Show omaha is a city of mourning VICTIMS OF THE the number increased twofold two fold the accident at loean yesterday where an excursion train ban into a freight Is one of the most horrible of railroad disasters scores of people killed and maimed A list of dead and injured omaha neb july 12 this has been a day of great mourning mourn inc n omaha the harvest of death from the logan lewa wreck of last night has been increased and the list of victims now numbers thirty one the crowds of anxious people at the depots did not scatter with the break of day although the excitement of the night wore off as relatives and friends of the dead ones became convinced of the worst about 7 the first funeral train from the scene of the catastrophe arrived at the union depot and an involuntary push forward to gratify a morbid desire to learn the news from those who had been in the disaster the first train contained many ot the more seriously injured and as the poor unfortunates were lifted in blankets the car the groans of the wounded mingled wilh the agonized sobs of relatives and friends it was a most touching scene some twenty passengers were ta kenin ambulances to st josephs hospital hoa pital of them cannot hope to live more than a few hours at the farthest at the train carrying the dead was sighted coming along the long union pacific trestle nearer the spectre drew and an involuntary wail of mourning burst from the assembled multitude the contrast of the day before was drawn A crowd of happy young people had gathered on the depot platform good byes were said amidst the waving of flags and playing of bands as the cars moved out no one dreamed of the fate in store for the merry excursionist the approaching train consisted of two cars a baggage car a chamber of horrors and a passenger coach aa it drew up to the station a special cordon of police guarded the approaches and kept the crowd back seventeen bodies laid on pine boards and covered with a buelin shroud were taken one by one and placed in a long row on the floor of the baggage room only friende of the missing ones were allowed admission those silent forms gave evidence of the dorco of yesterdays yester daya collision headier trunks bodies without limbs limba without bodies a gruesome spectacle were gathered in that small space occasionally casio nally someone would recognize the features of a eon or daughter kind friends would gently lead them from the room and the body would be ticketed and bent to the undertakers women fainted and anguish was pictured of times on the face of some grey haired haired old man A complete list of the dead and injured is as follows DEAD AM Gerard 1839 seventh avenue council bluffs la owen cavanaugh eighteenth and charles streets omaha aged 13 willie cosgrove 1622 nicholas street omaha E G winegar a brakeman boone la fred neilson omaha lawrence engineer water works council bluffs mrs carroll 1219 north seventeenth street omaha infant son of mr and a mrs bradley wife of moulder union pacific shops omaha infant of mr and mra bradboy Brad loy dudson sam dudson omaha william summit missouri Mie valley nielson north Thirty thin street omaha john ns 1412 street alerson Pl erson son of andrew pierson of FOURTH PAGE HARVEST OF DEATH FROM 1 13 years old john larsen aged north street carrier patrick scully stationary engineer at union pacific chops 2524 center street miss maggie cosgrove and nicholas streets omaha charles II eiman Mias onri vaclev iowa wm wilson ath avenue and street council bluffed ot robert cleire boiler maker amaba head off and body identified by shoos john cosgrove Oos grove and nicholas streets amaba james E gosgrove amaba head torn off from mouth up identities only by laundry mark geo A lawrence tinsmith omaha walter jennings missouri valley iowa john mcdermott machinist 1612 omaha mary tracy 1107 north street mrs john kahler identified in council bluffs where she lived infant of mr and mrs john kahler 3 months old phillip kinzie forty sixth and cam ming streets omaha engineer J D montgomery bones broken deep cut over eye John Kabler council bluffs head cut and injured internally ter nally Jack Taylor council bluffed head crushed probably fatal mrs mary scully amaba chest and internal injuries probably fatal john mckenna omaha severely injured leonard H mack omaha head cut severe injuries michael shannon omage extent unknown jhenry conrad boy supposed 0 o be stealing a ride lives at dayton 0 contusion of chest and arms conrad his brother similar in j uries moses baudo omaha probably fatally injured sam dideon omaha chest and arms injured J A lilile omaha dent of the ubron pacific pioneers cheat contagious contagions conta gions J J gibbon logran iowa lega and chest injured Kat benne cosgrove omaha badly shaken ap mike leonard beulh omaha slight ra juries face cut contu of chest miss jelter badly injured teresa craty eye badly cut robbie bachtel Boch tel omaha nose broken lizzie byles omaha arm broken jack ki aney omaha internally injured hurley badly I 1 hurt oliver colvin omaha scalp wounds annie colvin sister hack hart eva nielson Niels cn Oa limbs crushed fred kinsky omaha shoulder crushed faco cut will aai christensen omaha legs and back injured 31 M mcmichael Mc Micael dayton ohio head cut burt internally E crushed magoffie scully aran broken and body crushed J J ellearn Gl learn council bluffs breast crushed sirs J J head badly cut and internal in juries elsie kahler council bluffs seven years old face badly rot hurt internally ter nally patey carroll wrist broken chest crushed mary tracy head hailey cut und body horribly bruised lives in omaha 0 W johnson olahs head cut and let bruised john omaha crushed D kenna amaba chest and rm hurt the dead wera taken inch pre by the local undertakers preparatory for burial when they this city it i generally conceded jail road beay meay well as others conversant with tho facts thai the for the accident lay with tho conduct and en op the excursion train engineer montgomery to talk and today went to boone where he the atory however that conductor reed or the excursion train caw the signal to go without waiting for orders from the operator at losan the excursion train was to have waited ifor so 2 the fast mail and no the fast to pasa before leavine lor coun uban the limited mail had passed he forgot about tha freight which ia a regular tram so the story goes and gave the signal to pull out the fast freight was du in loean at and excursion the started at ial after the switch it stopped and the switch was reset and the excursion train was I 1 alfr getting well under way when the coUie ion occurred members 0 the picnic mariy state that the train was not going bastar than four or alva miles an hour ahn endree End nee montgomery saw the other train he sat the air brakes on all the coaches in his train and the brakes were set when the collision occurred railroad men on tho train say the fast train was kang abeus fifty milea an hour the elgine 0 the freight was forced through and over the engine of the excursion train and lifted itself almost clear of the rails the baggage car was forced back through the first coach the let hand eide ol 01 the baggage car passing outside of the left bide of the passenger coach in line with the right row of seats it was on this aide that most of thy fatalities occurred i according to the rules of operating trains must according to the statements of railroad mou share in the blame the rulea re quire engineers to wait for telegraphic orders before starting they aro not al leej to assume that the conductor baa received orders but must insist on getting orders which are supposed to bo a duplicate of those riven the conductors if Monte omory assumed that the conductor had received the orders co leave and pulled his train out on the conductors signal under this assumption that fact does not excuse him montgomery wea almost crazed with grief and the rumor was current yesterday that he had tried to commit suicide but had been prevented an effort to verify this report was made but etwas denied by bis friends |