Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-31


on the train.
A cructix, which had belonged TO the
! Catholic sisters, was also Identified.
BRAKES OUT OF ORDER.
A passenger. who was aboard the
wrecked train said last night: "When |
| got aboard Of the cars at Milwaukee they
were trying to make the air brakes on the
! Milwaukee coach work. This they could
not do, and some one said they would
have TO run that car without brakes. MS
the train was then five minutes
! late. | know the rear Pull
man had no brakes upon it. and am
fully satisfied that il they had worked the
disaster would not have been near as bad,
| because the coach, without having any,
| thing to hold it back, showed ahead when
the shock came, and smashed in the light
| car ahead"
THE DEAD.
Assistant Superintendent Earring tele-
| graphed General Manager Miller late last
night giving the total number Of dead
! positively identified so far as follows:
Mrs. Conrad Scherer, of Win0na.
Mrs. Rosina Jones, OF Rush City, Min
nesota.
Mrs. AlVa Wilter, of Kalamazoo. Mich.
Mrs. Beebe, of Kalamazoo, mother-in-
law of j. NJ. Douglass, of Minneapolis.
Louis Brinke, of Ashland.
Walters Dorf, of Columbus.
Sister AIphOnse, OF WinOna.
Sister Dimpsey, of Winona.
Mrs. Wilter had a ticket from Kalama-
zoo to Minneapolis ard also over the
| Northern Pacific.
To the above list must certainly be adj
ded Novice Albertine, who was in COM
panv with the two Franciscan Sisters.
| Supt. Earring says that to the list of
those positively Identified it is quite posi-
BILE will be added the names OF John Nc
| Noun, Joseph Plant and Frank Guyer.
corner oil Lincoln and FOrty-third streets,
| Chicago, and Mrs. Mari, OF Chicago,
| These had not been positively identified vet
but were supposed to be in the car. The
above list brings the number of persons
in the coach to IS.
THE BLAMED BRAKEMAN's STORY.
MILWAUKEE, WIS, Oct. 30.-C. Fl.
Wells, the freight brakeman who is
charged with being responsible for the
| terrible railway accident at Rio on
Wednesday night, has turned up. He
came to this city yesterday and visited
the general office OF the st. Paul Railway
Company. He drew his salary late yes
! terday afternoon. Wells is "A years old
and unmarried. He declares that Han.
key, the freight train conductor, il wholly
responsible for the accident. Following
is the substance of mis- story: "Our
freight train arrived at the East
Rio siding several minutes be.
fore the limited put in an appearance.
The freight train was too long for one
side track so we cut it into two, switch.
ing one part OF 1t on to one of the side
tracks, and detaching the engine switched
the rest OF it into the Otner side track. Ii
was not my duty to close the switch.
had never closed it before. The conduc.
tor had always done that. On the might
of the accident, after we had reached the
siding and sidetracked the train, had &c
remain on top OF one of the cars. Con
ductor Hankey went to the switch, and
shortly afterwards passed the car on
which | was standing. He told me thai
everything was all right, and that he was
going to the head Of the train.
ARRIVAL OF THE LIMITED.
81 looked at my watch and discovered,
or thought | did, that the limited train
was late. just then the limited hove in
sight. | was horriied to see it run of
the track shortly after it passed my car.
In moment the train was in flames. |
was badly frightened, and, thinking the
freight train hands would be lyuched
fed. realize that ! made a mistake in
running away, but IL was very natural
under the circumstances"
Wells SAYS that he is ready to give him
!
engaged counsel in Milwaukee.
The identity of the three men bound for
Woods, who were burned to death in the
wreck, will possibly never be established.
and they at least Of all the victims Will
be an addition TO the thrOng Of ''missing''
persons.
G. W. st. John OF this city said this
morning that three men, whom be be.
heved to be the same ones, came to his
1nl Cd, 4,
20 North. They were together and talked
about going to several points on the Wis.
consIn Central road.
APPEARANCE OF THE MEN.
One OF them was large, tall man who
| looked more Ike wOOdsman than either
OF the others. He wore flannel shirt
vita yellow bars. His pants were in his
boots aud he had spike in has heels. One
Of his companions wore u dark suit OF
clothes and watch chain, and did moi
look like a lumbermAD. He is described
as having a WHISKY" moustache, The
third and youngest of the trio was NOT
over u or y years old. They evidently
did not want to work, and hoped To get
somewhere without paying fare. MIR. st.
John saw the three standing at the Union
depot at 2;45 O'Clock, when he went there
to ship a gang OF men West.
II all the missing people so far reported
as having been on the truin are not heard
from the list OF victims will be swelled
to twenty-five. The laws OF Wisconsin
Tx the liabilities OF railroad companies
for deaths caused by negligence at not
exceeding 5000.
MEDICAL STUDENT SMITHS ESCAPE.
COLUMBUS, WIS.,, oct. 3O.-Charles
Smith, a Chicago medical student, the
! only man who escaped alive from the pas
! senger coach, is lying yet at the hotel
! here unable TO be moved. lie has bad
! wound on the side Of his head lust back
Of and above his temple aud "A great
many cuts ana bruises about his face and
| neck. HIS broken arm is apparently do
iuE well, but The terrible shock sustained
by his nerves, and the memory OF the
horrible siRhts he saw while bis travelling
companions were roasting alive IN IKE
burning car az times quite owe comes
MIN, and bis mind a. times IL wander
ing and hlghty. 81 mad double seat to
my self about the middle OF The car"
be said 10 correspondent, "and was
sleeping at the time The crash came. NV
first Thought wAv that some one mad
tutu#u pounded glass into nay face aud
eyes. Ny mouth was full Of II. only