The herald., 1894-08-11
lice department and they responded
promptly and nobly with patrol car
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lice department and they responded
promptly and noby with patrol car
riages and physicians"
Colonel Bills says that two men in the
front OF the chair car were killed, being
burned horribly. He thinks it would
be impossible for single man to have
escaped from the smoking car. l. fell
headforemoat On the engine and the
chair car which followed. fiattened it.
E. HI. Zehncke, of Lincoln. and
Henry Paterson, of Council Bluffe, are
no doubt in the ruins. They were at
Sprague yesterday and expected to re-
turn last night. The operator at Martell
says two Germans tagged the train at
his station, mile from Sprague, and
they are very probably the men.
The work of clearing the tracks is
progressing slowly. The Union Pacific
is now open and the Rock Island trains
are going out over the Burlington and
Missouri.
Conductor Stannard of st. Joseph,
leaves wife and two sons.
Ike Depew, engineer, leaves wife
and daughter.
w. O. Hamble. of Fairbury, a we'll
known citizen of that town, leaves a
wife.
There are two theories as to the
wrecking of the train, it being conceded
that the train was deliberately derailed
by the removal Of the rails for part of
the way across the trsstle. There is
plenty OF evidence to prove this is a
fact. A fish plate and the bar with
which it had been wrenched loose were
found near the treetle after the wreck
occurred. One theory is that etrikers
from South Omaha did the work. be.
lieving that the state troops, which were
to have bearded the train at Fairbury,
were on board. The company missed
connection, however.
This theory is not as generally credit
ed as the other. that the element that
has caused 60 much trouble in Okla
homa. who are particularly bitter
against the Rock Island, did the job,
though why they should have come
such distance to wreck train that
could have been wrecked nearer home,
is not explained.
Three we'll dressed men are known to
have left northbound freight train near
the bridge last Thursday afternoon, and
to have taken eouthbound train later
in the evening, the last train to pass
safely over the structure being the one
tAoy podIuous 1Ho u0boCtlV5b arc luOk-
ing for them.
Harry Foote, the injured brakeman, is
the one who advances the theory that
the train was maliciously wrecked. Ac-
cording to his story e rail was removed
on the bridge and the fshplates and a
crowbar were found in the grass near
by. The evidences were plainly there
and unmistakable. Marks made by a
wrench on loosened rail were plainly
visible, and the marks OF the crow bar on
the crosstiea were there 30 plain that no
lantern was needed to examine them.
The wood of the ties was deeply dented
where the crowbar had been inserted,
and the rails lifted clear off the ties, and
the spikes which had been pulled out
were lying loose on the bridge.
Late tonight the remains of Andrew
Hansen, a farmer of McPhersen county,
Nebraska, were identified by watch
found lying in the midst Of the human
bones. All or part of those mentioned
by name in the list OF killed have been
recovered.
The police have arrested colored
man named George Davis, who is srs-
pected of wrecking the train. Shortly
after the wreck he applied TO a hack
man and asked to be driven to town.
He had been ON the train and lost his
coat. He was seen near the place W here
the wreck occurred. it is claimed. with
crowbar. The police say they have
evidence sufficient to convict him. His
motive is not known.