The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1889-07-10


Ds.srerE. Iowa. Jitv 5.-Na further los
Of life IS re,srsed Iron, the collision Of an
! excursion and Ireishe train s,a the Chicago,
/ ST. Paul snd Kansas City Railroad scar
this city. Iast night brakeman c2rFisan
was instantly killed while attempting TO sci
the hTakes on the freight train The engin-
Ger and liremen on hosl trains jumped for
their lives. Engineer Snyder. Of tie eScur-
sion train, was 80 badly injared that he may
die. Young simp.ot, a passenger on the
excursion train. has been pronounced beyond
recovery.
Beyond this there were no fatalities or Sc
rions injuries. owing 10 the fact that tie ex
curSion tram Was returning to the park un
loaded when the collision occurred Over
1000 people were sill in the park. depend
ine an the return of the excursion train
from the city 10 convey them home. OF
these, by far the greater number were women
and children who in the struggle for places
ON the preceding train. had been overcome
by excited and burly men.
Az TNcoSsOLABLE CROWD.
When the report of the accident reached
the park the exhausted and anxiously wait
ing people were almost inconsoia5le. A long
night of dreary waiting was before them.
Added to this. the air became exceedingly
cold and penetrating. The park skirts
along stream between The high and heay-
lily foliag5d bluffs, and is thickly dotted with
stately Gins beneath whose umbrageous
..h,1, t..,.i...l. n ~ b.,,S.aI women and
children awaited the passage OF the dreary
night. Mothers divested themselves OF their
under garments and wrapped them about the
forms of their babies to protect them from
the cold.
There was rumor that one of the coilid-
ing trains was the excursion section which
had just left The park, containing 200 peo-
ple. many Of whom were relatives and friends |
of those on the picnic grounds Women
tainted and strong men burst into tears, and I
great excitement prevailed until this rumor
was corrected.
FIRES STARTED At LAST.
At last the men made raid upon the |
lunch and ice cream stands scattered about 1
the grounds and reducing them to kind
ling wood, started fires in various places,
about which the shivering women and chill
dren gathered When the fuel thus furnish
ed was exhausted an assault was made upon
the large dancing hall, and that would have
b, en- demolished had a report not arrived
that a relief train had been sent out from
oelwein. This train did not arrive until
about 3 A. N, and the incidents on the
grounds were almost indescribable in their
misery and confusion.
The rough element had possession of the
grounds for a season. Drunken men threat
ened all manner of violence, and respectable
woman dared not venture away from com
panions or friends. On every hand were
WEEPING WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
Here and there could be found babes rang
ing in age from G to Is months, living upon
the ground with naught over them bat the
open sky and the fearful eyes of anxious
Women thoroughly exhaus-
ted had fallen asleep here and there, guard
ed by other women. armed with all manner
Of rude weapons of defense.
Finally the relief train arrived, consisting
Of Is freight aud stock ears, in all degrees of
Into these foul boxes the
people were packed like sardines, wherethey
were compelled to remain over an hour be-
fore the train started. Several women faint
ID, and one did not regain consciousness for
.hree hours.
The train finally pulled out with lis load
of misery, reaching this city at O'Clock
his morning Many of the children were
20 i'll that it was necessary to place them at
)nce under the care of physicians, and it is
expected that some of them will die from
he effects of their enforced sojourn over
hight in Twin Springs Park.