Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-08-30
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
Terrible Railroad Accident.
FEARFUL LOSS OF LIFE.
Full Particulars Of the
Calamity.
Partial List Of the Killed and
Wounded.
Dies MONIES. Augnst. %,

LIES MUM rs, Au1usFs -.
Details of the railroad accident ON
the Chicago, Rock Island aud Pacific
Rtiiro4d. at the east branch o. Four
Mile creek. seven miles from this ci,y.
are teginning 10 arrive. The number
of killed i estimated at from ten to
fifty. All of the train but the sleeping
car went down into the stream The
engine is completely out of sight.
Barnum's show car went down amDnE
the rest. and is said hat all of he
eleven occu ants but are killed.
Il is impossible to get full particulars
yet, As the accident occurred several
mites from a telegraph office. Arrange
mems Will he made tor Geographic
communication direct from the scene
of the accident. The following partial
list OF unhurt ami slightly injured pas
>engers has been received ron the
wreck: Mrs. Lou Her~hbsrg aud four
children. all safe; ii. II. Jales. kei lbs
burg, Ills; j. =. JaieS, Nhre~ides
county, Ili~.; A. l.. katz, New York;
Dr. j. f. Fraukenfeld Philaielphia;
o. G.. Calvin. CLYDE, y. y; Judg4
Dillon ami daughter, a.; Herbert Il.
waukee; Mrs. A. +. Wilkins and son,
La hiilAFs "fNs ISiitil anu Nv
chlldrrn; Mrs. Dir. X. NJ. stone aud
child, De- Moiues; j. IL. Craiger aud
wife, BrOuklyn; l.. P-rkins, Mime
sofa; Carne ani Belle Adolph. Phiia-
delphia; Mrs. D.. II. O-uo! ne, Avuca.
Ia; Eva Il. Adams. Chicago; X. NJ.
Cherrie, Chicago; Jennie A. Frost.
Council Bluff; Mr.. j. l.. Graham.
Des Moine>; J.. Maisley. Daveuport;
Mrs. L. W. Coon. Woodland, Cal /:
Davis Morgan. New sharon, Iowa;
e. c. Gilman. Elinra, Iowa.
\ special 10 th- Stdte Register from
the wreck says that there are rs Killed
so far as known. Twelve bodie are
uut on the hanks as iollow~: Billy
RakeSloan, engineers: j. X. Bolt and
daughter, Boone, Iowa; VIM. Cum
mings. n~ew~huy; Mrs. Emma Bah
cock, school teacher, Rock Island.
Seven of Btrnum's men aS fIlows:
+. Ii. Baker, j. II. BruZ-, A. NJ tck.
&. Rock well, G.. Thompson aud j..
Purcell. Four dead hOdies are stIl
seen in the wreck, but can not be got
out Al present. Mrs. J. X b II, whose
husband and daughter are among the
killed, j. badly injured. The accident
vas occasiuned 10y The washing out of
a bridge aiId occurred about 4 o'clbck
this morning. The register has the
following additional particulars: The
Wounded are: w. Y. Humes, Dss
Moines; a.. j.. Patrick, cunducor.
dangerously: Mrs. ID. A. Srebben~.
Panther Creek, Iowa; ). ) Ferguson.
Andalusia, Illinois; j. H. Graham and
wife, Des Muines; l. =. spencer, La
lhrop, Iowa; ChaS. Browning. ~.
LOUIS; ID. Campbell, wife and daugh
ter, Tiskilwa county, IlliEoiS; NJ Har
ringtOn, Washington, Iowa; Dennis
shannon, Iowa: Mrs. Mary HOtf,
Norwalk, Iowa; Mrs. G. Fallett, Mo-
line, Illinois. Ben. Truck. tine fireman,
made a miraculous escape The fol
lowing special TO the Register was re
ceived al l:55 p. NJ: One more body
recovered; quite an old mar with the
name OF j. >. Ferguson on his hat. Ia
he car not yet uncovered several
more bodies can be seen. Ii is believ-
eel there ara a dozen more bodies in IT.
The car on top of thi, il now being
lifted oil with ropes and pulleys. The
bodies so far recovered are now he
ing loaded on cars TO be sem to Des
Moines. 1t j. thought that several
have flOated down The stream. The
water in the channel was over 20 feet
deep. The wounded Survivors ara all
at Altoona and no names can b. had
at the wreck.