The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-07-18

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Tho dead:
| FRANCIS A BARCLAY. 20 years
old, Billings, Mont.
GEORGE BRoWNSON, IS years
old, Galesburg, H., engineer train
No. s. .......
A. E. BUNCH, 80 years old. Chi
cago, negro porter of Pullman car on
train No. 2.
MRS. NJ. C. HAIR, wife of physi-
clan at Canton, o.
MRS. E. G. PoHLMANN, of San
Francisc
NJ. E. STERN, 40 years old, Chica-
LILLIAN KELLEY, % years old,
Boise, Idaho.
G. W. TUDOR, 40 years old, Lacey,
Iowa. 49,
MRS. G. w. TUDOR, aged about
35, of Lacey, Iowa.
LOIS TUDOR, aged Z years, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. Tudor, Of
Lacey, Iowa. .*
The Unidentified Dead.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN, As years
old, gray eyes, black and white
striped waist and blue skirt.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN, 40 years
old, light hair, medium build, blue
serve dress, black patent leather
shoes with white tops: C. L. P" to
IL. P. H." engraved on jewelry.
UNIDENTIFIED BOY, years old,
linen dress, red socks and black san
dale.
The injured.
Among those injured were:
H. o. Grain, Galesburg, ILL.,, fireman
of mail train, left hand and right foot
injured.
Warren P. Dudley, IA Oak street,
Belmont, Mass.
Mrs. Bessie M. Dudley wife of War
rem P. Dudley, compound fracture of
right leg. .-
John w. Flack, Cincinnati, right leg
lacerated, scalp wound.
Mrs. Flack, Cincinnati, severe
scalp wounds.
Frank D. Hughes, Hinsdale, Ill.,,
conductor train No. 8.
E. G. Pohlmann, San Francisco,
right arm and right leg broken.
Rev. E. H. Scholz, st. Francis hos
pital, Columbus, O., back injured and
scalp wounds.
Miss Katherine Griswold, 1872 Far
we'll avenue, Milwaukee, spine in
jured and knee cut.
Miss Lyme Johnson, Chicago, shout
der dislocated and knee and hand cut.
William McNair, II years old, No.
II Kalmuth street, Denver, head and
face severely cut!
Mrs. E w. Francis, Bedford, Ind,
severely bruised about the body.
o. R. Marsh, Chicago, back injured.
John E. Parsons, Dixon, H., burned
about the hands and legs.
H. F. Joy, Chicago, arms and hands
cut and bruised.
Mrs. J. c.. Krehl, Girard, o.. spine
injured and several ribs fractured.
All of the dead except Brownson
were taken from the rear coach OF
the Denver train. The engine of No.
8 plowed through this car, halving it
and crushing out the lives of helpless
passengers, many of whom still were
in their berths. On into the second
coach the engine then sped. Half
way through that car it veered to the
left, derailing the sleeper. The en-
CINE was entirely stripped when it
stopped.
Gas Stars a Fire.
Fire starting from the gas lights in
the sieepers Immediately broke out.
Many victims, pinioned down by
heavy timbers and iron that had been
torn from the engine, pleaded for
death or deliverance from the flames.
Members of the fire departments of
Western Springs and La Grange were
on the scene within a few minutes
after the wreck occurred and they
put out the fire with lines of hose.
Ghouls are believed to have robbed
the dead before they reached the
morgue in La Grange. More than a
dozen large diamond sets were miss
ing from jewelry and although most
of the dead appeared to have been
persons in comfortable circumstances,
a dime was the largest sum of money
found on any of the bodies. Coroner
Hoffman promised a thorough inves-
tigation of this feature of the acct
dent.
An official of the interstate COM
merce commission was on the scene
early gathering material for an in
vestigation. Coroner Hoffman order
ed all OF the bodies embalmed imme-
diately, and early in the afternoon
impaneled jury to investigate the
wreck.
Cause Stories Differ.
Another story of how the wreck oc-
CURED differed from that of Mrs. Will
cox. 1t was that No. 2, having been
blocked by a signal, had sent back a
brakeman to set torpedoes to warn
No. s.
No. was coming down grade when
the crash came. Persons responsible
for the story of the torpedoes said
that No. had been given signal
that the track was clear and that the
craw aithar had sailad 10 hear the