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- 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.