| Show P MAR A the death of a great many souls CAUGHT IN aar A COLLISION sad fate of a party of sunday excursionists heart intend ins ing scenes OMAHA neb nab july 32 12 blaha is a city of mourning today the bright sabbato Sab batt morning moraine brought the full fall realization of the greatest railway collision that ever wreaked wrecked death and desolation in the hearts and fi presides resides sides of its people no part of the cita was spared there are broken lomes homes and bleeding hearts everywhere and sorrow reigns supreme never bv belore lore has fate with one awful stroke made so mavy many mourners monr ners here never did a day of pleasure end with more awful disaster twenty eight people were killed and fifty fiffi one ona injured many ot whom will die twenty four dead are identified and the remains of others are so badly mutilated that idea tic ti cation tion is hardly possible all gembl buce of humanity being crushed out of the corpses corpes I 1 the collision took place at logan loean la Is william shaffer Bh affer agent ot of the northwestern at losan saw the excursion train palling up HO be supposed SUP Dosed st at first that the moi movement ement was waa for th the e purpose of harrying up any tardy m roem embers bera of the party and that the train would stop atop before it aft t the siding and wait for the passing of no 33 he was horrified to notice that ino in stead of slacking up at the switch end the train was waa rapidly taking on more speed he rushed down the and asked an employed if the had pulled out and received an affirmative firma tive reply then god help them 11 said shatter shaffer they nave pulled 0 out u t without wit heat orders and no 33 38 is due in a minato st bat it was iia too 0 late fate to evert avert the catita all losan logan was on the platform cheering for the excursionists and the excursionists had just pined joined in an offer of three cheers for loran logan and her he people the echo of the last hurrah had bad not died away when the crash rame came no N 0 38 with a full fall head of steam and one minute behind time dashed around the curve at a forty mile gait and no human power could avert the disaster the work of removing the dead and injured from the forward coach was B at once oace begun this proved no easy task the floor of the baggage car was found so tightly wedged into the coach that all efforts to remove it wera futile a although a phout thousand and willing bands were joined in the attempt to lift the cover that was concealing the dead and imprisoning prison ing the injured in a living tomb finally an ax was procured and a see section of the car floor cut cat away the sight revealed was beyond the power of words to portray the first firs object to attract the attention of the rescuers re when the section of the tha alaor was removed was the upright body of a man whose heat heal had bad been bean almost severed irom from the so go recent bad been the accident that the blood from his wound had bardar started to flow and his iskala stripped of its covering glistened like a polished billiard ball the body of the man maa was drawn from the ruing and was soon identified as that of john kenkel an omaha Inus musician ician who had been playing with the band at the picnic the next bodies to be ba drawn from toe the mins mina were those ot mrs bradley and her babe a child about a year old tte tta babas head was waa badly crushed crashed but bat she held in her arms a pretty doll that was as i and fresh as aa when it came from its shelf in the toy store state it appeared that the space in the car be dwean the floor of the coach and tae taa flar of the baggage car was packed with dead and dying groans sad and azoni appeals for help cams came from the injured and spurred sparred the res c ciers asro to their greatest efforts As aa soon aa 89 a little specs space within was cleared cleare 4 the workers climbed inside the coach and i the work of passing up the dodies of the dead and injured progressed more I 1 rapidly it seemed as aa if the end would never be reached twenty five dead bodies were taken out and laid in a row on the grass alongside the railroad track and the injured were at once taken in carriages to in ina a short time an appeal for help had been answered by all the physicians from logan and missouri valley galley and then some eoma system was wag introduced into the manner of 0 can carrying ying on the res rescue a ne work there was a great lack of material for binding the wounds of the In bui lared ared and pocket hanak handkerchiefs lunch towels and linen articles of 0 wear ifft apparel were confiscated for the th purpose then the dead were taken and ro rot moved to the undertaking establishment and laid out oat on improvised cooling boards board for ind cation bodies were taken to that place thera was no room for them is in the part of the store set aside for the tak ing department and the bodies were placed about in the salesroom there has been no preliminary preparation of the remains they were carried to the store just as they had deen been taken from the wreck the bodies were covered with bood blood and many of them mangled bamond recognition their heir blood covered the floor of the store 8 re until the place looked like a slaughter house hoase it was after when the work was waa finally completed and the remains brought to omaha |
