The record-union., 1896-07-13
DAY OF GENERAL
MOURNING IN OMAHA.
The Death List Of the Terrible Accident
Increased.
Thirty-0ne Bodies Have Been Taken
From the Wreck.

RObDeQ OF Ills (dSn ana Dduiy
Hurt-An Open Switch Causes a
Wreck Near Chicago and the Death
of Five Passengers.
OMAHA, July 12-This has been a
day of general mourning in Omaha. The
harvest of death from the Logan, Iowa,
wreck of last night has been increased
and the list of victims 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 Z o'clock the first fun
eral train from the scene Of the catas-
trophe arrived at the Union depot and
there was an involuntary push forward
to crafty a 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
sobs of relatives and friends. 1t was a
most touching scene. Some twenty pas
sengers were taken in ambulances to
st. Joseph's Hospital. Several of them
cannot hope to live more than a few
horus at the furthest.
At $50 o'clock the train carrying the
dead was sighted coming across the long
Union Pacific trestle. Nearer the
@1,,r1% Y,
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-byes
were said amidst the waving of flags
and playing of bands as the cars moved
out. No one dreamed of the terrible
fate that was in store for the merry ex-
cursionists.
The approaching train consisted of
two cars, a baggage cara chamber of
horrors-and a passenger coach. AS 1T
drew up to the station a special Gordon
of police guarded the approaches and
kept the crowd back. Seventeen bodies,
led on pine boards and covered with a
plain muslin shroud, were taken one by
one and placed in long row on the floor
of the baggage-room. Only friends of
the missing ones were allowed admis-
sion. Those silent forms gave evidence
Of the force of yesterdays collision.
Headless trunks, bodies without limbs,
limbs without bodies, a gruesome 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 undertakers. Women
tainted and anguish was pictured oft
| times on the face of some gray-haired
old man.
A complete list of the dead and in
| jured is as follows:
Dead-A. NJ. Gerard, 1899 Seventh
avenue, Council Bluffs, Ia; Owen Cav
anaugh, Eighteenth and Charles streets,
Omaha, aged IS; Willie Cosgrove, 1922
| Nicholas street, Omaha, E. G. Vinegar,
| a brakeman, Boone, Ia; Fred Nielsen,
Omaha; Lawrence Peterson, engineer
waterworks, Council Bluffs; Mrs. Car
roll, 1919 North Seventeenth street,
Omaha; infant son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Carroll; Mrs. Bradley, wife of molder,
Union Pacific shops, Omaha; infant of
Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley; Dudson, son of
| Andrew Dudson, maChinist, 13 years
old; John Larson, 16 years old, 113
! North Eighteenth street, World Her
| aid" carrier; Patrick Scully, stationary
engineer, Union Pacific shops, 1924 Cen
ter street; Miss Maggie Cosgrove
Eighteenth and Nicholas streets, Oma-
! ha; Charles Heiman, Missouri Valley
| Ia; William Wilson, Ninth avenue and
Fifteenth street, Council Bluffs; Claire
son of Robert Claire, boiler maker, Oma-
/ ha, head torn off from mouth up, identi-
/ fed only by laundry mark; George A.
| Lawrence, tinsmith, Omaha; Walter
Jennings, Missouri Valley, Ia; John Nc
| Dermott, machinist, 1912 Nicholas
street, Omaha; Mary Trair, 11O1 North
| Eighteenth street; Mrs. John Kahler
identified in Council Bluffs, where she
lived; infant of Mr.. and Mrs. John Kah-
Ter, three months old; Phillip Carroll
boy, 1425 North Seventeenth street
Omaha; John Kinzie, Forty sixth and
Cumming streets, Omaha.
Injured-Engineer J. D. Montgomery
bones broken, deep cut over eye; John
Kahler, Council Bluffs, head cut and in
jured internally; Jack Taylor, Council
Bluffs, head crushed, probably fatal;
Mrs. Mary Scully, Omaha, chest and in
ternal injuries, probably fatal; John Nc
| McKenna, Omaha, severely injured
Leonard II. Mack, Omaha, head cut, Sc
we're injuries; Michael Shannon, Omaha
| extent unknown; Henry Conrad, boy
supposed to be stealing a ride, lives al
| Dayton, O., confusion of chest and arms
Conrad, his brother, similar injuries;
| Moses Baudo, Omaha, probably fatally;
| Samuel Dodson, Omaha, chest and arms
injured; ]. A. Lille, Omaha, Presiden,
Of the Union Pacific Pioneers, chest con-
tusions: J. J. Fitzgihbon, Logan, Ia.
legs and chest injured; Fred Kinsey
Omaha, face, neck and shoulder injured
Katherine Cosgrove. Omaha, badly
shaken up; Mike Leonard, South Oma-
ha, slight injuries; Stephen Meany, face
cut, confusion of chest; Miss letter
badly injured; Teresa Tracy, eye badly
cut; Robbie Buchtel, Omaha, nose
broken; Lizzie Byles, Omaha, arm
broken; Jack Kinney. Omaha, inter
nally injured; - Hurley, badly hurt
Oliver Colvin, Omaha. scalp wounds
Annie Colvin, his sister, back hurt
Eva Nelson, Omaha, limbs crushed
Fred Kinsey. Omaha, shoulder crushed
face cut; William Christensen Omaha
legs and back injured H. M. McMichael
Dayton, O.. head cut, hurt internally;
E. Messerschmidt Omaha limbs