The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-12
Twenty Seven Persons Are
Killed Outright and Forty
Injured.
PARTIAL LIST OF THE DEAD.
Indescribable Scenes Follow the
Awful Crash-Carelessness of
an Engineer.


evening at Logan, Iowa. thirty-fve miles
east OF this city, on the line of the Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad, in which
twenty-seven persons, living in this city,
Council Bluffs, Missouri Valley and inter
vening points, were killed, and forty in
iured Many of the injured will, in all
probability, die before morning. A par
tial list of the dead is as follows:
Mrs. Moses Bando. Omaha.
Uhsrles Holman, 10 years old, Missouri
Valley.
Mrs. Mem ahon, Omaha.
John Perkins, Omaha.
Walter Jenning, Missouri Valley.
Peterson, waterworks engineer,
Council Bluffs.
VIII Wilson, Council Bluffs.
Son of Bob Claire, a boiler-maker, Omaha
John Cosgrove and daughter, Omaha.
John McDermott, Omaha.
Patrick Scully, stationary engineer,
Omaha.
Miss Margaret Cosgrove, Omaha.
- Lawrence, Omaha.
- Peterson, Omaha.
Mrs. P. ]. Carroll and son, Omaha.
Mrs. Bradley and baby, the former a
sister of Mrs. Carroll.
- Dodson, boy, residence now I'M
known.
Mrs. Nealson, Omaha.
- Pierson, boy Is years old.
William Summet, Missouri Valley.
Daughter of William Wilson, Council
Bluffs.
Among the fatally injured is J. A. Lille,
PRESIDENT of the Union Pacific Pioneers
Association.
The train consisted of fifteen coaches
loaded down with members of the Union
Pacific Association of Omaha and their
friends.
The excursion party left Omaha early in
the day, picking up recruits at Council
Bluffs, Missouri Valley and Wood bine,
Iowa. Its destination was Logan, Iowa,
which was reached about 10 A. M,-and the
day had been pleasantly spent. About 7
o'clock the journey homeward was COM
menced. The train had hardly passed
the limits of the city and was rounding a
curve when "down brakes" was whistled,
and then came a crash.
The excursion train had been run into
by fast freight known as No. 80 and all
the coaches were ditched.
The scene which followed is indescrib-
able. 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 escaping
steam from the wrecked engines. The
engineers and firemen of both engines
jumped, and both crews escaped without
injury.
The conductor of the freight train,
Modelin, says he was running on orders,
and that the excursion train was not.
The engineer and fireman of the excur-
sion train had disappeared after the col
llsion, and this lends color to the story as
told by the freight conductor.
Immediately on receipt of the news in
Omaha special train was made MP and a
number of physicians and surgeons sent
10 the scene of the wreck.
The news spread like wildfre and soon
the newspaper offices, depots and railroad
headquarters were besieged by q crowd of
frantic people, who had relatives on the
fated train and were hungry for the latest
news from the scene of the disaster Sew
eral thousand people are spending the
night at the Union Pacific depot, await
ing the arrival of the train bearing the
dead and injured.
AS fast as the names of the victims were
received at the World Herald Office they
were bulletined for the benefit Of the anx-
ious ones standing without. The scene
was a pathetic one in the extreme as
friends read the names OF loved ones who
were either mangled in the wreck or badly
wounded. Several women tainted and had
70 he ION bona in,
The Union Pacific Pioneers Association
is composed of the employees of the Union
Pacific system. The larger portion of them
work in the Union Pacific shops in this
city, and, as rule, have large families de-
pendent upon them.
Latest accounts say it is possible that
fifteen will complete the dead list. Ten
bodies are stretched out near where the
wrecked engines are piled up, and some
can be seen pinned under the demolis he'd
coaches. 1t is nearly impossible in the
confusion TO secure the names of the in
iured, which will reach nearly half hum
dred.
Logan Is a small town and the teIe-
graphic facilities are limited. A CORPS of
reporters and telegraph operators has left
here for that place. Two relief trains sent
TO Logan from this place will probably
reach here on their return "trip early Sun
day morning, and until then the full de-
tails will not be known.
Those Of the injured who are able to be
removed viii be brought 10 this city to.
night The dead are being taken to local
undertaking establishment, where an in
quest viii be held over the bodies.
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