The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-29

ATLANTA, Gu, Dec. 2S.-k special
10 the Journal from Birmingham says:
At noon to-day the list OF dead from
yesterdays bridge disaster at Cahaba
river, on the birmingham Mineral road,
have increased to twenty-four. S. W.
Tibbs and wife. OF Badger, 1t develops,
boarded the ill-fated train at Gunree
and have not been seen since.
II Is believed now. that they were In
the wreck and burned entirely up.
This runs the list OF dead up to twen-
ty-three and added TO this IL ". D.
ltast, Il bridge carpenter hurt in tho
collision between Two wrecking trains
ut the scene OF disaster, who died to-
day. His was the twenty-fourth death
from the wreck. Another bridge car
penter named Estes had both legs cut
Off In the second wreck and will die.
OF the wounded in the bridge disaster
two will likely die before night
LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec 2S.-At the
headquarters OF the Louisville < Nash
Vile Railroad Company in this city.
Superintendent OF Transportation.
George e. Evans maintains that the
wreck Is the result OF carefully plan
ned scheme OF robbers and does not
entertain the idea that 1t was due TO
cnrclessneSS on the part OF the divis-
ion superintendent or subordlnates. He
said he could not see how the wreck
could have occurred except as n pre-
arranged affair. The trains move over
Che bridge at Il very SLOW rate OF speed
and II would take very serious dis
arrangement OF rails 10 cause the train
TO jump the track.
a later dispatch says: The death list
from yesterdays wreck at Cahaba riv-
or. whereby a Birmingham Mineral
train dropped through bridge. ITO
feet h!Sh on the Southern railway, ap-
pears now TO have grown TO twenty
four. This includes The death OF w. D.
Rast, n bridge foreman, who was kill.
ed In second wreck. which resulted
from a collision OF construction trains
at the scene OF the first disaster.
Twenty-one bodies were taken from
Cahaba river and since then It has
been ascertained that S. W. Ttbbs and
wife. who boarded the Inflated train
at Gurnec, are missing. Tibbs and his
wife had been on 4 visit TO the Iatter's
father, residing near Gurnee. Their
pOuleS were not IoOnu IN the wreck and
their absence can only be accounted for
by the fact that they must have been
burned in the wreck.
The railroad authorities say that they
have received indefinite inquiries about
the TibbS family, but know nothing OF
them.
Andrew Brvson, CT Blocton, one OF
the injured passengers. died at hos
pital in this city tonight. His death
will run the number OF dead up TO
twenty-four- Bryson was frightCully
manSled and burned.
Several persons from Blocton. who
were early on the scene OF the wreck,
still declare that twentv-seven bodies
were taken out OF the river. The Bloc
ton people seem 10 think that several
bodies were taken away by friends
before the relief train left on its re-
turn trip with the dead and wounded,
The railroad officials, however, are
firm In thei" statement, that only twen-
ty-onc corpSes were recovered.
The fact still remains. nevertheless.
that It Is and always will be impossible
20 Know just how many passengers
were on the train and who they were
or where they were going.