The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-07-05
WABASH TRAM WRECKED
Twenty Killed and Forty More
Meet With Serious Injuries

The engine ran into an open switch
and struck a freight train on a din
The engine and the first three coaches
were piled I'm a heap acros sthe track,
caught fire and were consumed.
1t is believed that twenty persons
persisted in these coaches and that
forty were injured. Three of the in
jured have since died.
The last car on the train. a special
from Wisconsin, was pushed back and
saved. Nearly all of the passengers
were bound for ST. Louis, n many
of them were delegates to the Demo
cratic National Convention. l. II.
Mills, one of the dead, was internal
revenue collector at Decatur, H., and a
prominent Republican. One OF the
injured is E. II. Rose of Riverside,
Cal, who was hurt internally.
I'VE were in the chair car at the
rear of the train, and it did not leave
he track" said w. Bachelor of h
cago. when the accident Occurred
the front ears piled up on the engine,
took fire and burned. Thee we q
dead and injured all around, and IL
seemed to us that there were forty
killed, and probably the number is
is not so great"
The rtain consisted of six cars all
heavily loaded with passengers. The
three rear cars, a diner n two sleep
ers. were not derailed. The other cars
were piled up in a indescribable mass.
and with the crushed freight cars on
the siding took fire. A rumor srpead
that one of the freight cars was loaded
with explosives, and for a time this
had the effect of retarding the work
Of the escue
DR.. p. j. H. Farrell of Chicago. one
of the passengers directed the rescue
work. giving medical attention to the
injured. Temporary hospital headquar-
tiers were hastily established at Litch-
field, and the injured were removed to
it. A driving rainstorm prevailed.
The dead were removed as speedily as
to undertaking rooms. 1t Is
probable that the exact number of the
will not be known for several
lays AS the passengers assert that
ocdies were cremated in the burning
A. E. Darling Of st. Louis, one of the
on board the observation
said:
Il saw two persons burned to death.
was a man and the other a girl.
do not know their names. Wreckage
Ield them down until the heat became
and the men who were try
to save them could not remain
moment. There vas another
Messenger. a oman whose feet were
down by a heavy beam. II
,ould not be moved and she begged
hat her feet be cut off. The flames
Irove everybody away before she could
,e saved.
IF. Ward of Chicago Shove partic-
liar nerve. One of his legs had been
orn off. When he was carried out of
he wreck he said: Lay me down
and go back mad save the
women and children"
The wounded were mostly taken to
private houses in the vicinity of the
and later on those who wee
,ble were removed to hospitals. The
late tonight.
Charles Corneauk, stanton agent at
Litchfeid, said that the wreck was the
esult of malicious michief. He said IL
was plain that the switch had been
'ampered with.
Alongside the train on a side track
vas a box car filled with powder. con-
of about 500 cans. All the
passengers of the wrecked train who
were able to help n many of the
of Litchiseld removed the
powder from the car and carried it a
safe distance from the flames.
Dead: st. Pierre Bald, Montreal.
Canada.
l.. O.. Ecshtad at, Chicago.
Mrs. c. F. Luther, Milwaukee.
Dan III. Davis, Decatur. Ill
Joseph Barber, delegate from North
James Sanford. engineerfi Decatur.
Ill.
Samuel Smith. fireman. Decatur. III.
Mrs. Perl-las, Chicago.
I. III. Milla, Decatur, Ill.
III. NJ. Dutrich, Toledo. O.
Rev. N. NJ. Mills, BIidegton, n. J.
r. A. Dretrich. Chicago.
Florence Smith, Chicago.
Miss Hakins, Chicago.
Howard Groves, train dispatcher.
Unknown boy, about Is years old,
Injured; F.. II. Rose, Riverside. Cal.
Internally.
S. A. Asquevitch, Waterloo. Ia, IN
ernally.
William Archibald. Tconeoye Falls,
Ky.
George Archibald.
William Balls. Chicago. fatally.
Mrs ~IWauk internally. |