Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-10-18

/ hen jun The passengers gI7s many
different account, OF the probable cause
| of the accide MT, some attributing 1t to the
negligence of the hagman in not going
back with the red light, others say the
fourth section, which ran into the third,
had no air brakes.
After the news was received at the hos.
pital confirming the worst fears, the
| scenes at the depot were hsartrending In.
| deed. Several hundred persons assem- /.
| bled as the report spread that the train
was approaching; then a rush was made
| for the platform. line of policemen
and railroad employees was drawn up to
keep back the crowd. It was then re.
ported that the wounded were on
| board, and were to be taken to
Mill Creek, near the hospital, there
to be transferred. One desperate
man. hearing this. sprang forward, and.
with an awful im5~ecation, declared that
his family were on the train, and that auy
attempt to keep him him from the IN would
cost life. 1t was learned a little later
that no wounded were on board As the
train drew up, it was found to contain
many from Pleasant Valley and Minooka.
who had left dead friends behind. As
they alighted and met acquaintance,
their shrieks and walls were pitiful to
hear. One young woman moaned that
her father and sister were dead: another
brother, and so it went. The crowd be-
came wild with excitement Grad
ually the facts narrated above
were CLEANED from the more com.
posed. A sad incident was the pres
ence on the platform OF Michael Whalen,
or Pleasant Valley. Up and down he
wandered, questioning each one as to his
two boys. aged respectively twelve and
fourteen years. Finally one of the pas
sengers remembered that one of the boys
was hurt.
The informant hurried away and told
reporter that he thought both tine boys
were dead. The report getting abroad in
Scranton, number of persons who had
friends on the train, hired a special train
on which they came down to this city.
They were deslrous OF going on to the
scene of the wreck, but were refused per-
mission by the company. They were
highly indignant at the treatment re-
ceived. A special train of three cars, in
charge OF DIR. w. Trimmer, of White
Haven arrived at five O'Clock this morn
ing from the wreck with twenty -four IN
jured persons. They were placed in care
of DR.. w. G.. Weaver, of this city, who ac-
companied them to the City Hospital. DIR.
Trimmer reports that many OF the in
jured are badly burned by gas coming
from the engine stack.
The burned and mangled remains of
sixty persons have already been sorted
out from the debris, and many are missing
who, it is feared, were burned to death.
At the hospital in Wilkesbarre are forty
persons brought IN by relief trains,
eighteen of them seriously injureL-ten
of them certainly fatally. In the railway
station at Mad Run a woman lies at the
inf Of foo h 70. ha
This resume does not include all the IA
talities, for many of the injured were
taken home by thier friends. The num-
Der of deaths will probably not fall short
of one hundred. The following is the list
of the dead so far as they have been
identified:
From Pleasant Valley-Patrick Cur
rem, Michael Whalen, William Early,
James Jackson, James jackson 1.-TWO of
that name). Barney Meighan, Polly
Meighan, John III. Coleman, Michael
Coleman, Thomas Rudy, Mamie Atkin-
son. William Kelly, Mrs. Patrick Farrell,
Benjamin O'Brien, Katie Featherston,
Lewis Doran, John Walsh, Patrick
Walsh John Early, William Keely,
Abram Doran, James Brahony, whose |
mother was also killed; Charles Colitz,
o scar Gibbons, Mrs. McAndrews and two |
sons; John Barrett.
from MlnOOHa-Annle Curran, RlCnaru
Powell aud wife, James CANOPY, Festus |
Thomas Tool.
From Jessup-John Rogan.
From Hyde Park-Mamie Halett.
From Miners Mills-James Flynn.
From Old Forge-W. Cusy and Katie
Clark.
From Oliphant-Auna Lotus.
From Scranton-Norah and Katie F. |
Fuinlan, Owen Kilcullen, Thomas Moore, |
Michael Maxwell.
There are ten bodies unidentified. 1t
Is impossible to give the number of
Superintendent Mitchell. in
his formal statement of the accident,
says: ''The section was standing waiting
FOR the one ahead to clear, ten minute
accord ing to the rules under which it was
running. The order was all right, and
he train was standing with it's required
two lengths behind the station, and the
red lights were on the rear. The rear
nan was also back with red light The
train had full view of the
lights and Of the forward train for half q
mile, but ran into it,"
Mr.. Mitchell said the responsibility was
equal with the crew of each engine, us
.hey ran do uble.