Show L DEAD the task a difficult one in many laso lases chatsworth ilia 1113 12 sensational features we were ro developed this morn irn ing as to the cause of the chatsworth wreck rumors were afloat las last t night that it was due to robbers who fired the bridge little credence wed wan ly given I 1 VO a them this morning mornine now facts apparently allowing the abo c atac to be the work or of au organ ora azeil band camy to light anil and tile he company find them worthy of seri aerl titia Armst armstrong roDg said bald to au an press reporter rep urier that the wore moru tie fie in ID it the more it appeared tu to him that flit bridge hall bail been set met on lire fire ile he had observed mail tt ilovea evets nl at work wd and had ami stopped y them while despoiling dea polling tho the wreck of trie property and many of the he robbing ul of the dead were being brought tn his attention the excursion had been extensively advertised und and the little it would pass pans over the iho bridge was well known the citizens say bay a gang lo bloking king fellows fellow had been loitering around chatsworth for pains layn days blany of those were found early at u tile wreck paying wore more attention to relieving tho the bodies of valuables than to caring carl rit lor for them the ruin rain men ind find be had frequent contentions with the vandals lit in one instance superintendent arm 8 trong found it 11 well known chlor in t iho he depot room where the property I 1 laken aken from the wreck was stored flor iid while the people of the town have done clone all in their power for tire the suf auf febers thero thera la Is a horde of tramps and ad thieves in the vicinity who do nothing but carry goffany thins they can lay their hands on the horrors of the chatsworth wreck seem to increase this morning instead of lessoning added to the pitiable spectacle of the daud and the ml norles irles of the bodying lying a stanch ston cli sickening and foul was basul ng from til all the numero places where the corpses were no picture or of ilia horrible occurrences immediately ealing succeeding eal ng tho the accident could equal lit in revolting the sconce at the depot here to 10 day the west weal end of the structure to la a coal house houam and lumber room where 1 promiscuously stretched on the floor flo r in tho the coal and rub rubb blat lih aro are seven unidentified sheets and blankets are thrown brown loosely over earli each but afford little protection from ill tha awer warms iris of flies continually hovering on them the awful odor corning coming from the bodies kept the ibe room clear of fill all but the hard handiest hardiest har diest est of the at I 1 I 1 I 1 11 ingerl n g cu dons or anxious ious crowd two of the victims I 1 were women and the slight eight ol of their acs was one never to be forgotten at 7 master blaster mechanic warren with a wrecking train and it large laire lai re force of men were at work confident tint that the track would be clear by noon and all the bodies be removed from the wreck president leonard superintendent endean armstrong and other were seen this morning they havo have given their undivided attention to the re ilef of the injured and the care of the dead loiti show slena signs of the shoe which the accident had been to them president Preal dent loan leon 11 ard rd said so lar far sn as the railroad could estimate there were about SU sll killed and seriously wounded there are ara many who were slightly injured of whom no record had bad bee kieen 11 obtained leonard said us 83 nee near r as could be ascertained tile the train was waa nuking huking I 1 about thirty miles an hour kit at the time of the accident till 18 s not un excessive rate or nt spend speed as the i he track was in good condition the bridge bridal an ordinary fifteen loot wooden structure was waa all right at 5 in ID the afternoon when a train passed over it and an hour later the section men inspected it it was then till all right at the morning session of 0 the cor car obern jury some decidedly bigald cant auant testimony was given timothy Coghlan section foreman stated L d that he be had bad four men on hit his section he I 1 received fordom wed we d to go over his section ai ard d dee bithe if the bridges bridge and track wore all r right ight coghlan Cogl iliin went to the east extend end of the section and burned the grass a 11 little over halt half it a mile from the wreck wrack he examined the bridge about 5 end and round found no break we was right about three weeks ago the iway grass under tho the bredito brid been cut away for ten feet irom from tho ilia bridge timbers and he be lind had no DO idea of how bow the bridge could catch fire Christop christopher hur ennis for or ilia hie fleet said mill he b went over tile lie road wednesday from to oil gil man lie ile went over the fatal bridge just 1 before 4 lathe afternoon t he waa las on an the car end ot of tile car and saw thattie that the bridge abali baj all right ile bald my opinion Is that the bridge was tta tiet ceton on fire by some one about a year ear ago till an attempt HI tern pi vita aa made alade to ti ditch ft a pm angor train at thill that bridge and we kept a watchmen watchman there for six alx weeks there were obstructions obstruction 1 placed on the track rock it to la a very lonely place and far from any house the body of mrs mr S mcclure a and a d her intent from Keiths burc rg have been identified from among the dead lying in the school houie home last night the last body was demov ed f from there ere today to da it was that ornies of mrs stoddard of fort madl n iowa anul tier body identified during the night was that of Bion biondic din nee florence of parkers corners illinois her husband ar rived 00 oo it adlaie lal e train found tier her body and shipp shipped d it home mrs mra blondin hittl her two little daughters with her ilia idi and bertha tho the tamer f has ono of her hips crushed but borth I 1 iti s but slightly injured sidel side u by y aide in the depot athla morning lay tile hie dead bodies of FR hill und and wife and baby from berwick ill III the bibe babe was placed onit ta lother a breaid bria it la in arjune pine box anil and the family sent on its return return trip home 84 verill people were at the depot tills llila hafle hf lemoon r DOOD when the I 1 train tal I 1 a firl ved beering the ho first drat of the w wounded from the crowd was so no largel aind tie HO eager to in it a view that hat it was very verj dian cult to control it ita amounts accounts of if the torri torribio blo disaster were obtained frain several pali oil oa the ilia I 1 train rain mr i M tenery was la in the first sleep el and add 1 I felt threw three distinct ho eks and then iben a sound hound had and on in out of the car law HW the one directly over the fire which was slowly eflowly blazing on tho stringers of the bridge I 1 got out la in safety an and d the scene presented to the eye and nd ear was one I 1 wish I 1 could for earr cpr efface from my memory but I 1 k know 11 ow I 1 cannot the shrieks of the dying and the faces of the dead will always stay with me to abild to the horror it was pitch dark save lor for the light of the tire under the sleep er wh which IN light lighted ed the faces of chwe about ionly only to make their four fear and anguish visible on thu the mouths of most at the corpses cori isra that could ta be seen been there was foam which showed that they died in agony at last wo we secured some noma feeble lights but bat the wind blow blew them out and about 2 the rain poured in torrents upon alion the iha unprotected and dying dyl ng in the iho hedges and corn fields adl Reent were devoted between frying to put butout putout out the fire ond and resea ine ng the dying whose cries for help was bee ng indeed one poor follow fellow whose legs were crushed cru billed he heath the limbers cried out in hla bid gy relief or I 1 will kill my 11 8 it which in a short time he did by himself with a revolver chien he dolc from ills his packet Mii 11 0 fliers lher ran wildly while crying for lost loft children and wives for hu husbands shands strong men were weeping cop copious os fears over the forms of their bola beloved v e d alv wives ea I 1 t prayers and entreaties and groans ronus fl filled I 1 led th elair until daylight when got to and re moved the dead and wounded from the scene 0 who was one of the for dunato ones occupying a berth was one of the first to begin assisting the injured he says bays the first work woric to badone be done was the quenching of the flames which immediately began to devour all the cof iches nil all ot of which were tilled with the dead and dying mr on passing one of the coaches was waa requested for gods sake eake take my child a babe which he immediately did and leaving it in as sa safe fo a place as could be found went into the car and ana fall found d the mother mrs neal of Mo saville just dead The scene in the cars care was beyond description one young child was found fastened near the roof of I 1 I 1 the car its head bead down where in the jar and concussion it had bad been thrown and was dead when taken down others were found in all conceive blo le shapes thrown ot oil their spats seats and 1 I loa d in the end of the cars can from gashes in the faces facea or other portions of the body william ellis ellia one of the file badly in aured says he was thrown four or five seats forward and stunned and when he recovered himself found others lying on him his watch was smashed in sad end stopped at 1213 he is of the tha opinion that the bridge bridga was set on fire by loungers around there whose motivo was to plunder the dead as he saw some suspicious suspicions looking follow fallows a taking ri rings ng f from ro in the fi fingers ligers and money andi and 1 valuables I ables from the pockets of others not able to resist description OF THE WHICH about 6 on the day odthe disaster disa etor one of the times staff was driven out to the wreck the drive way led along the left leta af the railway and to the south ot of the tha road was waa an old fashioned osage hedge he dieTLe The road was very muddy and full of chuck boles A stream of humanity was in from the wreck and some have checks in their hands bands car ried valises vali ses they wore were evidently pas on the ill fated train coun try boys and girls came ing hand handstand sand talking in low tones about the terrible disaster A photographer dragged his hi limbs limba along the abe track he was carrying a camera and a lot of negatives the road bed wait waa almost level just a little grade run ning up to the wreck at a raise of 10 or 18 feet to the mile about 21 2 or 3 8 miles from the town was the debris of tho wreck the sleeping martunes car Tunes was at the end of the train it was jacked in tho the air supported by the trestles the front end of the car was directly over the place where the bridge stood to the abe rightley right lay a coach acoach till all broken to kindlin liin dlin arwood and di r otly on the road its BI piled up op what was left of six or seven coaches turned bottom side up and broken beyond re recognition oo 00 i tion across the track in front of t abe pile lie of debris was a coach crossways at a bight of to ten teet feet iu in the air beyond wore were tho the two tenders and ono one engine one tender was to the left of the track the other to to 0 the right the they y were turned tamed hot bot torn m side bide up and rent asunder the engine was scarcely recognizable on the side of 0 the cab was the ill starred number 13 aud a big biff pans pano of glass gland marked marke d 13 along the hedge there w were era valises vali ses boots hats bats and all manner of articles arti olea of wearing apparel lanterns and seats from the cars it was an awful light sigbe hats had of 0 men and women broken and smeared with blood coats geeki reeking a g with gore and ladies underwear smeared with blood it was plain to be ba seen from the looks of baggage that thatty tag travelers were well to do it was simply imply horrible and mr E r A van zandt of peoria peona to the reporter for the am no words of mine can describe the awfulness of the scene seene I 1 was in no danger as no one in the six biz sleepers was more than shaken up but bat even then we rot got a bad shook shock I 1 felt three distinct bumps and then nichea rap boa out of the car and ran forward to the wreck there the scene was horrible the only light was the flamen of the burning bridge there was wan oae cue incident ol of the accident which stood out far more horrible than all the horrible bur scenes in the coach was nasau amati aaa his wife and little child ills ilia name could not be learned today to day but it la a said mil tie lie got on oil at peoria when tile the cul deat occurred the entire family of 0 three were caught and held down by broken woodwork finally w when hen relief iame came the man turned to tle ih e f friendly idly aid and sald said feelingly Kitling ly take out my wife wie hrat first I 1 am afraid the child ili ma ead dead 11 ile carried out the moth mother e r and as a broken r on seat was taken off her ber crushed bpettit the blood which welled from her lipi lip told how badly she ole was hurt they curried the child a fair cuir baided girl of I 1 three and laid tier her in the i orn born field dead along alongside elde her dying then they went ent b lie it io for r t the ile f a t I 1 0 r anil and brought I 1 him out both his big legs were veto broken but lid crawled craft led thru tigh the ilia corn to the side ut his ifland ife and feeling tile loved features it 11 the darkness bressel I 1 ome come brandy 11 0 lier her lips lim and inked asked tier her how she felt 1 idellie groan was as the ani ni answer and the next instant the she died the man felt the forms of his bla dead wife an and 1 child and cried out my led there 1 Is nothing ili morg more for me to live eye for and tak tailing ofil 9 a pistol out of his hi pocket pulled t the e tr trigger sr the bullet ballet went squarely through his brain and the three dez dead bodies of 0 the little family are now lying fi ride tie li by side in chatsworth waiting to be ident identified ed A OP OF ROBBERY no sooner had bad the reck occurred than a scene of robbery commenced some band of unspeakable miscreants reds crea ants heartless and with only criminal crimi nal alln in st inet s was a s on hand like the buerl guerrillas guerillas gu erillas laa who w h throng t h n g a battlefield the night after the conflict to filch from the dead the tha money which they saved from their meagre pit pay p stealing even tile tiie bronze medals ans and robbing from the ch children ildron of the heroes the emblems of their f fathers athers bravery so last night did these human bye hyenas plunder the ties dead and took even the shoes which covered their fe feet et who these wretches are is not no now known whether they were a band 0 of I 1 picklock ets eta who accompanied the t train rain or some robbery gong gang who were lurking in the vicinity cannot be said the horrible suspicion however hon ever exists that the f t accident was a deliberately planned cane came of train wrecking that the bridge was let get on fire by the miscreants miscreant a who hoped to seize t the lie opportunity offered and the fact that the bridge was so far consumed w when lien the train came along and the added fact that the train was an hour and a half late are pointed out as evidence of a conspiracy it seems hardly possible that men could be so lost to all ordinary feelings fee linzs which animates the breast of the human race but still men who will rob dealt dead men who will steal from the dying who tv he will plunder biln tho the wounded held I 1 iel 11 dawn by the broken beams 0 of a wrecked car and whose death by fire seemed imminent can do most moot anything is bas ba seana ennd that Is ia what these fiends in human |