Omaha daily bee., 1898-10-09
), waiter, OF Chicago.

OTTO HOMEDALE, conductor OF din
ing car, scalded and injured about the
body. Lives at Boone, la.
THOMAS PARSONS, waiter in dining car,
crushed and scalded. Will probably die.
Home in Omaha.
Seriously injured
j. WESTERHEIDE, Omaha, internally in
iured.
NJ w. BRANDT, engineer OF freight en-
gine No. 200, internally injured
MIKE SMITH, engineer of freight engine
No. 81. internally injured
FRANK SPECK fireman freight engine
No. 200. cut about face and body and prob
ably internally injured
- MADDEN, fireman of freight engine No.
67, hurt about head and shoulders.
ID. +. BANNER, Pullman car porter, hurt
by falling glass.
The following walters and cooks in the
dining car were more or less injured about
the hands and face by flying glass and
splinters:
T. c.. Madray, Chicago.
Fred Leonard, Chicago.
Henry Jones, Chicago.
Thomas Robinson, Chicago.
Passenger Train Was Empty.
The Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha train, which arrived at a. m,
had discharged its passengers, and
after lying at the station for an hour
was backed down into the yards. On the
rear end was the Chicago & Northwestern
dining car Delmonico with its crew Of
six, Otto Hollandale, dining car conductors
Walters Madray, Winters and Parsons, and
Cook Going. No guard stood on the rear
platform.
Pulling heavy through freight OF twenty
cars were engines No. 81, in charge of Mike
Smith and Fireman Madden, and No. 200,
in charge of NJ. w. Brandt and Fireman
! Speck The double header came round the
curve just above Pinkney street at a speed
| of fifteen miles an hour. The track is
| down grade there.
Busy about their cleaning up, joking
whistling, comparing tips and planning for
this days amusement, were the crew of the
| dining car. The last thing that would have
| entered their heads was a collision. II
| there had been a guard on the rear platform
the tale would have been different. AS it
| is one man lies dead and five are badly in
| j1red With a shrieking of whistles and
/ a ripping and swapping the en-
| gines crashed into the dining car
and 81 was completely buried. Harry
| Cones, waiter, was in the rear of the
car. He was caught between the pilot and
table and horribly crushed. Fly
! ing glass and escaping steam
| added to the horror. While the walters were
smashing windows and crawling out as best
| they could amid the escaping steam, the
| freight crew came running up. None Of
them were injured. They had been able to
see their fate and had jumped.
| While the crew was working to help the
sufferers a patrol wagon with seven police
l a,,I IoII 40, No a,1I
hose cart No. . dashed up beside the track.
Clearing Up the Wreck.
In moment the men were at work with
| axes, crowbars and picks. The freight crew
stood about Offering desultory assist
ance. They seemed dazed and un-
| able to do anything but sit around.
By this time all of the walters were out
of the car and the firemen turned their at
tention to recovering Cones body They
soon found it wedged between the second
table from the rear of the pilot but it was
crushed and burned almost beyond recog-
milton.
Engines and wrecking derricks were sent
to the scene and before II o'clock the -four
coaches and two sleepers of the passenger
trains had been drawn away.
So violent was the collision that the first
freight engine poughed TO the middle OF
the dining car and the tender of the second
was lifted from the track and jammed
against the first freight car.
The wounded were carried to the patro
wagon and sent to St. Joseph's hospital.
Every minute brought more and more peo
pie to the scene. Some came in carriages
some on horseback and others on bicycles
The center of interest was the splash O.
blood on the carsde where poor Cones wa!
taken from the wreck So eager were tn,
people who had rushed to the scene to hell
in the rescue that the police had difficulty il
keeping them back Partially recovered
from his shock Waiter Madray accompanied
the fremen into the wrecked car and tossed
out the mems clothing and personal belong
lngs. These were left in a pile beside tn
track under the eye of officer Kelly.
, Waiter Madray, who dove head foremos
, ! through the fifth window, escaped without
scratch.
Madray's story.
'I was changing my clothes" said he
when l heard a shrek and was throw
violently against a table. Golly!
thought my time had come when the ca
began TO rise right up. When l looke
round and saw an engine coming right dow
the aisle l thought I'd better leave, so
> jumped and landed on my back No, In
: /
, where my new suit is and he starte
through the pile of rescued clothing.
This is the story of Engineer Brandt, VIII
was on engine 200 the second one
I'VE were coming round the curve at
speed of fifteen miles an hour. 1t is dow
grade here, you know. When it was to
late l saw the passenger train ahead.
whistled for down brakes, but the enginee
. in the first engine seemed to lose his head
: So put on my brakes and jumped, tellin
my fireman to do so, too"
Save for the smokestack, sand box an
. whistle and cab OF engine No. 81, the en-
= gines are practically uniniured, but the din
q / ing car is a wreck. Its rear truck is force
against the forward one and engine No. G
stands in its place. OF the freight. onl
two cars, the fourth and fifth, left the tracks
and they are merely capsized.
! Condition of the Injured.
, Thomas Parsons, the dining car waite
2 who was badly scalded and crushed in tn
z wreck, and Otto Homedale, the conductor
g the dining car who was almost cooked b
. the steam that escaped from the engin
. that caused the wreck, are reported to be
4 the same condition as when they wei
3 brought to St, Josephs hospital. Little {
Il no hope IS entertained for their recovery.