The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-07-04
TWENTY LIVES
LOST IN WRECK
Wabash Train DitChed While
Running so Miles an Hour.
FIRE ADDED TO THE HORRORS
ENGINE RAN INTO AN OPEN
SWITCH.

4 ITCHFIELD. H. July 5--Ihe thlcaSo
limited on the Wabash railroad due
in St Louis at : D m a Gaif hour
late and running fifty miles an hour. was
wrecked tonight inside tpe city limits
The engine ran into an open switch and
struck a freight train on a siding The
engine and the first three coaches We're
piled in heap across the track. caught
fire and were consumed
It Is believed that twenty persons per
ished in these coaches aud that forty
were injured Three of the injured have
since died
The last car on the train. Il special from
Wisconsin was pushed back and saved
Nearly all the passengers were bound
for St Louis. and many Of them were
delegates to the Democratic national con
veution. ]. r Mills. one OF the dead. was
Internal revenue collector at Decatur.
III. and a prominent Republican one OF
the injured is r. II. Rose O. Riverside,
California. who was hurt internally
\ partial list of the killed 1ciloWs-
Dead
ST. Pierre Raid. Montreal. Canada
L O. Eschtadt- Chicago.
Mrs. c. + Luther. Milwaukee.
Dan II. Davis. Decatur. I'LL
Joseph Barber, delegate from North
Dakot2-
James Sanford. engineer, Decatur, III
Mrs.. Perkins Chicago
/ K MiiIa Decatur III
H. N. Durrich Toledo o
Rev w n Mills Eridgton. n J.
z A Dretrich Chicago.
Florence smith, Chicago
Miss Hawkins Chicago
Howard Groves. train dispatcher
Unknown boy, about l5' years Old
Injured
z. II. Rose Riverside. Cal internally
:. 4. AsqUiv!tch Waterloo, Ia, IN
william Archibald. Honeoye Falls, Ky
George Archibanld-
William Balls. chicago; fatally.
Mrs. CandyOu Milwaukee; internally
Gleason $ Ellis Narshfieid, I'll.
James Fszzel. Taylorville, III
Harry NJ Cassaway- 81 LOUIS
Jose-.h eire-n-
AIRS. Theresa Gehreg. internally
Mrs. Ann Kenyon. Kingston, Ky
Mrs Gertrude Kilt. Chicago
Mary Kilt t.
Miss Fannie Tipzo5 intsrnsl ly-
Mrs B. F. TeDney. Ada, MINI, IN
ternally.
Mr and Mrs. ". Bachelor Of Chicago
escaped with slight injuries
Burned.
Joseph Kit ten years old.
Joseph Kilt aged twelve
!. A Wiicoknut eHicagv.
s Livingston. collector or tram.
J. g Nacomber, Perry county, ny
Miss HuIdah Mock. Arlington Heights,
III
Harry Rink. Cincinnati
James s. Roberts. Catlin. Ind
Harry s Ru6ens- Chicagv.
William J. Schrad~r, Chicago
Frank smith. Chicago.
Ms Franz smith. Chicago
Mrs Elizabeth weber, Chicago seri-
Charles Ward, Chicago; serious
W. 3. Thorp Chester. Pa
Cars Caught Fire.
I'VE we're in the chair car at the rear
of the train and it did not leave the
track'' said MT. Bachelor. " nen the
accident occurred the front cars piled up
On the engine took fire and burned There
were dead and injured people al around
and il seemed to Us that there were forty
killed and probably the number IS not so
great
heavily loaded with passengers. The three
rear cars. q diner and two sieeperS were
not deraiied The other cars We're piled
,4n in an incescri5le mass. and Win
the crushed freight cars on the siding
toek fire. A rumor spread that one OF
the freight cars was loaded with explo-
sives ana for the time this had the effect
Of retarding the work OF the rescuers-
DIR. z J. H Farrell Of Chicago. one OF
the passengers, olrected the rescue Nork-
giving medical attention TO the injured
Temporary hospital headquarJers were
hastily established at E5tchfield ana the
injured were removed to 1t. = driving
rafnstorm prevailed. The dead We're re-
moved IS speedily Is possible 70 under
taIxing rooms II is probable that the
exact number of dead wiz not De known
for several DAYS as the passengers assert
that bodies were cremated III the burning
debris.