Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-29
STOOD AT HIS POST TO DIE.
Fatal Wreck on the Chicago, Mile
waukee 81 st. Paul.
BRAVE NeiNeER BuLLsM
A Freight and Passenger Train Cob
iide While Running ut Euii
Speed Three Miles East
of Council Bluffs.
A Wreck on the Miiwa ukee.

N WrtCA oU tuC MhWIukcc.
Jump, Jim, jump for your life That
train is No. Z, and Is not on the Rock
1slandr and with these words Fireman
Rate, of train No. 4, on the Chicago, NH.
waukee & st. Paul, running eastward.
sprang from the engine to save his life.
But Engineer Bullen did not forsake his
post. What mattercd it that long train Of
freight cars running mt full speed was COM
ing toward him, and that death was his re-
ward for standing at his postl He remem.
bered only the train load of passengers be.
hind him-fathers, mothers wives, husbands,
children, and with u hand rs steady as
though no danger confronted him he revers.
ed his engine aud applied the air brakes.
What a pity that such noble life should
go out, but the fates decreed 1t.
With crash the mighty machines sprang
upon each other, and the noble man who so
steadfastly defied the grim monster passed
into tho valley of shadows, while a score Of
human beings were crushed and bruised amid
the wreck that ensued.
1t was at ten minutes past 10 last night
that No. on the Milwaukee steamed out Of
the transfer depot at the Bluffs with its load
of human freight bounl for Chicago AT
10 0:15 she was due to pass No Z, freight al
a siding east of the Council
IolulIS CnuutauQua RrOunuS. buu inc
crew of the latter had misunderstood
their orders and were dashing along Mt full
speed when the accident occurred. Neither
engineer dreamed of danger, although each
saw the headlight of the others engine. For
twcnty-three miles the Milwaukee and Rock
island tracks run alongside each other and
while Bulen believed the train that was to
dash him to eternity was Rock Island freighs
coming west, the fireman on No. shoveled
coal into the fire box, thinking that the
passenger train was the east bound on the
other road.
The scene that followed the collision was
awful. The two baggage cars and the for-
ward coaches tcescoped, severely injurng
fourteen or fifteen persons and killing besides
the engineer of No. 4, an Italian passenger
in the smoker.
AS soon as the crash was over the wreck
age caught fire, and in short time all was
burned To add to the ghastliness of the
scene, the front car of the freight, which
was laden with cofins, burst open aud
strewed caskets all over the front end of the
coaches, and these also burned. 1t was with
great difficulty that the ten passengers in the
smoker were rescued, with the exception Of
| the son of sunny Italy, who was dead before
| the flames reached him and burned his body
TO a crisp.
| AS soon as the news reached the Bluffs all
the available medical men IN the city were
summoned and dispatched on special to the
scene of the wreck, where they attenued to
| the wants of the MANNED and bleeding un.
fortunates.
The body of the dead engineer was taken
out Of the debris and sent to the Milwaukee
| depot, where an inquest will be held to-day.
no roc ritu at mid m
| and General Agent Nash was at once noti-
fed. He left at once for the scene of the
| disaster. Before leaving he stated that as
| far as he could determine no Omaha people
| were in the wreck, although later particu-
| lars may be to the contrary,
| James Rate, the fireman on No 4, says:
'We expected to meet No. on the siding,
| and when saw the headlight / thought at
| first that the train was on the Rock Island.
| So did Bullen. OF course, we did not expect
to meet the other train for at least a mile.
| had just thrown IN lot of coal
| and climbed back on my seat when
| L saw that it was No. z. L shouted
| to Bullen to jump for his life, and his
| only answer was to pull her over and apply
the air. jumped as quick as could, but he
| stayed at his post. 1 don't think we were a
| hundred yards apart when we found the
| train was on our track.
| The list OF the wounded is as follows:
| DR. and Mrs III. G. kEMPER, Wapaklometa
| o.
| Mrs. SARAH WHITE, Fayette, Mo.
| Mrs. SARAH p. FARLEY, Oxford Junction.
| Ia.
NJ. GLENN, Oxford Junction.
GEORGE WAyILL, Waukesha, Wis.
| Miss EMMA Rowland
Miss MARY Ann YoUss and SAMUEL YoUss,
| Monticello, Ia.
| JOHN PETERSON, Manila, Ia.
PiETRo FALvE, GIUSEPPE MoRETTI, ASTo.
| MO SAsE.
| THE KILLED.
JAMES BULLEN.
MANUEL jacob.
| Bullen was the oldest engineer on tho
| road, and pulled the first train into Council
| Bluffs
| a special will be run over the Rock Is
land to Nicola in place of the wrecked train.
| The track will be cleared at noon to-day.
Williams Greeting 10 Bismarck