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A DEADLY CRASH.
Trains Collide at Logan. Ia.-Thirty-One
Persons Are Killed.

Persons Are Killed
Omaha, Neb., july l3.-An appalling
accident TO an excursion train occurred
enrly Saturday evening at Logan. Ia.,
s5 miles east OF this city. on the line of
the Chicago g. Northwestern railroad.
in which 81 persons living in this city,
Council Bluffs. Missouri Valley and in
teryening 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. installing orders. He WINS
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 so miles an hour, when they
met three miles west OF Logan.
The scene which followed the crash is
indescribable. 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
screeching 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 Oft 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 n 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 a most touching scene.
Some 20 passengers were taken in am
balances TO st. Joseph's hospital. Sew
eTal of them cannot hope TO live more
than n few hours at the furthest.
At 80 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-
nv cxcursionists.
A complete list of the dead is az fol-
lows:
| A. M Gerard. 1889 Seventh avenue, Coun-
| eli Bluffs Ia: owen Cavanaugh. Eight
| zenith and Charles streets, Omaha, aged IS:
| Willie Cosgrove, i622 Nicholas street
1 Omaha: T.. @. Vinegar. a brakeman,
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: Dudson.
son OF Sam Dudson. Omaha. William Sum
| nit, Missouri Valley; Mrs Nelson. 222
| North Thirty-third street, Omaha; John
| Perkins. 1912 North Nineteenth street
| Pierson, son OF Andrew Pierson, machinist,
| L. years old; John Larson, rs years old.
| Ills North Eighteenth street. Worid-Her-
| aid carrier; Patrick Scully, stationary en-
/ gineer, Union Pacific shops. 1884 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.
holermaker. Omaha, head off and body
| identified by shoes; John Cosgrove. Eight
zenith and Nicholas streets, Omaha: james
| H.. Cosgrove. Omaha, head torn Off from
mouth up, Identified only by laundry mark.
! George A. Lawrence. tinsmith. Omaha:
| Walter jennings. Missouri Valley. la !;
| John McDermott. machinist, 1912 Nicholas
street. Omaha; Mary Tracy, 1l07 North
Eighteenth street: Mrs John Kahler iden-
| titled In Council Bluffs. where she lived
infant OF Mr.. and Mrs. John Kahler, threo
months old: Phillip Carroll, boy. 1926 North
| Seventeenth street. Omaha John Kinzie.
| Forty-sixth and Cunning streets. Omaha