Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-08-15
.AD RAILWAY WRECK.
RiGHTFUL CATASTROPHE ON
THE ROCK ISLAND.
fuenty-FOur Lives Lost and Ten People
Moro or Less Seriously Injured-The
Train PIunges Through Teestle Near
Lincoln, Neb.-Work of Train Wkeslssrs.

LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 1O-A fearful
wreck, involving the loss of twenty
four lives. occurred on the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific railroad where
1t crosses, on a high trestle, the tracks
of the Union Pacific and the Burliug-
ton & Missouri River railroads, at 10
o'clock last night All indieations
point to train wreckers as the cause
Train No. : is an accommodation
called Fort Worth accommodation,
and is due to arrive here at $40 u. m.
Last night it WAS ten minutes late
and was making up time when it
struck the trestle that crosses Salt
creek about tour miles from this
city and two from the peni-
tentiary. When it struck the
trestle, the rails immediately spread
and the engine, drawing the two csrs
after it, went humping along over
the cross ties for about fifty feet, and
then, with crash, if fell forty feet
to the bed of the creek below. The
engine burst and glowing Goals,
spreading, ignited the wooden sup
ports and the coaches behind it, and
in a few moments the bridge, dry as
tindef from its long exposure to the
sun, was one mass of flames. The
Goals falling upon the coaches lying in
the bitches set them afire, and five
minutes after the first warning, the
entire mass of cars with their load of
human freight was one mass of
flames.
The Killed.
DIR. c. b. PINNEY Council Bluffs
j. ID MATTHEW'S commercial man. Omaha
HARRY MORSE, Kansas City.
IKE DUPEw, engineer Council Bluffs
w . HAMBEL lawyer, Fairbury. Ncb
G D STANNARD, conductor. st Joseph
loHN MUNGER, gra dealer, Omaha
II r. PETER merchant Council Bluffs
E. H ZEREEKE, lawyer, Lincoln, Neb.
Two unknown farmers.
Five unknown men
,CaALEs UNRUH, mother and son. Jansen
Seb
A. B. EIDE. merchant, Pawnee Neb
M BEAVER merchant, Pawnee, Neb
Two unknown farmers from Jansen Neb
Those marked as unknown are pas
sengers known to have been on the
train by the brakeman, and unac-
counted for.
The Injured.
Colonel G J. Bills. Second regiment Ne
braska national guards, Fairbury, deep flesh
wounds in left leg
Henry c. Foote, brak eman, Council Bluffs,
les broken
jay Mcdowell, Fairbury, legs cut and face
c n Cherry, mail clerk, kearney, badly
bruised and cut
F. F. Scott, express messenger, injured in
Mrs Fish wife of Burlington and Missouri
River engineer, badly bruised
s Bell, travelling man, Lincoln, internal
J. E. Puetz, travelling man, Lincoln inter
nal injuries
passenger named Somrel hurt about the
Mrs Fritz and sister-in-law, Lincoln
bruised.
The body of DIR. Pinney of Council
Bluffs, was found in the wreckape.
and although fearfully burned and
merely mass of flesh, it was recog-
nized by papers which escaped entire
destruction. He was prominent
Iowa physician.
From the confused tangIc OF con-
fiicting stories told by excited eye
witnesses it has been ascertalned that
only one man met his death in the
flames.
There are two theories as to the
wrecking of the train, it being con-
ceded that the train was derailed by
the removal of the rails for a part of
the way across the trestle. There is
plenty of evidence to prove this as
fact. A fish plate and the bar with
WHICH IL ndu ueeU NTP0CIleu loose
were found near the trcstle after the
wreck occurred.
One theory is that strikers from
South Omaha did the work, believing
that company of state troops which
was to have boarded the train was
aboard. The company missed connec-
ton, however. This is not as gener-
ally credited as the other-that the
element that shas been causing SO
much trouble in Oklahoma, who are
bitter against the Rock Island did the
job, though why they should come
this distance to wreck a train that
might have been wrecked nearer
home is not explained.
The police have arrested a coiored
man named George Davis, who is sus
pected of wreckipg the train. Short
ly after the wreck ne applied to a
hackman and asked to be driven up
town. He had been on the train and
lost his coat. He was seen near the
place where tho wreck occurred, il is
claimed, with cowbar The police
say they have evidence sufficient to
convict. His motive is not known.
Conductor Stannard of st. Joseph
leaves wife aud two sons Ike De
pew, engineer, leaves wife and
daughter. w. O. Hambel of Fairbury
was the wealthiest citizen of the town
and leaves wife.
As the Rock Island offered a reward
of 81 900 for the apprehension of the
wreckers the county and state will be
pcka6 fO add 70 ha IVA rd