The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-16
WORSE THAN REPORTED.
A SCORE OF VICTIMS OF THE NICKEL
PLATE DISASTER.

With Half a Dozen of the Wounded To Re
Added to the List of Dead Soon-A
Smoking Car That was vcritabie
Slaughter Per-Other Mishaps
ERIE, Pa, Sept 16.-The train arrived in
Erie Tuesday evening from the scene Of the
| frightful accident at Silver Creek, on the New
York, Chicago q st. Louis railway Henry
Hyke, of Sterrettania, whose legs wore
ground to pulp and were amputated while
the train was On route for Eric, died as he was
being taken from the train here. All the
wounded have been taken TO the hospital
and the Angola surgeons have been relieved
by those of Erie Thousands of people sur
rounded the depot awaiting the arrival of the
bodies, The responsibility for the disaster is
attributed to the train dispatcher at Come
aut, Ohio, who made an eIr;r in the location
of a side track to which he had ordered tho
local freight.
When the trains came together the bag
gage-car on the excursion train was lifted
from Its trucks and sent crashing through the
smoker The occupants and the seats were
carried back in a mass together. Singuiarly
and fortunately the excursion train was not
derailed, and the scene of death was confined
to but one car, the smoker. The baggage car
telescoped the smoker, cutting It through at
the tops of the seats An instant after the
frightful accident 500 men rushed forward to
rescue the dying and wounded Rails, tim
bers, and axes We're brought into requisition,
and the telescoped car was chopped and pr;ed
open.
iIln II 4
Thompson, of Pittsburg, were the only per
sons who escaped from the havoc without in
jury, and they were saved by being thrown
TO the floor. Four little boys saved their
lives by dropping on the floor and We're res
cned uninjured When the car was cleared
of the bodies there was left mass of arms,
legs, heads, pieces of faces, and other parts of
mangled bodies. 1t seems that there are one
OF two bodies which can not be recognized
Thirty three were killed and wounded, and the
Killed number nineteen. OF the wounded.
two-thirds viii probably die.
The following Is the full list of dead up to
Tuesday afternoon:
W. w. Loomis, of Erie, Pa. Emory Stol-
dard, OF Pittsburg, Pa; W. n. Stoldard, a
son of the above; Stephen Cuverton, mayor
of Waterford, Pa. John Fleeker, Pittsburg,
Pa; David Sharp, of Erie, Pa; Charles
Hirsch, of Erie Pa; W W Restetter,
of Erie, Pa; John Lythers, sup
posed to be from Erie, Pa;
W. 2. Reynolds, deputy United States mar
shal, of Dunkirk, N. Y; John Myers, Of
Erie, Pa; Orrin Parkhurst, of Maysville, N.
Y; John F. Gilbert, of Pittsburg, Pa; Henry
Gebhart, of Pittsburg, Pa; Frank Gobhart,
pf tho Oh I,b,, ,rC n
man, thought to belong TO Erie,
Pa; Henry Hike, rescued alive,
but who died from his injuries
The injured are: James Lewis, of Erie.
Pa, leg crushed and thought to lie fatally
hurt; j. Ii. Harrington, of Erie Pa, badly
crushed and injured internally, dangerously
injured; William Simmerman, of Erie, Pa.
one leg broken and the other crushed, will re-
cover; H. r. Huyck. of Strrettania. Pa, fa
tally injured; S. Tracy, Erie, Pa,
legs crushed, viii recover; Charles
Diiler, of Erie, Pa, cut about head
and body bruised, viii recover: Il. w. Co
burn, of Titusville, Pa, badly injured about
nead and body; Philo Lunter, of Erie Pa.
body bruised, viii recover; William Sew
nelsly, of Erie, Pa, will recover: Louis T.
Lines, of Erie, Pa, legs crushed, but not
atally injured; Martin Rastatta, of Erie,
Pa, slightly cut and bruised; Archie Camp
bell, of Dunkirk, one leg injured will re-
over: Edwin Marble, of Erie, Pa, slightly
ut about the head; Charles Siterdler. of
Erie, Pa, slightly injured.
Most of the injured were taken to Erie
Tuesday night. Coburn, of Bradford, and
limmerly, of Kearsage, Pa, suffered greatly
lUrinn tho nipht It,t l,,,
lopeful of their recovery. Henry Huyck, |
'hose legs were amputated, died Tuesday |
light while being removed to Erie. Tracy, |
harbie, Schendler and Lindsey, all of Erie, |
an not, In the opinion of the surgeons, re
over