River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-07-16
A DEADLY CRASH.



Persons Are Killed.
Omaha, Neb., July 13.--An appalling
accident to an excursion train occurred
early Saturday evening at Logan, Ia,
50 miles east of this city, on the line of
the Chicago d 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 a result of
Engineer Montgomery, of the excur-
sion train, installing 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 so miles an hour, when they
met three miles west of Logan.
The scene which followed the crash Is
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
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 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 here was an involuntary push for
ward 70 crafty a 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 unfortuhates
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 81. Josepbs hospital. Sew
eral of them cannot hope 70 live more
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
The contrast of the day be-
fore was sharply drawn. A crowd of
happy young Re. 1le 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 he ter
rible fate that was in store for the mer-
ry excursionists.
A complete list of the dead is as fol-
lows:
A. NJ. Gerard. 1899 Seventh avenue. Coun-
ell Bluffs. Ie.; owen Cavanavgh. Eight
zenith and Charles streets, Omaha, aged IS:
Willie CcsgroYe. 1922 Nicholas street.
Omaha; L. q. Vinegar. "A brakeman,
Boone, Ia: Fred Nelson, Omaha; Law
renee Peterson, engineer wa'erworks.
Council Bluffs: MIS-. Carroll. 1918 North
Seventeenth street, Omaha; infant son OF
MIR. and Mrs. CerroII: AIRS. Bradley. viii"
of moulGer. U1iiqn Paoine shops. OInahg
infant OF NV. and Mrs Bradley; Oiidson.
son OF Sam Dudsou. Omaha: Willlam Sum
NIT. Missouri valley; &rJ Nelson. ~
Eorth Thirtythird street. Omaha; John
PerSlns. l442 Ncrth krstsenih street
tierson. son OF Andrew Piereon, maehinlst.
IL years old; John Larson. IL years Old.
Ills North Eighteenth street. W Grid Her
aid carrier; Pstrick Scully. stationary en-
queer, Union Pacific shops, 1924 Center
street: Miss Maggie Cosgroye, Eighteenth
and Nicholas streets. omaha Charles Hell
man. Missouri Valley. ia william VIII
son, Ninth avenue and Fifteenth street
Council 2luffs; Claire. son OF robert Claire.
Omaha, head of and body
identified by shoes; John Cosgrove, Eight
zenith and Nicholas streets, Omaha: James
4. Cosg-oye. Onlahs.. head torn off from
mouth up. identified only ry laundry mark
George A. Lawrence. tinsmith, Omaha
Walter Jennings. Missouri Valley, La
John DcDermott, macninist, 1912 Nicholas
street. Omaha; Mary Tracy, 100 North
Eighteenth street; Mrs. John K1hler, iden
titled In Council Bluffs, where she lived
ihferJ OF MIR. and Mrg. .fohn Kahler, three
Plcnt,s CiS: Philip Carroll boy, 1875 NORTH
street. Omaha: John Kinzie
Forcy-sixth and Cunning streets. Omaha