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
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with curious
{ which open and shut like doors,
{| wood,
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In Yaris the privilege of removing
and overhauling the city’s debris is
farmed oui to large contractors, who
bire chiffoniers, as French rag pickers
| are called, who go out at nightfall with
their hotte, or square basket, buckled
| over their shoulder and grub over the
piles of ashes and sweepings which have
| been placed in the streets. 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.