Evening star., 1877-08-30
kilograms to The Star.
FRlGHfPUL RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.
THE DES MONIES DISASTER.
EXCURSIONISTS KILLED.
STILL ANOTHER CATASTROPHE
MEXICAN BORDER TROUBLES
CHARLIE ROSS FOUND PERHAPS
THE FIGHTING THE BALKANS
THE DES MONIES RAILROAD DYs.
ASlER
THE DES MONIES DISASTER,
EXCURSIONISTS KILLED
STILL ANOTHER CATASTROPHE
MEXICAN BORDER TROUBLES
CHARLIEROSS FOUND PERHAPS
THE FIGHTING IN THE BALKANS.
THE DEs MONIES RAILROAD DIS.
ASlER
Seventeen Bodies Taken frnr, I'm.


Wreck
bEs MONIES, IOWA, August 30.-Trp TO six
O'Clock last Dight /. dead bodies had been
taken from the wreck OF the Chicago, Rock
lslaEd snd PaciEc EailToad train-fo;lrfeen
men, Two women anu one child 4 nopg
mos reported rs wounded, L. b. Baker one
OF Barnums company, has since died
ahlhs 10 osad as ar as known. The fol-
IOwlng IL -
FULL LIST OF THE DEAD
as far AS asCeriatned: Mrs. Emily Bibe0ck
OF And2luSia, Ill; John h. Bolt aud dauyn-
ter, OF BuOnesburO, Iowa; Mrs Wm. Crow,
OF Des Moinesi VIM. Ra Sestraw, engineer OF
the Tram; -- Stuart. of iowa; NJ. Cohen
Commercial ITdCeier. of Peoria iii lab = r.
Prince and ID. A. Branson. of CincinoatI.
" IN. cunning, newsboy, OF Des MotneS. The
following Were in Bdrnum's car: Green
Berry, Geo. Rockwell, John Purcell Jobn
Bruce. Chas. Thompson and A. Macs Two
more bottles are known TO be in The wreck
ore OF Barnum's men and a little girl, a
dauehter OF Mrs. Crow, one OF the women
killed. 1t Is thought by many that there are
STILL OTHER BODIES
IN tne bottom OF the wreck or tiOated down
The stream, but the total of the death roll is
twenty. The bridge was over what is knoyn
as LIttle Four-mlle Creek nine miles east of
DeS MCiEes.
CAUSE OF THE DISASTER
1t Is little stream, generally quiet and
never before known TO be as high As IL WAS
made by the unprecedented rain fall OF yes
terday morning and the night before. The
bridge rested on a stone ar, n twelve feet in
tie clear, with walls five feet thick. rhe
bridge is approached from the east round a
curve and down a grade. AS the tran ap-
preached, the engineer Stacked his speei tin
he came in sight of The bridge, and, suppos-
ing that all was right, dashed upon il.
THE FATAL PLUNGE.
The channel of the stream was 10 or 80 feet
VII e end the banks about 20 feet high The
locomotive landed at the foot of the western
side and half buried itself in the earth Bar
NUNS car was next To the engine and IL
dropped into the channel. The mail car
followed. passing directly over IL and mash
Ing 1t to pieces. bat gong 10 the bottom,
bar OF iron running clear through il. The
men In that car escaped alive. Even the
lamps were not put out. The first passenger
car pitched dowh into the channel, where the
water was at least ID feet deep. The next car
plunged under this, telescOping with il, and
the hext telescOped half through both OF the
two preceding it. TIE sleeping car did not
go Tito the creek. Its occupants were jarred
but none OF them seriously hurt. Tne most
OF the killed we've in the car in front OF the
sleeper.
FRIGH1FUL SCENE.
The scene at the lime OF the accident is
'Eus described: terrific rain was falling in
Torrents, accompanied by wind, lightning,
and violent thunder. The crash put out The
lights and the scene OF terror which ensued
may be imagined. The men who were rot
injured and could get ont went TO work al
once 10 rescue the living aud wounded
Ihey had 10 go mile 10 a farm house to get
axes TO chop them out, but they worked
heroically, and by daylight had most of the
wounded rescued. TEere many
PITIFUL SCENES
and tender incidents. One mother was killed
while sitting between two children who
escaped unhurt. One little girl who had lam
IN TIE water for four hours with heavy man
y Ing Cead beneath her body was discover ii
10 be breathing and was rescued and restored
and row shows 10 signs OF injury. The dead
at II O'Clock. Some twenty-five of the
wounded came with them. The Off ,erS of
!he road were at the wreck all day caring for
The dead and wounded. The wounded mum
Der over forty, some seriously.
ExcurStonists Killed
SALEM, MASS, August 30.-Last evening
as Lowell ira in carrying the excursionistS
by the steamer Plymouth Rock WAS running
down the Pennsylvania pier, IL struck a
trOup of five persons, killing two, fatally
woundipg one and seriously inJuring two.
Mr. and Mrs; Joseph Swazey, residing a.
killed, the bodies being terribly mangled.
Wilbur +. Swazey, their Son, aged Is years,
had his shoulder dislOcated. Miss Rachel
Clifford, sister of Mrs. Swazey, aged 50
years, living on Mason street, North Salem.
had both collar bones and her rib on both
sides broken. She died about midnig gbt. The
other person injured belongs TO Lowell, nut
the extent ofhis injuries could not be ascer-
taintd.
HOW 1T HAPPENED.
SALFM, MASS. August 30. The accident
on Long Wharf last night is attributed 70 the
carelessEess of the conductor OF The train in
running IL down upon the crowded pier with
no mead light or lantern TO give warning.
Wilbur f. Svaz V, one of the injured dl.d
this morning. Several persons, some OF them
frtm Lynn ere repor. ed to be missing. Sev
=, al ladies. in their fright, jumped overheard
but all are believed to have been rescued.
Another Fatal Accident
SPRINGFIELD, MASS, August Sg-Last
night, at Enfield, on the Sprinfeld, Athol
and Northeastern railroad, as q passenger
train was making lying switch, the breaks
did not hold, and The train colided with a
freight car standing on the track fatally in
JuriL q brakeman named Aldrich and also
seriously,1f not fatally, wOunding Cond uc-
tor COnkliDg.
Saratoga Races.