Show telegraphic telegraphic NEWS foria august 11 it was a wild throng which surrounded the union depot in peoria peona this morning the the wreck of the niagara excursion train of fifteen coaches and two engines had bad spread like wildfire there were excursionists from peoria canton eureka and other places many well known and highly respected throughout central illinois were aboard aboard all ail sorts of rumors were floating around and the number of killed were variously bariou estimated at from 6 to at all stations along the line larye lame crowds had bad gathered to hear the latest from peoria some wild rumors prevailed but nothing of an authentic nature could be learned when the relief train reached its destination ti the sad and GHASTLY SIGHT was brought to view ten coaches bad either zone eone through the bridge or were piled up in promiscuous heaps crosswise land and lengthwise of the track the shrieks and groans of the wounded and dying could be heard the bridge through which the cars was a small one it had been on tire fire which was the caufie baube of its breaking so far ever seventy bodies have been recovered no one has been taken from under the cars and not even a sound can be heard from them it is feared all are dead the wounded so tar far number the following are KILLED ed mcclintock peoria engineer aged 88 he leaves a wite wile and tw two Z aged children ildren the son of ezra reek meek aged aed 11 20 ol 01 eureka mississippi may laws of eureka arthur mccarthy of eureka I 1 jas blair of eureka mrs airs dr ducat dacar of forest baby safe wife of traveling man of kankakee godel father and son bell stevenson and two dau daughters ca captain p tain dahlke mrs birs jam james q deul deal mrs wm vm allen alien mrs wro wm ball ausle ball miss pearl adarae writ wit I 1 deeran mr brench french phena fratia mrs valentine mrs valcee zo daughter dau ahter mrs airs zimmerman fred au and daughter pearl of peoria mrs kate cross croas of cora peoria was fatally ALL BODIES were recovered they are at chatsworth and piper city everything is in ih the wildest confusion and many are wangled mingled beyond reco recognition r dr hanei of fort Mad isoni lown sava the train was jun justillie tilliE about thirty miles per pei hour ile feat a sudden larand aarand lound found himself aud and avile ile fastened under the teats beats lie pulled the backs off of two vats heats before he could get his wife out was bruised on the hody body aud and tier feet were mashed his shoulder was and hadbo be pulled into place As soon as he could get et out of tue tae wreck reek he begin began felpi helping n g others and pulled his shoulder ou out t of place again and had to have it put in piece a second time there were nine persons in his party and he can only hear bear of three of them yet hesayo he says he saw mr E D stoddard hand band his bis boy out to a lady while lie he crawled back to gt get bial wife who WAS KILLED T ir ija CHICAGO august 11 ll the bucago bl leago cago kimta special from forest forester is ail 11 ane railway horrors in tai or of this country were kurpa sur three miles east of last night when an excursion train on the T P aw W ry dropped barough a our altig bridge and over a hundred people were killed and four times that thai number wert wera more or less wounded the train was composed of six coaches and chair cars and three baggage cars it was carrying passengers all excursionists and was bound for niagara falls the train had been made up a all 1 along the line ot of the T P W railroad Kail road and the aex ex balled from various points in central illinois the bulk however coming PROM PEORIA some of the passengers cape from canton el 1 paso washington and in fact act stations ull tell along the line sonie some were from as tar lar west as burlington and keokuk iowa A special and cheap rate had bad been made fur the e ex en N cursione and all sorts of people took advantage of it when the train drew out ol of peoria at 8 last evening it was loaded to its utmost capacity every berth ic it six sleepers was taken and aad the day cars carried sixty people each the train was so heavy that two engines were hitched to it and when it passed this place it was an hour and a half behind time chatsworth the next station from here is six miles off and the run there was made in seven minutes so the terrible momen momentum tuai 0 of those FIFTEEN COACHES and two heavy engines shooting space uc ac the rute rule of a mile a can be understood no stop was made at chatsworth and on ou on the heavy train with its living freight aped the darkatsh darko of the night might three miles east of chatsworth is a little slough and here the railroad track crossed i a dry run about ten feet deep and fifteen wide over this was stretched au aa ord ordinary idary wooden trestle bridge and as the train came thundering down ou it what was the horror of the engineer on the front engine erigin when ewhen he saw the bridge was on lire fire right kight before his eyes leaped the bright hames flames and t the he next instant he was a among them there was no chance to stop had there been a warning it would have TAKEN A MILE 1 0 stop that onrushing on oft rushing mass of wood aion and buraas lives and the tram train was within yards of the red tongued messenger of death before they flushed flashed their final signals I 1 into the engineer engine erlo face but he passed over la in safety the first engine keeping the rails as it went over the bridge fell beneath it and it could only have been the terrific speed of the train which saved the lives of the engineer and his fireman but the next engine went down and instantly the deed of death was done car crashed into car coached piled one on top of another and in the twinkling of an eye nearly dearly one hundred people found an instant death and fifty more were so hurt that blaey could not live As tor for THE WOUNDED they were everywhere only the sleeping coaches escaped and as the startled and half dressed passengers came tumbling out of them they found such a scene of death as is rarely witnessed and such work to do that it seemed as if human hands were utterly incapable it lacked five minutes ol of midnight down in the ditc ditch ulay Jay the second engine engineer mcclintock mcclinlock the engineer dead and the fireman applegate badly injured on top were piled the three baggage cars like a child card bouse boube aft rj had been swept by one hand chiri then came the six aix day dav coaches they were teles coped as cars never were before and three of them were pressed into just jast space enough for one the second car had mounted off its trucks CRASHED THROUGH the car ahead ot of it crushing the woodwork aside like tinder and lay there resting on OB top of tue toe every passenger pass euger in the trout car was lying yin 9 dead and dying underneath and out of that car out nut four people came out alive on top ot ol the second day car lay the third although the latter did not cover its bearer as completely as ane car beneath its bottom was Im stu smeared eared with wilh the blood of its vic ims titus atie other olber thi eo cars were not so badly crushed but they were broken aud and iu in every conceivable way and evcic timber and beam a crushed human banian frame or fir a broken borie bone luau lu au instant the air V wa a 3 filled bitu the cris ot the wounded ded the sti sni rieks of those thoe arout to ui dt and the I 1 groans of the mn in il abid the ol 01 the women u united ul tei I 1 tu to make au an APPALLING S SOUND and above all could he be hear tue the agonizing shrieks of little children chil dreo a as in they av lav pinned alongside ot their dead parents there was waa another terrible dunner danger yet to be met the bridge was baill astill burning and we the wrecked cars were kayin laying 1 around the fiercely glowing ein embers bors everywhere in emhe the wreck were the wound d aud and hurt men women aud and eb children ildren whose lives could be sayed saved if they could be gotten out but whose death and aud death in ia a most hot hoti ible form was wad certa certain iii if the twisted wood of the broken cars is aught tire and to tight light the lie hie there was waa not a drop of water and only some fifty able bodied wen men who had still presence of mind and nerve nerva c co their duty the only light was the light of af the burning bridge and with no 0 o of its aid the fifty men went to work lo 10 subdue for four long hours they FOUGHT LIKE FIENDS and for lour four hours ladours the victory hung hues in the bh balance lance earth was wag the only weapon with which the lire fire could be fought aud and to fo the fhe attempt was made to smother it out there was no pick ar or shovel to dag it up no baskets or barrows to carry it and so the men desperately dug their fingers down into the earth erath which 1 a ions dreata had baked almost as a bard as stone and heaped the precious thus hardly won upon the encroaching cames bames and with this earthwork built handful I 1 b by ha band L n adful fol kept back the tire fire menett W tuh tois w was ats goir on other bruve brave men crept underneath the wrecked cars beneath the tire fire and with wooden bars helped to save many PRECIOUS LIVES with a piece of board and sometimes with thier hands handi they beat back the flames as they flashed up alongside of some unfortunate wretch who pinned down by a beam looked as if his death by lire fire was certain anile the tight was thus koar on their ears were filled with the groans of the dying men the anguished entreaties of th those uso whose death seemed certain unless the terrible blaze could be extinguished the cries of those too badly hurt to care in what manner the end was vas brought about so only it should be quickly was awful the workers 0 dug ug up the earth with their bands reckless of the UR nails and heaped heap ed it up in little inoH while all the while came carrid the heartrending cry for gods sake don dons let us BURN TO DEATH but anally the victory was won and the tire was butout putout put out alter after four hours of endeavors and as Us its last sparks died away a light came up in the east to take ther their place and down it came upon a scene ot horror while the had been gotai on men had bad been dying and there were not so many wounded to take out of the wreck as there had bern been lour hours before but in ia the meantime ire anthne the country had been aroused livla had bad edme co rae from chatsworth forrest and piper city As the dead were laid reverently alongside of each other in the I 1 there were ready hands to take them into chatsworth while some of the he wounded were carried to piper city one 11 HUNDRED UNDRED AND EIGHTEEN was the awful call of the dead while the wounded number four times that number the full tale of tile the dew daj cannot however be told yet for days there was an incident in the affair which was not only remarkable but shows how terribly those six coaches were jammed and sma smashed hed when the acci accident dont occurred Y mooney of peoria Peona and conductor stillwell who was in charge of the train were three cars from each other mooney was in the second and stillwell in the fifth the next instant they found them selves in each others arms the car in chica the conductor was riding having been carried over the two in front and dropped on top of the one which mooney was in the strangest part was neither of them was hurt the most HORRIBLE DEATH was that of the engineer of I 1 ahe be second engine the first engine which en girteen sutherland was driving passed over the burning brid bridge getH in L fra fety but it was under its weight that the half consumed bridge gave way and the tender dropped back into the dry slough sutherlands herlands Sut engine kept the rails and ran into safety such was the of the ill fated train me mc Clio tocks engine engida plunged ino the black hole and as the tender mounted on top of the cab it caught mcclintock on the neck and cut his bead clean off irom from his shoulders the trunk was found underneath the engine but the head bead coull could not be found and the presumption sump tiou is that it was GROUND TO ATOMS between the horrible millstones and the tender there have been many guesses as to the origin of the lire fire which weakened the bridge and caused the accident but so far they are nothing but guesses the news of the disaster was brought to te chatsworth ly one ol of the passengers about mid ight arid and the inhabitants aroused buggies wagons and every kind of fenicle were used to reach the fatal spot As fast as the corpses were lake i from the wreck they were laid ou on t the ie side of the track before daylight light the work ot recovering the dead aei and removing them to chatsworth Chata worth began d n the I 1 he residents of the th e town threw open their houses for the reception of the dead and wounded but the former were taken to the improvised MORGUE friends and relatives of the dead came to chate borth with tile the remains tile in ati lue differ different eDt places where t kcf ne bodies jay was most heartrending and distressing listi esing As the day passed bodies were continually brought in frow the wreck tl ti e majority of toem them being mangled in the most frightful roanne und and many of them having their faces entirely torn away leaving their brains exposed while their jaws lingers linger awl and legs were torn off about live one of the times stuff staff was driven out to the wreck the led along the belt of the railway and to the south of the road was an old fashioned osage orange hedge the road was very in muddy addy and full of chuck holes A STREAM OF P HUMANITY was pouring in from the wreck and some had checks in their hands bands and carried valises vali ses they were evidently passengers geis on the ill fated trai train Sassen country auntry boys beys wad and girls carne came along swinging hands bands and talking in low tones about the terrible disaster A photographer dragged dragg ethis bis limbs along the track he was tarrying carrying a camera and a lot of negatives the roadbed road bed was almost level just a little littie grade running up to the wreck at a rise of 10 or 18 feet to the mile about 2 ors or 3 miles from the town was the debris of the wreck the sleeping car times was at the end of the he train it was jacked in the air supported by the trestles the front end of the car was directly over the place where the britte stood to the right lay a coach all broken to KINDLING WOOD and directly on the road was piled up what was left of six sis or seven coaches turned bottom side eide up and broken beyond recognition across the track in front of the vile pile of debris was a couch coach laying cross cros crossways ways way up at a height ol of 10 feet in the air beyond were the two tenders and one engine one tender was to the left of the track the other to the foght they were turned bottom side up and rent asunder the engime was scarcely recognizable on the the cab was gastae tae ill starred number 13 and a big pane of glass marked 18 13 along the hedges there were valises vali ses yhone boots hats and all manner ot of articles of wearing apparel lanterns and seats from the cars caris it was an AWFUL SIGHT hats 0 of men and women broken and smeared with blood coats egnats reeking with gore and ladled underwear smeared with wih life blood it was pl plain aw to be seen from the looks of the baggage thattie travelers were well te do it was simply bor horrible said mr E A agvan xan sand t of teoria peoria to the reporter for the times rt oe no words werda of anine can describe the g L w f u e s s 0 of f ani the scene I 1 was in the arear r ea sleeper s 1 e e per and si aj was in no danger as no one in tb atje e six sleepers was more than shaken up but even then we got fot a bad snuck I 1 felt three clUi distinct bumps and then rushed out of the car and ran forward to the wreck |