Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-11
TWENTY FOUR KILLED.
The Death List In the Rock Is-
 land Disaster Increases.
HUNTING FOR THE MIsoREANTs.

HUNTING F0R THE M1SOREANTS. There Is Evidence That the Accident Was Caused by the Removal of the Spikes From the FishpIates-A Negro Suspected of the Crime Under Arrest.
 LINCOLN, Neb., Aug 1.-The frightful mass of debris occupying the rayine where the Rock Island express was wrecked and burned a few miles south of this city had cooled sufficiently this morning to enable the big crowd gathered at the place in tho hope of learning something of the fate of their friends or relatives to inspect tho charred mass in daylight, but any hope they may have entertained of securing from the great ash pile any information as to the identity of those who lost their lives in the holocaust was soon blasted.
 The tons of water thrown on the twist ed relics of the train and bed of embers had been insufficient to prevent every vestige of combustible material being de stroyed. Occasionally charred skull or n partially burned human bone was rsked from the bed of the furnace but nothing that remained to tell the tale of those who went down with the i'll fated train, and time was required to determine just bow many persons were lost in the wreck.
 The Dead Number Twenty-four.
 The list of killed and injured as furnish ed by the coroner swells the fatalities to 24, as follows:
 Dr. c. H. Pinney. Council Bluffs
 I. D. Matthews, commercial man. Omaha
 Harry Moore, Kansas City.
 Ike Depew, engineer, Council Bluffs.
 w. o. Hambell, lawyer, Fairbury, Ncb.
 
 John Munger, grain dealer, Omaha
 II. k. Peters, merchant, Council Bluffs.
 H. F. Zernike, lawyer, Lincoln, Neb,
 Two unknown farmers.
 Six unknown men.
 Charles Unruhe, mother and son, Jan sen, Neb.
 J. B. Edd merchant, Pawnee, Ncb.
 M. Beaver, merchant, Pawnec, Neb.
 Two unknown farmers from Jansen, Neb
 Those marked as unknown are those passengers known to have been on the train by the brakeman and unaccounted for.
 List of the Injured.
 The injured arc: Colonel c. J. Bills, Second regiment, Nebraska national guard, Fairbury, deep flesh wounds in left leg; Henry C. Foote, brakeman, Coun- cil Bluffs, leg broken; Jay Mcdowell, Fairbury, leg cut and face bruised; c. H. Cherry, mail clerk, Kearney, badly bruised and cut; F. F. Cott, express messenger injured internally; Mrs. Fish, wife of +. and M. engineer, badly bruised; O. S. Bell, travelling man, Lincoln, internal in juries; J. F.. PuetZ, travelling man, Lin coin, internal injuries; passenger named Somerset. hurt about the head; Mrs. Fritz and sister in law. Lincoln, bruised.
 The body of Dr. Pinney of Council Bluffs was found in the wreck. and al though fearfully burned and merely [ mass of flesh it was recognized by paper: which escaped entire destruction. He wa, a prominent Iowa physician.
 From the confused tanglc of conflicting stories told by excited eyewitncsscs it ha, been definitely ascertained that one mar met his death in tho flames. The low moaning which had been heard in tho ruins of the smoker had ceased before tn, flames were reached, and the presumption is that all its unfortunate occupants wer, dead.
 One victim, whose name will never b, known. lay under the tender, the uppCl edge or which lay across his thighs. crush ing them into the gravel. As Colonc Bills apRroached he begged piteously to b, released and saved from the flames. Colo | mel Bills is man of nerve and decision but he was confronted by n terrible alter native. To move the tender was an ute | impossibility, and the long tongues O hungry flames were reaching out grecdill for their victims.
 For an instant he thought that only on | of the mans legs was pinned down, anI he thought about amputating it. TheI | he saw both were fast, and while he hesi tated helplessly for an instant gust O wind drove tho flames and smoke upol N-n.- | Il I clothes. Before he could recover himscl the long fiery tongues had wrapped them selves about the body and head of thei terrified victim and stilled his screams. As the Rock Island offers n reward O | Sl, 900 for the apprehension of the wreck CTS the county and state will he asked t add to the reward.
 | There are theories as to tho wreCkini 1 of the train. it being conceded that tn l train was derailed by the removal of tn | rails for about 50 yards across the trcstlC There is sufficient evidence to prove this | A fishplate and the bar which goes witt | it were wrenchcd loose and were foun near the trestle after the wreck occurred | Who Were the Miscreantso l One theory is that strikers from Scutl | Omaha did the work, believing that company of state troops, who were [ i have boarded the train at Fairbury. wer | aboard. The company missed connection | however. This is not as greatly credite as the other-that the element that Ina been causing so much trouble in Oklahc ma, who are bitter against the Rock I: land, did the job, though why they shoul | come this distance to wreck n train tha | might have been wrecked nearer home | not explained. Three well dressed me are known to have left Q north boun | freight near the bridge late Thursda afternoon and took n south bound trai later in the evening, the last to pass safel over the structure being tho one the boarded. Detectives are looking for then
 Harry Foote. tho injured brakeman, the one who advances the theory that tn train was maliciously wrecked. Accort ing to his story, a rail was laid on tf bridge, and the fshplates and crowb1 were found in the grass sear by. Tn evidences were plainly there and unmi takable. Marks made by a wrench on loosened rail were plainly visible, and tt marks of the crowbar on the crosstit were SO plain that no lantern was neede to examine them. Tho wood of the ti'