The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-08-11
Awful Scenes at Z Railroad Wreck
Near Lincoln.
TWENTY.FOUR WERE KILLED
More Than q Score Badly Injured
One Of the Most Horrlfyins Ao-
oidents Recorded In Many
O Day.

WIG TOTAL NUMBER OF deaths Will roacn "a.
AN AWFUL sI0HT.
II was nearly dark this evening before
the frightful mass Of debris occupying the
ravine where the Rock Island express
was wrecked and burned, . few miles
south Of this city last night, had cooled
sufficiently to enable the large crowd that
had gathered at the place, in the hope
Of learning something Of the fate Of their
friends or relatives, to inspect the charred
mass In detail. but any hope they may
have entertained Of securing from the
great ash pile information 40 to the iden.
tity Of those who lost their lives WAS soon
blasted. The tons Of water thrown on the
twisted relies Of the train and the bed Of
embers bad been insufficient to prevent
every vestigs Of combustible matter from
being destroyed.
AN OCCASIONAL SKULL.
Occasionally Q charrsd skull or par.
the bed Of the furnace, but nothing more
rsmained to tell the tale OF those who
went down with the III iated train, and
time will bs required to tell just how
many persons wero lost In the wreck. Tho
list Of the killed and injured - furnished
by the coroner tonight swells the fatali.
ties to q, and are - follows:
THE KILLED.
Dr.. C. H. Pinney, Of Council Bluffs.
J. d. Matthews, Of Omaha.
Harry Morse, Of Kansas City.
Ike Depew, engineer, Of Council Bluffs.
w. U. Hambell, Of Fairbury, Neb.
C. D. Stannard, conductor, Of St. Joseph.
John Munger, Of Omaha.
H. r. Peters, Of Council Bluffs.
Z. II. Zernckc. lawyer, OF Lincoln, Meb.
Two unknown farmers.
Five unknown men.
Charles Unruh, mother and son, Jensen.
Neb.
A. B. Elder. merchant, Of Pawnes, Nsb.
NJ. Beaver OF Pawnec, Neb.
Two unknown farmers from Jensen,
Neb.
Those marked ~ unknown were pass-
engers known to be on the train and un-
accounted for.
THE INJURED.
Col. C. J. Bliss, deep flesh wound in the
loft leg.
Henry C. Foote, brakeman, Of Council
Bluffs. leg broken.
Jay Mcdowell Of Fairbury. legs cut.
C. H. Cherry, mail clerk. Of Kearney,
Neb., badly bruised and cut.
F. F. Scott, express messenger, injured
internally. triu st
Mrs. Fish, wife Of . Baltimore q Mis-
souri, engineer, badly injured.
o. S. Bell, travelling man, Of Lincoln,
Mob, internal injuries.
J. E. Puets, travelling man. Of Lincoln,
internal injuries.
about the head.
Mrs. Frits and sister.in.law Of Lincoln,
bruised.
HORRIBLE.
The bsdy Of DR.. Pinney was found In
the wreckage this afternoon, and although
fearfully burned and merely o mass Of
flesh, II was recognised by papers which
escaped entire destruction. From tho
confused tangle Of conflicting stories told
by excited eye witnesses, It has been defi-
nitely ascertained that only one man met
his death in the flames. One victim
whose name may never be known lay
under the tender, the upper end of which
lay across his thighs, crushing them into
the hard gravel.
Al Colonel Bills approached he begged
piteously to be released and saved from
the flames. To move the tender was ON
utter impossibility and the long tongue Of
flames were reaching out groedily for::their
victim. For an instant he thought only
Of the mans legs pinned down and he
thought about amputating II. Then hc
saw that both were fast and while he hesi.
tated he paused for moment and gust
Of wind drove the flames and smoke on
him, blistering his face and scorching his
clothes. Before he could recover himself
the long fiery tongues of flames had
wrapped about the victim and stilled his
screams.
Col. j. C. Bills. treasurer of the National
guard of the United States, was one
fortunate passenger and his story is as
follows: Jay Mcdowell and myself were
seated in the middle of the car and as we
discovered that tho train was likely to 60
over the trestle, Mcdowell started down
the aisle. called to him to sit down and
the next instant the crash came. Tho en-.
glne Waut over uESt anu tue smoker on tOp
of it and the rear coach, in which We were
seated, was jammed down on the other.
The car was crowded with passengers and
We were forced along the backs of the
seats in front of us and all but Mcdowell
and myself werc horribly mangled. As
soon as possible we climbed through the
window and in Is minutes succeeded in
extricating nine persons who were jammeI
in the debris.
"Hearing shrieks and cries for help on
all sides, left Mcdowell and ran three
miles across the country to the peniten
,iary without making stop. had War
den Beemer telephone the police depart.
ment and they responded promptly and
nobly with the patrol, carriages and
Doctors
Colonel Bills says two men in the from,
OF the chair car we're killed and burned
and he had hold of one trying 10 get him
out bu; could not manage il. Hp think,
1t would be impossible for 4 man TO have
escaped from the smoking car.
The work of clearing the tracks is pro-
| ,rossIpy Staylv Tho ITniOn pncific 4.