Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-07-14
A COLLISION.
A Passenger Train and a Freight
Collide on a Curve.
Thirty-0n Persons Killed and About
Fifty Wounded, Some Fatally.
Most of the Killed and Injured Were Oma-
ba People, Who Were on an Excursion
to LoEau-Sunday Was aeDay of
General Mourning In Omaha.


OMAHA, Neb, July 13.-Sunday was a
day of general mourning in Omaha.
The harvest of death from the Logan,
Ia, wreck of Saturday night has been
increased and the list of victims now
numbers 81.
Saturday evening the Union Pacific
pioneer train had just pulled out at
Logan. Ia, to return to Omaha, when
fast freight No. IS came around the
curve and before either train could be
stopped they crashed together with
fearful results.
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 becamed convinced of
the worst. About seven o'clock the
first funeral train from the scene of
the catastrophe arrived at the union
depot
Dead-A. M. Gerard, 1889 Seventh
avenue, Council Bluffs, Ia; Owen Cava-
naugh, Eighteenth and Charles streets,
Omaha, aged is; Willie Cosgrove, f6G
Nicholas street, Omaha; L. G. Vinegar,
al bOouC, EICd ANtllStll,
Omaha; Lawrence Peterson, engineer
water works, Council Bluffs; Mrs. Car
roll, 1919 n. Seventeeth street, Omaha;
infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll;
Mrs Bradley, wife of molder, Union
Pacific shops, Omaha; infant son of Mr..
and Mrs. bradley; Dudson, son of Sam
Dudson, Omaha VIM. Summit, Mis-
souri, Valley; Mrs. Nelson, Omaha;
John Perkins, Omaha; Pierson, son of
Andrew Pierson, machinist, Is years
DID, John Larson, 16 years old, World
Herald carrier; Patrick Ssully, station
airy engineer, Union Pacific shops;
Miss Maggie Cosgrove, Omaha; Chas
Heiman, Missouri Valley, Ia, VIM. Will
son, Council Bluffs; Glare, son of
Robt. Glare, boilermaker, Omaha. head
off and body identified by shoes; John
Cosgrove, Omaha James E. Cosgrove,
head torn off from mouth up, identified
by laundry mark. Omaha; George A.
Lawrence, tinsmith, Omaha; Walter
Jennings, Missouri Valley, Iowa; John
McDermott, machinist, Omaha; Mary
Tracy, Omaha; Mrs. John Kahler,
identified in Council Bluffs, where she
lived; infant of Mrs John Kahler,
three months old: Philip Carroll, boy;
John Kinsey Omaha.
Injured-Engineer j. D. Mont
gomery, bones broken, deep cut over
eye; John Kahler, head cut and injured
internally, Council Bluffs; Jack Taylor,
head crushed, probably fatal, Council
Bluffs; Mrs Mary Scully, chest and in
ternal injuries, probabably fata, Oma-
ha; John McKenna, severely injured,
Omaha; Leonard H. Mack, head cut, Sc
we're injuries, Omaha; Michael Shannon,
extent unknown, Omaha; Henry Con-
rad, boy supposed to be stealing ride,
lives at Dayton, o., confusion of chest
and arms; --- Conrad, his brother,
similar injuries; Moses Baudo, Omaha,
probably fatally injured; Sam Dodson,
Omaha, chest and arms injured; j, A.
Lille, Omaha, president of the Union
Pacific Pioneers, chest contusions; J. j.
Fitgibbon, Logan, Ia, legs and chest
injured; Katherine Cosgrove, Omaha,
badly shaken up; Mike Leonard,
of South Omaha, slight injuries;
Stephen Meany, face cut, confusion of
chest; Miss letter, badly injured; Ter
esa Tracey, eye badly cut; Robbie
Buchtel, Omaha, nose broken; Lizzie
Byles, Omaha, arm broken; Jack Kin
ney, Omaha, internally injured;
- Hurley, badly hurt; Oliver Col
vim, Omaha, scalp wounds; An
ME Colvin, his sister, back hurt;
Eva Nelson, Omaha, limbs crushed;
Fred Kinsey, Omaha, shoulder crushed
and face cut; William Christensen,
Omaha, legs and back injured; II. M.
McMichael, Dayton, o., head cut and
hurt internally; E. Messerschmidt,
Omaha, legs crushed; j. j. O'Hearn,
Council Bluffs, breast crushed; Mrs. ].
j. o'Hearn, head badly cut and in
ternai injuries; Elsie Kahler, Council
Bluffs, seven years old, face badly
cut, hurt internally; Patsy Carroll,
Omaha, wrist broken, chest crushed;
Mary Tracy, head badly cut and body
horribly bruised. lives in Omaha; c. w.
Johnson, Omaha, head cut and legs
bruised; John SCHNEIDER, Omaha, chest
crushed; N. c. Kenna, Omaha, chest
and arm hurt.