Show AN OMAHA DISASTER OMAHA neb july 12 is in a city of 01 mourning mour today the bright sabbath morning brought the full realization of the greatest catastrophe that ever wreaked wrecked death and desolation tn in the hearts and fi resides of its people no part of the city was spared there are broken homes and bleeding hearts everywhere every w here and sorrow borrow reigna reig no supreme au never before has baa late fate with one awful stroke made so BO many mourners here bore never did a day of pleasure end with more awful disaster twenty eight people wre were killed and fifty one in aured many of whom will die awen ty gy four dead are identified and the remains of others are so badly mut mutilate ilat ed that identification is hardly possible all semblance of humanity b slag being crushed out of the corpses it was not until alter after the morning papers were out that abat the first authentic information was gen generally brally known then it spread with wonderful rapidity the early riser in the residence district glanced at his morning paper and for the first time realized the calamity those who bad no friends on the abe ili fated train were almost equally coDe concerned orned aud long before the motor trains started hund hundreds huntrods rods of men ani women walked down town to learn something more of the terrible 0 catastrophe these theme were added to the thousands to whom the story brought the fear ear or certainty of a personal be rea reay ement the depot was the center toward which they all turned and when the morning trains brought their bad ad burden of dead and dying the be depot approaches were thickly massed with people who talked in whispers and shuddered as they thought of the bereaved one to whom they could only offer silent eilent sympathy very little was said by those who gathered to witness the next not in the great tragedy the horror of the calamity was waa too now new to find expression in words but one sentiment was waa everywhere voiced it was burning indignation at the action of the railroad company to in refusing satisfaction to the thou sands of men and women who had bad waited all through the long night to bear some news of their loved ones only those who had seen the he pathetic scenes cones that marked the night could fully realize the brutality that had dictated such a policy the spectacle of fainting women and strong men in tears while the railroad officials only hardened their hearts heart and grimly stated slated that they were not giving out information inspired a degree of in dig dign atlon nation that will not die out for years year to te come I 1 it took much time to prepare the in aured for their journey to this city et t was necessary to transport them to a considerable distance after the wounds were dressed owing to the number it took still more for the physician physicians even though they worked as ac hard bard and as fees fast as they could to ad 1 joist tiet the banda gets and to tenderly dress the ghastly wounds that caused men man aud aua women and children to scream la in me line loudest tone in their supreme agony thus it was that hours elapsed after the departure of the first section of the return train which carried the unhurt before the second section was started the latter carried all the wounded whose hurts were 1 of any magnitude it had also on board such friends of the injured would not be torn away from or forced to leave the sides of their suffering loved ones the section consisted of two coaches a bag baggage gaite car and ana pullman they were oro crowded eded to an uncomfortable de gree in order to hold bold the great number that boarded it the baggage oar car was reserved for those who required cots and stretchers tor for the journey the other was for those who were able to sit up and were less Inja injured reu the interior of the baggage car presented the most pathetic sight eight here were ranged end to end and the cots which bore the most seriously injured they filled the oar car to the fullest capacity boom was hardly allowed for the physicians to pass from one little bed to 1 another in their efforts to alleviate the pains of the sufferers as much as their mortal powers would allow groans and ad screams filled the oar car from one end ad to the other OMAHA neb july 12 A special to the bee from logan la in says william shaffer agent of the northwestern at logan saw the excursion train puffing up he supposed at first wat that the movement was tot for the purpose of hurrying up any aay tardy of at the party and that the abe iralu would stop before it left the siding and wait for the passing of no 88 he was borgi horrified fied to notice that aba instead of slacking up at the switch end cod the train was rapidly taking on mote more speed peed he rushed iowa down the platform and asked an employed it if the special had bad pulled palled out and received an affirmative reply then god help them said aid shaffer Bb afier they have pulled out without orders order v and no SS 38 la Is due in a minute but it was too late to avert the batse all logon logan was on the platform cheering lor for the excursionists and the bad just joined in an offer of three cheers for logan and her people the echo of the last laet hurrah had bad not died away when the graah came no 38 with a full head ot of steam and one minute behind timp time dashed around the curve at a forty mile gaiti gait and ana no human power could avert the be disaster the work of removing the dead and injured from the forward coach was at once begun this proved no easy task tank the floor of the baggage car was wag found so ao tightly wedged into the coach that all efforge to remove it were found futile although a thousand willing hands were joined in the attempt to list lilt the cover bover that was waa concealing the dead and imprisoning the injured in a living tomb finally an axe was procured and a section of the oar car floor out away the sight eight revealed was wae beyond the power of words worde to portray the first object to attract the attention of at the rescuers when the section of the floor was removed was the upright body of man whose head bead bad been almost covered fevered from the trunk go bo recent bad been the accident that the blood from hie bis sound hound had hardly hard started to flow and his him skull stripped of its covering glistened like a polished pol labed billiard ball the body of the man was drawn from the ruins and was soon identified as that of john kenkel an omaha musician mue ician who had been playing with the band at as the picnic the next bodies to be drawn from ruins rains were those of mrs brandley and ana her bar babel babe a child about a year old the babas head was badly crushed but she be held in her arms a pretty doll that wax was as and fresh as ae when it came from its shelf in the toy store twenty five dead bodies were taken out and laid in a row low on the grave alongside the railroad track and the injured were at once taken in carriage to logan |