Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-30

Adrian injured. Subtracting these
forty-three from the 10 immigrants
Deputy Moran says were aboard the
train, leaves a loss among the Italians
alone of sixty-seven. In addition,
!! eight other bodies We're recovered and
identified, which makes a total of
seventy five dead.
When seen by the Associated
Press superintendent Burns of the Wa
bash railroad insisted that the death
! loss was being estimated too high.
AS near as l can estimate now" said
! he. there are twenty two dead We
have eight identified bodies, and we be-
lieye that the fragments found repre-
sent fourteen other bodies.
Superintendent Burns declared that
the estimate of Customs Collector Mo-
ran was too high.
| Father Francis Beccerrni, pastor of
the Italian church of San Francisco,
in this city, went to the Wabash wreck
near Seneca yesterday in the hope of
aiding some of his countrymen. From
Giovanni Folorno, the young Italian
who is dying in the farm house near
est the wreck, and from papers in his
pockets Father Beccherini found that
the party of immigrants came from the
southern part of Italy. Folorno comes
from Carcino, in the province of Son
drio.
The party came on the steamship La
Campagnie. Arriving in New York, the
band went to some Mulberry street
banker" as the small Italian bankers
are called, and exchanged their money.
Then they were given tickets to San
Francisco. The priest is sure the immi-
grants We're bound for San Francisco. as
In Folorno's pocket was his ticket for
that point
But how asked the father, did this
boy get out of Italy? How into this
country? He is under Is years OF age.
He has no passport from Italy. / think
/ know. These men We're being brought
over on contract as laborers, to be ia
ken to San Francisco.
.Folorno could not even tell me how
many came across with him on the
train. When / asked who got him to
come over mere he looked suspicious at
once and could see that he had been
instructed to say nothing. He only an
swered that "a man had brought them
across to work He said he had been
given the s25 which he had with him by
certain Mulberry street banker whom
know Of, have already written to this
Mulberry street banker to find out how
many came and who they We're"
Pietro Cardiello. Italian consular
agent in Detroit, returned to the city
yesterday from the scene of the Wabash
wreck near Seneca, to which he had
hurried to look after the interests of his
countrymen. so many OF whom were
burned to death. He said he was not
yet able to form anything like correct
estimate of the number OF Italians
killed.
while can not tell how many were
killed" said he. II am inclined to think
the estimates thus far are trifie ex-
aggerated. I shall do everything in my
power to determine the number Of Ital-
ian victims and to secure information
concerning them, but II will require
time 1t will probably be necessary to
send to Italy for the names of the i'm
migrants who were on the train and
then check the list with those who es-
capped
Whether the terrible loss of life sus-
tanned by Italians will be made the sub
ject Of correspondence between the
United States and Italy the consul
could not say
1T Is not my place to notify the Ital-.
Ian government" he said. That would
come within the jurisdiction of Count
Rozwadowski. the italian consul at
Chicago, who Will also look after the
injured victims in the Peru hospitals.
have no doubt that he has already adj
vised our government of the accident"