and well-to-do farmer, who was hurrying away from home with his family and such of his effects as he could carry, impelled fey the White Caps," who had made an assault upon him, and who threatened him with death if he did not leave the county. His premises had been plundered by the outlaws, and he was frightened nearly to death. The informant stated that no one could conceive of the condition of affairs without actual experience. Some idea of the general fear which preraila may be had from the fact that the gentleman ia here to urge upon the Governor the necessity of calling out the militia, but, in giving information of the outrages, asks that his name be omitted in toe publication of the facte. CAN EMPLOY COUNSEL. The Railroad Commission to Use Its Discretion in Prosecuting Stanford. A San Fbancisco dispatch of Friday says: "Chairman Pattison received a telegram from President Cleveland yesterday authorizing the Pacific Kallw ay Commission to use its discretion as to employing counsel to assist the United States Attorney in the application to compel Senator Stanford to explain exrnditures of the Central Pacific Railroad. Mr. attison left to-day for Philadelphia. Commissioners Littler and Anderson will remain here till Saturday, when they will go to Portland, Ore., and will probably hold a session at pocatella Junction in order to take testimony in reference to the Union Pacific. If the court decides that Senator Stanford and others must answer the questions put to them, the Commission will again return to San Francisco and resume the taking of testimony. It is understood that the report of the Commission will be handed to Congress at the opening of next session." BASE-BALL. The Contest for the Championship in the League and Association The following tables show the standing of the clube in the two leading associations: JUTIONAX. LEAGCE. Percent Clube. Won. Lost. age. Detroit 52 M .619 Chicago. ....50 34 .695 New York S .551 Philadelphia - 48 89 .551 Beaten 46 38 .547 Pittabnrg 35 48 .431 Washington 33 47 .405 Indianapolis 25 59 .297 AMBSICAH association PercentClubs. Won. Lost age. St Louis 69 24 .741 Louisville 54 41 .568 Baltimore. 51 42 .548 Cincinnati 54 45 .545 B-ookly 45 47 .489 Athletic 45 49 .478 Metropolitan 32 59 .851 Cleveland 24 70 .255 The Section Boss Held Besponsible. At Chatsworth, 111., the Coroner's jury Impaneled to investigate the recent railroad horror returned a verdict recommending that Timothy Coughlin, the section boss, be held to the Grand Jury for "gross and criminal carelessness, and declaring that "the leaving of the track without being patrolled for six hours before the passage of the excursion and the setting of fires by the section men on such a dry and windy day as the 10th of August were acts which deserve severe criticism." Coughlin was arrested and taken to Pontiac, where he was lodged in jail. Massacred by Indians. A special from Victoria, B. C, says: "News has been received from Superintendent of Provincial Police Roycraft, who went north with a force in a special steamer some days ago to arrest an Indian who murdered two farmers in Cowichan a year ago. He captured the Indian. He also confirms rumors that the missing schooner Seabird, which left Port Townsend a year ago from the north, was taken by Indians, burned, and the entire crew murdered a short distance above Seymour narrows. Capt. Moore of the Seabird lived here, ftoycraft captured seven of the supposed murderers." Cyclone in Nebraska. A dispatch from Republican City, Neb., says a cyclone from the north struck the town, and every brick building in town was wrecked. A brick schoolhouse being built was blown down, burying seven workmen. Five were injured, and J. J. Lanning and a man named Allen were killed. The damage will reach $50,000. Had the Doctor Killed. The Ameer of Aghanistan, says a cable dispatch, having been unsuccessfully treated by the court physician for a boil, ordered the instant decapitation of that unfortunate doctor. The order was carried out, and applications for the vacancy are probably not very numerous. Sparks from the Wires. Grave fears are entertained for the safety of the United States revenue cutter Bear which was on duty in Behring Sea, protecting the fisheries. The steamer has not been heard from for some time, and, as she was leaking badly at the time she cleared from Ounalaska, it is thought she has been lost. The well-known jewelry house of N. Matson & Co., at State and Monroe streets, Chicago, has failed. 1 he liabilities amount to about $300,000, and the assets will, it is thought, yield $100,000 more. The failure vras precipitated by the recent death of Mr. Matson.
WEST, A dispatch from Leon, Iowa, says: "A band of masked men, numbering about thirty rode into town from the west, went quietly to the jail, and demanded the keys of Sheriff Honnold, and, on his refusing to give them up, they went to work with sledges and hammers and knocked the locks off. There were five steel doors to go through, and it took them nearly two hours to accomplish the work. When they succeeded in getting into ttfe jail they took out James Reynolds, confined for committing an assault on Mrs. Noble two weeks ago. He was taken to a bridge just
at the west end of town and a rope was placed around his neck and the other end made fast. He was then given an opportunity to make a statement with regard to the crime, but he refused to say a word, and, after waiting about ten minutes for him to Bpeak, the barrel on which he was standing was kicked from under him and he was left suspended by the neck, and in a few minutes he was eleae:. The mob then rode quietly away and left him hang tag. Ax attempt was made to wreck a passenger train on the Burlington and Missouri Railroad by firing a trestle bridge ten miles from Nebraska City. The train was a light one, however, and got over the burning structure in safety. A special dispatch from New Albany, Ind., says: "This city is greatly excited over the r ews of a suit to set aside the will of the late Washington C. DePauw, who died worth $S,000,()00. The plaintiff is Mrs. Sarah Ellen Mcintosh, wife of J. A. Mcintosh, of Salem, Ind. Mr. DePauw had three wives; the plaintiS is his only child by his first wife. Two sons are living, the only children of the second wife, and the third wife and her daughter, Susan M. DePauw. To Mrs. Mcintosh he willed two poor farms, not worth $5,000, all told, while to his widow and his other three surviving children he willed what will amount to a million dollars each. Mrs. Mcintosh married against bet father's wish, but she thought he forgave
her, as he visited her and was otherwise
kind to her, and both she and her father
were zealous members of the Methodist
Church. She sues to obtain one-sixth of
the estate, and makes the natural heirs and all other legatees defendants. Her ground
is that the will was unduly executed. "Denny" Wilcox, 10 years old, of Cin
cinnati, is a hero. He was lowing in the Ohio River with a little miss of 8, when
their boat was capsized by the waves from
a passing steamer, and both thrown into
the water. The boy swam to the girl, seized her by the arm, and with one hand swam to the Ohio shore, saving t he little girl as well as himself. Senator Stanford's answer to the rule issued upon him by the United States Court at San Francisco, to appear and show cause why he should not he compelled to answer certain questions propounded him by the Pacific Railway Commission, was filed on Thursday. Senator Stanford pleads forgetfulness of details, the impropriety of making public the private business of the Central Pacific Company, and the hardship which would be involved in the exposure of its secrets to competing companies as among the reasons why he should not be compelled to answer the questions. He avers that he has never corrupted nor attempted to corrupt any member of the Legislature or any member of Congress or any public official, and has never authorized any one else to do so.
EAST. A fire, originating in Masonic Hall, Pittsburgh, destroyed that and a number of other buildings. The loss will reach hundreds of thousands of dollars. An express train on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Hew the track as it was approaching the station at Washington, and crashed into a three-story brick building used by the company as a signal-tower. The engineer was killed and about thirty others injured, some of them dangerously. The wreck was caused by a failure of the air-brakes.
SOUTH. Senator Riddlebebgeb, who was lodged in jail at Winchester, Va., for contempt of court, was rescued by a mob of his friends Friday night. The mob scaled the jail walls and took the Senator out on ladders. Jake Pettijohn, of Forsythe County, Georgia, was sentenced to death thirty years ago for murder. He made his escape, and has just been arrested in Indian Territory. He will be taken back to Georgia for execution.
WASHINGTON, The Secretary of the Navy has awarded the contracts for constructing the five new naval vessels for which bids were opened recently. Cruiser No. 1, the Newark, is awarded to Cramp & Sons, for $1,248,000, according to the departments plans for the hull and the contractors' plans for the machinery. Cruiser No. 4 is awarded to Cramp & Sons (contractors' plans) for $1,350,000. Cruiser No. 5 is awarded to the Union Iron-works of San Francisco (department plans for hull and machinery), for $1,428,000. Gunboats Nos. 3 and 4 are awarded to N. F. Palmer, Jr., & Co., of New York (John Roach's assignees), at $40,000 each. George W. J cm an, the Surveyor General of New Mexico, in his annual report to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, says that about 4,000,000 acres of land have been illegally withheld from settlement within the last year Prepayment of interest on registered bonds to the amount of $13,494,600 has been applied for at the Treasury Department in response to Secretary Fairchild's recent circular. . . . Soma of the bills for the funeral expenses of Gen. Grant have not yet been paid by the Government, and suit is threatened against the estate of the late Gen. Lloyd Aspinwall, who made himself responsible for their collection. Colonel Lamont says that it has been definitely determined by the President to go direct to St. Louis without a break; that the time of departure will be fixed so as to bring him into St. Louis "Veiled Prophet's" Day; and that he will then proceed straight to Chicago, to arrive there Oct. 5. npbijTic& A Washington special to the Chicago News says: Civil-Service Commissioner Edgerton is busy to-night making the final revisions in his leport on the alleged violations of the civil- service law in the Chicago Po6torhce. He tiaid that the reports of the board would probably be made publip tomorrow. l say reports," said the Commissioner, "becauso there will certainly be two, and the probabilities are that there will be three. Mr. Lyman has examined my report and he does not agree with the conclusion which I have drawn. He is preparing a report of his own, which, I am inclined to think, will differ radically from mine. I feel sure, too, that Mr. Oberly will have a report of his own, which, while it may agree with mine in several particulars, will differ with it greatly in many material points." Mr. Edgerton was aBked to allow his report to be seen, but he declined, as he said the whole matter would be made public in a day cr two at the farthest. Complete returns from the recent election for Governor in Kentucky give Buckner, Democrat,17,015 plurality over Bradley, Ke publican W. S. Cappellar has been electei Chairman of the Republican Stale Central Committee of Ohio. Mr. Cappellar is said to be an advocate of Mr. Blaine for the Presidency,
The Nebraska State Prohibition parly held its convention at Lincoln on the 17vh inet. Forty-four counties, with 346 delegates, comprised the gathering that wns the largest Prohibition convention yet hei.d in Ntbraska. H. W. Harvey, the Prohibition candidate for Governor last fail, presided. Speeches and resolutions took vp the greater part of the day. The platform adopted declares constitutional and statutory prohibition to be the vital question of the day. It denounces license, high and iow, as public bribery aiid crime, favors pensions, favors wonifin suffrage declares for the Government control of railroads and telegraphs, and demands the repeal of the law that admits foreigners to vote in municipal elections upon declaration of intention and before naturalization. The convention nominated as their candidate for Supreme Judge J. F. Abbott, of Crete; and for Kegents of the State University the Bev. J. I. Newell, of Salem, and the Bev. S. II. Hilton, of Central City. The delegates from the Second Judicial District nominated Mrs. Ada M. Bittenbender as their candidate for District Judge. The lady is a member of the bar, and a successful practitioner, who asserts that there are no legal disqualifications should she be elected. There was a noticeable absence of prominent politicians at the Pennsylvania Republican State Convention which was held at Harrisburg on the 17th inst. Adjutant General Hastings was chosen Chairman, with a loug list of Vice Presidents and Secretaries. While the Committee on Platform was preparing its report nominitions were made, resulting in tho choice by acclamation of Captain William B. Harttbr State Treasurer, and Henry W. Williams for Supreme Court Judge. The platform subsequently reported and adopted favors tariff kfor ihe sake of furthering American manufactures;" declares that the surplus in tho National Treasury cannot be better expended than in the enlargement of the general pension list so as to include all honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors; demands more rigorous laws for the restriction of immigration; denounces President Cleveland for "furthering sectionalism" and refusing to grant pensions to "soldiers eminent in their efforts to sustain the Government"; indorses Blaine for the Presidency, and extends sympathy to Gladstone and Parnell in their efforts on behalf of Ireland.
GENERAL. In a private letter from Mr. Blaine, received at his home in Augusta, he says: "All news and rumors of my coming home or of my ill-health are the invention of tho correspondent of the Chicago News, who is following me everywhere. I never was better in my life. I have not been ill a moment since I came to Europe. I am coaching daily, and we are all in perfect health. I expect fo sail for home June next." John Teemer, the Pittsburgh oarsman, beat Hanlan easily at Toronto, Ontario, in the race for the world's championship. Feed Douglass, who has just returned from an extensive tour of Europe, reports that he was everywhere treated with distinguished consideration, notwithstanding his complexion. Capt. Shepherd, commanding the revenue cutter Rush, reports to the Treasury Department the capture of one American and three British schooners for taking seals in the Behring Sea contrary to law. The vessels were all sent to Sitka, Alaska, and turned over to the United States Marshal for prosecution. A rate has been made of one cent a mile to the reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic at St. Louis from points ec.st of the Mississippi River, coming into competition with the Central Traffic Association roads.
FOREIGN. Prince Ferdinand, Bulgaria's now King, arrived at Rustchuk and was joyously received. Guns were fired in honor of the occasion, and after a banquet t'.ie Prince was borne on the shoulders of the people to the street. A hurricane at Bordeaux, France, has destroyed a vast amount of property. During the storm two excursion trains collided at Archacon, seventeen persons being injured One thousand houses and two churches were destroyed and three persons burned to death in a great fire at Scutari. Thousands of people are horn aless. The Sultan heads a subscription for the relief of the victims with 3,000. Mr. Parnell, according to cable advices, has neither the strength nor the wiuh for another collision between his own followers and the Speaker, backed by the rest of the House. The Irish may undoubtedly wreck the land bill if they choose on the question of the method oi revising rents. Some of them wish to wreck it. Mr. Parnell does not. Should violent counsels prevail he prefers leaving the responsibility to others. MARKET REPORTS.
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THE RAILROilD DISASTER.
Scenes and Incidents of the Terrible Wreck at Chatsworth, Illinois.
Miraculous Escapes and Awful Experiences of Surviving Passengers.
Plundering the lcad The JEtaiL road Compauy Itilicrlj Censured.
At the Seen of the Wreck. A close inspection of the wreck causes one to wonder how a single person escaped death. The momentum of the train must have been appalling, The cars not only telescoped but in some cases were crushed down into the earth. On the flooring of one car the bulkheaa of the rear car had torn the boards up for a distance oi ten feet Iron work had oeen torn and twisted to i formlesfi mass, and chi.irs, parti
tions, and stoves crushed into fragments. It i
time by making another place that side of Chatsworth. But he went to sleep, passing the place where he was to tfot off. not being wakened, until by the accident he was killed oatright. "When we reached the place where the accident occurred, the first thing we saw was a pile of m&shed-up coaches us !.3igh as a telegraph pole. The top of the sccor d chair-car uhot up on top of this, stanc iitsr like a monument at least fifteen feet higher. We arrived just in time to tee Mr. Murphy, a hotel-keeper from Galebnrg, climb out of a liole in the top of the first chair-car, which was just ia view, upon a pile of broken timbei at tho top of the heap. He pulloi out his wife and baby, uninjured, but almost exhausted from navirg been penned up for nearly twelve hours, it was with great difficulty they were assisted to the ground. Mr. Murphy then went back into the bole and brought out alivo a little baby. He had torn it from the arms of a dead mother. After that he helped out an aged woman whose back had been injured. Thesis five, together with two others, were all that were rescued from that car. "When the hotel-koeper came down I asked him how it happened that he was not killed. He replied that when the crash came his wife was sitting in one seat and himself and the baby were in the one just behind, near the front of the car. The baby wels knocked off the seat and ho stooped to pick her up as they shot Into the mass of ruins ahead. Just at that moment, he said, a timber penetrated the car, shooting across the place where he had been sitting and struck a young lady who sat opposite in the neck. He was thus pinned down by che timber, which f.lso protected him from being smashed and saved his life. He looked
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was as if a cyclone had lifted the train up l oldly, whirled it roend with resistless i'orce, and then dashed it X) the earth in a chaotic heap. The Company Blamed. On all Sides, too, tho railroad officials are blamed for the accident. It is charged that tho inspection of the :.oad was neglected, and this in face of the fact that it was about to send a train of unususJ length and weight over the line. People think that the officials should r.ot have bsen con ten- with the ordinary and regular inspection of the track an I its supports. Knowing that hundreds of souls were about to go over its li ne in one long train it is argued that a more than usually careful investigation of the track should have been made. Again, the company is nnarged with almost criminal heedlessness and recklessness in allowing a train of such leugth to go over the line loadei to its full capacity with human
beings. A Chicago Man's Thrilling: experience
Thomas Trim in, a Chicago commercial traveler, tells the following story : ul was sitting on
the coal-box in the rear of the fifth ccach back cf the bag&age-car, ar.d the first warning 1 had
of the accident was a tracking sound from the front and realized at cuce that there .as trou
ble. In a moneut the car I was in began to
sink and I jumped for tho strap that holds the bell-cord, but missed it; and at that moment
thecarwQB telescope 1. The lights went out,
and instantly I found myself wedged in as in a
vise betwen tho door cf the car at my back and
car-seats, tour, beams, sticks, and a he up of
humanitv. -lead and alive, all ground ma. I
eoon found that my les were wedged in ao that
I could not get out. I was not hurt, ana began to feel around near mo to learn what was holding m? lege,. It was very darn, and I could, not see anything. wMy chin was resting on top of a dead woman and all around me were the bleeding dead and wounded. Under my right arm was a :nan Etruggllng and crying for help, but in a short time I knswthat he was dead. The air was filled with the most melancholy and heartrending crios, some calling out the names of loved ones, either in tao wreck or left at home, find others begging for aid. For three hours I remained in that fix:, and to add to the other horrors of the situation. I could smell smoKe and see blaze and sparks, and of course I thought the cars were anre, and believed that if aid did no; come soon we would be roasted. The dread cf being wedged in there, with all my senses retained, and having a fire s'.owly creeping upon me to uurely roast me was too horrible to be told it must be experienced to be fully realized. "At first when I learned that I was noli seriously injured I hac'L hopes of getting out sooner or later, but when I turned my Lead and, looking out( saw sparks my heart sank, and I longed for my gun so that when tho fire uould be too close to be bearable I could end my life. I tried to get my pocket-knife out to use if I found that I was to be roasted, but could not get into my pocket. Great bead: of sweat ran down my face, but my mouth and tongue were parched. Kvery one and everything in our car was CDnflned in a space about ten feet square, and about two-thirds of those in the car were killed outright, while all wore injured more or less. I was the :ieast hurt of any in tho car. Many men were ottering gold
watches and $10J to any ono who would get them out, "The men wore worse thnn the women. One woman, although severely wounded, was trying with comforting words to soothe the agony of tho wounded and dying around her. For more thn two hours no one came to their relief, and during that time many audible pleas and prayers wero offered for divine ass istance. When assistance did come tho first thing asked for was water. That was an opportunity for tho selfishness of humanity to show itself. They would rab tho wuter cup from tho lips of oach other, so engor wi re thoy to moisten their own tougues. A small piece of ico was given to the only living lady in that car, and Bhe generously shared it with all Avithiu her reach. I folt resigned to my situation when I heard men chopping b alow in and I know that I would not burn. I knew then 1 would be :.es ouecL
Mr. Chuvch's Experience. Mr. P. C. Church, a commercial traveler
for
a M'W xvi'K hardware' uousc, relates many inoide .jts of the disaster. "A friend and myself," said lie, "thought wo would take n run o"er, but wo neve:; expected to see what wo af terward did. "At Chuteworth there was a row cf doad bodies lyinj.; nido by t ide upon the depot p!at-fom-. A piece of paper pinned to tht breast gavt? the name of each ono. The first body we cmii ? to whs that of a Chicago drummer, w hose name I can't remember, but bo was running for a huge wholesale giocerv house lu re. We had met h:m the day before, and I afterward learned that he gut on th--1 excursion train ut a little town abov- itnidit)i to tave
across the aisle and sa,w tho young lady's head had fallen over on the buck of her seat and hung only by the skin. 4lho sight of tho dead ani wounded lying in the adjacent fields was horrible They were lying in little Leaps of about a dozen, all having boon killed in a difTorem; manner. The entire side of one man's face would bo mashed in, while a hole as largo as your fist in the forehead of another would shew where a timber had penetrated. Three-fourths of tho dead never knew what killed them. It was a siht I never want to look upon again. There were young ladies in picnic dress;, with their white skirts saturated with blood &nd the front of thoir faces mashod beyond recognition. One young-looking mother: had held her baby in her arms, when a-timber. striking the child in the back, impaled both victims in in stant death. The mother's face did not bear a scratch, but tho expression upon it will haunt me to the grave." Mr. Church said that the action of the railroad offi cials after tho accident vau condemned by almost everybody. Hundreds of people got as f ar as Forest on their way tc the wreck but had to walk the rest of the d stance six miles. Officials rode up ar d down "he tracks, aud a fevr slow trains brought in the dead, but the wounded and dying were loft on tho ground, with no relief except that which their partners
station at whuhtfce train stopped the brakes were not thrown flf ot one of the coaches, antf: when it started the coupling troke, which necessitated tending to Forest for another coach. All these delays thrw the train over an hoqp lata, and it was running at a terrific speed torn a ko up for lest time. Mr. Muiphy says ths estimate of fortv miles an hour usually given was zoo slow. When Mr. Murphv and his wifa stepped on the train they entered the second car from the sleeper, but finding no two seats together unoccupied they went forward twocars further ana tried to get seats in it They failed, and to this failure they ove their Uveaas every cue in that car was killed. Keturnin to tho car which they first entered, thy found two eeats which bad been turned fo as to fneev each other which were occupied by E S. Har ter and wife, of Peoria. On exprt suing a wislk to occupy one of these seats Mr. Hirter at once courteously complied, and they sat down and were chattin? pleasantly up to the time of thmdisaster. These seats were in the rear, and of the whole party occupying the cxr; about fortyfive, only five were saved Mr. Murphy anoV. wife, Mr. Harttr and wife, and ue other, unknown. The first intimation cf the disaster was a bumping tiound, followed almost imiae diateybya sound" resembling tha hissing of' steam, caused by the cars sliding over each other. The next minute passed as though Ul a dream, Mr. Murphy waking up to find thathe was badly bruised and that the ear was ha ruins. There were few groans, as nearly all were killed as quickly as though struck by lightning. The roof of the car hud fallen i with the exception of the little corner occupied by the party alluded to. In that corner,, for some reason, it was still hanging, but vibrating back and forth as though it m ght fall atony moment. A bripht light shone in through the roofless car caused by the fire oa the bridge and probably from the reflection frmi the locomo tiro headlight, and Mrs. Murnhv exclaimed. "My God! The train is on fire." Mr. Murphy, whose shirt was covered with bloud, realised' for the first time that he was badW hurt. Mr. Harter at once kicked out a window, crawled1 through, and wt.s followed by his wife. Thought by this time bad gone down, and in tho midst of the almost Egyptian darkness that preceded the storm Mr. Murphy crawled through tho window and stood on the ontslder when be realized that he was at a considerable height; from the ground. How far he did not. know, but he told his wife he woulcl jump, and, if he could safely, for her to follow. He then leaped into the unknown distance, found itabout nine feet, encouraged his wif j to do the same, and, being a strong, stalwart man, wasable to catch her in his arms and hold her.
Plundering the Dead, Mrs, Charles Carlton, of Oneida, one of tho Bnrvivors, corroborated the stories of robberies comm itted, and says t!iat there were instcnetsin which the vandals cut off the fiucers of imprisoned women to secure the rings. Four menare Mated to have swarmed to th'- front immediately after the disaster, and t have en gaged in the awful sacrilege of stripping tho desola;,' dead under cover of darkness and con fusion. That such impious pillage prevailed is not to be denied. Mr. H. D. Gould, General Freight and Passenger Agent of the road, caught; ono of the devils in the act and kicked him within an inch of his life, forcing him to desist. Another scoundrel caught in tho act said he was merely securing a memento of the wreck. J. D. McFadden, one of Peoria's dead, was robbed of &i0j. Mrs. Deal's rings wero stripped from her fingers; Airs. Potthoff, of Th:rd street, was robled, thcugh Unhurt. F. I. VVeinette's pockets were turned inside out when his body was found ani hisv watch and Si0 were gone. The wife of Capt. Dalke, the harter-raaster, swears that her ausbe.nd was stripped oi 1,755, and there are other oases. The entire Zimmerman family,, three in number, were robbed.
The Mysterious Suicide. Inquiries regarding the identity ot the man who shot himself to bo rid of hi agony are without avail. The bf st information concern ing him was obtained Sunday from s. man from Lacon, 111 , Mr. E. Wads worth. He was a pas senger in one of the sleepers. I was awakened." he said, "by a bump, as I was thrown, against the end of the berth, and of course wao soon up and dressed and doing wbas I could to assist the wounded. I heard cries in the field, and going to the source found a you ig man of about twenty whose leg was so trokm that tho none protruded and whose cries of egonywero dreadful. I went to him, and he s lid he had got out of a wrecked car himelf axd crawled to wh're h tnen was. I got a mutsretis and pillows for him and some water, and a lady
in grief could give thorn. They lay in the muddy
fielc.s all night, with the rain beating down, whi le their groans a:id cries went up in vain.
As fast as banace could b 3 taken from the
cars, no matter whotte it wati, it was torn open,
and dresses and thirts appropriated for
bandages to dress the wounds of the suffering. After the physicians and nirses bad finished with the trunks thieves rifled them and carried off what was valuablo. I myself," said Mr. Churcla, "saw the head, shoulders, and arms of a young woman hanging I'rom a car window, and a man went up and beg.n stripping the r.ngs from her dead fingers, borne of tho passengers interfered and made him desist." Shocking Incidents. Beth Mr. Kirk and Mr. Wads worth relate many shocking incidents of tho work of rescuing which came under their observation. The hitter tells of finding a woman of singular hardihood who was caught in the tender close to the engine. Doth legs wero crushed, but she managed to sit up, and watched aud advised the men who wero uawing the timbers to release her. In the e;id of one car where Mr. Kirk worked among tho bodies no less than twenty-nine dead wtro tako:a out. This car had i;one inside another car and its occupants had all been jammed together at one end. The car of Superintendent Armstrong was in the thick of the wreck and was crushed to pieces, yet none of its occupants wero injured beyond scratches. This is accounted for by the circumstance that thera was little in the ear to hurt any one. Its slight contents did not n itko a crush so (;rinc.ing and cluse that escape was unlikely. Mr. Divine, of EllsnviHe, N. Y., was in the second sleeper from the froi:.t. He saw much of th tragedv and his account is graphic. I hud not retired," said he, -when the first shock ciune. I had just tcken th; button from my col'ar ami was going forward with my uudresting when I felt nhe car ..uivor and divined at once that there was a collision. I dropped fat in tho alloy, i.nd was scarcely jarred. The idiock over. I cot iv and went to the front
of tho car, where the first thing that caught my
eye was the burning culvert, I culled all the
r.ien m tne car to turn out as umeKiy as poa-
siblo to aid those in th wrecked day coaches, and ail vised all th ladtou to dress thornselves, as it might not be possible to move
tiie sleoper iu tho cane of th hre extending.
All this time, from the moment of the col
lision, the cries of the wounded oare
back in a perfet t roar. I got into
ono car ana zouua me iruie nneaaKcr ooy,
wh"B loa has biuco been amputated. I next
found little Bertha Hh,nd;n, nhoso mother was killml. Tho first thing tho 1: xtle one did when
liltt d her was to beg mo to Jind her mamma,
and I promised to do s-), though I was hopeless ati I c:iuld see three dead wo nen in The car. I
then utumMed upon a woman whose legs were twit tod togother iu tl:e timbers, though thoy
did not seem to bo brouen. I leaned her back
against a cushion winlo I helped a boy out, and when I turned back to ro.ease her she was
doad. I subsequently found that my sleeves
wero bloodied when I had reached my arm
around ier neck to rame her. ana i suppose nor head in ist have been rusht cl, though I did not no;ic it There was simple no end to BU3h see ii e i i.nd such experiences -' A lU'innrkiiblo llKciipe Mr. Murphy, a farmer living at Cuba. Fulton County, III., in speaking of the disaster, says ho folt a premonition that one would come to the nain from the tim it sti.rted. Iu tho first place, ho did not believe it vas good railroadhip o place both engines in fiont. 1 he terrible weight wi-uld be almost certain to break down any frail brid c, Tho train started half an hour 'are, and stopped jtiit a while on the other side of the Illinois K.ver. At another
-who had brandy gave him some of that. Ho talked reasonably for a moment ox two, and then st.id he was from Macomb, in Macoupin County. I asked him what more I could do fox him, and his only reply was Stay with xco." He seemed to fear being" left alone. Just then I heard a woman screaming and told him Z must go to her. I had gone but a little way when I heard a pistol-shot. Tie had ihot himself in the forehead."
A Thrilling Story. Mrs. Welsh, the Peoria law librarian, tells a thrilling tale. She says that when the chir coaches telescoped she was thrown forward, flat. She could neither move nor speak; her hands were outstretched, and she lay perfectly conscious for several hotrs upon her face. The awful weight of a beam crushed her chest against the rubbish beneath, and when the relief part v reached her uhe was given up for dead. The croans of the dying filled her foul with un sold horror and anguish, and tie shru ks of a girt cruelly pinned immediately t.bove pierced everv nber within her. One mm seized her an Lies and tugged furiona.y to pet her out and gave it up. She heard iJm
nay: l cant get tier, out sue is dead any
way, an he dropped hoi foot and pasted on to
relieve t hose Boreauiing for help. Then another
man came by und grasped the lady s wrist, but he also gave m the task fis a hopeless attempt
to sennre a corpse, and it was not until Mr
We'-AjShvod through hours of mental anguish
anC'wJverai more unsuccessful attempts wero made or. her behalf that she was eventually
liberated. Ard yet this ladv is but slfchtlv
injured, though prostrated witn the trials of
her imprisonment. Her experience is but a simple, abbreviated prelude to the long list in the mhelstrom'of horrors that wring tte hearts of the people with woe.
An Infant s Wonderful Escnpe. Mrs. C. A. Dewey and little boy, of Canton, were in ihe wreck. She naid that the urchin wa fourd beneath a heavy timber, atrango to say, unbanned. The only sign of an accident about the br:ht younguter were tie blot' stains on his clothes.
I deciakk, Charley!" exclaimed Claro, "you tiiko the words right oot of my mouth!" ' Oh, mamma!" piped in tho little pitcher, "now I know what Hare and Charley wore doing whenebe let him in!"
aW i-K slower, girl, whose short for these of her
papRj cried the little steps were nt match muisculine progenitor.
"Can't you go mce rml slow iiky a police raau?"
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