New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-01-25
TERRIBLE COLLISION.
SEVENTEEN DEAD AND SIXTY
INJURED.
Burning Oil Adds Horror to Fear
ful Railroad Wreck at Alton
junction, 1li.-A Switch
mans CarelessnesS
Is the Cause. - g..lsz
Sickening Sights.


st. Louis. Jan. pa wreck. which in
its consequences is one of the most APP
palling and disastrous that has occurred
in years, happened at Wann Junction or
= lton Junction yesterday morning. The
cleveland, Cincinnati. Chicago s.. st.
Louis Southwestern limited, passenger
ran into switch and crashed into a
train consisting of seven tank cars
standing thereon. The result was a
fire and afterwards an explosion, which
has already cost six persons their lives
and probably fatally injured nineteen
others. while fully fifty more are suffer-
ing from painful burns. The total
list Of dead is as follows: Webb Ross,
Nation. H.: Hiram Cornelius. Iowa;
Edword Miller. Alton Junction: two I'M
Idle ntified men: William Shattuck. Upper
Alton. H.: Henry Penning. Wann.. Ill. :;
Willie McCarty, John Locke, Edward
Nahim. Alton. H.: Daniel Harers, Alton
Junction: William Mantz. Fosterburg.
Ill: Charles Utt. W. II. Miller, Charles
P;,rris. John Wilkinson. Alton. OF these
Ill but the first six died of their injuries
after being removed to the hospital at
Alton. except W. H. Miller and Martz,
Whose dead bodies We're found near the
Gene of the wreck this morning.
OF the injured. fourteen. the hospital
physician said at 6 clock. cannot re-
cover. They are Otto Hagman. John
Fred. Joseph Hermann. Henry Pilgrim.
John Lutterell. William 3. Richardson,
David Richardson. Alton: A. I. Frazier.
81. Louis: Frank Barth. Branforl, Can. !;
Frank Scullin. John Burke Alton; Will
Jam Miller. Alton Junction: Murray,
Roloff. Upper Alton.
al the dead were burned to death by
flaming oil. Of the fatally injured all
are more or less seriously burned about
the limbs and body, but the worst in
iuries sustained are fearfully burned
heads and faces. All are also injured
Internally from inhaling the burning
flames. which scorchcd and parched
their throats to such an extent that
their escape from instant death is almost
miraculous. The other injured suffer-
from Lurns on various parts of the head,
limbs and body. When the awfulness
Of The catastrophe. as related by eye
Illnesses who We're fortunate enough to
80 ape injury. is made known, the only
N"Uder is that the list of casualties is
lot twice as large as it is.
1Neit Wa IL IuuOE Oh the street 4ICe
this afternoon that eleven students from
Shurtleff college had been missing since
the accident of yesterday. All efforts to
verify the rumors failed, however. and i:
is the opinion of the majority of Alton
citizens that there is no truth in the state
'nent. But the fact that more were
found this morning near the scene of the
week. bodies additional to those re-
ported in last nights dispatches. gives
rise to probability that there may yet
he more bodies which have not been
found.
When Mrs. William Mantz reported to
the Alton police department this morn
ing that her husband who had started
for the scene of the accident about 10
o'clock Yesterday morning, had not yet
returned. a searching party was Or
.niZed and after a long time the dead
body of Mantz was found near Wood
river. over half {; mile from the place
where the explosion occurred. The sup
position is that he started to run in the
direction of his home as soon as the ex-
plos'lon took place and was caught by a
shower of the SETTLING fluid. He, how
ever. must have run some distance after
ht- was burned. and probably fell dead
On rearhln: tie spot where his body was
found. Reports about the time Of the
finding of Nantes body of others MISSING
l"'t to the finding of the other bodies,
anI when the reporter left the city
other parties We're out searching for adj
hltlonal victims. No trace has hean
found of the runaway switchman. Rich
ART Grattan. and it is thought he has
skipped out for good The total loss to
the company. SO the officials state to-
night, Will be between S125OUO and
SlonUWO