Show THE LOGA3V IOWA DISASTER The terrible railway accidant at Logan Lo-gan Iowa Saturday whereby twenty I eight people were killed and half a hundred more or less seriously injured I was a most lamentable and heart sickening I sick-ening affair So far as the dispatches state there seems to have been no ne din d-in the world for it It was a headend collision and such collisions never occur oc-cur without gross or criminal carelessness careless-ness on the part of some railway oil cial Such was the case at Logan When the excursion train pulled out of Logan the station agent there knew that another train was due in a few minutes and when he saw the train move out of the station he exclaimed God help them The conductor of that excursion train should have known that fact also and knowing it he never in the world would have pulled out Someone was criminally careless and if the blame can be located lo-cated that person should be sent to the penitentiary whether it was train dispatcher dis-patcher station agent or conductor It makes no difference who was guilty I the accident was none the less dreadful dread-ful When such occur to an excursion party on pleasure bent they seem all the more horrible because the thoughts of all are so far removed from death Such accidents are of periodical occurrence occur-rence but that fact does not take from all the horror attending them This one at Logan should be thoroughly investigated in-vestigated Someone was to blame the blame should be fixed |