Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-07-18
A DEADLY CRASH.
Trains Collide at Logan, Ia.-Thirty-ono
Persons Are Killed.

early Snturdny evening at Logan, lh.,
35 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
iured. Many of the injured will, in all
probability, die.
The wreck occurred as n result of
Engineer Montgomery, of the eXcur-
sion train, mistalting 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
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.
Immediately on receipt of the news
in Omaha, a special train was made up
and danumber of physicians and surgeons
sent to the scene of the wreck. The
news spread like wildfire, and soon the
newspaper offices, depcts and railroad
headquarters were besieged by a crowd
of frantic people who had relatives on
the fated train and were hungry for the
latest news from the scene of disaster.
The Union Pacific Pioneers associa-
tion is composed of the employees of the
Union Pacific system. The larger por-
tion of them work in Union Pacific
shops in this city, and as rule have
large families dependent on them.
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 a most touching scene.
Some 20 passengers We're taken in am
balances to ST. Joseph's hospital. Sew
eral of them cannot hope to 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
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.
The approaching train consisted of
two cars-a baggage car "a chamber of
horrors) and a passenger coach. AS it
drew up to the station a special Gordon
of police guarded The approaches and
kept the crowd back. Seventeen bodies,
lald on pine boards and covered with
plain muslin shroud, were taken one
by one and placed III long row on the
floor of the baggage room. Only friends
o. the missing ones were allowed admis-
sion. Those silent forms gave evil
dence of the force of the collision.
Headless trunks, bodies without limbs,
limbs without bodies, a grewsome spec
| tacle, were gathered in that small space.
Occasionally some one would recognize
the features of son or daughter.
Kind friends would gently lead them
from the room and the body would be
ticketed and sent to the undertaker's.
| Women tainted and anguish was pic.
tured ofttimes on the face of SC me gray.
haired old man.
A complete list of the dead is as fol.
lows:
The Dead.
| A. NJ Gerard, 1899 Seventh avenue Coun-
ell Bluffs. Ia; owen Cavanaugh, Eight
eenth and Charles streets. Omaha. aged IS;
Willie Cosgrove 1922 Nicholas street,
Omaha; e. G. Vinegar. a brakeman,
Boone. Ia; Fred Nelson, Omaha: Law
| renee Peterson. engineer waterworks,
Council Bluffs; Mrs; Carroll, 1919 North
| seventeenth street, Omahai lnfant 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. l442 North Nineteenth street;
Fierson. son of Andrew Pierson. machinist,
Ii years old; John Larson. l6 years old.
Ills North Eighteenth street. World-Her-
aid carrier; Patrick Scully. stationary en-
, rt,,aa Int hnn
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,
bolermaker, Omaha, head off and body
Identified by shoes; John Cosgrove Eight
zenith and Nicholas streets, Omaha: James
l.. Cosgrove. Omaha, head torn off from
mouth up, identified only by laundry mark;
George A. Lawrence. ttnsmith. Omaha;
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