The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 17, 1887, Page 1

for DP PRYSICIAN AND SURGEON, a “od meets xecond Thu <. Table Mo. Pacific R. R aexmotox & SOUTHERN BRANCH.) ng Sunday, May 1oth, and wy notice, trains will leave foilows : GOING NORTH. -O:14PM 11:40AM 8:55AM 11:50AM OC AM 135 PM ee 2:10PM trains make direct con- ot Nord. Louis and all points east and all points south, Colorado, and all points west and north- For rates and other intormation E, K. Carnes. Agent. |W. E. TUCKE ‘a DENTIST, ER, OFFICE OPERA HOUSE. R, MISSOURI. 5 Lawyers. |, BADGER. ce in all courts. All legal business to, Office ever Bates Co. Na- , Butler, Mo. SON & GRAVES, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. te West Side Square, over Lans- Drug Store. OLCOMB & SMITH LAWYERS MO. Office front room over Bates National Banx. 1 S. P. Francisco. CISCO BROS. Attorneys at Butler, Mo., will practice in of Bates and adjoining | Prompt attention given to col- Office over Wright & Glorius’ store. 29 W. SILVERS, RATTORNEY = LAW Will practice in Bates and adjoining ities, in the Appellate Court at Kansas ; en din the Supreme Court at Jeffer- ty. . (Oe North Side Square, over McBride's. ziti Phvsicians. ») J. R. BOYD, M. D. - 0 z—East Side Square, over ) Max Weiner’s, Ag-1y ButTier, Mo. DR. J. M, CHRISTY, HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office, tront room over P.O. Ail calls ‘Atewered at office day or night. Special cares, attention given to temale dis- C. BOULWARE, Physician and « Surgeon. Office north side square, er, Mo. Diseases of women and chil- & specialty. DRS. FRIZELL & RICE. PHYSICIANS, SURGEONS AND ACCOUCHEURS. Office over their drug store on North Main street, Butler, Mo. Secret Societies. Cn Butler No. 254, meets the first mrday tn eech month. Arch Masons, rsday in each Gouley Commandery Knights Templar Meets the first Tuesday in each month. 1.0, 0. FELLOWS. . Bates Lodge No. 180 meets every Mon- ler Encampment No. 6 meets the and 4th Weanesda » This old English Family Medicine in "use for 86 years all over the world, for lle, Indigestion, Liver, &c. Butler Weekly Cimes. BUTLER, MISSOURI. WEDNESDAY AUGUST 17, 1887. AWFUL CARNAGE. Appalling Disaster in Illinois. One Hundred and Eighteen Per- sons Killed Instantly. Four Times as Many More Maimed and in Suffering. A Huge Excursion Train Runs {nto a Burning Bridge. All But the Sleeping Cars Piled Up in an Awfal Mass. Ghouls Busy in the Midst of All the Awfal Horrors. Chicago, Ill., Aug. 11.—A Niagara Falls excursion train on the Toledo, Peoria and Western railway, consist- ing of seventeen coaches and sleep- ers, crowded with passengers from Peoria and points along the line, was wrecked two and one-half miles from Chatsworth, shortly after midnight by running into a burning culvert. The two engines were completely wrecked, together with ten coaches and the baggage car, and over 100 lives lost and several hundred per- sons maimed. Engineer McClintock was instantly killed, but the two firemen and the other engineer es- caped serious injury. The ten cars were piled on top of the two engines, being telescoped and piled across and on top of each other. It is miraculous how many escaped, as the coaches and engines do not oc- cupy over two car lengths of track and all on top of the road bed. In one coach not a person escaped, and in another but one, a lady. Seventy dead were taken out up to noon and 100 wounded aré now brought here and put in the town hall, school house, depot, etc. At Piper City there are a large number of wounded—over fifty. The cars caught fire, but it was put out by trainmen and passengers. A heavy rain set in about two hours after the wreck, before the wounded could be taken away, continuing for two hours. EXCURSIONISTS FROM MANY POINTS. The Chicago Times’ account from Forest, is as follows: “All railway horrors in the history of this country were surpassed three miles east of Chatsworth last night when an ex- cursion train on the Toledo, Peoria and Western road dropped through a burning bridge and over one hun- dred people were killed and four times that number more or less badly injured. The train was com posed of six sleeping cars, day coach- es and chair cars and three baggage. It was carrying 960 passengers, all excursionists, and was bound for Niagara Falls. The train had been made up all along the line of the Toledo, Peoria and Western road and the excursibnists hailed from various points in central Dlinois, the bulk of them, however, coming from Peoria. Some of the passengers came from Canton, from El] Paso, Washington and in fact all stations along the line; some from as far west as Burlington and Keokuk, Ia. A special and cheap rate had been made for the excursion and.all sorts of people took advantage of it. en the train drew out of Peoria at 8 o'clock last evening it was load- berth in the six sleepers being taken and the day cars carrying sixty peo- ple each. The train was so heavy that two engines were hitched to it, and when it passed this place it was NO. 38 | shooting through space at the rate | ;ofa mile a minute can be under-| | stood. No stop was made at Chats- | worth and on and on the heavy train | with its living freight sped through the darkness of the night. THE TRESTLE WORK ABLAZE. Three miles east of Chatsworth is a little slough and where therailroad track crosses a dry run about ten feet deep and fifteen wide. Over this was stretched au ordinary wood- en trestle bridg», und es the excur- sion train came thundering down on it, what was the horror of the engineer on the front engine when he saw that thia bridge was afire. Right up before bis eyes leaped the bright flames and the next instant he was among them. There was no chance to stop. Had there been warning, it would have taken half a mile to stop that onrushing mass of wood, iron and human life, and the train was within one hundred yards of the red messengers of death before they flashed their fatal signals into the engineer’s face. But he passed over in safety, the first engine keeping the rails. As it went over the bridge fell beneath it, and it could only have been the terrible speed of the train which saved the lives of the engineer and his fire- man. : But the next engine went down, and instantly the deed of death was done. Car smashed into car, seats piled one on top of another, and in the twinkling of an eye nearly one hundred persons found instant death and fifty more were so hurt that they could not live. As for the wounded, they were everywhere. AN AWFUL SCENE OF HORROR. 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 but five minutes of mid- night. Down in the ditch lay the second engine, Engineer McClintock dead and Fireman Applegate badly in- jured. On top were piled the three baggage cars, one on top of another, like a child’s card house after he had swept it with his hand. Then came the six day coaches—they were tele- scoped as cars never was before, and space enough for one. car had mounted off its trucks, crashed through the car ahead of it, crushing the woodwork aside like tinder, and lay there resting on the tops of the seats, while every pas- senger in the front car was lying dead and dying underneath. Out of the car but four people came alive. | On top of the second car lay the third, and although the latter did not cover its bearer as completely as the one beneath, its bottom was smeared with the blood of its victims. The other three cars were not so badly crushed, but they were broken and twisted in every conceivable way, and every crushed timber and beam represented a crushed human frame and broken bone. SHRIEKS AND GROANS. Instantly the air was filled with the cries of the wounded and the shrieks of those about to die. The groans of men, the screams of the women united to make a common sound, and above all could be heard ysin each month |ed to its utmost capacity, every | the agonizing cries of little children ‘Cockle’s sii: Pills. as in some instances they lay pinned beside their dead parents. And there was another terrible danger yet to be met—the bridge was still burning and the wrecked Pure, Vegetable Ingredients. lan hour and a half behind time. | cars were lying on it around the Free From Mercury. Drei Chatsworth, the next station east of fiercely burning embers. Every- here, is six miles off, and the run | where in the wreek were wounded there was made in seven minutes, so | and unhurt, men, women and children the terrible momentum of those | whose lives could be saved if they fifteen coaches and two heavy engines! could be gotten out, but whose death = —and death in a most horrible form | Steele, chief surgeon of the Toledo. —was certain if the twisted wood in | Peoria and Western railroad, had the broken cars caught fire. |eome on at once in a special train And to fight the fire there was not | and with him were two other sur- a drop of water and only some fifty | geons and their assistants. From able-bodied men who had still pres-'| Peoria came Drs. Martin, Baker, ence of mind and nerve enough to Fiagloor and Johnson, and eon a do their duty. The only light was|ery city whence the unfortunate ex- the light of the burning bridge and |cursionists had come from their with o much of its aid the fifty men | physicians and friends hurried to went to work to subdue it. For |help them and after 8 o'clock in the four hours they fought like fiends | morning there were plenty of people and for four hours the victory hung |to do the work that needed such in the balance. Earth was the only prompt attention. weapon with which the fire could be} In the town hall was the main hos- fought and so the attempt was made | pital and in it anxious relatives and to smother it out. sorrowing friends sat fanning gently MEN TURN INTO HEROES. the suffers’ faces, asking the attend- _There was no pick or shovel to|ing surgeons as they bound up the dig it up, no baskets or barrows to | wounds andinsisting thatthere must carry it in, and so desperate they | be hope. dug their fingers down into the| Down in the dead houses, fathers, earth, which along drouth had baked almost as hard as stone and heaped the precious handfuls thus hardly won upon the encroaching flames, and with this earthwork built hand- ful by handful, kept back the foe. While this was going on, other brave men crept underneath the wrecked gars, beneath the fire and the wooden bars, which held pris- oners so many precious lives, and with pieces of board and sometimes their hands beat back the flames when they flashed up alongside some unfortunate wretch who, pinioned down by a heavy beam, looked on helplessly while it seemed as if his death by fire was certain; and while the fight was going on, the ears of the workers were filled with groans of dying men, and the anguished entreaties of those whose death seemed certain, unless the terrible blaze could be extinguished, and the cries of those too badly hurt to care in what manner the end was brought about, so only it would be quick. So they dug up the earth with their hands, reckless of the blood stream- ing out from broken finger nails, and heaping it up in little mounds, while all the while came the heartrending cries: “For God's sake, don’t let us burn to death!” But finally the victory was won, the fire was put out after four hours of endeavor, and as its last sparks died away, alight came up in the east to take their place and dawn came upon a scene of horror. ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN DEAD. While the fight had been going on, men had been dying and there were not so many wounded to take out of the wreck as there had been four hours before. But in the meantime, the country had been aroused: help had come from Chatsworth, Forest and Piper City, and as the dead were laid reverently alongside of each other, out in the cornfield, there were ready hands to take them into Chatsworth, while some of the wounded were carried to Piper City.. One hundred and eighteen was the awful poll of the dead, while the wounded numbered four times that number. The full tale of the dead, can not however, be told yet for and children tearfully inspected each face as it was uncovered and sighed as the features were unknown or cried out in anguish when a well- known face, sometimes fearfully mangled, was uncovered. The en- tire capacity of the little village was taxed and kind-hearted wom- en drove in from miles to give their gentle ministrations to the sufferers. GHOULS AT WORE. No sooner had the wreck occurred than a scene of robbery commenced. Some band of unspeakable miscre- ants, heartless and with only crim- inal instincts, and, like the vultures who throng a battlefild the night af- ter the conflict and rob from the dead the money which they received for their meager pay, stealing even the bronz medals and robbing from the children of heroes the other em- blems of their fathers’ bravery, 80 last night did these human hyenas plunder the dead from this terrible accident and take even the shoes which cover their feet. Who these wretches are is known. Whether they were a band of pick- pockets who accompanied the train, or some robber gang who were lurk- ing in the vicinity, cannot be said. The horrible suspicion, however, ex- ists, and there are many who give it ocredit—that the accident was a de- liberately planned case of train wrecking; that the bridge was set afire by miscreants who hoped to seize the opportunity offered, and the fact that the bridge was so far consumed at the time the train came along, and the fact thatthe train was an hour and a half late, are pointed morgue to-day. engine house, the depot were all full of dead bodies, while every house in the little village had its quota of the wounded. There were over 100 corpses lying in the extemporized dead houses, and every man and woman was turned into an amateur but zealous nurse. Over in the lum- ber yard the noise of hammers and saws rang out in the air, and in it the busy carpenters were makiig rough coffins to carry to their homes the dead bodies of the excursionists who, twelve hours before, had left their homes full of pleasurable ex- pectations of the enjoyment they were going to have during the vaca- tion which had begun. When the news of the disaster ine tnem. husbands, brothers, sisters, wives | out as evidence of a careful conspir- acy. It seems hardly possible that men could be so lost to all the ordi- nary feelings which animate the bas- est of the human race, but still men who will rob dead men, who will steal from the dying and will plun- der the wounded, held down by broken beams of a wrecked car, and whose death by fire seemed immi- nent, can do most anything which is base, and that is what these fiends in human form did. 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