The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-13
THE DEATH-ROLL
IS THIRTY-ONE.
General Mourning Marks
the Sabbath at
Omaha.
THE FUNERAL TRAINS.
Vast Crowds Surge Forward to
Meet Them and Learn the
Worst.
soBs AND ORGANS CoMMINGLED
Headless Trunks and Limbless Bodies
on Boards of Pine-The Killed
and Injured.

increased, ana the 1lSL OF VlCblIQS now
numbers thirty-one.
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 O'Clock the first funeral train from
the scene of the catastrophe arrived at
the Union depot, and there was an invol-
untary push forward to crafty morbid
desire to learn the news from those who
had been in the disaster.
The first train contained many OF the
more seriously injured, and as the poor
unfortunates were lifted IN blankets from
the car the groans OF the wounded
mingled with the agonized sobs of rela-
tives and friends. 1t was most touch
ing scene. Some twenty passengers were
taken in ambuIances to st. Joseph's Hos
pital. Several of them cannot hope to
live more than a few hours at the
furthest.
At $50 clock the train carrying the
dead was sighted coming across the long
Union Pacific trestle. Nearer the specter
drew and an involuntary wall OF mourn
ing burst from the assem- bled multitude.
The contrast of the day before was sharply
drawn. A crowd of happy young people
had gathered on the same depot platform.
Good-bys were said amiu the waving of
flags and playing of bands as the cars
moved out. No one dreamed of the terri
BILE fate that was in store for the merry
eXcursionists.
The approaching train consisted of two
cars-a baggage car "a chamber of horrors)
and passenger coach. As it drew up to
the station a special Gordon of police
guarded the approaches and kept the
crowd back. Seventeen bodies laid on
pine boards and covered with plain mus
lin shroud we're taken out one by one and
placed along the floor of the baggage
room. Only friends of the missing ones
were allowed admission. Those silent
forms gave evidence of the force of yester-
days collision. Headless trunks, bodies
without limbs, limbs without bodies-a
grewsome spectacle-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 undertakers. Women tainted,
and anguish was ofttimes pictured on the
face of some gray haired old man.
A complete list of the dead and injured
is as follows:
Dead: A. NJ. Gerard, 1889 Seventh ave.
nue., Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Owen Cavanaugh, Eighteenth and
OInaDd. dpeu 10.
Willie Cosgrove, 1722 Nicholas street,
Omaha.
E. 6. Vinegar, brakeman, Boone, Iowa.
Fred Nielsen, Omaha.
Lawrence Peterson, engineer of the wa
ter works at Council Bluffs.
= Mrs. Carroll, 1919 North Seventeenth
street, Omaha.
Infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll.
Mrs. Bradley, wife of a molder at the
Union Pacific shops, Omaha.
Infant of Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley.
- Dudson, son of Sam Dudson,
Omaha.
William Summit, Missouri Valley.
Mrs. Nelson, ODD North Thirty third
street, Omaha.
John Perkins, 1442 North Nineteen tn
street. Omaha.
- Pierson, son of Andrew Person
machinist, thirteen years old.
John Larson, sixteen years old, 1l13
North Eighteenth street, World Herald
carrier.
Patrick Scullv, stationary engineer.
Union Pacific shops, 1922 Center street,
Omaha.
Miss Maggie Cosgrove. Eighteenth and
Nicholas streets, Omaha.
Charles Holman, Missouri Valley Iowa
William Wilson, Ninth avenue and Fiji
teenth street, Council Bluffs.
Claire son of Robert Claire, boiler
maker. Omaha, head off and body lden-
titled by shoes.
John Cosgrove, Eighteenth and Nieho-
las streets, Omaha.
James +. Cosgrove, Omaha, head torn
off from mouth up, identified only by
laundry mark.
George A. Lawrence, tinsmith, Omaha.
Walter Jennings, Missouri Valley Iowa.
John McDermott, machinist, 1912 Mich
olas street, Omaha.
Mary Tracy. 10y North Eighteenth
street.
Mrs. John Kahler, identified in Council
Bluffs. where she lived
Infant of Mr.. and Mrs. John KahIer.
three months old.
Phillip Carroll, boy, 1925 North Seven
teentn street, Omaha.
John Kinzie, Forty-sixth and Cunning
streets, Omaha.
Injured: Engineer ]. D. MONTGOMERY.
bones broken. deep cut over the eye.
John Fahler, Council Bluffs, head cut
and injured internally.
Jack Taylor, Council Bluffs, head
crushed probably fatal.
Mrs. Mary Scully, Omaha, chest and in
ternal injuries, probably fatal.
John McKenna, Omaha, severely in
jured.
Leonard H. Mack, Omaha, head cut, Sc
we're in iuries.
Michael Shannon, Omaha, extent I'M
known.
Henry Conrad, boy supposed to be steal
ing ride, lives in Dayton. Ohio, contu-
sion of chest and arms.
- Conrad, his brother similar in juries.
Moses Baudo, Omaha, probably fatally
injured.
Sam Dodson, Omaha, chest and arms
injured.
j. A. Lille, Omaha, president of the
Union Pacific Pioneers. chest Commissions.
J. J. Fitzgibbon, Logan, Iowa, legs and
chest injured.
Fred Kinsey, Omaha, face, neck ami
shoulderinjured.
Katharine Cosgrove, Omaha, badly
shaken up.
Mike Leonard, Omaha, slight injuries
stephen Meany, face cut, confusion of
chest
Miss letter, badly injured.
Teresa Tracy, eye badly cut.