The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-01-04
EXAGGERATED.
TALES OF REMAINS FOUND UNTRUE
The Omcials Of the Cinctnnati Southsrl
Account for all the Passengers
and Employees

GREENWOOD, KY, January 3.-The
fear grows hourly that the most terrible
part Of the story of Saturdays accident
remains to be told. As time wears on
and the wreck is being cleared away, the
presence of more victims in the debris
becomes apparent.
Where the wreck occurred q number
Of passengers who were in the ladies'
coach and smoking car ON the north
bound train succeeded in making their
escape from the cars with trifling inju-
ries. Just who they are and how many
is not known.
UNKNowN REMAINS FOUND.
Last night the bones Of two iunfortu-
mates were found reduced almost to
ashes, burned within the cars. There 10
absolutely nothing by which they can BE-
Unidentified. and it is not certain whether
the bones are those of men or women.
Mr.. c. C. Gillespie, Of Beaver. .
small settlement near this place
visited the wreck last night. While dig
ging in the ruins, heldiscovered the hair
attached to the scalp Of a woman. The
flesh, ,..Of course, was burned away, but
the beautiful long locks are in a good
state Of preservation. Almost in the
same spot where the hair was found, MI.
Gillispie found a child's shoe. The other
shoe has not yet been found, neither has
any account been given Of the loss of q
child. A little deeper in the debris, in
the same spot where the hair and shoe
were found. Mr.. Gillespie picked up a
letter. 1t was written in q good, plain,
feminine hand. dated at st. Augustine,
Fla, addressed to Dear Lula, and signed
Ben. There is nothing i'm the letter to
give any clue to the name of the writer,
or to the receiver, and the envelope, un-
fortunately, cannot be found.
UNAvAILING SEARCH.
After the accident search was made
for an unknown man who was seen to
enter the toilet room of the ladies' coach
on the nOrthbound train an instant be-
fore the crash came. He was never
seen again, and all efforts to locate him
prove futile. 1t is believed that he was
unable to get out of the little apart
ment and was burned to death in the
car. 1t is believed that the bones found
last night are those of the man and
woman above referred to. The child
was probably with its mother and died
with her, its body being buried in the
debris. The suspicion grows that there
are more bodies buried in the wreck.
ANOTHER DEATH RECORDED.
CINCINNATI, January 81. II. Alvey,
one OF the victims of the railroad acci-
way, died at his residence in Covington,
KY, and his wife is reported to be in a
dying condition. The other wounded
are doing well.
STATEMENT BY THE oFFICIALs.
To set at rest all apprehension Of .
greater fatality than has been reported
at the Cincinnati Southern Railroad ac-
cident on Saturday, the officers Of that
road have prepared list Of the passen-
gers on the northbound train with a
statement of what became of each one.
This train was made up at Chattanooga,
the New Orleans train having missed
connection. There were on the train
but thirteen passengers, all OF whom had
tickets but two, who had passes.
LIST OF PASSENGERS.
Miss Greene, who was killed, had q
trip pass; her brother being one Of the
head clerks in the freight department OF
the road. Mr.. Burch, OF Sidney, Ohio,
had an annual pass, on account Of be-
ing passenger agent OF the Chicago and
Alton Railroad. He was injured.
Those who had tickets are as follows:
John b. Gibson, Of Cincinnati, who is at
his home. badly injured.
]. III. Alvey, who died at Covington,
and Mrs. j. II. Alvey, now very low at
her home in Covington.
Mr.. Campbell, of Hanoverton, Ohio.
Who is at the Good Samaritan Hospital.
doing well.
Lady and gentleman and little child,
Of Lexington, whose ticket read from
Tuscumbia, Ala. They were not in
jured.
Miss Bena Koehl, of Ripley. Ohio, who
was not injured.
Mr.. Burnett and child, of Cincinnati,
who were not injured,
Mr.. Sternberger, Of Piqua, Ohio, who
escaped injury.
Mrs. Traub, Of indianapolis, not in
jured.
Joseph Hepp, of Covington, KY. in
jured. but doing well.
LIST OF EMPLOYEES.
In addition to these passengers, the fol-
lowing employees were ON the train: En-
gineer II. Rehals, fireman Murphy. both
injured; express messenger Powell,
killed; baggage master Callan, killed; .
fireman on his way to Somerset, not hurt;
newsboy Sackett, slightly hurt; brake
man Patton, slightly hurt; porter Joe
Nolan, scratched; conductor Schrumm.
not hurt; and employees OF the Pullman
and Mann cars, none Il whom were in
jured.
Must BE TRAMPs.
The officials Of the road say further
that II any charred bodies have been
found they were bodies Of tramps who
might have been stealing q ride on the
trucks. but the crew saw no one riding
there. The only body burned up was
that Of fireman Candec, who was on the
engine on the south :bound train. No
paaengen were injured on the south
bound train. but some Of the crew were
killed and some were injured.
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