Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-16
THE SWISS HORROR
Twice as Many Dead as First
Reported.
The CITY OF BASLE IN MOURNING.

Fifty-seven Corpses Taken from the
Wreck and the Wounded Numbered by
Scores - Albert Edward and Lady
Brooke--Report of a Divorce Subtitle
Baccarat Case Comes Up in Parliament
and Wales Admits Bad Judgment
Comment on the -Afiair-Foreign Notes {.
BERNE, June 16.-The musical fete at
Noenchenstein, which the unfortunate ex-
eurslonists on the wrecked train on the
Moenchenstein and Basic railway Sunday
were on their way TO attend, was aban-
Goned as soon as news of the accident
reached that place Hundreds of the viii
Layers hurried TO assist in reScuing the
victims The bridge through which the
tram was precipitated was an iron skele-
ton structure, considered entirely safe.
The collapse is ascribed to the train hav-
ing left the rails, thereby throwing its en-
tire weight on one side of the bridge An
investigation will be Immediately ordered
fffty-seSen Bodies Recovered.
Up to the present hour fifty seven bodies
have been recovered from the wreck OF the
train. Forty persons were severely
wounded and the tosal nunbe~ of in
Jured is estimated at over 100. It is also
believed that the list of the killed, when
fully known. will reach 100 Gangs of
men are working with untiring energy to
recover the bodies of the victims and to
clear away the wreck. Basic has by this
calamity been transformed INTO a yeritable
city of morning, as most OF the victims of
the appalling accident were among her
leading citizens. Hardly a street but he's
its houses bearing the symbol OF mourn
ing.
Anxious People al the Stations.
The railway station platforms AMI the
approaches to the hospitals are alike
crowded with pai-tsced men and weeping
women, who crane forward to look upon
the features of the dead or sprely wounded
as they are conveyed on sty,eseheIs and n
ambuances to home, hospital. CT morgue.
The uncertainty as to how many bodies
may rest beneath the wreck adds To the
strain and excitement of the time. and ev-
erywhere people are auxiously attempting
to locate absent relatives aud frienIk
Looks Like n Battlefield.
The neighbOrhood of the collapsed bridge
resembles in many features the after epi-
sode of a battle, the closing acts in some
Warllhe struggle. sun more 50 was this
the case during the whole of Sunday night,
when the river banks, were illuminated in a
ghastly manner by huge fires built up of
tr trees, the troops and firemen working
increasingly, dragging the river for the
dead, nursing the wounded and keeping a
Gordon around the spots where it was not
thought advisable to admit the crowds of
people who had flocked about the broken
bridge from every village in the canton,
for the dreadful news spread in all quar-
tiers with the most astonishing rapidity
4 CHASTITY Center of Interest.
CHASTITY as the broken bridge and its en-
vfrons we're there was one corner of the
dark picture which was the center of in
terest if only from the fact that it was the
center Of the horror This spot was the
improvised morgue On the river bank,
where the dead bodies were taken and ten
Derby laid in rows by the soldiers. Close
20 this place of the dead were two huge
fires of fir trees and the bivouac of in
tantry soldiers who furnished a guard
rom their number, who, with fixed bayo-
nets. formed a square Of sentinels around
their dead, admitting within their lines
only those who were actually III search Of
missing relatives.