Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-11
DEATH LIST
REACHES lis
OF THE 1853 PASSENGERS ON I'LL
FATE DTRAIN ONLY THIRTY
EIGHT LIVE.
OTHER BAD ACCIDENTS
Four People Die in Collision Between
B. & o. Passenger Train and a
Freight In chicaso-carry-All Is
Struck BY Trolley Car in New York

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Struck BY Trolley Car in New York.
Pueblo, Aug. 10-Of the 1853 passen-
gers now known to have been on the
Inflated Missouri Pacific flyer which
was wrecked at Eden Sunday night,
eighty of the dead have been identi.
fed, two are yet unidentified, and
thirty-three are missing.
Wreck Victim Almost Blind.
After wandering about since the ac-
cident, William H. Henry, a travelling
man, whose home is given as Green.
vile, Tenn, reached Pueblo yester-
day. He is nearly blind and almost
insane from hardship and exposure
He was carried nine miles down the
flood and had been walking aimlessly
about without food or water. He was
taken to hospital, where he Is in
serious condition. He is unable to
give coherent account of what hap.
pened to him.
H. D. Wood, wife and daughter, of
Minneapolls,who are reported to have
been on the i'll fated train, have not
been found among the victims
Miss Margaret Donnelly. of Des
Moines, Ia, who was thought to have
been killed, has been found safe.
Organized searching parties scour-
ed the Fountain river banks for miles
yesterday in the hope of finding more
bodies. Seven were recovered and a
number identified.
coroner's Jury Views Scene.
A coroner's jury was called, which
viewed the scene Of the wreck yester-
day and examined number Of wit.
nesses yesterday afternoon. The cor
oner has issued public call to all
having any information concerning
the wreck to come before the jury.
Wreck on B. G. O.
Chicago, Aug. u -Four persons-a
mother and her three children-were
killed and eight others injured in a
wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road at Brighton Park grade crossing,
Western avenue and Thirty-eighth
street, late yesterday afternoon. The
accident was due to lnisunderstand-
ing of signals that caused freight
train on the Chicago and Erie road to
crash at right angles into a passenger
train. Evidences Of responsibility as
they came to the police pointed to
such negligence on the part of some
4 one that Assistant Chief Schuettler or
dered many arrests, and the crews of
both trains and the semaphor man
were placed in Jail pending the in
quest, which will be held today.
i The Dead.
Those who were killed in the COLI.
sion were:
1 MRS. c. G. SCHWARTZ, Garrett,
Ind.
j LESTER SCHWARTZ, 4 years old,
Garrett, Ind.
EARL SCHWARTZ, 8 years old
! Garrett, Ind.
i CHESTER SCHWARTZ, 4 years
old, Garrett, Ind
: The injured persons live In Chicago
J, Eight Men Arrested.
The persons whom Assistant Chic
} Schuettler ordered arrested and wht
were placed behind the bars are:
Clarissy, Matthew, semaphore ma,
| at crossing.
Bodley, George. 1923 West Fifty-thir,
street, engineer of freight train.
Waller, P. F, 915 Garfield boule
ward. conductor of freight.
Ldnusfdl, Jonn, 5o54 Princeton ay
enue, fireman of freight.
Moore, Harry, 5743 Union avenue
brakeman of freight.
Mclaughlin, ]. W., engineer of pas
senger train.
Allen, Charles H., conductor of pas
senger.
McPheeter, H., fireman of passenger
Deadly Grade Crossing.
The scene at the wreck is a dead
ly grade crossing. 1t is at Brighton
Park. where the tracks of the Chica
go and Alton, running east and west
cross those of the Panhandle. tn
Chicago Terminal Transfer lines. th
last of which are used by the Bait
more & Ohio.
Fatal Accident in New York.
New York, Aug. 10.-A carry.al
, containing four persons was struck b,
| a Coney Island trolley car near th.
t Brighton Beach race track early TODAY
Thomas Osborne, clerk of the Cone,
Island police court, was killed. Alder
!. man Frederick Lundy was fatally in
: jured. Many of the occupants wer,
: also hurt