The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-07-13
TWO FATAL WRECKS.
fwenty-eight Killed Near Omaha
and Five Near Chicago,
All ENGINEERS FORGETFULNEss.

1t Caused the Omaha Wreck and It's At
tendant Horrors--The Chicago Wreck
Caused by Crowded Picnic Train Rum
ming Upon "a Siding.
OMAHA, July 13-A head end collision
that resulted in much loss of life occur
red on the Chicago and Northwestern
road between Logan and Missouri Valley
Saturday night The wreck occurred as
n result of Engineer Montgomery, of the
excursion train, mistaking orders. He
was ordered to wait at Logan until the
fast mail and the east bound passenger
train had passed. He waited for the pas
senger train and then started out, having
forgotten about the mail The trains were
going fifty miles an hour when they met,
three miles west of Logan. Engineer
Montgomery jumped and escaped with "A
broken arm. The officials of the road pos
itively refuse to give any Information con-
cerning the matter, stating 1t Is something
that concerns them, and not the public.
The two engines crashed together, and
in an instant freight and passenger
coaches were piled one upon the top of
another. Word was at once sent to this
city, and in short time a special train,
with doctors and officers of the road on
board, was sent out from Council Bluffs.
Late information received at 1 o'clock was
TO the effect that the dead and dying We're
piled along the tracks in the switch yards
at Logan like cord wood. There were a
few doctors on the ground, but not enough
to give attention to one-third of the suf-
ferers.
Among the dead and dying, relatives
b,,, 4, hoi IL
who were dear to them. In this city the
office of the road was being besieged by
people in search of information, but none
was given out
There are broken homes and bleeding
hearts everywhere, and sorrow reigns
supreme. Never did day of pleasure end
with more awful disaster. Twenty-eight
people were killed and fifty-one injured,
many of whom will die. Twenty-four of
the dead are identified, and the others are
| so badly mutilated that identification is
| hardly possible.
| The list of the injured is lengthy one.
| 1t contains twenty-eight or more of names
of persons who were seriously hurt dan
! gerously so, to greater or less degree. In
addition there were at least fifty, if not a
greater number, who received injuries of a
minor nature A considerable number
also were shaken up severely, but beyond
this were uninjured. This was especially
the case among the passengers who oc-
cupied the cars Immediately behind the
! one which was demolished The incidental
! fright, combined with the shock threw
| both men and women into Mysteries but
owing to the work that devolved upon the
! physicians in caring for the desperately
hurt, such individuals were left without
/ : tH.,i,,
taclIs as best they could.
The roll of dead belonging in Omaha
numbers eighteen names, the complete
list being as follows John McDermott
machinist at the Union Pacific shops
Robert Clair, son of John Clair, ex-assist-
ant boiler inspector; John II. Jack, II
newsboy; John Larsen, aged about 16;
Owen Cavanaugh, aged 49, Hugh Dodson,
aged IL; John Cosgrove, aged 10; William
Cosgrove, aged II; Margaret Cosgrove,
aged "a Mrs. =. j. Carroll and boy aged
6, Mrs. Kate Bradley and baby, John Kin
sey, Fred Nielsen, John b, KilSer Pat
rick Scully and Miss Mary Tracy
In addition TO these the following resi-
dents of other towns were killed increas-
ing the list 10 twenty-five, but there are
still three or four not accounted for. Two
of the doctors who went to the scene from
Omaha state that they counted the dead
bodies, one placing the number at twenty
eight and the other at twenty-nine. The
list of dead from other towns is as follows
Charles Heiman, Missouri Valley; Wal
; ter jennings Missouri Valley George
Weininger, Morrison, Ills, Lawrence
Petero, Council Bluffs; Miss Ollie Will
; son, Council Bluffs; Mrs. Taylor and
baby, Council Bluffs,
OF the more seriously injured some will
die, some will be confined TO beds for
weeks and months while some are, in
comparison, but slightly injured. The
wounds range from surface cuts TO in
ternal injuries which must result in death.
Among tho more seriously injured are:
Robert Buchtel, left leg fractured Mrs.
Robert Buchtel, severe contusions on the
face and forehead, nose broken and arm
badly injured; Mrs. Scully, of Shelley
fractured several ribs and injured in the
chest; Eva Nelson very badly injured in
ternally, condition serious; Leonard
Mack, injured in the abdomen and groin
condition critical Andrew Nelson, arm
broken; Jerome A Little, ribs fractured