Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-06
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ESPECIAL rELEeRAM TO THE pIsPArcH.I
DUBUQUE, iowa, July 5.-No further
loss of life is reported from the collision Of
an excursion and freight train on the Chi
cago, st. Paul and Kansas City Railroad,
near thiscity, last night. Brakeman Carrigau,
was instantly killed while attempting to set
the brakes on the freight train. The en-.
g;neer and fireman on both traiEs jumped
for their lives. Engineer Snyder, of the
excursion train, was 50 badly injured that
he may die. Young Simplot, q passenger
on the excursion train, has been pronounced
beyond recovery.
Beyond this there were no fatalities or Sc
r;ous injuries, owing to the fact that the
excursion train was returning to the park
unloaded when the collIsian occurred Over
1000 people were still in the
park, depending on the return Of
the excursion train from the city to
convey them home. OF these, by far the
greater number were women and children
who, in the struggle for places on the pre-
ceding train, had been overcome by excited
and burly men. s - -. :.
AN INcoNsoLABLE CROWD. 81
When the report Of the accident reached
the park the exhausted and anxiously witt
ing people were almost inconsolable.A "A long
night of dreary waiting was before them
Added to this, the air became exceedingly
cold and penetrating. The park skirts
along q stream between the high and heavily
foliaged bluffs, and is thickly dotted with
stately elms, beneath whose um-i
brageous shade hundreds of ex-
the passage of the dreary night.
Mothers Invested themselves Of their under
garments and wrapped them. about. the
forms of their babies to project them from
the cold. ~,
There was rumor that one Of the collid-
ing trains was the excursion section which
had just left the park, containing 100 peo-;
pie, many of whom were erelatiyesand friends,
Of those on the picnic grounds Women
tainted and strong men burst into tears,
and great excitement prevailed until this
FIRES sTARrED AT LAST. ,>.---o.-
At last the men made /. raid upon the
lunch and ice cream stands scattered abe6t
the grounds, and reducing .. them
to kindling wood, started fires
in various places. about which ths-
shivering women and children gathered.
When the fuel thus furnished was ex-
hausted an assault was made upon the large
dancing hall. and that would have been de-
molished had q report not arrived
that relief train had been sent sent ont
from Oelwein. This train did not arrive
until about A. M, and the incidents on the
grounds were almost Undesirable in their,
misery and confusion. -~ s+s
The rough element had possession Of tho
grounds for q season. Drunksn men,
threatened all manner Of violence, ann re-
spectacle women dared not venture away
from companions or friends. On every
hand, were N-',.2 =
WEEPING WOMEN AND CHILDREN. .-a
Here and there could be found babes
ranging in age from 8 to Is months,
living upon the ground with
sky and the fearful eyes of anxious
motherhood. Women thoroughly exhausted
had fallen asleep here and there, guarded
by other women, armed with all manner OF
rude weapons of defense. ~ sfa. s-iis,
Finally the relief train arrived, consist
ing of 13 freight and stock cars, in
all degrees Of uncleanliness. Into
these foul boxes the people were
packed like sardines, where they were
compelled to remain over an hour before the
train started. Seueral women tainted, and
one did not regain consciousness for three
hours. -
The train finally pulled out with its load
Of misery, reaching this city at o'clock
this morning. Many of the children were
80 i'll that it was necessary to place them at
once under the care of physicians,
and it is expected that some Of them will
die from the effects of their enforced So
journ over night in Twin Springs Park.