AN APPALLING DISASTER A Niagara Falls Excursion Train On the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad, with 000 Passengers, Drops Through a Barning Bridge, Near Chatsworth, Hlinois—One Hun- dred and Forty-three of the Killed and Wounded Thus Far Identified. CnicAaco, Aug. 11. The Chicago Times’ special from Forest, Ills,, says: All the railway horrors In the history of this country were surpassed three miles east of Chatsworth last night when an excur- sion train on the Toledo, Peoria and Western road dropped through a burn- igg bridge, and over one hundred peo- ple were killed and four times that number were more or less badly in- jured. The train was composed of six sieeping cars, six day coaches and chair cars and three baggage. It was carrying 900 passengers, all excursion- ts. and was bound for Niagara Falls, Three miles east of Chatsworth is a little slough, and where the railroad crosses a dry run, about ten feet deep ind fifteen feet wide. Over this was stretched an ordinary wooden trestle bridge, and as the excursion train came thundering down on it what was the horror of the engineer on the front en- engine when he saw that the bridge was a fire. Right up before his eyes leaped the bright flames, and the next nstant he was among them, There was chance to Had there been warning would have taken a half mile to stop that on-rushing mass of wood, iron and human lives, and the train was within hundred yards of the red tongued messenger of death before they flashed their fatal signals into engineer’s face, he passed over in safely, the firsten keeping the rails, As it went over bridge fell beneath it, and it could only have been the terrific speed of the train which saved the lives the engineer ard his fireman. Dut next engine went down and Instantly the deed of death was done. i id no stop. it il one the But gine the re yf i ie Car erashed into car, oaches piled on top of another, and he twinkling of an eye nearly J found instant I nore were £0 badly hu live. As forthe wounded, everywhere. escaped, and as dressed passengers caae of them they found death as is rarely wi work to do that it se hands were utterly ir lacked but Down i wople Only the sieeping-( t} atartled LUE Siu t neaged swept it } his bh the six day coaches, 3 scoped as cars never were tl of them were p space enough for UR i101 bad m “ ree one, i its uc > ed shing %nT 4 ana nted off he car ahead i ro woodwork aside ll ting vill tinder, tops of the ger dying ur it four pe } the lay there, res ox $ seals, in the yler- sople ond ca w «cl of its victims, were n were ot 80 badly broken it the air he wounded S50 about to die, and gFCcreams make an appall could heard i cries of t shirieks of the { men +h { “ae s ninita nn united sof 3 to nd, and above all be 1 ang cries of ittie child wey lay arents, turned ren as, DIRT } tances, alongside their dead ps Chatswerth was morgue to-day. The Town Hall, the engine house, the depot were all full of dead bodies, while every the little village has juota of the wounded, There were over 100 corpses lying In the extemporized dead houses, and every man and woman was turned into an amateur but zealous nurse, In the Town Hall was the main hos- pital, and in it anxious relatives and sorrowing friends sat, and fanning gently the sufferers’ faces, queried 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 in- spected each face as it was uncovered, and sighed as the features were un- known, or cried out in anguish when the well-known face, sometimes fear- fully mangled, but yet recognizable, was uncovered, The entire capacity of the little vil- lage was taxed, and kind-hearted women drove in from miles to give the'r gentle ministrations to the suf- ferers. 1 ius into a 1 house in it iS HUMAN HHYENAS PLUNDERING THE DEAD, No sooner had the wreck occurred than a scene of robbery commenced, Some band of unspeakable miscreants, heartless and with only animal instincts, was on hand, and, like the guerillas who throng a battle-fleld the night after the conflict and filch from the dead the money which they received for their meagre pay, stealing even the bronze medals and robbing from the children of heroes the other worthless emblems of their fatbers’ bravery, so last night did those human hyenas plunder the dead from this terrible accident and take even the shoes which covered their feet, Who these wretches ars 1s not now known. Whether they were a band of pick-pockets who accom- panied the train or some robber gang who were lurking in the vicinity cannot be sald, The horrible suspicion, how- ever, exists, and there are many who give it credit, that the accident was a eliberately planned case of train wrecking; that the bridge was set on fire by miscreants who hoped to seize the opportunity offered, and the fact that the bridge was so far consumed at the time the train came along, and the added fact that the train was an hour | ana a haif late, are pointed out as evi. it dence of a careful conspiracy. Itseems hardly possible that man could be so lost to all the ordinary feeling which animates the basest of tho human race, but still, men who wiil rob dead men, who will steal from the dying and will plunder the wounded, held down by broken beams of a wrecked car, w ounded, whose death by fire seemed imminent, can do most anything which is base and that 1s what these fiends in human form did, They went into the ars when the fire was burning flercely underneath, and, when the poor wretches who were pinned there begged them “for God's sake to help me out,” stripped them of their watchesand jew- elry and searched their pockets for money, When the dead bodies were laid out in the corn flelds these hyenas turned them over in their search for valuables, and that the plundering was done by an organized gang was proven by the fact that this morning out in the corn fleld sixteen purses, all emply, were found in one heap. It wasa ghastly plundering, and bad the plunderers been caught they would surely have been lynched LIST OF WOUNDED. Following is a list of the wounded, as far as identified. It slow work, as the bodies are horribly mangled: E. W. PP. Parker and wife, Peoria, head and limbs. Mrs. Emma Reagan and son, sight injury. John Frye, Peoria, leg broken, back injured, H. L 18 Peoria, Ogden, Grayton, Ill, head and Bayard, Iowa, Gillman, Ili, foot and Sophia Pauline, Peoria, Ill, head. CC. W. Young, West Jersey, hand. C. A. Swank, West Jersey, foot and shoulder, Gr. W. Seott Thomas 1 arms, hips and | Theodore Oded, legs, Mrs, Edith, Chellew, Glassford, Ill. leg broken 1 ankle bruised. Mr. Chellew, Gla sford, Ill, leg ocated, Joe Neal, Mossville ankle, Ridge, in, Ill, Park 1 111. y d i Peoria, head and dis- , Ill., head and Mrs. Joe Neal, Mossville, arm and broked: baby killed, lia Valdejo, Peoria, Ill., in- nkle, wife, Fort Abble Edmonds, Disco, ie P. Hazen and § Iowa, heads hur . Miss Emma Ulter, West Point, wa, head and limb. Miss H. Thorns, Rish, I lly. IH. | nally, Mrs. Thos, ternally. Mrs, I. W. Grant, Peoria, int Mary Morris, Peoria, brulse Robert Simmermann head and F E. a 4 H. Bond, ( r olchestler » McAvoy, Peo gpine gig, French, Peoria, hips Walters, [eoria, Peoria, ankle. Peoria, ankle, Eureka, lil, both Hitton, lil head, ’ 11 » Harpe, spine, Mrs, 8, W ant Elizabeth limbs, Mis. Linda jaw and leg. H. Abraham, Peoria, internally, William Smith, Peoria, bead crushed. Frank Taylor, McComb, IliL., nally. John Stear, Rushville, 11, leg. J. W. Mtearns, Green Valley, Ill leg. A. B. and heel, J. L. Belstey, Deer Creek, Ill, head and ankle, Paton Cross, Washington, Ill, leg. J. B. Kelly, Boodee, lllinols, hip, leg broken, Frank Snadicker, Abington, Illinois, head, leg broken, Daniel Rock, leg and hands, A. ©, Jordan, Danville, Iowa, leg. C. A. Gregg, Danville, Iowa, leg. Mrs, C. E. Allen, Galesburg, Ill, head, W. C. Ellis, Peoria, head. Minnie Vaughsdale, Peoria, leg bro- ken. Calvin Davis, Peoria, arm. Conductor Stillwell, head, arm leg. C, H. Carter, Jr., Burlington, Iowa, body. Harold Iowa, body. H. B, Lawrence, Burlington, Iowa, body. John McMaster, Peoria, body. Frank Brown, Peoria, head, Mrs, Kellogg, Tremont, body, Mrs, K. GG. Welsh, Peoria, body. Mrs, Isaac Body, Whiteside, body. Catharine Lot, Peoria, body, Blanche Allen, Peoria, body. THE DEAD, The following dead have been iden- tifled: R. E. Stock, Peoria, body. Miss Stephens and father, Mike Regan, Binghamton, N. Y. William Cralg, Cuba, IL Henry Hicken, Pekin, 11. Noah Haverman, Canton, Ill. H, 8, Binith, Mattamore, Lil, G. A. Smith, Peoria, Mrs, Zimmerman, Peoria, Rosa and Maggie Murphy and mother, Peeria Miss Maggie Malvow, Peoria. Miss Neal, Mossville, Ill, Emiline Carrithers, Evans, Il, Jess Meek, Eureka, III. wwe Sherman, Brimfield, IL R. 1 len, Tonica, 111, { m. Forbes, Elmwood, I head" Setclers, La Harpe, Iil Walters, inter- "3 Shomberger, 'eoria, hip, side Rosefleld, 11l., head, and E. Lawrence, Burlington, IL, —we MeClintock, engineer, I’eorla, Elizabeth Cross, Washington, 11, Mrs, E. D. Stoddard, West Point, Iowa, Mrs. Pearl Adams, Peoria. Pearl French, Peoria, W. H. Potter, Bushnell, Illinois. Miss J. M. Clay, Eureka, 11. J. D. Richards, ’eoria. Mrs, Breeze, Peoria. W. Gereretzen, Peoria, E. F. Adams. Faubury. W. H. Lot, Elwood, Addie Webster, Peoria. Mrs. Willian Allen, Peoria, Mr. W. Valejo, Peoria. Mrs. H, B. Peoria. Mrs, Miller, 'eoria. Mr. Wright, Peoria. Mrs. James Dale, D’eoria, Mrs, Wm. Ball and daughter, Peoria. | F. B. Wynett, Peoria. E. Godell and Son. Dr. Wm. Collins, Galesburg, TI. J. 11. John Murphy, Peorla, Henry Siegelson, Keokuk, Iowa, Oney Spaith, Green Valley, 111 John A. Moore, Jacksonville, J. D. McFudden, Peoria, Captaln Ahlke, A. Martin, ington, J. A. Green, Dreed’s Station, about twenty dead at iper Cily. NEWS OF THE WEEK. ~ Intelligence was received at I Haven, 'enna,, on the evening of th 8th, of the murder of a man named Cualby and his wife, in their house on the mountains south of at city, on the evening of the Tth. McClure and daughter, | Body, J. 5. Kaler, Breed’s Station, | Il. Bloom- and HOCK 1 wil ~The murcer of Isalali Colby and his wife at ( Run, near Lock Haven, Penne,, was Investigated by the Coroner the Oth, Mrs, Coiby had been outraged before being murdered. Both 8s lay outsi house where they had fallen. The only other person about the premises was an in- fant, which almost dead from nger There no clue the her ry on bode ae is vs 11 TY hile mu 116 a pienie in Calloway was fatally shot by . manager the af Doors drew his knife and fatally ollie as he fell Alexander Prohibition and atl ty. Kentucky, the of ‘ dead. e ( red y was badly beaten yw hn Ol Walker, th speaker, wh led by being thi wire { Prairie P'exas, last week, a AgAlLNS ence after he had are Ki NOFA, noradi e was reading p Sara loaded bark. The in Abraham Baja- hildren and niece, the Baltimore and a between San vessel | and endent Ha Mine at Santa 1} f five men, While iro and Martinez, in ( a ard perished f ¢ &,. Of VORA fr * € T aiifornia, Lhe ard ir! { | was struck by heavy su and ru All on ex- sailors, who APRIZE d. bo 1 x] themselves wh Revs, n-<day A: revival £ $e al waar: d fad iventists Wino a mo } i holding rvices Minnesola, was (rermans and P pulied down. The congregation res and a free fight ensued, in which seve- ral persons were hurt acked O88 On © iW, ir iil —Telegrams received Chicago the Oth, from central points through- the northwestern country, show that the drouth still continues, Not a drop of rain has fallen except eight one-hundredths of an inch at Des Moines, Forest fires are raging in Wisconein, and much valuable prop- perty has been destroyed. On out Charles Williams, who was confined in the jail of Logan county, West Vir. ridge, was taken from jail by citizens | on the evening of the Sth, and hanged to a tree, —The monument of the Fifth Con. necticut Regiment, at Gettysburg, Pa., was dedicated on the Oth. The stone Culp’s Hill, a short distance from Spangler's Spring. ~The pine woods, covering acres, just south of Jamestown, Y ork, were burning on the evening the Oth, Several houses were In ger. The loss will be heavy. New and 18 rising at the rate of three inches an hour, 1t is coming into the city at Upper Broad and Reynold streets. The gate on the third level of the canal has the Union Depot. the Oth, on complaint of citizens, for falling to keep the streets in order, and for allowing stagnant water to accums ulate, from which foul smells arise, dangerous to the health of the commu- nity and harmful to property interests, They were held to answer in §300 bail each, The Councilmen went ball for one another, and the Chief of Police for the Mayor, and he for the City Commissioner, Mrs, Harvey Wills, of Oswego, Kansas, has been arrested for grabblog her mother, Mrs. Mary Rawlinson, 71 years old, by the hale, throwing her violently to the floor, and beating and kicking ber in such a manner as to It 's | said the women quarrelled over the mother's property which the daughter’ “The walls of the ruins of Bishop & Spear’s peanut warehouse, in St, Louis, fell on the morning of the 10th | & Co.'s In the ruins of firemen, Frank McDonpald wholesa'e grocery were buried a jarney McKer- and Christian The sured, by the Bteam roe & Co, and Cropley & Co, in manufacturing shoes, was burned on the evening of the Oth, together with insurance small. rear of G. M. in Salt Lake. Utah, burned shop and the north division establishment. There was a number of tenants, and the total loss 18 esti- mated at 885,000, all, except ina few cases, covered by insurance, The mill fires at Muskegon, Michigan, on the Oih, resulted In a of over 5,000,000 feet of lumber, owned by Stimson & Fay, Mann & C Meely & COC and others, The tot losses aggregate nearly $120,000, on there is a fair insurance. The Eagle Flour Mills, In Memphi were burned on the O00 nsurance, $15,000, cracker and candy Barkley & Brothers, in Wil ton, Delaware, were burned morning of the 10th, Loss, covered insurance, SL. homas, Ontario O'Donnell of Jersey City, N. J., east o Bridgen, on the St. Clair btrauch, were ign bi) morning + al y iN VOL UY eget } Jether their tin of their 10:8 0. 0. il 10th. The steam works f Ol 7 83 partly despatch the mills of M. says th from f f + brush fires on lhe Fel 1 of the 10th, and all the sheds, with 2,000,000 feet of matched The loss is $100,000, -Ileports from the the storm on the evening } Ue were aid was pretty general; and 3 distr istricts, where forest fires the rain checked flames. Telegrams Wisco indicat rm which accom violent, an W Yer ¥ ted GAaInage nas resa ing, of rior nsin ind st Tain was Her neal ind his schoo on the 1 because MelDearmm house, a new a mob, } ission rigr LE WwW irhs, alias “Fritze.’ pprentice, who is accuse ing set on fire the offices of the Ne ker Zedung, was arranged for ex- amination at the Toombs police court ¥ on the 10th, William Mayer, the pub- the author of the fire on August 4th, and also expressed the belief that he was guilty of the other five fires. James Glenn, 40 years old, was killed, and John Schmidt, middle-aged, on the 10, by falling of a truss of the bridge across —The glant powder works at West Berkely, six miles from San Francisco, blew up on the 11th, the entire busi Francisco. Chinaman was fatally, and six white jured, the front of Odd Fellows’ Hall, in Bal. “a tance of about forty feet, to death an unknown man who was —Three colored ev. Israel, preachers, George and a wagon in Atlanta, West Point train; a fourth, Upshaw, was seclously wounded. ~Shaft No. 1 of the Ashland Mine, pear Hurley, Wisconsin, caved in on men ard injuring another, An Falls, excursion train on the Toledo, Ieoria and composed of six sleeping cars, six day coaches and chair cars, three baggage cars and two eng nes, dropped through a burn- ing bridge over a dry run about three miles east of Chatsworth, 1llinols, on the evening of the 10th, while running at the rate of a mile a minute. There were nine hundred and sixty passen- gers on board from various parts in Central Illinois, the majority of them, however, from Peoria. The estimates of the dead and wounded vary, but there have been seventy-two dead and seventy-one wounded identified. After the disaster the dead were robbed by an organized gang of miscreants, and for Niagara there is a suspicion was set on fire by them, —The west-bound passenger express g I was run off the switen about fifteen miles east of Arizona, on the 10th, by four masked ~A wind and raln storm struck the evening of the 11th, and unroofed houses, blew down trees and damaged Crops. ~The firm of Hepry 8S. Ives & Co, Mr. Cromwell, of Sullivan & Crom- well, was made assignee, It is said that the liabilities are about $20,000, 000, with assests something in excess of that amount, George Hor- sons of — Alexander English, ton and Frank Edwards, | epectable New York people, were rested while ransacking Captain | M not's cottage, at Asbury Park, New Jersey, on the 10th, The prisoners went to Asbury Park to spend the sea- son, but went to the races and all | their money. “ar- % ou al UBL Frederick Hopt, alias Welcome,"’ | was shot to death in yard he penitententiary, four “8 Lage City, Utah, on firing party consisted of five ifles, The condemned man itmost firmness, A roselle was nned ove is heart, Hopt had mur- John F, Ti 1€] ROTI Utah cour - A despatch assenger ia IGA 1 the mile the fl ar | ri » ! of the ty Ivy. . from Mac wu, (xe ia} wounde si or} 4 { A freight tral cago, Burlington and Quincy switching at Iiiies to do some g thiree vi 11 v ~ :.. O tLe evel s i yell several cars ese were run into by ht train, William man named Wat- mls njured, and a Breed and wert wien aslesan en aslee] Lins three nan Wisconsin, and M 3 fell ¢ na places it It is sald at the raliroad fficials alone Newspaper corres- a complete list, as injured CAn pondents at a number Were remove yn Chatsworth before tt arrived, Railroad officials say | there were about six hundred persons in the train, and that it was going at {the rate of about 35 miles an hour, One of the first physiclans at the wreck | said that one cause of so many deaths was lack ambulances or | means for moving the injured. taal . 1 Led ana is ey "no ¢ wi bank is on an excursion to | fis “shortage” is stated at $12,000, sd A —— From Joston. A Screen a Harem. In Washington dwell two women who own so much bric-a-brac that they have moved into a larger house to accommodate i it. i INFECTIOUS DRUNKENNESS, Reformed Men Who Bigns of Intoxication from Cone tagion. Havy Shown o— There are cases of reformed men who signs of Intoxication from the * The following Is an example who A promi- had drunk moderately once, while attending a din- ner with his old comrades, of them were intoxicated, sudd came hilarious, made a foolish settled back in his chair in state, and was finally taken hot stumd, He had not drunk auy and bad only used coffee and and yet be had all the symptoms of others, ouly his was contagion; the favor prepared long ago in Another case was ti had been an had reformed. le wa to , and gave a friends. Among t : who been g these studies. He port, the substance On the the co @ nn in WAaLEr, inevriat office pad occasion pany becau and tue Li but water, became h d, with li every sigi toil ved, 18 tupl them. w ot Wil covered, an as In 11 ii commel and i i BVENL +3 ¢ Biviit) med feed ited, states n which tl had 3 TS y DOE ACG UT Ag 4 a respon ed to co t} thau otherwise, men, or those stopped the use of > Rp bh DR bed temperate ¥ some fort of listen to a recital { i struggles of others { without takin 0 Mone en Wn re gE On | tal shock that is fatal to the solutions. more vividly and ac- curately the struggles of a drunkard {are described the more certainly the | will of the hearer is weakened und ren- { dered impotent to belf itself. Tem- | perance lecturers who hope by painting | the horrors of drink so vividly deter | any one in the audience srom falling in {that way are deceived, and produce the very effect they seek to re ] “3 sit 1m iii The Rag Pickers of Paris with curious { which open and shut like doors, {| wood, THE | PROVISIONS Beef city fam bi. ... MARKETS > » P= Pork Mess -s Prime Moss, BOW... covvune if Sides smoked, ... Shonlders smoked G0 IN BAIL, servnsnersrrnnrinrs Smoked Beef. ...... Lard Western bis Lard loose. MU Ree West, and Pa. sup... .. Pa. Family.... Minn Clear... Pat. Wnt Wat i ye FIOUr: .iusasnnnee GRAIN Wheat Nou 1 red. .ecen sevens MPGuenns5esqnnsnssrs Corn, No, 2 White BO. 8.000ii00en Oat, No. 1 White RO 200.ccivvnsns sossnnsnes NO. 8 MIXOA. ...ovonnnns sane hE Mackerel, LArge 18, ...oonvons No, 2 Shore, ... sesvassll Herring, Lab....covviisinnss 050 @ 8 80 SUGAR POWAOred.....ooune somnnenss 8% G6 3.16 Granulated. coves weeetves 8 JEN QORTeO. 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They take | everything of the slightest value down | to the smallest pieces of wood and bits { of bread, and carry their burdens to | the contractors’ warehouses, They are | poorly paid reside in squalid quarters, exist for a few sous a day at the rag pickers’ restaurant, indulge in some of the gayeties of life, such as attending | a chiffonier’s ball, and are members of |a well organized rag pickers’ mutual benetit society. The agreement into which the contractors enter with the municipal authorities compel the for- mer to remove the city refuse within certain hours and gives them the sole power of appointing chiffoniers. All other persons who overhaul the house hold offscourings are amenable to a city ordinance. Consequently it is no unusual thing for over 4,000,000 francs worth of old rags, bones, ete., to be taken out of the collections of the 7,000 chiffoniers, esata dpimansmiomiusia ~The Chinese Testament, revised by the Rev. Griffith John, bast ust been published, and the demand for parts of this version averages nearly 1,000 1 coples per day.
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