Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-07-16
AWFUL ACCIDENT.
A Loaded Excursion Train and q
Fast Freight Collide.
1WEyTY.EICHT KILLED OUTRIGHT.
Hfty.One Also Injured, Many Of Whom
VII. Die from Their Iiurts-Liat Of
Omaha Dsad-T suse Of
the Catastrophe


OMAHA, Neb.. July IA heavy
loaded excursion train and q fas'
freight on the Northwestern road col
l'ded shortly after six o'clock Saturday
evening near Logan, Ia, 2S people
were Killed and 81 injured. Many OF
the latter will die, Omaha was a city
OF mourning yesterday. The bright
sabbath morning brought the full
realization 81 the greatest catastrophe
that ever wreaked death and desola-
tion in the hearts and fresides Of Its
people No part OF the city was spared.
Inere are broken homes and bleeding
hearts everywhere, and sorrow reigns
supreme. Twenty.four dead are iden.
tined' and the remains OF the Others
are so badly mutilated that identified.
sion IS hardly possible all semblance
OF humanity being crushed out OF the
corpses
Z" LOOK much Time 10 prepare the In
Jured ior 'he'r journey TO TINS city 1t
ws' necessary 70 transport them con-
s'uerao'e Instance aiter their wounds
were dressed owing TO the number,
voo1 '''ll more Time Tor the physi'
.'.u'' even 'nougn they worked as
M.rI anu 1851 o. .ney could 70 adjust
'no oa"uages ana 70 tenderly dress the
gaping wounds that caused men, wom-
on anu cn'ioren 70 scream 10 the loud
~ ~. zones ~ .ne'r supreme agony.
.ne ro'' Oh aeaa belonging In omaha
numoers 10 Names the complete list
0.nk 10 ionowS' Sonn McDermott
o"n n"n'cy' nouer. o'air'Jonn h.Jack,
Sonn ASrson'f' NELSON John D. kllker'
vwen oavanau9n' huRh Dodson' Mrs
H.c nraa'ey ana oaoy. Mrs r ).
lrol, una 10Y ratrick scully. Mrs.
Asry Tracy. John Cosgrove, William
Cosgrove' MISS Margaret CosQrove. In
.aui'lon 70 these' the following resi-.
uen's OF other towns were killed, In
croaSing the list TO 20, but there are
sui 'nree or -FOUR not accounted for.
A"o o. tne doctors VINO went to the
soono from omaha stated that they
ooun'ea the bodies, one placing the
~, ~ 20 ana inc other a. 70. The ,
1''.' ~ i"r ~ I" nus oeen obtained, Is
= =, ,o''ows, onarles heiman, Missouri :
vsmey' waiter Jennings, Missouri
-, "ey' george wininger' Morrison, I,
H. brakeman on the excursion train; \
a lawrence retero' council Bluffs; Mrs b
o'"o wilson, council Bluffs; Mrs. lay b
'or anu oSoy' council Bluffs IL
VI the more seriously injured some !,
wiz oie' some VIII hold their beds for tt
"oeks anu montns, some are IN COM b
psrison ous siightiy injured. The M V
Nounos range from surface cuts to in ="
'ernsi INJURIES which must result In
'e Ms ~
no .ra'n whicn Carried the dead ar -
'cu ~ '"c uh'on oepot az $50 o'clock
yesterday. 1t had been given out that :,
would not arrive until noon and this "
vas Responsible Tor the fact that only -
few OF the relatives OF the lost were -
here to receive their bodies. But =,
ven then there was enough Of heart. :"
reaking woe to touch the sympathies ~
those who saw the pltlful spectacle. VI
The police had stretched ropes across W
10 platform to keep the crowd back, =" ~
nd the trainmen, assisted by posse va "a
police, tenderly lifted the bodies On VI,
ON the train and deposited them in We
long, CHASTITY row on the floor of the ~ y,
sggage room. Each was covered with w
sheet, 'and when the line was com. co
ete, passage was cleared, and those VII
no had friends among the dead were oe
lowed TO pass through the impro.
sed morgne. One by one they passed IT,,
'wn the line, lifting the covering
ON each bruised and blackened face
they went along Some of them tic
lied to find the face they carried tie
'"o'f near's others found it but pa
: Soon, ana thelr suffering as they me
ne,a ,ne terrible certainty that del
l'eu a.. nope was pltiful to see. at
o"1 ."s"e' oeh' over sheeted form