Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-30
0, 1T WAS PIYIFUL.
Later Particulars Only Add 10 the
Horror Of the Wreck and Holo-
caust Near Rio, Wis.
The sleeping Passengers Pinned Down
by the Wreck, Become che Easy
Victims OF the Flames.
The Exact Number OF Dead May Never be
known-Ovor Twenty Peopis Known
60 Have Perished.
woRaE ANp WORSE.

MILWAUKEE, Wis.,, Oct sg.--The holo-
caust at Rio on the line of Che Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul road grows worse
and worsc as the particulars become
known. The latest estimate places the
number cf victims In the burned car at
twenty-sir. A force OF men were atwork
all nighs rakiug the ruins. Up to day.
light the tharred remains OF eleven peo.
Pile had been found. In the pocket Of one
man was an envelope addressed; ~
Tourin, Horty-ninth street, Chicago" AL
travelling man named Dibble has been
Identified among the victims Mrs. l..
Lowery q Milwaukee Is now known to
to have persisted. Paul Bouche OF
New YORK city, member OF
the Freuch importing firm OF Bouche
Sons 4 CO., was one OF the passengers
who retuned to Milwaukee. He saws;
al was fortunate enough TO be in the
Milwaukee sleeper. After leaving Mil. |
waukee fell sound asleep and was
walked by1he sudden jerk. didn't sup.
pose Their, was any danger. In minute
he conductor came along and told us.
excitedly. that we would have to get ont
quickly, q the car ahead was burning.
There wal danger OF our car catching
fire. Thehre see med to catch instantly
like spaik applied TO barrel Of pow
der. Thecolllsiou and fire came
AT THE SAME TIME.
The CRIBS OF the victims who were
pinned down IN the burning coach were
heartrendng, but they lasted not longer
than five Minutes, when all were smotht red
to death. Words cannot do justice to the
noble engineer who stood at his post and
put on thdair brakes. He saw that the
switch wal open, but reversed the engine,
and IN thll way he saved tina lives OF ali
those In he sleepers, for the sleepers
would Otherwise have been piled In
heap. Alter the engineer escaped from
his enginshe ran back to the sleepers and
told the Rople that the other cars were on |
fire, and that the passengers must be |
gotten on quickly, He was covered with !
uiyuul gu Aa seemed to have no thought |
OF hlmsel A6sell One Of the men from |
i the postal cat was oquaiiy nSIpf0i. ne I
ran to a window, where he saw two
women, AMI attempted to help them out,
but they WIRE fastened down and could
not be eXtrcated. He took out two little |
children, The youngest was taken from
the arms ola lady, who cried out five or
six time, ''rake my husbands |
only childn and az soon as the !
child was laved she tainted, and was |
shortly ate surrounded by the flames.
One OF the passengers said he saw three
women stahibg up In the car, seemingly |
fastened II some manner, which pre-
vented ther moving In any direction. |
They also we're soon surrounded by the |
flames and became part Of the burning
mass.
The Franciscan Sisters, who lost their
lives by thtrailway wreck 1T Rio night !
before las, were Sister AIphonz aud
Sister DinIel. They were accompanied
by candidate from the Mother house at
New Castle Wis. All three persisted
VIVA rHR CONDUCTOR SAYS.
Though mass OF bruises and con1ned
| to his bedCopductor Searle OF the Ill
fated traiIthat was wrecked al Rio was
better today. lie will recover. This
afternoon talked freely. What he re-
calls OF thpRsseDgers In the coach whose
occupantsTere cremented was important
as having bearing In establishing the
minimumumber killed, and in aiding TO tx
their iden.y He remembers and can
describe syenteen people, and knows
there wermore In the coach, so that II Is
evident TIT the fatality must have been
at least wenty, and perhaps more
Among :lse whom he describes we're
| Mrs. Shcr OF Winona, her children and
her mohr-in-law, Mrs. X. Jones;
two sister Of charity bound for Winona;
Louis Bnker and Emil Wolterdorn OF
| ColumbufWis.i two women who got on
at ChicaR, one with a child Charles
Smith, w escaped; an unknown man
OF about orty, who boarded the train at
Watertow and who was bound
for Manpn, Wis; man with
ticket for Saltwater, Minn, and
three loers ticketed for Waukeshau.
The list ds not include a novlllate, who
accompard the Catholic Sisters, nor
Walter SIT, J. T. Lincoln, Mrs. G. NJ
Maher oiock Island, the commercial !
traveller ioble, or Mrs. Lowry Of Nil.
waukee he latter is probably q miAtake,
as no sucpersOn liz known here. There
| is little dibt that the three pinery men,
whose pBence on the car Conductor
SearIes rallied to-day for the first time /.
persisted He had left them bat few
minutes efore, curled up.
IEKp ON THE BENcHRs. !.
The ldtity OF the Catholic sisters was
fully estlished to-day. Mother Alexia, !.
superioIof the franciscan convent at
Winonsias not one of them, as at hrst
reported The victims were members Of {
her connt, however. One was Sister !
Alphonneslstant 10 Mother AlexiA, and
well kDen In Catholic circles throughout
the Horhld West Another was Sister
Dionesil They were accompanied BY
Acknowledgements OF New CAssel, Wis, 3
who wal candidate Tor orders
A Porte dispatch says; "The work Of
ldentliyk the dead Is progressing p
slowly fhe body OF man whose legs I
and aflipsd been burned on, and whose 4
distorie face bore evidence Of terrible I
agony, = identified as Louih Brigcker
The botbi Emil W4ltersdor VAS fodfd Q
under 4 le OF reeds and tfGsses iis
head " burned 20 fioder uudl
every Tilcle Of clothing tas dc4
stroyed The remains VIDE iaeniiAed "
by riupund on his iinger To- godie y