The evening world., 1894-08-10
MAY Be TWELVE DEAD.
Nine Victims Of the Rock Island
Horror Thus Far Known.
Belief that the Disaster Was the
Work OF Wreckers.
Engine and Three Cars Throws
Down from q High Trestle.

LINCOLN Neb., Aug. l0.--Nothing re-
mains Of IL. Rock Island train which
vas wrecked five miles south OF this city
last night Tut a heap OF cinders and
twisted iron. Mingled with the debris
are III. remains o; 4, least eigit men,
and 4 Is believed that the total number
Of deaths will reach twelve. Thos.
known to have been killed are as fol-
lows:
The Dead.
c. d STANDARD. conducter. Council Bluffs.
,urnsd to death.
WILLIAM CRAIG. fireman. Fairbury. Neb
urned under engine.
ISAAC DEPEW. engineer. Ccgncil Bluffs. In.
tantly Killed.
W. O. HANDEL. Fsrbury. Neb.. attorney
urned TO death.
rush ed to death.
- COuNsELMAN elevator builder, Marks,
ksn.
- MUNGER. travelling man for Counsel
Il. II. ZERNEKE. abstractor. Lincoln.
HENRY FEYERs. blacksmith. Council BLUFFS.
Tho Injured.
The injured are F. r. Scott Holton. Kansas
| express messenger. fatally injured internally
'ol. G. J. Bills. Fsirbury. Neb.. Treasurer oil
he National Guard Association of the United
states. leg badly cut. will recover; Jay Nc.
lowell. Fairbury Neb.. legs cut and head
,adly bruised. Harry Foo,e. Council Bluffs
| brakeman. leg broken.
1t is reported by Brakeman Foote, the
Jnly one Of the train crew that escaped
that five travelling men and two far
mers were in the car that burned.
The trestle where the wreck occurred
is about two miles south Of the peniten
| tiary, or five miles from the city. l,
was about 800 feet long and 50 feet high
and carried the Rock Island track ovel
Doth the 3. and NJ. and the Unior
Pacific.
Brakeman Foote's story. and that oil
The others who survived. indicates that
the wreck was due to the work Of trair
| wreckers.
crossing and was one of the first on the
scene. states that a flshplate and the
bar with which 1t had been wrenchec
loose were found near the trestle after
| the wreck occurred.
The train was due In Lincoln at TO- 10
and was pounding along at a lively gait
when the trestle was reached. There
were about fifteen passengers in the
|
more or less injured. In the smoking
car there were ten or twelve passen
gers and It is not thought a single one
| escaped.
| When the engine struck the broker
rail II jumped the tracks and bounded
along over the ties for a hundred feet
rolled to one side and plunged down or
lowed by three of the cars.
| The wreckage then took fire ant
burned. with the helpless victims Of thu
The OmciaI Report.
formation Is given to the Associated
Press by General Manager f. st. John
Of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Railro ad:
mo. $ last night found the first raj
on overhead crossing bridge, five mile,
south Of Lincoln. taken out and rur
ON ties 70 where Union. PACIFIC track
Toes oes under l,, then fell on on the left 7
the Union Pacific track Engineer Du
puts and Fireman Craig went down with
the engine, and were buried underneath
coach fell on top OF the combination
car, smashing the passenger compart
ment and killing every one in that par
I'VE have so far been unable to recove
any of the bodies which are under tn
fire on account Of the intense heat from
the burning wrecksge; Conductor Stan
and several passengers, the number
am unable to say: but none has bee
recovered. and I doubt II anything NOR
than small fragments OF those In tn
smoker will ever be found. There AT
only thirteen panels of the bridge tina
remain standing. twenty four havin
been burned.
1.-The claw bar and monkey wrenc
which the parties used In doing the lob
also the spikes. bolts and nuts which " r
removed, were found. and the rail- o
the right side was slid &c one side, an
all the spikes were removed from raj
on left side"
A reward has been offered.