The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-13
Broken Homes and Bleeding Hearts
and Sorrow Reigns
Supreme.

DRESS THE CHASTITY WOUNDS
that caused men q I women and chill
dren to scream in re Ioudest tone in
their supreme agony.
Thus it was that hours elapsed after
the departure of the first section OF
the return train which carried the I'm
hurt, before the second section was
started. The latter carried all the
wounded whose hurts were of any
magnitude. 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 suffering loved ones.
The section consisted of two coaches,
a baggage car and Pullman. They
were almost crowded to an uncom-
Portable degree in order to hold the
great number that boarded it. The
baggage car was reserved 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 were such as are
never to be forgotten by those who
witnessed them. They were scenes
such as made the strongest heart grow
weak and sick. They were scenes that
CAUSED THE TEARS TO WE'LL
UP
even though everyone of the partici-
pants were strangers. They were
scenes of the direst woes and lamenta-
tons
The interior of the baggage car pre-
sented the most pathetic sight. Here
were arranged end to end the cots
which bore the most seriously injured.
They filed the car to its fullest ca
pacity. Room was hardly allowed for
the physicians 10 pass from one little
bed to another in their efforts to allevi-
ate the pains of the sufferers as much
as their mortal powers would allow
Groans and screams filled the car
from one end of the trip 20 the other.
Beside each cot and bending over
the occupant knelt or lay the attend
ants, parents, brother or sister, hus-
band or wife. Tears streamed down
their faces as they 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 WE'RE SILENTLY BREAK
ING
as they watched the quiet or moaning
form, which in many cases was strug-
Cling with death.
pitiable a one. In this car, stretched
or the seats swathed in bandages were
many. Their injuries, however, We're
not OF such character as to force away
thought, nor were the attention they
received sufficient from preventing
their attendants from dwelling upon
the disaster. Almost without excep-
ton they had been passengers 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 stolidly or stupidity as if they
had been
STRUCK DUMB BY THE BLOWS,
others to Shrek aloud in their anguish.
The roll of the dead belonging in
Omaha numbers eighteen names, the
complete list being as follows:
John McDermott Sixteenth and
Nicholas streets, machinist at the
Union Pacific shops.
John k-nsey, 463 Cummings street.
Robert Claire, 1889 North Eighteenth
street, son OF John Clair, ex-assistant
boiler inspector.
John H. Jacks. Sixteenth and Web
ster, employed by the Omaha News
company as newsboy on Rock Island
train.
John Larson. 113 North Eighteenth
street, aged about 16 years; was en-
ployed as a carrier for the World
Herald.
Fred Nielsen. 222 South Thirty-third
street, son of Andrew Nielsen, who is
in st. Josephs hospital.
John s. Kilker, $50 South Seventeenth
street, member of the Seventh Ward
band
Owen Cavanargh. 1862 North Eigh-
teenth street, aged about Is years
Hugh Dodson, 4S14 Elmet street, aged
about u years
Mrs. Kate Bradley and baby, 1910
North Eighteenth street.
Mrs. P. j. Carroll and boy, the latter
aged about years.
Patrick Scully, 1924 Centre street:
stationary engineer at the Union Pa
cific shops.
Miss Mary Tracy, 10Y North
Eighteenth street.
John Cosgrove, III North Eighteenth
street, aged Is years.
William Cosgrove, same address,
aged IA years.
Miss Margaret Cosgrove, same ad-
dress, aged "a.
In addition to these the following list
from other towns were killed, swelling
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, one placing
the number at twenty-eight and the
other al Twenty-Five. The list, so far
as ii has been obtained, is as follows:
Charles Heiman, Missouri valley.
Walter Jennings, Missouri valley
George Wininger, Morrison, Ill;
brakeman on the excursion train.
Lawrence Petero, 9l9 Ninth avenue,
Council Bluffs.
Miss Ollie Wilson, ISL Ninth ave-
nue, Council Bluffs
Mrs. Taylor and baby, Council Bluffs.
The correct list of the
MORE SERIOUSLY INJURED
is this. Some will die. some will hold
their beds for weeks and months, some
are comparatively but slightly injured.
rhe wounds range from surface cuts
to internal injuries which may result
in death:
Robert Buchtel left leg fractured
Mrs. Buchtel, wife of the above sus-
tanned a number of severe Commissions
in the face and forehead; her nose is
broken and her arm badly injured.
Kate Cosgrove sustained a contu-
sion over the right eye and was ganer-
ally and badly bruised. William ].
Summit of Missouri valley sustained a
fracture Of leg and was generally
bruised.
Mrs. Scully of Shelley sustained
fractures of several ribs and also was
injured in the chest. She is not ex-
pected to live.