The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-29

train with a capacity of about 100. In
! fact that the train was local and that
was Sunday would both argue agains
| sucn i number as It's.
THE LIST AT NOON.
Atlanta, Ca, Dec. ga special to tn
| Journal from Birmingham says:
AT noon today the list of dead from
| yesterdays bridge disaster at Cahab;
| river on the Birmingham Mineral road
| has increased to twenty-four- s. w
| Tibbs and wife of Badger, is develops
| boarded the Inflated train at Guner.
| and have not since been seen. 1t is be
| lieved now that they were in the wrecl
| and burned entirely up. This runs tn
| list Of dead up to twenty-three and add
Ell to this is w. D. Ross, bridge car
per.ter, hurt in the collision Of two work
! ing trains at the scene of the disaster
who died today. He was the twenty
| fourth from the wreck. Another bridg
carpenter named Estes had both legs Gu
OFF in the second wreck and will die
OF the wounded in the bridge disaster
two will likely die before night"
DEATH LIST IN DOUBT.
St Louis, Mo-, Dec. PA special tc
to the Repeublic from Birmingham, Ala.
says: The death list from yesterdays
wreck at Cababa river, whereby Biz
migham Mineral railroad train dropped
through a bridge 1l0 feet high, on the
Southern railway, appears now to have
grown to twenty-four. This includes the
death OF ". d. Rast, a bridge foreman
who was killed in a second wreck, which
resulted from collision of construction
trains at the scene of the first disaster,
six hours after the bridge catastrophe.
Twenty-one bodies We're taken from Ca
haba river and since then it has been as
certa;need that S. W. Tibbs and wife,
who boarded the Inflated train at Gurnee
for Adger, are missing. TibbS and his
wife had been on a visit to the latter s
father, residing near Gurnee. They went
to Gurnee early yesterday morning and
boarded the train. Since then nothing
has been seen or heard of them, so far
as can be ascertained. Their bodies We're
not found in the wreck, and their alb
scence can only be accounted for by the
fact that theey must have been burned
up in the wreck.
The railroad authorities say that they
have received indefinite inquiries about
the Tibbs family, but know nothing of
them.
Andrew Bryson, OF Blocton, one of the
injured passengers, died at a hospital
in this city tonight. His death will run
the enumber of dead up to twenty-four.
Bryson was frightfully mangled and
buried.
Several persons from Blocton, who
were eeariy on the scene of the wreck.
still declare that twenty-seven bodies
were taken out of the river and that the
railroad authorities are mistaken in the
number killed. The Blocton people seem
to think that several bodies We're taken
away by friends before the relief train
left on its return trip with the dead
and wounded. The railroad officials,
however, are firm in this statement that
only twenty-one corpses were recovered.
They say that all reports TO the contrary
are, to their minds, wild rumors.
to The fact still remains, nevertheless,
that il is and always will be impossible
to know just how many passengers were
on the train, and who they were, or
where they were going.
WORK OF THE FIRE FIEND.
Providence, r. l., Dec. 2S.-Gregor
Kierchbaum and his wife were burned to
death in their home at Johnston TODAY.
The building was partially consumed by
the fire, which resulted from the eXplo-
sion of lamp.
New York, Dec 2S.-The ferry boat
New Brunswick owned by the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad company was burned to
the waters edge today. Loss about
$1,000
DRIVEN OUT IN THE COLD.
New York, Dec. 2S.-Forty-four fami-
lies were driven out of their homes early
this morning. when the temperature was
II to IA degrees above zero. by a fire,
which started on the third floor of an
apartment house in West Fifteenth
street. The flames extended to the house
and the third and fourth floors
of both buildings were burned out. The
loss on the buildings is about 100000 and
that sustained by the tenants will reach
SIG, 900.
FURNITURE HOUSE BURNED.
Washington, Dec. 2S.-The large furni-
ture house of Julius Lansburg, on New
York avenue, was destroyed by fire this
evening. The loss on building, stock and
adjacent structures damaged will
amount to about 100000. The loss on
the stock alone is placed at 100000 on
which there is $4,000 insurance The
church of the Epiphang is directly in the
rear of the burned building, and the fire.
men had hard work to save it. The
Burr masion. where, tradition says,
Edgar Allen Poe wrote 1.-THE Raven" is
from the furniture establish
nent only by an alley, but was saved
a A
MRS. BEECHER A CRIPPLE.
Stamford, Conn, Dec 2S.-Mrs. Henry
Ward Beacher of Brokklyn, n. Y, sus-
aimed serious accident yesterday which
nay result in making her a cripple for
ife. Mrs Beecher is visiting at the res
Gence of her brother-in-law, the Rev.
samuel Scoville. in this city. She was
attacked with dizziness and in falling
)roke her hip in such manner that she
viii probably never walk again without
he use OF crutches. Owing to her adj |
-anced age. 81 yeTs. Mrs. Beecher's con-
lition is admittedly serious. although |
here is thought to be no immediate dan
ger.
EUROPEAN CATASTROPHES.
Hull. Dec. 2S.-The Wilson line steam |
nip Volo is total loss at Wingu, off |
he coast OF Sweden. The crew and |
passengers were saved. The Volo was a |
crew steamship built at Hull in 1890, and |
egistered Sal tons net
London. Dec. 2S.--A special dispatch |
rom Rome says a landslide has CON-
'letely destroyed the village of Santa |
ma de Pelago. demolishing lis houses
nd rendering $50 families homeless.
here was no loss of life.
Malaga. Dec. 2S-A fishing smack be-
lnging to This place has been wrecked.
ROWING twelve men and several chill
rem.
Athens. Dec. 2S.-F1oods have occurred
1 the Livada district. They have been
ccompanied by some loss of life.
TO CURE A COLD In ONE DAY
axe Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
Il druggists refund the money if it
ais to cure 25c