Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-10-30
More Particulars Of The Terrible
Railroad Disaster in Wisconsin.
APAssENGER GIVES A GRAPHIC
DESCRIPTION OF 1T.
The Messenger Of the Recently Robbed
Express Car Watched.
EIGHT PERSONS BURNED 70 DEATH
IN KENTUCKY.
Mrs. A. T.. Stewards Will and
an Heir.
SECRETARY MANNING ON
DECK AGAIN.
SECRETARY MANNING ON
DECK AGAIN.
ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL
A Sad story.

ST. PAUL, Oct. 29.-The Globe has the
following statement from Bishop Whlppie
in relation to the railway accident on the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul: ga
freight train reached Rio about 20 min
utes before the limited train, which was
wrecked, and the switch had been left
open. Our train was going at the rate oil
40 miles an honr, 30 train officials said, and
the courage and bravery Of the engineer
cannot be praised too highly. He stayed
with the engine, and never knew an air
brake to be set so quickly and strongly rs
that one was. Our train was composed OF
the engine, mail and baggage car, a day
coach and three sleepers, and all except
The sleepers went off the track and took
fire Immediately. l was in the first
sleeper and had q berth ia the end next to
tile day coach. Mr.. McGinnis, OF Nor
ris, was in the berth opposite me. The in
slant of the shock be spraug from his
berth and ran to the front end Of the car,
but it was impossible to get out at that
end, for that end had telescoped. he
rushed back and cried out: Come and
help me save these people, who are being
burned to DEATH / had been awake but q
few minutes before, and had looked at my
watch. 1t was 1890. l had fol-
lowed McGinnis in my stockings. He
ran faster than l, and when l came to the
burning coach he bad taken two children
of a m near tie rear Of the coach.
She said her name was Chever, of Winona,
and asked him to save her children for
their father was living. We both tried to
lift the N from the car, but we conld
not. for she was wedged in beneath a
broken seat. In a moment after we
reached her her dress took fire and she
tainted and WAS burned to death before
our eyes. There was comparatively little
screaming from the car, but there was
rather a low moan of suffering, and / be-
lieve that most Of those who perished were
killed outright. The car was telescoped at
both ends. Mr.. Ames, who was on the
train, saw the passengers in that coach,
and so did my wife, and they think there
were II. There were two Sisters Of Char
ity who boarded the train, and bound for
Winona. There was a mother and q
daughter, whose names are unknown.
Three young men, a middle aged man,
Mrs. Shearer, her mother and two chill
dren, a man that got on at Columbus,
two men who boarded the car at
Watertown Junction, Mr.. Clark who
climbed ont az the top, and two
children were saved. The others were
burned to death. In about an hour and a
half Mr.. Collins, Superintendent of that
division, arrived from Milwaukee, and
Phillip Longley and Mr.. Boyden, Of the
company, were ON the train. and every
thing was done that could be done for the
comfort of the passengers who were left.
The ladies ON the train were especially
kind in caring for the motherloss children.
One was q little girl about 4 years old,
and the other a baby, a little boy. The
passengers in the sleeping cars had some
slight bruises, but non of them were
seriously injured. Conductor Hankey, of
the freight train, who fed into the woods
Immediately after the catastrophe oc-
Cured, has been found wandering around
in a raving condition. He is likely to
become q hopeless maniac"
MILWAUKEE, Oct. 29.-The Franciscan
Sisters, who lost their lives by the railway
wreck at Rio night before last, were Sister
Alphonse and Sister Dimpsea. They were
accompanied by a candidate from the
Mother House ut New Cassel, Wisconsin.
The two sisters had been to Chicago, and
we're on their way to Winona Institute
with the candidate from New Cassel, who
Joined them here. All three persisted.
The ExDress Car Robbery.