The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-07-17
TERRIBLE WRECK.
Omaha in Mourning Over an
Awful Railroad Collision.
'TwENTY-EIGHT LIVES ARE LOST

Excur sion Trsln in Collision with Freight
Forgetfuluess ur The Engineer-Locomo-
tive Flows Bts Why Into Coach Filled
with People aad Makes Frightful Havoc
List of the Dead and Wounded.
OMAHA, July 13-Omaha is city of
mourning with full realization of the
death and desolation in the hearts and
flresides of the 'city's people. No part of
the city was spared. There are broken
and bleeding hearts everywhere, and sor-
row reigns supreme. Tho cause of this
sorrow was head-end collision between
Logan and Missouri Valley on the north
westernroad Saturday evening in which an
excursion train collided with n fast freight
The roll of dead belonging in Omaha
numbers eighteen names, the complete
list being as follows: John MeDermott,
machinist at the Union Pacific shops
John Kinsey; Robert Clair, son of John
Clair, ex-assistant boiler inspector; John
III. jack John Larsen, aged about 16
Fred T. Neilsen; John b. Kilker; Owen
Cavanaugh, IS years; Hugh Dodson, IL
years; Mrs Kate Bradley and baby; Mrs.
p. j. Carr0ll, and boy g; Patrick Sculiy;
Miss Mary Tracy; John Cosgrove, aged
10; William Cosgrove, aged IA; Margaret
.Cosgrove aged ~.
In addition to these the following resi-
dents of other towns were killed, increas-
ing the list to twenty-five, but there are
still three or four not accounted for, two
of the doctors who went to the scene from
Omaha stating that they counted the dead
bodies, Re placing the number at twenty
eight and the other at twenty-nine. The
list so far as has been obtained is as fol-
lows: Charles lehman and Walter Jen-
nings, Missouri Valley; George Wininger,
Morrison, ILL.,; Lawrence Petero, Miss
Ollie Wilson and Mrs. Taylor and baby,
Council Bluffs.
The correct list of the more seriously in
jured is this-some will die, some will
hold their beds for weeks and months.
some are, in comparison, but slightly in
jured The wounds range from surface
cuts to interal injuries which must result
in death: Robert Buchtel, leg fractured;
Mrs. Robert Buchtel, severe Commissions
en- face and forehead Kate Cosgrove, con-
fusion over the right eye and generally
badly bruised; William j. Summit, of
Missouri Valley, fracture of leg and
generally bruised; Mrs. Scully, of
Shelley, fractures of several ribs and
injured in the chest, not expected to live;
Sam Duston, arm broken and eye badly
cut; Blanche II. Ender, Clifton Hill, scri-
ously injured; j. f. Kaler Council Bluffs,
very badly cut about head and face; Mar
garet Colven, very badly bruised; Annie
Colven, shoulders badly bruised and Sc
verely cut; Oliver Colvep, number of So
we're cuts about head; John Schneidel,
injured ia side, arms and head;
Eva Nelson, very badly injured internally,
condition serious; Leonard Mack, injured
in the abdomen and groin; Andrew Neil
son, arm broken, both sides injured and
cuts in face; Henry G. Conrad, of Dayton,
Ia, injured about right hip; G. w. John
son, COMMISSIONS upon both legs; p. ]. Car
roll injured in the chest and head; jerome
A. Little, ribs fractured and internal
injuries possibly fatal; John McKenna,
injured internally, serious; 3-year-old
child belonging to the Kaler family of
Council Bluffs, badly injured. All the
people killed were in the front coach of
the excursion. All the dead and injured
were brought to Omaha Yesterday