Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-07-18
COLLISION ON THE CHICAGO ~
NORTHWESTERN.
Fast Mail Runs Into an Excursion
Trnin-The Engineer Mis-
took His Orders.

on the Chicago d Northwestern. Inc
Union Pacific pioneer excursion train
pulled out to return to Omaha, when No.
49, freight train, came around a sharp
curve and before either train could stop,
they crashed together. Twenty-seVen
people were killed outright and 40 were
seriously injured.
The trains were going at the rate of 30
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 positively refuse
to give any information concerning the
matter stating that it is something that
concerns them, and not the public. They
even refuse to handle the Western Union
business.
The story of the wreck, as gathered
from the telegraph companies and rail
road men, is something like this:
"A Northwestern excursion train left
Omaha with 10 coaches this morning,
loaded from one end to the other, mostly
with women and children. The train was
side tracked in the woods, % miles from
Omaha, between Missouri Valley and
Logan AS the train started on its home
ward trip, about 6;l0 p. M, the fast
mail on the Northwestern, east-bound,
crashed into it while both trains were
running at a high rate of speed.
The fast mail is the Southern Pacific
and Union Pacific overland flyer which
left Omaha via the Northwestern at $40.
1t carries two sleepers from San Fran
CISCO one from DenVe" and one from
Portland, buffet diner. express and
baggage cars. 1t was crowded when 1t
left Omaha. The trainmen think all the
fatalities must have been confined to
the excursion train, since it was made
up of lighter coaches which would cas-
t.; be crushed by the heavy fast mail.
Late information received at lone was
to the effect that the dead and dying
were being piled up along the tracks in
the yards at Logan like cordWood. There
were a few doctors on the ground, but
not enough to give attention to one
third of the sufferers. The excitement
throughout the city Is tremendous.
A great crowd of frantic people have
surrounded the depot and all avenues of
information, and are crying for news of
their friends and relatives There is lit
tie probability of anything like con
nected story before O'Clock in the
morning.
The following dead have been identi-
fled:
William Wilson and daughter, of Coun-
ell Bluffs, Iowa.
Engineer Peterson, of Council Bluffs
Patrick Scully.
j. c. Cosgrove, of Omaha.
j. Glare, of Omaha.
Charles Herman, of Missouri Valley.
Walter Jennings, of Missouri Valley.
Mrs p j. Carroll and three children, Of
Omaha.
Charles MCDermOtt
John CosgrOVe.
James COSgrOVe.
George Lawrence.
Mrs f.. S. Bradley and child.
Hugh Dodson, of Council Bluffs.
William Summit, of Missouri Valley.
Mrs Fred Nelson.
William Nelson.
John Perkins.
Preison.
Mrs. Harte and son.
John McKenna.
Mrs. Taylor and baby. of Council Bluffs.
Mrs. Tracy, of Omaha.
Robert Claire.
The injured. as far as known, are:
Jack Taylor, of Council Bluffs; Mrs.
Scully, of Omaha; John McKenna of
Omaha; Leonard Mack, of Omaha; Mich
ael Shannon, of Omaha; Henry Conrad,
of Dayton, Ohio; James Fitzgibbons, Of
Missouri Valley; William Summit, J. II.
Perkins and three unknown are still in
the wreck.
At the morgue friends are seeking to
identify the dead. The wounded are being
cared for in an improvised hospital by
surgeons from Missouri Valley Wood
bine, Dunlap and other towns.
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