Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-12

means that the southbound Ninth avenue
tTaln has the right-of-way and clear
Eleven Bodies Recovered.
Eleven bodies OF those Killed in the wreck
were taken to the Forty-seventh street
police station and laid out in row on the
floor OF the back ROOM and as fast as
persons who could convince the police that
they could make positive idenuhcations
reached the station house they were ad-
mitted AS the news spread the crowd in
front OF the station house increased until
there was danger OF a fatal crush, and ex-
ira police were ordered from adjacent pre-
cincts to aid in clearing the street
The head which was found detached from
the body was that OF Solomon Nugast. He
had been sitting at the front end Of the car
which jumped into the street when sharp
piece of board or metal severed his head
from his body as though done with an AK
Both head and body were found on the
tracks several yards apart
II am satisfied that the whole accident
was due to the neglect Of the switchman,"
said Coroner scholer I'm the first place,
he made a mistake in turning the Ninth
avenue train into Fifty-third street and
then added to his bunder by turning the
switch back again in an attempt TO divert
last mistake caused the terrible accident
and loss OF life"
Joseph Bach the policeman. died OF in
juries after having been taken to Roose-
welt hospital
switchman is Arrested.
Cornelius A. dickinson, the switchman.
who was blamed for causing the disaster,
was arrested at his home in West Twenty
second street. He maintained that he had
set the switch right.
General Manager Hedley OF the Inter
borough Rapid Transit company explained
the wreck as follows:
The wrecked train was a Ninth avenue
train southbound. The signals in the
switch tower were set for open track for
the Sixth avenue, southbound The train
went down Ninth avenue at rapid pace
and struck the switch. The curve at this
point is not banked. The train took the
switch, and at a rapid speed, and the first
car held to the rails simply through the
weight of the cars behind The strain was
so great that when half way around the
curve the coupling broke between the first
and second cars and the second Gays front
trucks damned the rails. There was moth
ing left to guide the second car and II
kept on I'm a straight line without turning
and went over the side of the structure
falling to the ground directly in front OF
the southeast corner of Flfty-third street
and Ninth avenue. II was a physical i'm
possibility for the syitchman TO have
I
moving rapidly over It, Statements to that
effect are absolutely incorrect.
Fatal Wreck in Illinois.
KANKAKEE, H., Sept ia rear-end
collision between two Chicago bound stock
trains on the Illinois Central early this
morning near Granville. on the Springfield
division of the Illinois Central, resulted in
the death of one stoekman, the injuring OF
| five others, besides an engineer and fire.
| man and the killing of two carloads OF
| horses. The caboose and ten cars of the
train run into were destroyed together with
the engine of the second train. The acct
dent was due to the bursting of an air hose
| followed by the breaking I'm two of the
second train which was closely following
the first. A heavy fog prevailed at the
| time. The dead: .....
w. H. GREER, Blue Mound, Ill.
The injured:
w. H. Thompson, Barclay, ILL., vertebra
| paralyized.
q. c. Thompson, Barclay, ILL.,: fractured
| ribs: scalp wound.
J. T.. Clerno, Farmer City, ILL.,; injured
| on right side of neck not serious.
A. Rothschild Petersburg, ILL.,; compound
| fracture of left leg.
Another stockman; left the scene before
his name could be learned
Engineer w. E. Ellwood of No 81, slightly
| injured. -'f.
The stockmen were caught in the caboose
and pinioned under the wreckage.