The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-08-30
A RAILROAD HORROR.
A RAILROAD HORROR.
Three Cars TelssCOped and Pre-
ClpItatsd In'O the Stream.
Eighteen Persons Known to have
Been Killed,
Ten of Barnum's Men Among the
Victims.
The Train Lies In Twenty Feet Of
Water.

DEs MONIES, Iowa, August 20.-Th,
details Of railroad accident on the c. R
E, & P, Railroad at the last branch o
Four Mills creek, seven miles from thiI
city, are beginning to come in. The
number Of killed is estimated all the way
from 10 to 80. All the train but The
sleeping car went down into the stream
The engine is completely out Of sight
Barnums show car went down among The
rest; and it is said that all OF the II oc,
cnpants but one were killed. Full par.
ticulars are impossible us the accident
occurred several miles from telegraph
office. Arrangements will soon be made
for telegraphic communication direct
from the scene of the accident. The
following partial list oiLhe unhurt and
slightly wounded has been received:
Mrs, Lou Hersberg and four children,
all SAFE W. Fl. Jones, Keet hsburg, Iii,
nois; J. ]. Jones, Whiteside county, iii.
nOls; A, L. KATE, New York, DR.. J. f
franklin, New York; Judge Dillon and
daughter, Iowa; Herbert B. Turner, New
York; Il. Hurszelman, Milwaukee; Mrs
A. F. Williams and son, New York, Mrs
DR.. R. NJ, Stone and child, Desmoines; J,
II. Craiger and vile, Brooklyn; L. Per.
kins, Minnesota; Carrie and Belle Adolph,
Philadelphia; Mrs, D. D. Osborne, Avaca,
Iowa; Eva. E. Adams, Chicago; R. NJ.
Cherrie, Chicago; Kennie A. Frost, Coun.
Gil Bluffs; Mrs. ]. L. Graham, Desmoines;
Mrs. E. W. Coon, Woodland, CALIFORNIA;
David Morgan, New Sharon, Iowa; c. o.
Gilman, Eldera, Iowa.
A special to the Statc Registcr from the
wreck says that there are sixteen killed so
far as known. Twelve bodies are out on
the banks, as follows; Billy Rakstan, en-.
giueer; J. J. Bait and daughter, Boone,
Iowa; VIM. Cummings, newsboy; Mrs.
Emma Babcock, school teacher, Rock
Island, Ills; seven OF Barnum's men, as
follows: +. B, Baker, J.H. Breeze, A.
Mack, G. Rockwell, C. Thompson Purcell.
Four dead bodies are still seen in the
wreck but can't be gotten out at present.
Mrs. J. X. Bait, whose husband and
daughter arc among the killed, is badly
injured. Mr.. Bait was a prominent citi.
zen and druggist at Boone, Iowa. The
accident was occasioned by the washing
out Of bridge and occurred about four
o'clock this morning.
The Register has the following addL
tional particulars:
Wounded-W. Y. Humes, Des Moines,
slightly in head: A. J. Patricks, conduc-
tor, dangerously; Mrs. D. A. Stebbins,
bruised considerably; S. s. Ferguson,
Andalusia, ILL.,, slightly; J. L. Graham
and vile, Des Moines, both slightly;
L. s. Spencer, Lathrop, Iowa, injured
across the breast and both legs; Jarles
Browning, St. Louis, severely bruised,
burned and knee cut; DR.. Campbell, wife
and daughter, Tiskolwa county, ILL.,, all
slightly bruised; W. NJ. Harrington,
Washington, Iowa, slightly; Daniel Shau.
ner, legs and breast, severely; Mrs. Mary
Hof, Norwalk, Iowa, back and head;
Mrs. @. Follett, Moline, ILL.,, severely.
Ben Track, the fireman, made a miracu.
lOus escape.
1:55 P. None more body has been re.
covered, quite an old man with the name
Of ]. s. Ferguson in his hat. In car
not yet uncovered several more bodies
can be seen. The top OF this car is now
being lifted off with ropes and pulleys.
The bodies so far recovered are being
placed on cars to be sent to Des Moines.
1t is thought that several have Aoated
down the stream. The water in the chan.
mel is over twenty feet deep. The wound.
ed survivors are all at Altoona, and no
names can be had at the wreck.
The body Of the last man taken out
from the wreck, near Altoona, at $3.50 T.
NJ, was that OF Mrs. Crow, the wife OF a
workman in the pork house at East Des
MoineS. Her head was caught and
mashed between the two car tops. The
car is now pulled of.
[LArRR.]
Three more bodies were taken out, all
men. One was supposed, by papers on
his person, TO be that Of Cagen, CONNER.