The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-10

Lincoln, Neb,, Aug. 9.-Irain NO. 3,
on the Rock Island. consisting of an
engine, combination baggage and ex-
press car and~one coach, plunged over
50-foot trestle over the tracks of the
Union Pacific and B. and M. tracks
about five miles south of the city at
10 o'clock this morning, and was
smashed to atoms.
All of the members of the crew were
killed and ten or twelve passengers are
supposed to be buried beneath the
mass of glowing Goals and red hot iron
which is all that is left of the train
and trestle. There is no possible way,
at this hour, of ascertaining the names
Of those in the ruins.
The train men killed are:
D. C. Standard, conductor, st. Joe.
Ike Depew, engineer, Council Bluffs.
William Craig, fireman, Fairburg.
Only One who Escaped.
H G. Foote, of Council Bluffs, the
brakeman, was the only one of the
crew who escaped His story and that
of the others who survived indicate that
the wreck was due to the work of train
wreckers, and Walter Seidell, who lives
near the crossing and was the first one
on the scene, states that fish plate
and the bar with which it had been
Wrenched loose were found near the
trestle after the wreck occurred.
The train was due in Lincoln at 1910
and was pounding along at lively gait
when the trestle was reached. There
were about fifteen in the chair car, all
of whom were got out with more or less
injury.
In the smoker there were ten or fif-
teen, and it is not thought single one
escaped. When the engine struck the
broken rail she jumped the track and
bounding along over the ties for a hun
dred feet rolled to one side and plunged
down on the Union Pacific track below
followed by the cars. The brakeman
tells this story:
The Brakemun's Story.
'T thought the trouble was in the
smoker, and rushed Forward to see
what 1 could do when the plunge came
1t was a sickening sight. The car was
a shapeless mass of broken pieces and
wreckage and I could see the crushed
and mangled bodies inside. BY this
time help had arrived and we got out
the baggage man and mail man. He
was squeezed between broken timbers
and begging piteously for some one tc
save him from the flames which were
rapidly eating their way towards him
His rescuers worked frantically with
saws and axes while the hot breath OF
the approaching flames scorched their
hands and faces. When released. the
flames were within thirteen inches OF
the mans head"
The engineer and fireman were found
crushed under the engine which was
turned upside down. In the middle OF
the excitement, the brakeman had
presence of mind enough to send mer
out to flag freight train following or
the Rock Island and another approach
ing on the B. & M. He also sent to- the
penitentiary for assistance and from
there the fire department was notified
The chemical was soon on the ground
but could do but very little and every
stick of both train and bridge was soor
reduced to a heap of smoking ruins.
The Unknown Dead.
The trestle where the wreck occurred
Tertiary, or five miles from the city
1t was about 300 feet long and sixty
feet high and carried the Rock Island
track over both the b. & NJ. and the
Union Pacific. The B. &c M. track i:
still open, but the Rock Island anC
Union Pacific are blockaded with e
tangle of iron and broken machinery
A &. & M. freight, which arrived soor
after the wreck, carried the wounded
to the city. The news did not reach
Lincoln until after IL o'clock, and ther
a procession of hacks and vehicle:
started for the scene.
Among those said to have been il
the doomed smoker are five travelins
men, but it will be some time before
"a list of the dead can be procured, fol
all that will be left in the morning will
be a heap of ruins.
Jacksonville, Ill, Aug. 9.-The Wash
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