Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-08-10
A TRAIN HORROR.
A Holocaust Near Line Oln, Neb., in
Which a Rock Island Train is
Wrecked and Burned.
A Dozen Passengers Perish in the
Flames-Names of the Dead
and Wounded-The Spikes
Pulled.

Lincoln, NeDo aug. lO.--h IearIul
wreck involving the loss of twelve OF
more lives occurred on the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific railroad where it crosses
ON a high trestle track over the tracks OF
the Union Pacific and Burlington 4
Missouri roads at 10 o'clock last night
The Fort Worth accommodation was due
to arrive here at $40 p. m. Last night ii
was about ten minutes late and was max.
ing up lost time when it struck the trestle
that crosses Salt Greek. The rails
spread and the engine drawing twos cars
went humping along over the ties about
fifty feet and then with a crash fell forty
feet to the bed of the creek below. The
engine burst and glowing Goals spreading
ignited the wooden supports of the bridge
and the coaches behind and in few
moments the bridge, being dry as tinder
from long exposure to the sun, was one
mass of flames. The Goals falling on the
coaches lying in the bitches set them on
fire and within five minutes after the
first warning the cars with their human
freight were one mass of flames from
which shrieks of agony were heard to
issue. Willing hands were there to
help, but little could be done. The en-
gine had fallen first, then the combination
smoker and express car, and the rear coach
telescoped that car and pinioned
the unfortunate passengers in the smo oker,
so that it was impossible to save them or
for them to escape. The wrecking crew
30 far has discovered only few black
ened bones and fragments of burned
flesh.
Nothing remains of the Rock Island train
wrecked four miles south of this city, but
a heap of cinders and twisted iron, mixed
debris, the remains of at least eight men,
and it is believed that the total number
of deaths will reach twelve.
NAMES OF DEAD AND WOUNDED.
Those known to be killed are: G. D.
Steward, of Council Bluffs, conductor,
burned to death. VIM. Craig, of Fair
bury, Neb., fireman, buried under the en-
gine. Isaac Depew, the engineer, of
Council Bluffs, was instantly killed. W.
G. Hambel, of Fairbury, an attorney, was
burned to death. 0. s. Bell, of Lincoln,
travelling man, was terribly crushed.
Munger, a travelling man for Councilman,
the grain dealer; E. H. Zerneke, abstractor,
Henry Peter, blacksmith, Council
Bluffs. The injured are: FIT. Scott, Holton,
Kan. The express messenger received
fatal internal injuries. Col. j. G. Bills,
Fairbury, Neb., treasurer of the National
Guard of the United States, was badly
cut, but will recover. j. A. Mcdowell,
Fairbury, Neb., had his legs and his head
badly bruised. Harry Foote, of Council
Bluffs, brakeman, leg broken. 1t is re-
ported by Brakeman Foote that he is the
only one of the train crew who escaped,
that five travelling men and two farmers
we're in the car that burned. j. E. Pueltz,
travelling man, of Lincoln, internally in
lured. Mrs. Fritz and sister, of Lincoln,
and passenger named Somerlie, hurt
about head. A number of people are
Missing, and it is feared that G. Unrab,
mother and son, of Jansen, are among
The dead. NJ. Beaver, clothier, and A. B.
Eddie, both of Pawnee City, can not be
ound and are supposed to have per-
shed.
An unknown man, said to have come
rom MCPHERSON, Kan, on his way to the
Slack Hills, is supposed to be among the
lead.
FROM THE EFFoTs OF MALICE.
j. W. Glover, a section man, to-day said
hat he saw three well-dressed men jump
hoard the freight and go west. He said
zach carried bran new satchel. This
,ives rise to the suspicion that they had
'een among the Round Pond, Okla, en-
'mies of the road. Marks made by
wrench on the loose end of rail were
plainly visible. The wood of the ties was
leeply dented in where crowbars had
,een inserted and rails lifted clear off the
les, and spikes pulled out we're left lying
oose around the bridge. G. H. Cherry,
he injured mail clerk, was to have been
married. in month. The loss to the rail
Dad company alone amounts to 100000. I