The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-10
MAY Be TWELVE DEAD
Nine Victims Of the Rock Island
Horror Thus Far Known.
Jelief that the Disaster Was the
Work Of Wreckers.
Engine and Three Cars Thrown
Down from n High Trestlc.
(Dy Associated Press.)

LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 1o.-Nothing re-
mains OF the Rock Island train which
was wrecked five miles south Of this citS
Iast night hut a heap Of cinders am
twisted iron. Mngled with the debris
are tn. remains OF at least eiglt men.
and It Is believed that the total number
Of deaths will reach twelve. Those
known TO have been killed are as fol-
lows:
The Dead.
c. d sTANNARp. conductor. Council Bluffs.
armed to death
WILLIAM CRAIG. fireman. Fairbury. Neb..
'urned under engine.
ISAAC DEPEw. engineer. Ccsncii Bluffs in
.antiy killed.
W o. HAMBEL. Fsirbury. N.b. attorney
armed to death.
o. s. BELL Lincoln Neb.. travelling man.
rushed To death.
- CouNsELMAN. elevator builder Mark.
- MUNGER, travelling man for Counsel
L. II. ZERNEKE, abstrsetor. Lincoln.
HENRY PEYERs. blacksmith. Council Bluffs
The Injured.
The injured are F. F. Scott. Holton Kansas
'oi. c. J. Bills. Fairbury. Neb.. Treasurer OF
ne National Guard Association Of the Unitea
| states leg badly cut. will recover; Jay Nc
| oowsll, Fsirbury. Neb.. legs cut and head
Iadly bruised; Harry Foote. Council Bluns
brakeman. leg broken.
1t is reported by Brakeman Foote, the
)nly one of the train crew that escaped,
that five travelling men and two far
/ IN, tl,at
The trestle where the wreck occurred
IS about two miles south of the peniten-
tiary. or five miles from the city. 1t
was about 800 feet long and 60 feet high,
and carried the Rock Island track over
10Th the b. and NJ. and the Union
Pacific.
Brakeman Foote's story, and that OF
he others who survived. indicates that
the wreck was due to the work of train
| WreCkerS.
Walter zidle. who lives near the
crossing and was one OF the first on the
scene. states that fishplate and the
bar with which 1t had been wrenched
Dose were found near the trestle after
the wreck occurred.
The train was due in Lincoln at 10. 10,
and was pounding along at a lively gait
were about fifteen passengers in the
chair car. all Of whom were gotten out
more or less injured. In the smoking
car there were ten or twelve passen-
gers and 1t Is not thought single one
escaped.
When the engine struck the broken
rail 1t jumped the tracks and bounded
along over the ties for a hundred feet
rolled to one side and plunged down on
the Union Pacific tracks below. fol-
lowed by three of the cars.
burned. with the helpless victims OF the
| disaster.
The OmciaI Report.
CHICAGO. Aug. 1o.-The following In.
| formation Is given to the Associated
Press by General Manager f. St. John
of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
RailrC ad:
mo, $ last night found the first rail
on overhead crossing bridge, five miles
on ties 81 to Where Union Pacific s' track
soes under, then fell of on the left
hand side of the bridge. .crossways OF
the Union Pacific track. Engineer Du-
puts and Fireman Craig went down with
the engine. and were buried underneat tn
1t and completely burned up. The
coach fell on top of the combination
ment and killing every one in that part
I'VE have so far been unable to recover
any OF the bodies which are under the
fire Oh account OF the intense heat from
the burning wreckage. Conductor Stan
nard was in the smoking compartment
| and several passengers, the number
am unable to say: but meme has beer
recovered, and doubt II anything m )r'
than small fragments Of those In thu
smoker will ever be found. There arr
only thirteen panels OF the bridge tina
remain standing. twenty four havin,
been burned.
"The claw bar and monkey wrench
| which the parties used In doing the lob
also the spikes. bolts ard nuts which W r
removed. were found, and the rail OF
the right side was slid &c one side, anc
all the spikes were removed from raj
on left side"
A reward has been offered.