The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-05-14
ST. LOUIS, MO.

ST. Louis, May l3.-The train bear
ins the bodies that were killed by the
collision at Eureka, Yesterday, arrived
about o'clock this morning The
coroner will hold ali inquest this morn
ing. The following additional names
complete the list of killed: James NJ.
Smith, Seymour, Indiana Mr.. Ballen-
tine, Sedalia, Missouri; 4. :. Flint, st.
Louis: George W. Kigcr, Cornelia,
Johnson county, Missouri; young
man, E. X. Spaulding, Boston; G. W
Tucker, Waterville, Kansas; Christian
Rodcnburg, Leavenworth; E. X. VIII
son, residence unknown; William Tay-
lor, OF the firm of Rest, Tonner, Smith
n Co, New York; James D. Mckee,
of Anderson, Kansas.
The only additional wounded are Ira
p. Warner, United States Express
messenger, and Maria Clark, colored.
The Republican reporter gives the
following description Of the collision
and wreck: The express train had five
passenger cars and a baggage car, and
the freight train was long heavy one
At the point OF the collision there Is an
embankment fifteen feet high, where
the road curves so sharply that two al-
preaching trains cannot see each other
until close together. \ boy standing
beside the engineer, MIR. jackson, was
the first to discover the smoke stack of
the approaching freight engine entering
the curve at the east just as the express
entered at the west He pointed and Ill
rectcd the attention OF Mr.. Jackson to
the danger The brakes were Immedi-
ately whiStled down, the engine re-
Hrscd and the speed Of the train some
what checked, but no application Of
human power could brake up the heavy
freight train and bring it to halt under
half u mile. The two engines rushed
at each other like malign and enraged
monsters, greeted with tremendous
crash. reared from the track in mortal
wrestlc and fell into helpless and dis
iOu.tcd fragments OIL the ground. The
shock was terrible The tender, bag
gagc car and the two forward passenger
ears OF the express train Oh one side
and the tender AID several hoX cars
of the freight train on the other rushed
into the crash with their respective en-
zines. leaving the frightful ruins spat-
tered with the blood of forty human
beings entrapped and mutilated beneath
it, shapeless mass. The two engines
were driven with such force into each
other that il was almost impossible after
the collision to distinguish the parts of
one from the other. The cars were
jammed together, being shivered into
long sliverS, and the seats, wheels
trucks and irons blended into an
indescribahle heap that rolled off down
the emban!ment. The three rear cars
Of tie express train shared the concus
sion hut escaped the fate OF the two for
ward ones in the collision. They were
found standing stiff and still on the
track with the brakes close mp show
ING that the brakcslnen had done their
duty well in response to the engineer :
whistle before they leapel from the
track
The spectacle was one impossible TO
view without absolute horror, as q sol
der passenger said: Il have been
through many battles, Int never saw
such sickening sight 1t was chaos
and death combined The engines, both
on the same side OF the cmbankmcnt,
were but heap of battered fragments,
while around on all sides was the CON
fusion of ruin twice Confounded. The
baggage car and the next to it were
shivcred as if 10y an internal explosion,
and the mass of broken timberS, iron
rods, wheels and other portions OF the
car looked like the frantic work Of some
Internal agency.
ST. Louis, May l3.-Thc coroner :
jury have been taking evidence in the
case most of the day, but nothing new
was elected. The body OF Andrew W.
Stratton, Of New Brighton, Pa, was
claimed this morning and will be sent
home for intcrmcnt All the bodies not
before claimed will be buried in Belle
fontainc Cemetery tomorrow Frank
Holt, who, with his little daughter, was
killed, was en- route from some point in
Kansas to Westfield, Ohio, to see his
sick wife, in response to a tclcgraPhic
summons.