Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-04

ers. Here in this trackless country
Rube Burrows, the noted outlaw and
train robber, for whose dead body the
Southern Express company paid so large
sum, held full sway and robbed "a at
will until a few years ago when the
price on his head furnished an incentive
for the avaricious and daring detective
and man-hunter. In these mountain
fastenings along the banks of the roman
tic Cahaba, the brave but Inflated Rube
for awhile found safe retreat. and de-
fed the progress of civilization IN deYel-
opment of coal mines and building of
railroads.
The outlaws and moonshiners have re-
tired and their trails are now the road
bed of railroads which skim along the
mountain sides and cross and recross
the deep and dark gorges, reaching out
to the many openings along the great
coal seams of this district The out
laws have paved a way, but the rug
ged cliffs, the precipitous banks, the
dark and narrow defles and the rush
ing torrents remain and will be for all
time.
Between these rugged banks down in
to the deep abyss below, onto the sharp
rocks in the bed of the river, the Bloc
ton train plunged yesterday with it's
freight of more than two score souls.
Many felt but the shock of an instant
ard all was over and there were few left
to tell the dreadful story.
The Railroads. Estimate.
Louisville, Ky, Dec 2S.-At the head
quarters of the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad company in this city the state
ment is made that the catastrophe re-
suited in twenty dead and eight injured.
This is according to kilograms received
by Supt. of TRANSPORTATION George e.
Evans. Mr.. Evans maintains that
the wreck is the result of
carefully planned scheme of
the idea that it was due to carelessness
on the part of the division superintend-
ent or subordinates. He said he could
not see how the wreck could have oc-
Cured except as prearranged affair, as
the trains move over the bridge at q
very slow rate Of speed, and it would
take very serious disarrangement of
the rails to cause the train to jump the
track.
1t was reported early last night that
175 people had been killed in the wreck
Mr.. Evans at once secuted the idea. He
said that there were only two coaches
in the train with a capacity of about
100. The fact that the train was local
and that it was Sunday would argue
against such a number as It's.
Number of Dead Increasing.
Atlanta. Ca, Dec. ga special to the
Journal from Birmingham says: ''At
noon today the lisr of dead from yester-
days bridge disaster at Cahaba river on
the Birmingham Mineral road have in
creased to twenty-four. S. W. Tibbs
and wife of Badger, it develops, boarded
the Inflated train at Gunree, and have
not since been seen. 1t is believed now
that they were in the wreck and burned
entirely up. This runs the list of dead
up to twenty three, and added to this
is W. D. Ross, bridge carpenter, hurt
in the collision between two wrecking
trains at the scene of disaster who died
today. He was the twenty-fourth death
from the wreck Another bridge car
penter named Estes had both legs cut
off in the second wreck and will die Of
the wounded in the bridge disaster two
will likely die before night.