Show f tut ft fw yuyi HORRIBLE diate A train tra in load of edcur zionists lists plunge r fl A BRIDGE and aro are piled in mingled confusion IN THE DITCH BELOW w over one hundred victims of tile disaster CASHED MASHED TO A JELLY or mutilated by Cr crabbin asbin timbers A graphia description of the horror by III at ad pres t to ot the he irmald WRECK AND 11 1 J th the most horrifying railway disaster tit lf the age CHICAGO aug AUR II 11 the chicago times 27 imes special from ro forest ret ills says all the railway horrors in the history I 1 of thie this country were surpassed three throe miles east ol 01 chatsworth Chate worth last night w m hen an excursion train on the Toledo peoria and western road dropped drop ped through a burning bridge and over one hundred people were killed an and four our times that number more inore or lees less wounded tho the train was composed of six sleeping six day coaches and chair chat r cam and three baggage cam it wa was 1 l carrying nine hundred and sixty passengers s all excursionists and wae was lound tor r niagara falls the train had been made up all along alon the line of the toledo peoria A western road and the excursionist excursionists hailed from various pointe points in central illinois the built bulk of them however hoever coming from peoria some of lie die passengers came carrie from canton el paso washington and in fact alt all the tile stations along the line I 1 some from as far west aa as burlington iowa A special ana cheap rate had been made mad e for the excursion and all sorts of people took advantage lad va niage of it when the tile train drew dren out of peoria at 8 fiock list l evening it was loaded tj taits its capacity livery every berth in eix six 1 taken and the lie day cars care curried carried sixty people each the train was so heavy that two en ell gins girs were ere hitched to it and when it passed ased tills this place it wa waa an hour und and a liala half behind t me tile chat hat worth warth the next station emit of here esix ia MX milea oil and the run there was made in seven minu tea so tho the terrible momentum moment ment um of hose those fifteen coaches and tu tm 0 engine engines through space at the rate of a milu mile a minute can call bo he understood der stood no stop was made at chatsworth and on and on he the heavy train with its it living freight sped through the daik three miles east of chatsworth is a little f lough and w m here the railroad track crossed it is a dry try run about ten tell feel deep and fifteen A me over this was stretched an ordinary wooden trestle bridge and ae as the lie train came thundering eori own on it what was the lie cortor horror of the engineer on he the front engine when he lie saw that this bridge was on fire inight before his e eyes Y e leaped the bright right limes flames and nd the tile next instant he lie was among them there NN was as no chance to stop had there luen lieen warning it would have taken half a mile to biall atop that rushing onrushing on mass of wood mood iron and human lives and the tile train was vi within yard yards of the tongued messenger of death before they flushed flashed their final signals into the tile engineers face but be he dawd over in safety the first engine keeping the rails As IS it went over the bridge ml beneath it and it would only have been tile terrific speed of the ruin train abah saved tha the lives of the en engineer gincer and his fireman but ho tile next engine went down and instantly the deed of death was done car crushed into car coaches piled one ono on top of another and in the an eye nearly 0 one 0 hundred people four found instant death and fifty mere more it were ere PO fo hurt the they could not live aa As for the wounded the they were mero everywhere everK everywhere where only the sleeping frie kle boac coaches es escaped and as the startled and lulf half dressed passengers pASe engers came cattle tumbling out of them they found such a scene of death as ie is rarely witnessed and uch luch work to do that it seemed as if human lia baud nd utterly incapable it lacked enst five fire minutes of midnight in tho the ditch lay the lie second cond engine mcclintock the engineer gince r dead and arid the fireman applegate gat lindly badly I 1 inifred bcd on top were mere pile piled d tho the three bag Kige care cam one on top of another then comee comes the tile six day coaches they were telescoped as it 1 care cars ne neer er were mere before te fore e and three 0 of 1 them were pressed into just sp space z 1 cv enough for one the tile second car 1 add i a d mounted off its trucks caming through the car ahead of it chushin the woodwork aside like tinder and and lay there resting on the tile top of the seat seats while every pis ilas in the tile front car was M lying ing dead lead and dying underneath out of that car but four people ople came caine forth alive on thy the top of the second car lay the third and although the latter did not co coi crits bearer barer as completely as the tile one beneath its bottom was smeared with the blood of its victims the other three throe cars car were not to so badly cru crushed hed but they were ere broken and tu twisted isted in i every concelia ble way and every ov L r y crushed timbe r and beam represented esen t ed a crus crushed I 1 led human frame or a broken bone instantly the air was fillad filled with the criel cr leq of the wounded and arid tho the shrieks of those about to die the groan groans of menalio ment tile lio screams of 0 women united to make an fin ap appalling lalling sound bound and above all could he be heard beard tile agonizing agon ising cries of little children as in in sol aonie lie instances they liy lay pinned alongside of their dead parents and there was another terrible terri ble danger dinger yet to be met the bridge was still burning and arid the tile wrecked cars A were ere lying around the fiercely burning embers everywhere in tho the wreck were u wounded an and u unhurt u rt in men en at women 0 and children whose lives could be paved saved it if they bo be rotten gotten out but bhoge death anil and death in a moet meet horrible form was mas certain if the t tv wed vi god of tho the broken cars caught fire are there waa was not a drop of water and only u some fifty able luried men who had still presence presen of mind ana and nerve enough to do duty the only aig light it was tile he light of tile ali burning bridge I 1 and with so much of its is aid the fifty men escat wt m work ork to subdue four hours they fought like fiends and for four hours the tile victory hung in lie the balice lu lance earth was the only weapon will ith which tit the 0 foe toe could be fought aej so the attempt was as madai mad to smother it out there was no pick or shovel to dig it up tip no baskets or harrows barrows to earr carry it in and so in desperation they dua du tf their leir fingers do down n into tile earth A which a long drought bad baked almost ae as hard as stone and heaped the precyous prec pre loun clous cancu fOle U tha harall won upon Z I 1 I 1 abo 1 encroaching aej with ill I 1 hile 1 t s earth w wor ork k built handful hart I 1 hy oviand hand ill ful 1 kept back the I 1 foe e wh while 0 o tills wl WAS in going on other brave men crept underneath th the tile Arec pecked ked earn I 1 beneath tu the fiel fire e and the wooden bare A which held prisoners so many I 1 precious lues lives with pieces of board bo sometimes their hands heat beat back the i A a allies nhen they flashed ui along slide side some unfortunate wretch who alo pinned down doan by a beam looked ae as if hi ili death by fire was certain A bile the fight was w as thus going antho on the ears of the workers were filled with the groans groans of tho the dying men the tile anguished ed entreaties of thoe whoso Vs death eath seemed certain unless the terrible buze blaze could be extine i isha ish A and the cries of thoo too adly hurt to 10 care in ahat manner the end were mere brought about so only it t should be quick ick fro SO they dug up th the e earth with amu their hands reckless of the tile blood streaming out from broken finger naila nails and heaping it up I 1 in n lutle little mounds while all 11 the while came the tile heartrending ling cry lor for gode gods sake don dont t let ua us burn to death but finally the victory was won the fire was put out after tour four hours of endeavors and as its laet last sparks died away a light came up in in the cast to uko take their i lye l ye and down don n it came upon a scene of horror while hile the light tight had been ken going on inen men had been ding dying and there were ere not so many w m bounded to take out of the w reck wreck as there here had been four hours before but in the mea me meantime antimo zi the country lud had been aroused help had ome come from chatsworth orth forest f reet and piper city aethea As tile dead ile n ere to bid laid reverently along alongside side of each other out lit in in the corn holds there were ready hands to take them into chaisa orth A while bile some of the wounded were acre earned carried to I piper iper per city one ono hundred and eighteen was ho the awful poll of the d dead ad at while bile the wounded co counted tinted four times that numb bumby numby V the full tale of 0 the dead honi however ever cannot be told yet letter for days ilie the tom n of chatsworth was turned into a morgue today to day dav theton the town hall he tile engine house the depot were acre all full full of de id bodies while every it house it I 1 n the little village bad had its quota quoi of the wounded there ro were over on one hundred corpses lying 1 ing in the ex extemporized em lvery man and woman was turned into an amateur but zealous nurse over in lit a lumber yard the nofe noise of him ham mere mers and saws rang out in in lie the air air and busy carpenters were aero making rough collins to ca carry to their homes the dead bodies the of 7 lie excursion excursionists ests w who I 1 gwehe hours before had left their homes full of pleasurable expectations of the e enjoyment 11 apy J they were going to have d during U ring the vat va ellich had begun when licit the tile news nea a of the Ti disaster wis was firke fl all ifred hed over the he wires prom prompt pt aid was at once sent ur dr steele SI 0 chief h cef burgeon surgeon of lie toledo peoria western lud had come on at once in m a special train and with him two other surgeons and their from peona peoria from Iro mever every city whence the unfortunate excursionists had come their physicians and friends currii hurried on to help them and peona had alo lud had dele delegations actions of red men lien and ancient iader order of united workmen number numbers of both societies being on the ill cited train soon after 8 alot k in the morning there were mere plenty of people to do the work tint that needed prompt attention in Inthe lown hall 11 was the tile main main ho and in it anxious rela reli lives and sorrowful corrow Forro ful friends sat finning fanning the faces gazing z inba at t ho the attending surgeon ae a he r bound u up the tile wounds and insisting that liero there must bo be hope down in the dead ligues liou 1 es mothers no hulanda hu bui banda bands brothers bisters sisters wires children tearfully ted each lice fice is as it was uncovered urn and sighed itice iti cd as tile features were unknown or cried out in in an joquish ish A when lien the tile well mell known face UT sot sometime n tearfully fearfully in mangled angled but vet yet recognizable wim uncovered the entire capacity of alie village waa taxed and kindhearted kind hearted women drove e in in from miles away to give their gentle administrations to the sufferers there was one incident of the acci dent millry w hii h stood out more horrible dun than all of the horrible scenes in lit the coach was a man hit his m wife lie and little chil child 1 his name could not bo be learned today toda to day da but it is is said lie got on at peo na ria lien ten the accident occurred the entire family of three was v as caught and held down don by broken woodwork oo dwork finally when relief tame caine tha the man turned to the friendly aid and eaid said feebly take takeout out my wife first im afraid the child is is dead lead settle to they Y tarried carried out the mother and as a broken scat seat was taken off tier breast the blood w hichi w belled from her lips told how badly she file was hurt they tarried carried the thild child a fair haired girl of 3 and arid laid I 1 her I 1 er in in the tile cornfield dead deada alongside her dying lying mother then ni went ent back for tile father and broulet bro lum him out both his legs were broken but he craw led through the corn com to the bide side of his wife and feeling her loved features in in lie the darkness pressed some brandy brand to lier her lips and asked her how she felt A feeble groan was man the only answer and aud the next instant she j lied ed tile tun inan felt the forms of ins his dead A wife ife and child and cried out my aty god there is la nothing more for me at to live in tor for and taking a pistol out of ins his pocket pulled the trigger tile bullet m went ent surely through lne ills brain and the tile three dead de id bodies of that little family are now iving lying s side ide b by si side id e in i C chatsworth it atsu orth waiting to be ay iy identified C tied no booner sooner had the wreck occurred than a scene of robbery ro libery commenced some band of unspeakable miscreants heartless and with only criminal in instincts was on hand like tho the guerrillas who throng a battle field the night af cr the conflict filch from froin the dead the tile money which the received for their meagre a ay et ut eiling ealing eren even the 1 bronze ronze m medals I 1 als and rob robbing i ing from the children of tile he heroes roes heir their to others worthless emblems of their fathers bravery BO so last night did lid human henia plunder the dead from this terrible accident and take even the shoes which covered their feet who these wretches retches 4 are is is not now known A whether hether they were e a band of pickpockets pick pockets who aho accompanied the train or some robber gang who vere re larking lurking in the vicinity dicinit vici nit cannot bo be sal said d the horrible suspicion holeve how ever r exists and there are many who ho give ite it credit that the accident was a deliberately planned case u of trun train wrecking that the bridgeway bridge ewas WAS set on fire by miscreants who vi ho hoped to seize the opportunity offered and the fact that the bridge was so far consumed at the time the tile train came along aud and tho tile added fact that the tile train was an un hour and a half bulf late are pointed out as evidence of a careful conspiracy coir piracy it hardly possible risible sible that man could be so lot loit lo t to rs all 11 ordinary feeling feeling winch animates tie tile basest of tile human uman we race but still denho men who u will ill rob rot a dead man who will from the d dying ying wili will plunder lunder wounded held down by broken beams of a wrecked car wounded whose death by fire peem imminent can do almost anything winch which is ba baio but that is what the these thee e flenda in human buman form forin did they went into the tile cars A when lien tho the fire was wag burning fiercely underneath and when allen the tio 1 1 poor wretches retches m alio lie viero were panned ali e re beof begged them for gode gods mke to help them out str stripped 4 them of their matches etc anop and picked their pw kete when lien tile dead were mere laid laia in tho the these hyenas turned them oer over in in tile their ir search tor for valuables and that tho plunder was n as done by an tin organized gang was as pr proven ven by the tile fact that this morning six cen purses all empty vore were fo found u nd in 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