Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-07-16
A DEADLY CRASH.
Trains Collide at Logan. Is.-Thirty-One
Persons Are Killed


Trains Collide at Logan. Ia.-Thirty-One
Persons Are Killed.
Omaha, Neb., July 13.-An appalling
accident to an excursion train occurred
early Saturday evening at Logan, Ia,
IS miles east of this city, on the line of
the Chicago & Northwestern railroad,
in which 81 persons living in this city,
Council Bluffs, Missouri Valley and in
tervening points, were killed and 80 in
jured. Many of the injured will, in all
probability, die.
The wreck occurred as result of
Engineer Montgomery. of the excur-
sion 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
passenger and then started out, having
forgotten about the mail. The trains
were going 50 miles an hour, when they
met three miles west of Logan.
The scene which followed the crash ia
Understandable. Both engines and the
first passenger coach were demolished.
The shrieks of women, the yells of men
and the walls of the injured and dying
in the gathering gloom rose above the
crash Of the heavy machinery and the
screening of steam escaping from the
wrecked locomotives.
The crowds of anxious people at the
depots did not scatter with the break of
day. although the excitement of the
night wore off as relatives and friends
of the dead ones became convinced of
the worst. About seven o'clock the
first funeral train from the scene of the
catastrophe arrived at the Union depot.
and there was an involuntary push for
ward to crafty morbid desire to
learn the news from those who had
been in the disaster. The first train
contained many of the seriously in
jured, and as. the poor unfortunates
were lifted in blankets from the car
the groans of the wounded mingled
with the agonized sobs of relatives and
friends. 1t was most touching scene.
Some 20 passengers were taken in am.
balances to St. Joseph's hospital. Sew
than few hours at the furthest.
At $3.50 o'clock the train carrying the
dead was sighted coming across the
long Union Pacific trestle. Nearer the
specter drew and an involuntary wall
of mourning burst from the assembled
multitude. The contrast of the day be-
fore was sharply drawn. A crowd of
happy young people had gathered on
that same depot platform. Good-bys
were said amidst the waving Of flags
and playing of bands as the cars moved
out. No one ever dreamed of the ter
rible fate that was in store for the mer-
ry cxcursionists.
A complete list of the dead is as fol-
lows:
A. M. Gerard. 1899 Seventh avenue. Coun-
ell Bluffs, Ia: Owen Cavanaugh, Eight
zenith and Charles streets, Omaha, aged 10;
Willie Cosgrove. 1922 Nicholas street.
Boone, Ia: Fred Nelson, Omaha; Law
renee Peterson, engineer waterworks,
Council Bluffs; Mrs. Carroll, 1919 North
Seventeenth street, Omaha; infant son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll; Mrs. Bradley, wife
Of moulder, Union Pacific shops, Omaha;
infant of Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley; Dudsou.
son of Sam Dudson. Omaha: William SUM
NIT, Missouri Valley; Mrs. Nelson. 222
North Thirty-third street, Omaha; john
Perkins, 1442 North Nineteenth street;
Pierson, son Of Andrew Pierson, machinist,
IL years old; John Larson, 16 years old.
Ills North Eighteenth street. World-Her-
aid carrier; Patrick Scully, stationary en-
gineer, Union Pacific shops, 1924 Center
street: Miss Maggie Cosgrove, Eighteenth
and Nicholas streets, Omaha: Charles Hell
man, Missouri Valley, Ia: William Will
son, Ninth avenue and Fifteenth street,
Council Bluffs; Claire, son Of Robert Claire,
boilermaker, Omaha, head off and body
Identified by shoes; John Cosgrove. Eight
eenth and Nicholas streets, Omaha; James
E. Cosgrove, Omaha. head torn of from
mouth up. identified only by laundry mark;
George A. Lawrence. tinsmjth, Omaha:
Walter Jennings, Missouri Valley, Ia;
John AcDermott, machinist, 1912 Nicholas
street, Omaha: Mary Tracy, 11O7 North
Eighteenth street; Mrs. John Kahler. iden-
titled in Council Bluffs, where she lived;
infant Of Mr.. and Mrs. John Kahler, thre,
months old; Phillip Carroll, boy. 1925 Nort;.
Seventeenth street. Omaha; John Kinzie,
F'orty-sixth and Cunning streets. Omaha
DISASTER NEAR CHICAGO.
Picnic Train wrockad ond EIro Da,.on.