The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-13
FEW HOUSEHOLDS ESCAPED.
THEY MOURN FOR RELATIVES OR
FRIENDS AMONG THE KILLED
AND INJURED.
DEATH LIST TwENTY-EIGHT.
Sad Scenes at the Depot When Dead
and Living Reach the
City.

greatest catastrophe that ever wreaked death
and desoation in the hearts and f1resides Of
the city's people, No part Of the city was
spared. There are broken homes and bleed
ing hearts everywhere, and sorrow reigns
supreme. Never did a day of pleasure end
with more awful disaster. Twenty weight
people were killed and fifty-one injured,
many Of whom will die. Twenty-four Of the
dead are identified and the others are so
badly mutilated that Identification is hardly
possible.
1t was not until after the morning papers
were out that the first authentic information
became generally known. Then 1T spread
with wonderful rapidity. The early risers in
the residence district glanced at his morning
paper and for the first time realized the
calamity. Long before the motor trains
started, hundreds of men and women walked
down town to learn something more of the
terrible catastrophe. These were added to
the thousands to whom the story brought the
| fear of or certainty Of a personal bereave-
| ment. The depot was the center toward
which they all turned, and when the morning
trains brought in their sad burdens of dead
and dying, the depot approaches were thickly
massed with people, who talked in whispers
| and shuddered as they thought of the be-
reaved ones to whom they could only offer
silent sympathy. Very little was said by
those who gathered to witness the next act
in the CHASTITY tragedy. The
HORROR OF CALAMITY
was too new to find expressions in words.
But sentiment was everywhere voiced.
Only those who had witnessed the pathetic
scenes that marked the night could fully
realize the agony of these waiting people.
The list of the injured is lengthy one.
1t contains twenty-three or more names Of
uho o1Yc1u h1trf dou0 IL,
so. to greater or less degree. In addition
there were at least fifty, If not greater
number, who received injuries of minor
nature. These consisted of bruises and cuts
or slight disfigurements which will prac-
tically amount to nothing. A considerable
number also were shaken up severely, but
beyond this were uninjured. This was es-
pecially the case among the passengers who
occupied the cars Immediately behind the
one which was demolished. The incidental
fright, combined with the shock, threw both
men and women into Mysteries, but owing
to the work that developed upon the ply
sicians in caring for the desperately hurt
suoh individuals were left without medical
attention and got over their attacks as best
they could. The condition, however left its
effects upon great numbers of the passengers
and when they alighted from the trains, they
were all Of tremble and many of them,
although their limbs were sound and their
general physical condition was unimpaired
required the assistance of friends to lead
them away to their homes. 1t was a pitt
able sight to see the strong weakened to the
point Of helplessness.
1t took much time to prepare the injured
for their journey to this city. 1t was neces-
sary to transport them considerable dis
| tance after their wounds were dressed Owing
to the number, 1t took still more time for
the physicians, even though they worked as
hard and as fast as they could, to adjust the
bandages and to tenderly dress the gaping
wounds, that caused men, women and chill
dren to- scream in the loudest tones in their
supreme agony.
BRINGING IN THE WOUNDED.
Thus it was that hours lapsed after the
departure Of the first section of the return
train. which carried the unhurt, before the
second section was started. The latter car
ried all the wounded whose hurts were seri-
Gus. 1t had also on board such friends of
the injured as would not be torn away from
or forced to leave the sides of their suffer-
ing loved ones. The section consisted of two
coaches, baggage car and a Pullman. They
were crowded to an uncomfortable degree in
order to hold the great number that boarded
| 1t. The baggage car was used for those who
required cots and stretchers for the journey.
The other was for those who were able to
sit up or were less injured. The scenes
which were presented within the two cars
can never be forgotten by those who wit
messed them. The interior of these baggage
cars presented the most pathetic sight. Here
were ranged, end to end. the cots which
bore the most seriously injured. They filled
| the car to it's fullest capacity. Room was
hardly allowed for the physicians to pass
| from one little bed to another in their efforts
| to alleviate the pain Of the sufferers as much
as their mental powers would allow. Groans
and screams filled the car from one end of
the trip to the other. Beside each cot and
bending over the bundle that occupied 1t
knelt the attendants, the parents or children,
the brother or sister, the husband or wife.
Tears streamed down their faces as they at
| tended to the wants of the suffering one,
tanning with hat or fan. lifting the glass to
the lip, or gently soothing by word or hand.
| Hearts were silently breathing as they
watched the quiet or moaning form. which,
in many cases, was struggling with death.
| The sight of the other car was pitiable
| one. In this the injured were stretched upon
| the soft seats, swathed in bandages. Their
INJURIES however, were not Of such charac-
ter as to force away thought. nor were the
| attentions they received sufficient to prevent
most without exception they had been pas
sengers in the car of death, and had lost
| some one in the crash. The thoughts of the
dead caused some to weep silently, others to
| stare stoldly and stupidity, as If they had
been struck dumb by the blow, others to
| shrek aloud In their anguish.
THE ROLL OF DEAD
| belonging in Omaha numbers eighteen names
! the complete list being as follows:
JOHN M'DERMOTr, machinist at the Union
! Pacific shops.
JOHN KINSEY.
! ROBERT CLAIR, son of John Clair, ex-
assistant boiler inspector.
| JOHN II. JACK.
| JOHN LARSON, aged about sixteen.
| FRED T. NIELSEN.
| JOHN B. KILKER.
| OWN CAVANAUGH, eighteen years.
| HUGH DODSON, twelve.
| MRS. KATE BRADLEY and baby
MRS. P. ]. Carroll and boy, aged six.
| PATRICK SCULLY.
MISS MARY TRACY.
JOHN COSGROvE, nineteen.
| WILLIAM COSGROvE, fourteen.
| MARGARET COSGROvE, twenty-four.
| In addition to these the following resi-
dents of other towns we're killed, increasing
| the list to twenty-five. but there are still
| three or four not accounted for. The list so
/ far as has been obtainable is as follows
| CHARLES HERMAN, Missouri Valley
WALTER JENNINGS. Missouri Valley.
GEORGE WININGER. Morrison Ill