Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 18, 1873, Page 1

VOLUME 26. ' Dailp Trib L, ) . CHICAGO, MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1873. ' TO RENT. OFFICES, A few Very Desirable Offices are offered for rent in the Trib- une Building. k Single or in suites. ‘With and without Vaults. English Tile Floors through- out the Building. : Elevator running during all ‘business hours. These Offices are not in the city. e g The best for all classes of business requiring a central lo- cation. W. C. DOW, oom 21 Tribune Building. equaied Coal. Coal. MINER T. AMES & 00, PRINCIPAL OYFICE, 1 West Randolph-st. $11.50 Mz 10.00 rch = 9.00 ‘Walnut Efil.l. Erie, and Briar Lill.... 9.00 Flocking Valley.. 8.00 Aling 8.00 8.00 ilmington. .......... 6.00 'WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, Liberal’ Reduction made on Coal by the Car Load. INSURANCE. THE PEQPLE'S INSURANCE CO., OF MEMPHIS, TENN, CASH ASSETS, - - $365,029.91 'This Company having entered the ay flold with assots as abovo stated, ties tnoluding roinsuranco fund only to $25,000, has already nm?\‘yuad wit| tho State insurance Laws of New York, !‘ennuilvunm, ood Illinoig, and is sbout to entor the other Wastorn States. Applications received and policies issued by. F. A. MITCHEL, Agent, 154 LaSalle-st. RANGES, &o. BOYINTONS HEATING FURNACES! “Qur Favorlto” Rancs, “Tho Cublnot? Coulk Stove, Bultimore Ienterw, Henting Stoves, Tattle & Balloy’s Regluters, &on Thoro goods aro the vory bost manufactucod roliublo I avory rospoct. - The BOYNTON FURNAGI s o sqaal, Ovory 6 dffforont aizos and kinds for foat. ing builc of evi desoription. Hoating and vonti. Tatink promptly attendod tor © atimatos maue on short Botics, - Wo favito tho itention of doalors and thors :l“flu‘b‘“lz :g nfll!rfll’: worklog (Dlfihtn ‘fll' iaflkln' arrange- a ‘B aco ua oracni for eiroulars. *BLiS5'E BROWN, & Lako-st., Chicngo. TANS Ranges, Broilers, &. No. 36 STATE-ST. 5. J. HERO! oncy sud Habili- amountin Agont, BOOKS AND STATIONERY. A A AN~~~ AA A~ BOOKS AND STATIONERT| AT WEHOLESALE. Correspondence and Ordors from Trado soligitod, 1 HADLEY BROTHERS ‘Wholesale Bookacllors, 130 Btato.st.,, Chioago, J. M. W. JONES, Furnlshos STATIONERY, BLANK BOOKS, & doon PRINTING, of s\l Kinde: Brompin udat fo ricos. Rallrosd Work aud Office fiuspllol apoolalties. 08.;104 and 108 Madison-st. PROPOSALS. Promss o ke Viw High Seon Buing. Hoslod proposals will bo recolved by the Board of Trus- taon of Bchoals of tho te 14 o for th ¢ gemstischhot o s o ko Tiow: ot otreshin with plans and specifioations on file at the oflics of 8, N. mnduy’lh, Architoct, No, 67 Major Block, from Tuesday, Aug, 16, until Saturday, Aug. 80, 1873, at noon, oior R ymiybe adyiossad 1o W, f Larratisp, Trone, 3 S wil) ‘b 164ghana for ltigh School Bulldlng. " L B QWi o0 . BAER, P, JONES, JR, Ohieago, Ang, 16, 1a8 7100 Of Solicaly, Lake'V WANTED. 'ANTED==AGENTH--FRONM , 875 i 1o 8250 por month, cvarywhiere, to sell onoj | of tho most usoful artiolos evor invented| neoded In overy family., Sond for Circu. lar. Address, SROOMB & CO., Cit10aa0, 111, 157 Btat = Genenat nowioss, CHICAGO & ALTON RAILROAD. Change of Time. , and until farthor notice, tho far Hit, Louls, vis Main L{no, and An. Toute, bath dally ¥ a m., fustesd ul atlon and Wenons, will Joave Chicako inutaad of 4:10 b, m. usual. Hoo timu-oas L lot and_Dwight 8 horatofors, All GUor tralnd on anuther column, DISSOLUTION KOTIOE. DISSOLUTION. Raloo i lioroby givon that o firi of ©: Dunsck & 0o, han thfs day boon distotved by imutust comnont. All olaims againat the fiem, a8 woll as acoounte dug thom, will bo sattiod by Fred Dusso and Theo, Jaknoko, ©u10400, Aug. 13, 1873, 1 alto ég 0 Inform my numorous onstomera that T have this day formed a copartunraip ol fiuswo and Thioo. Jahioko) under thostylo uf Bussa & Co., aud would e ploasud 10 recolvu ordare 28 usu BURSE & 0o, 40 and 473 OHRIBTIAN B! FREDERIGK 1881, TUEODORETANNOE R, challat., RACK, SUITS, CLOAKS, SHAWLS, &a, . HEAVY REDUCTIONS FIELD, LEITER &CO., State and Twentieth, and : _ Madison and Market-sts., Call ‘special -attention to their large and handsome asgortnient - of SPRING- AND SUMMER GOODS, embracing St Cloaks, Shals Dress Goods, &c., Which they have marked very Saturday Night's' Pas- low to close out previous to their removal to- their new store, - State and 'Washing- ton-sts.: REAL ESTATE. PEREMPTORY SALE Wichigan-av, Property AT ATUCTION. ‘Wednesday Afternoon, Aug, 20,1873, AT 3)% 0'CLOCK P, M. ON.THE PREMISES. ‘Weo shall sell, without reservo, the north 40 *| foet of Lot 25 in Bpring’s Subdivision of Bec- tion 33, Town 30, Range 14, . This proporty is locatod on tho onst side of Michigan-av., between Fourteonth and Six- teonth-sta. ‘Titlo porfoot. Froo of incumbrancoe. TERMS--One-sixth cash on day of sale, one-sixth in 30 days, one-third in one year, one.third in two years. with intorost at 8 por cent. ‘WM. A. BUTTERS & CO., Auctioncora. ARTISTIC TAILORING. A Word o the Wise.” Our Fall and Wintor Fashions-aro fasued. hn t placed on our, Couritors oo meey s e B £F, i SN TR %%%gvsmnmus. SUITINGS, and:BEA- We Disoount' TEN PER OENT on all Garmonts ordered of us during remainder of August, 1873. WEDDING GARMENTS o Specialty. SERVANTS' LIVERY mado to measure, EDWARD ELY & (O, "IMPORTING TATLORS, WABASH-AYV., cor. Monroe-st. = ESTABLISHED 1854. COMfMlSS!ON MERO@NES. GRAIN. POPE & DAVIS, COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 2168 Washington-st., Chicago. Prompt personal attention to business. Cor- respondenco and Consignments invited, W. J. Pore, R. L_Davis NEW PUBLICATIONS. FARMERS FOURTH OF JULY THE IMPORTANT ADDRESS Or 8. M. SMITH, Secrotary of the Nlinois Btato Farmers’ Association, bofore tho Liv- ingston County Farmors’ Associntion, At Pontia, on thg Fourth of July, Is now roady for dolivery as sn 8-page doou- ment, for gonoral oiroulation, Farmors’ Olubs and Granges will be sup- pliod at tho following rates: Binglo Qopios.. 9 ots. BOEnioaniotad ot | 165 B2Bioy Address J. W. DEAN, Room 6 Tribuno Building, Ohigago. FOR SALE. : Ambere’s Letter Holder, Bil, AND BINDER, WITH INDEXES, COLVER, PAGE, HOTNE & CO0, " 118 and 120 Monroe-st., Chicago. BUSINESS CHANCE, BALITo closo tha ostato of the late 8. W, I of New York, our Woatorn Hrancl, 161 Kast Bad. , wlth the solo con od_and Papor. O It opports soldom ofterad, ur furthor particulars, ap BOM & af_our agonoy £ This i3 & sples iy fo . WARD, Brecuto: 11 nat Mndinen STEAM HEATING. Inallits branohes, and Doglors in Wrought Iron Pipo and Fittings. SAM'L I POPE & CO,, _87 & 89 West Lake-sh "$6300,000 Missouri State Lottery. Grand Single Number Scheme. Draws thelast dayof B BT apnt- I S RO Whiote VaReia, B10} Tavves, Bbv Ao for giroular 1o MURRAY, MILLER 4 CO., Tox' 318, Bt v Mo, -rovolution of tho whools, Horrible Colli!sibn on the *Chicago & Alton ' 'Bailroadl 5 o F m;t_y-,thfe,é ,:,Peqs‘qn,s Killed ~and Wounded." " ! senger - Train ! . Wrecked. " It Collides with a Coal Train Near - Lemont. ~ A Locomotive BoilerTorn Open and the Smoking-Car. Thrown o " on"Top of It Passengers S_calded by _Esqa:p-" ing Steam-—An-Awful . “ - Night Scene, Nine - Persons Killed, Nine Fatally “Injured, and Twenty~ 4 .7 .. five Wounded, = Arrival of the Sufferers in the- City. Scenes at the County Hospital " and at the Morgue, Crin:.llhul, Carele s;éness of a Death of ngerb J.,Brass-i—co.pmh;’ " 7 Jack ‘Smith " Fatally’ « Soalded, ", . T . Reception of the News at the ; State Capital.- . Another of thoso railroad horrors which pori- odically thrill the.country ocourred Ssturday night on the Chicago & Alton Railroad, betwoen ‘Willow Station and Lomont,-about 22 milos from thig city. The lightning oxpross which ‘loven 8t 9 o'clock overy ovening for Bf. Louls started at the usual hour, and, without any premonition of disaster, flow on at tho usual rato of spood— twenty-fivo milos an hour.. Xt -waa Baturday night, and many persons wore going to tho coun- try to spond Bunday, and many othors who had boen in the “oity on business were returning to their homes along tho line. Tho train consisted of a locomotive, o, .baggage-car, & smoking- car, two cosches, and two elooping-cars. The cars wore woll filled, particularly the smoking-car.. The train was due at Wulow Station at 955, and was “on timo. Itisnotusual for this train to stop at that atation, but on this occasion it was noces- sary, in ord«r_m tako on & slooping-oar which was ‘brought from St. Louis by the train which loft that city in the morning, THE COLLISION. The train started from Willow Btatlon, accord- ing to the best ovidonco, ten minutes behind, and, a8 it is customary on this rond to moke up lost timo, undoubtedly the rate of speed was somowhat accelorated, The ,conduotor and ongincor know thoy wero to pass o conl ¢train at Lemont, soven miles diatant, but nohappily that train did not wait, as it ehould havo doue, but camo on toward tho passonger train, expeoting to make Willow Btation, It was & raco for life. The conductor and en- gincor of tho conl train knew that tho passonger train, laden with procious lives, waa In front, and if they did nov reach a switoh by a cortain time a collision was inovitablo. Both trains were rushing fowards dostruction. On thoy flow over the iron way through tho darknoss, tho epood incroasing at every The passongory in the slooping-cars woro proparing to retire, or had alroady done so. Those in the coachos woro looking forward to reaching their destination, whore expeotant families swaited thoir coming, The suspicion of danger never crossed the minds of any, when suddonly, with- out a momont's warning, not even a whistle, tho two tralns woro looked in an embrace of doath, and in ono terriblo moment wives wero made widows,. ohildren bocame fatherloss, mourning waa sont to tho threshold of many bappy homes, snd sorrow that can nover be eradicatod piercod many hoarts, Thoro were three conoussiong,— first, whon tho englnos mot and wero de- stroyed ; eecond, whon tho baggage car atruck and was smashed into fragments ; aud third, whon tho smoking-car collided and leaped in tho air, alighting on” the fractured boiler of (ho freight ongine, Tho romains of tho passonger~ train onglue wero thrown from tho track, toward the oast, and 80 wero tho ruius of tho bage gage car, Thon came the emoking-car on top of the hoilor. Tho fore part of this car was burat opon by the forco with which it struck, tho hind whoels romaining on the track, and there it 8tood ot su anglo of thirty dogrecs, the pasuon- gors impriscnod fu the broken iron and wood, while THE DEADLY STEAM onmo up with terrifio force from the boller bolow, scalding those whom it touched, Instantly peol- ing oft the skin} and causing the moat exoruciat- ing agony. Ono momont was sufMolont to causo ; oy {ho smoking-car and begin. * ' e | 'f ‘of micdical nttondanco, It | examined their patien | and that - any -1 work to sooure the noceesary aid. - donth, but many wore thote sovernl minutos bo-’ Tore boing oxtrionted. Thoy broathod the burn- ing atinosphero, Ono bronth was fatal, thoinner surfaco of tho chost and lunga boing foarfully scorched, SR 4 i As soon ng thoy rocoverod from tho first |° shook, tho passongers in tho two conchos and {n tho slooping-cars, who woro uninjured, did oll’ thoy could to rosouo: the' snferore, ' This - mono work Wwas siperintéhded by Mr. B, R. Hasloy, of Normal, who: was: tho first to mount i . ' THE RESOUE. With bim ‘waa: s Toxan named Mageo, who worked nobly, They lifted out tho sufforers jn , tho rény of tho éaf first, and' thon placsd a plank "on which those ‘In'the clovatod end weto slid down. All ero handlod as: Bontly na possblo, and laid fondorly on thi6 grass. Whilo this was boing dong, othiors lighted o fire, taking!for fuol ¢hio broken tifubor, and tho light shono lufidly “oni'tha sufforare, Who wore mosning' in’ thoir #gony, ' Tho alooping-tars woro emptied of pas- songors,” &nd' 'on By ono e wounded’ wero Placod in tho borths, aud tocoived such attontion A8 could bo giybn thom fn tho ' a¥menco ne . Wia hard {0’ know what to,do, - With ‘all kindness some of tho _passongora offorod ,brapdy, but lady who “know low injurious would bo ita- effoot pro- }dbl%d its uso. - Ar, Hawloy eays .the collision ‘occurred nt 10:20, gnd’ when' all the' wufforors woro in the_slooping-car. he took out his watoh .and found it n fow minutos nfter midnight, Tho help that had: boon ' gent. for immediatoly aftor tho disastor had not'then drrived, and . . THE80ALDED SUF¥EREDS : ‘weta enduring unuttorable torturo, Boon aftor +an ongino camo from Lomont, bringing 'four physlcians; but when they. camo thoy could do little or mothing. ‘Buppgsing they would be called npon to givo sirgieal ald, they camo equipped with surglcal ‘ingtrumonts; which Wwero. not requred) and: tho ‘linimént ind ofl whichi ¥otd, 60’ hadly ‘neodod werd still throo milds away af Lomont, ‘Anongineras sont bacl for thom, and in _tho_moantime the doctors nd did the bost thoy couldwith the mosgrs tippliances ai hand. i They callod for bandagos, and orié noblo foman,' Mra, MoCord, “'of, Bloomington, toro.her undorskirt ', into strips uatil It was oxhoustod. - Then shdots ‘wero torn and opiates and .anmsthotics adminis- tored to give tomporary roliof, | As scon as tho train from, Tomont roturncd, tho wonuded wero mado moro comfortable, atid about 8 o'clock in in the morning . ¥ ol ‘ - "ANOTHER THAIN ¥ROM ONICAGO,: with the officals of the roud snda reinforce- mont of dootors, reached the scono. ¥ Thero waa but, little murmuring .among the passongors. A fow broke .out in words of in- dignation_sgainet tho officers of tho road for what they ¢onceived to bo the unroasonable do- lay ‘in the arrival of sssistanco, but, gonorally those who eecaped wore too much concorned about the wounded, and too busy in attending to thoir waats, to think of anything elso, ' . TNE OAUSE,OF THE ACCIDENT was tho inoxousablo foolhiardiness of the con- duotor of tho freight train in leaving Lemont whon Lo kaow that it was ) - A MATTER OF LIFY, AND DEATIH,— that it was a:mora ohanoo if ho could roach a switch in_timo,—that it was his daty to romain thero until the passenger ' train, - which had tho ' right of . way, 'was _safoly . h{‘ wny ho had, no right -to run any risk “or tako any chances, Mr. Hu- eton, station-ngent at Lemont, entreated him not to leaye the station, and 50 nneasy was Mr., Huston whon ho did loavo, that _ha. listoned un- til o heard the concussion, and then ho rv tto Tho night was ‘dark, ‘tho sky oloudy, tho . waning moon shed no light, tho stars woro. viei- “blo overhead, but a thick fog covered-the, sur~ faco of the earth, and lights coild not he scon for any groat distance. That made no' diffor- euco, however. ' With - tho . -samo rock- loss mooagomont of tho froight “train tho accidont . might have ocourred in the full blazo of ncon-dsy. "Thoro would be [ nothing to prevent it. A curve in the road hid 'the trains from * cach othor, and‘the onginoors could do nothing to stop their engines; (In this cnss nothing sooms to have boen attompted. Thero wasno Rafferty-there, by a deed of. hero- ism to lighten this gloomy tao. 2k 8AG DRIDOE, - noar which the accident occurred, takes its Elm:u -in_ the history of railroad massagres side aido with Carr's Rdek, ‘Augols, and other .places mado memorablo by disasters, THE SCENE AT THE WRECK. Tho {rain which wont from Ohicago returned to tho city at 8 o'clock yesterdny morning, bring- Ing tho two elooping-cars and the: coachea which worouninjured., What was left bohind was not worth bringing. The onginos were domolished ; tho passenger engine was torn.almost to frag- monts, and _tho froight engiue was not in much bottor condition.. Tho dobris was strown all _around, splintors covering the ground. The passongor engine, or rathor what remained of it, lay outside the track, to the onat, tho remains of the baggage-car pointing to tho west, whilo the smoking-car ruins poiuted to the osst ss it lay ovor TOE MURDEROUS BOILER, Tho cosl cars woro badly used, many of them belng utterly destroyed. Whon the cars woro smnshed tho trucks ran up togothor, and thore were half-a-dozon pairs of wheels standing as closo aa they could on tho track. The ruin was almost complete. Inono of tho freight cars wag oot of rallroad iren, which shot forward whon the end of the car burat, covering tho top of tho tendor and roaching over to the smoking- car, pinioning somo of the passengers. These rolls woro visible yosterdsy, It is easy to imagino what wrecked and ditohed cars aro, but it ia not eaty to form an ides of tho torriflo forco of tha concussion whioh caused tho whole- ealo ruin visible yostorday. : AT THE COUNTY HOSPITAL. 1t was about 8 o'lock yesterday morning whon tho bodios of the dead and wounded bogsn to arrive. Already the nows of the accident had sproad around tho city, and the doors of tho County Hospital on Amold setrect, near Eighteenth, wore surrounded by a crowd of men, women, and children; somo fow impolled by o vaguo horror of finding a near rolativo among thoso inanimato or agonized burdons; moat of thom atiracted by that morbid desiro to soe and hear evory horriblo detall. They would not be driven awny. They oluatered round tho gatoway and impeded tho bearers of the bodies, yielding only to the physical foros of policemon. Now a wounded man, now a doad ons, was carried in, To hoar tho s GHOANS OF THE DULNED AND HOALDED, aa the motion roused thom toa full sonso of their anquish, woa enongh to appall the stoutost henst, . Lyory proparation had already been made for the recoption of the wonndod, It was expooted that about thirty would be sent to the hospital, Dbut thig numbor was not reached during tho day. How uttorly disproportionod {s that dirty bujld- ing to tho necosaltios of the city was never be- {oro fully illustrated, Tho crowding necessltated bytho addition of olghteen pationts—that wag tho number for which room was nooded—was painful. And to Dr. Strong, and others of the houpital staft, gront crodit is due for tho syatom- atio maunor in' ‘which the arrangemonts wore mado, and for tho disposition of tho patients, ‘When tho last body had Loon taken into the hospital, it was foung that five -Woro corpses, many othors boing In so desperate s condition that their transfor to tho Morgue was meroly re- gorded a8 a queation of time. Thecorpsos wore ‘takon to the dond-house and arranged ag woll as they could bo. - Four wore . rocoguizod, aud onp is, as yet, unidontificd. Since the morning o slxth dled, Jobn Motzlor by nime. - Thoy woro Inid out with betoming doconcy,’but s moro ghontly sight than that prosonted : . AT.THE MORQUE Luman cyo nover gazed upon. ¢ Entoring by.the door,, the vieltor eamo upon tho prontrato body of ' young man, about five fool fivo or . kix Inchos in hoight. o hind not beon identified, Mo is drossed in dark'clotlies, haa dark holr, and was'stout and'strong, - Hig Taco i swollon toa hideous caricature, -Thoro arono marka upon, it, but a jot of sealding stonni lis literally. bolled tho hond and shoul- dore, Ko could not have sufforad much pain, for the firat shorp pang caused by inheling that bolling atmosphore must Liavo boon Lis lnst ox- poriondo of onrthly pain. "/ Passing by this ghastly ploturo, anothor slok- oning’ phneo of the panoramsa camo in view. Lylng upon threo tabloes wore 'TUREE OTHER VICTINGE, Upon the woat -tablo waa lying Thomas Morton, porter, it is #ald, of Anderson's European Hotel, who lived ot. No. 1010 West Jackson stroot, in this city, His face bnd escoped that disfiguro- mont which many had suffored, and . hotrayed tio vory strongevidonces of violont death. But ks body was boiled, and ho had taken s brenth— ono only was ouongh—of that csciping” torront of stenm, and ho lay awaiting tho notion of. the Coroner's jury, T i Georga Routor, No 368 Bedgwick stroct, fu tho omploy of Meusrs, Strauss & Co,, tobacoonists, occupled tho contre-table. IHo had been de- nudod of tho groator part of his clothing: : His faco, arms, body, and logs wors boiled. The skin hod boon torn off by the action of tho steam, and tho crimeon flosh beneath was sick~ oning, But his misory, the .dootor thought, could have boon but momentary, He had not boen long in the city. Noxt to him was John Metzlor, the only pa- tlont who had died sinco reaching’ the hospital. ‘The information regardinghim was vory mengro. Nobody know whore halived or what his busi- o wae, but 1t was gouorally eupposed thot ho ‘was brakoman of the froight train, Further in- vostigation mado this supposition s certainty. Tassing from this room into & {hird, ove camo upon the two.romaining, bodies, which woro noked in fce. Thoy. woro tho mortal romains of oah . Davilbiss,” of Bpringfleld, . ' who bhad beon but ® day ‘bofors at ' the Briggs - Houso in this ' city. Tho other wag Capt. W. Littlo, of Springflold, of whom nothing -could Lo learncd, Theso gentlomon wero in tho smoking-car at tho time of tho col- lisions Tho oxtont of thoir injuries couldnot bo obrorvod, as tho. bodics wore_concealed with ico, and woro lyingin motallic cofins. This comploted the six. . It was with great difficulty that the roporters, doctors, and railrond officials forcod thoir way into tho Morgue. ¥ TIE CROWD ROUND TRE DOOR wag composed mainly of womou and young girls, and thoso absolutoly rofused to make room. ‘They appeared to boriveted to the spot with an incongoivablo hungor for the horrible. Thoy had no friends or relatives at tho Morgue. zl‘lmy ‘woro.not bound by family tics, or even by asgo~ oiation, to tho mutilutod magses of ‘humanity whioh fy upon tho tables. _They were impellod by & most oxtraordinary dosiro to fomst their |. ‘oyos upon scence from . which even tho medical attendants turned with.a ehudder. Little boya wore olimbing up to.tho windows, and poering curiously upon tho prostrato corpso nonr the door-way, josting over busy swarms of inscots, with romarks too disgusting to bo chronicled. CONDITION OF THE WOUNDED LAST EVENING, Na, 1. John 0'Keefo, of Bloomingten, was up ond dressod. Ho was sitting down, both ' hands bandaged up. -His injuries aro slight, and a week or two will sco hiln rocovered. Ho says ho ‘was asleop in the smoking-car whon the colfision ocourred, and the first intimetion he hnd of it 'was tho conoussion. At the same momont o tor- rantof steam blow in overhim, scalding his baud sovoroly. His rocollootion of what followed is -vory elimd Ho belioves tho oar was totally wracked, but he manogod. to oxtricato himsolf. No. 2. John, Whalen, Akron, O., n person ‘with # no homo anywhore,”. as ho eays, was also injured, but slightly a8 compared with ‘the others. His faco is badly scaldod, as fa his baclk, His hands, however, sustained tho most serious injury. Ho was up and drossed, but .very quiet snd resorved. No. 8. Willinm Cannon was in tho smoking- car, with tho others. Ho.lives at Dick's Island, Malno, and was o passonger. Ho is little in: jnred, his hands and right foot only being scald. ed, 1o soomed to bo in couriderable pain, and did not wish to talk. No. 4. Aloxandor Hackot, also of Dick's Isl- and, Maine, was badly burned about both bands and foot ; Was in bed, sufforing greatly. Ho s n blacksmith by trado. Theee were the moat for tunaln of tho.victimy, ‘aud wero in the lower ward, ) No. 5. John Bpeors, of thiseity, machinost. This oor follow wes from Bridgeport, and was on- owurm{: to look a8 cheerful as possiblo, But somo ugly cuts about tho head and brulscs over his face, and contusions of his body, oxtornal ond intorna, rondered his offorts to appear com- fortablo and happy not 18 succossful as they de- sorved to be. He was vory . communicative, and rathor excitable. He said ho was going to Bt. Louis, s pagsongor in tho gmoking-car. ¢ Tho firet thing I know," eaid ho;. *‘ was n orash, and I felt the car going off tho traok, and thon somehow, ono ond of the car went up and tho other went down sand Idon't romember what camo aftor that,” and tho poor follow winced ae & sudden pang warned him that ho could not talk longer. Tho doctor warned him to lio still, and'the reporters passed ta the noxt.. No. 6. James Lamont, of Philadolphis.’ He i quite & youug man, rathor slightly built, but full of grit, it bis coursgaous boaring was any indi- cation, o s a baker by trado, nd was'in tho smoking-cor, Ilo hag no very distinct rocolloo- tions of what ocourred, but is painfully congcious thot his loft orm i8 fractured - bo- tha olbow and tho shouldor, whilo tho right is shattorod betweon the wrist and elbow. If this were nll' hia case would bo a Lhard ono, but it is not all. 'Tho internal bruiscs aro sufliclout to causo on{body sorious incon- venionco for a month or fwo. - Birango to say, ho oucapod boing gealded. No. 7. James O'Neil, of Joliot, merchant, nged 20, will dio, His body is torribly burnod, and his arms and logs almost boiled off. Io was in “tho smoking-car. Waa unconscious when the reporter saw him, aud had boen 6o for somo timo. Tho railrond authoritios declare bim to bo engi- noor of tho passengor train. No. 8. Frank Bridges, firoman, traveling in the smoking-car, was burned sbout the hesd and neek, and bruised about the body, Tho shook or somo concussion has rondered him domented. Ho is not #0 badly hurt as many others. No. 9. A man dosoribod na ‘* Theodore Stenz, railroad employe.” His namo is not to bo found on the official st of victims. Tho sight of thia ‘poor creature was harrowing, A mask had beon sowed over his faco to protoot it from contact with tho air, aod to veil tho alokening picturo it afforded. He iy o strong, honrty follow, but waa dying fast as tho roporter siood by his bed with the dootor, Hiy broathing was a succession of difficult gasps, each ono convulsing his whole frame. His body and limbs woro boiled, and bis lungs were doubt~ leay in tho same condition. ¢ Thoro is nohope for him " was tho remark of Dr, Strong. * Hia misory i8 nearly ouded,” ho addoed & momont af- ter, as a shuddor shook tho poor croature. In- dooed, it noeds no practiced oyo to sce that hisre- liof was uoar at hand. Io ‘could scarcely have beon conacious. No. 10, Henry Small, miner, of Akron, O, His' bod sdjohicd that of the aying man, and ovory (insphng respiration must have tortured him,” Ho also woro a mask, but looked up brightly whon addrossod. Ho wag en route for Springfleld, and was in (ho smoking-cnr. Iiis faco, back, and legs woro Amrl.goflod, but ho has asound conatitution, and will prabably pull through oosily. No. 11. Jacob Cardovant, or Qumdest, it {s not known which, Is dying, if Lo ba not doad now. Ho i & lumborman from Oshkosh, Wi, and is bndly sonldod, His face, arms, back, and loga aro donuded of skin, Thero is no carthly hopo for lLim, No. 13, A, 0. Hickman, arlist, of Cincinnati, lately of No, 156 West Wasbington stireet, Glisago; Amorient by Uistl, Wed onfoying & cigar in tha smoking-car _at_the timo of tho ac- cident, o is not very badly injured, his faco and handn boing the only portions of his body soveraly sealdod. : Bul hio is torpid, and has not uttored an Inmllii;lbla word since fio camo fu. ‘I'hiu I attributod to the nervous shook rathor thay to phrv’uxnnl in ” Ty, No. 12, Buskort toluo, & Bwies, ‘but elightly injured cnmpnmllvclg. Haa been in Ohicago about six montha, and ia a tinker by trado, Waa in tho smoking-car noar thoe stove, noar a box of ,#omo kind or other whick protected him. No. 18, _Jamos L, Doylo, aged 87, Irish, stool- worlkor. . Is'badly burnod sbout the faco,” arms, and body, andyla in o dotibtful condition. 110 ;‘6 flgng,n't live ‘anywhero,” and has ‘¢ got no. 5 v . i .'No. 14, arculs 8. John, agod 20, & Bwlss. o ig a tinker by trado, and has rolatives at No. .108 DoKoven siroot; in this city, Ond foot Is ‘burnod, but his Injuries aro slight, No. 16, Goorgo Trentel, or Hontil, of Chieago, aged 20, laborer, This paor croaturs hne not o aquaro Inch of skin npon is bbdy. - It4s o pain- ul sight. o fa probpbly dead by this timo, as his Inborsd bronthing yestordny aftornoon bo- toloned his approaching'Tolonso. -Ho was in tho smoking-car. il No, 16, .William "Miteholl, stono-cuttor, aged’ 28, a Bootchman, was iu the smoking-car, Ho lives somowhoro in Maino, - and waa on his way " sa1y to somo littlo town boyond 8t. Louis. Hs is badly bruised about tho faco and arms, but will prabably recover., 29 No, 17. Aloxandor Mannoch, nged 92 yenrs, from Scotland, shosmaker by trade, Ho is badly botlod about tho faco and hands, and parts of liin body aro sevorely scalded. The doctors are nob ino about his rncqvor{‘ - Ho is vory wealt. This complotos thg lisk of ‘victima st ‘tho Los- pital. Tiwa or three of them will without doubt b6 romoved to the Morguo beforo noon to-eay. The remhindor may recover; to carry aronnd with - thom soarrad faces and usoless limbs, the terri- blo ovidences of this catastrophe, ¢ THE KILLED AND WOUNDED. v The following is a full and corroct list of tho names of the victims of the collision, furnished by tho officiali of the 8t. Louls & Alton’ Rallroad Company: L ' PASSENGERS. A DEAD, N. Divelbiss, Bpringfield. Capt. Wm. Lottlo, Bpringfleld. Thomas Morton, Chicago. Goo. Reuter, Chicago. Mr. Brass, No. 185 Xuron strect, Obieago. One body- at Morguo, supposod to be that of Conrad Webber. WOUNDED AT COUNTY HOSPITAL, John O'Keofo, Bloomingten, 1L, both handa and baok sealded ; will recover. i John Whalon, Akron, Obio, elightly: scalded; will recover. R William Cannon, Duck's Island, Mo.; faco snd ‘hands senlded ; will rocover. John Bpoars, Bridgoport; bruised; will re- covor. J. LeMotte, Philadelphia; will probably re- covor. ‘Thomas Btrong, or Frodorick Strong, Muske- Bon, ; cannot survive. Honry Small, Akron, Ohio ; scalded; recovery doubtful. Jacob .Cordovant, Oshkosh, Wis.; badly sealded ; recovery doubtful, A. 0. Nickerman, Cinoinnati; badly scalded and bruised ; recovery doubtful! Burkert Antoine, Bt. Louis; scalded; will probably rocover. James L. Doylo; acalded; will probably xe- cover. Mourice 8t. John; sealdod; will probably re- cover, S Goorge Trondel; scalded ; will probably re- covor. William Mitcholl, Duck's Island, Moe. ; acaldod ; will probably recovor. Alox, Mortioth, or Alex. Warmouth; scalded j will rocover. 1 ui’m“ O'Neil ; badly burned ; recovery doubt- ©_OTNER TassENOXTH, Capt. John W. Smith; badly scalded; proba- bly will not survive. = : J. W. Fleury, 8pringfield ; badly ecalded ; prob- ably will not survive, Martin Costello ; slightly injured. Tonao Mills, New York ; slighily injured. Albort Adams, Bloomington ; slightly injured. Al Berden. - T Anton Tinkloman. Thomas Crowley. Jncob Kloso ; badly scalded. Jamos 0. Edwords, 8t Louis ; at -Gardnor House; slightly injured ; sprained anklo, |, .. . EMPLOYES OF COMPANY. .. . DEAD, William -Davis, firomon of éoal traln’; lying dead at Lomont. » Jamos B. Moochoy, firoman on passenger train; doad at Lomont. ¥ John Matzolor, engincer, riding on passengor train, INURED, J. E. Cunningham, hn(igngomnn; legs broken. § W{llllnm Richardaon, train-boy; slightly in~ urod, . i Trank Bridgos, supposed tobo & firoman; at hospital; recovory doubtful. * — Puffenberger, engincor of conl tram. L. A. Hardin, expross messenger, Dwight, 1i.; slightly scafdod. W. E,Castoll, brakoman, No. 172 Forquor strect ; bruieod, injufy slight. James O'Noil, engineer of passengor train. BUMMARY. Totaliuissriiesansioreanannaaineane 0. NOGER 3. BRAES. Ono of the passengors in the amoking-car was & woll-known citizen of Chicngo, one who will be goroly missed—Roger J. Brags, Mr, Braes was sitting in convorsation with two gentlomen whon ' the nccidont occurred, and ocoupiod the roar sent of the coach. Whon the shock came, one of his companions was instantly killed by inhaling a_breath of steam, whoreas tho othor | escaped without injury, NMr, Brass waa sovoroly injured by the shook, and inhslod steam also. The agony consequent upon the injurios he reccived - was* intonse, but he romainod conscious for soma hours, and uxflimd while being conveyed to the city. Ho talked with his brothor-in-law, Mr, D. O. Bkelly, who was summonod to the wrock from Lomont, and who did all that lay in his power to alloviato bis sufferings. Mr. Brass was a man of nousnal natural gitts, which had boen strength- oned and doveloped by a caroful educalion, Ilo 'was 44 Bmum of age, and was a native of Iroland. Ho first came to Chicago in 1847, and with his father angaged in the dry goods busivess. Ile remaiuod here for ton yoars, whon he wont to Pooris, and ongaged In'the samo buseinesa on his own account, Aftor nino yoars spent in Poorla, ho roturned to Chicago and accepted a very ro- sponeible position with Mossrs, J. V. Farwoll & Co., with ‘whom he romained until the fira. ‘Whon that incidont scattered business in Chi- cago, ho retired fora whiloto his farm noar Dwight, Livingston County. Last mpring ho conneoted himself with tho firm of Hamlin, Halo & Co., with whom ko romained to tho day of his death. He loaves a wife, but no children, Mra, Brass {8, poonnfarily, very well pravided for, and rosidos at No. 185 Huron stroot. Mr, Brass has_been identified with all movements lookin; to the olovation and culture of Irishmen, an espociolly with tho Catholio Church. Ho was one of the organizors of the Union Catholio Li~ brary Auuoclnfion, and the firat Presidont of that” usoful organization, a—position whioh ho ocoupied for two years. Ho was also Presidont of tho Bi, Patrick's Booloty, in this city. It somotimos happons before such a catastrophe as that in which Mr. Brass and 8o many othors por- ished that ono or moro porsons aro vaguoly warped by some mysterious influonce of an im- pending calamity. We aro apt to rogard thoso resontimonts a8 nnauthenticated, but the case ru consideration is too marked to be lightly ro- gerdod. . Brass was fn tho habit of traveling congiderably, but on Saturday evoning hie more than onco expressed his reluctance to leave tho city, Ho hnd no occaslon foralarm, He had travolod tho same route many times, but this timo hio was uncasy. ‘Thore was nothing in nat- ural ovents to moke himso, DBut ho told his wifo ho did not liko to go, and that nothin, but urgent business necessity woul have tompted him, Mo bndo fare- wolt to or with _unususl tondorncss and hopndl.! a8 ho novor did before, that no acol- dont wouls lu%»n. Mr. Brags' romsins wore takon to his rosidonco, Th? funoral will ocour to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock, from the Cathe- dral of tho loly Name, His foatures wero nat istorted, but his faco is discolored by the action of tho steam, Tho Union Catholic Library Association will moet this evoning at 8 o'olock to take action in rogard fo tho death of their esteomed member, Rogor I, Drasy, 2 GAPT, BMITIL AND MR, YLEURY. Tho Ponitontiary will losa’ two of its officers, Capt. Jack Smith, the Warden, and Mr, Fleury, $ho purchasing agont. Ar. Davoblivs, of Bpriug- .NUMBER 363. fleld, who waa killed, lind just resigned n posie tlon in the institution, and as on hig way home, Mr, Smith and Mr. Floury had boon In tho' city on businass connected with tho l)rluon, and woro on their way back. 'Thoy wero in tho smoking- car near tho roar ond whon tho collision ocowrrod. They wore fonrfully sealded, Mr.8mith wasinjured in the hond, snd onc-balf of tho cuticlo wan siripped from his body. Mr, Floury was injurod in the same way, Botli inbaled tho hot steom. Mr. Bmith is not so bady hurt internally as Mr. Floury, but, oxtornally, ho sufforod moro. Thoy o at tho Wost Bido Driggn Houso, and all that gkill and kindnoes enn dofs being dono, They suffored torribly, Both wero conscious yestor- day, and awaro of their dangerous condition. ‘Thoy woro mon of fino constitutions, but there i8 no hopo of their rctovory. . 3w THONAS NONTON, . hend porter at Andorson’a IIutof, was among tho killed. Ho was on his wny.to Tontioc to visitn “glolt brothor,'end intonded to return this morn- ing. Ho was about 27 years of ngo, and \was much respected by’ his “omployors. Ho diod from inbaling *hot stosm, - ll\'(ufi only bnlf an hour, 1o leayos a wife and child, who live on Waostorn avenue. : a 5 AT THE COMPANY'S OFFICES. Anxious friends and relatives of passgngor on tho oxpross tisin commenced calling at the gonoral offices of the Company, on Van Buren stroot, betwoon Caual sirect and the river, oarly in the morning, ood as the newa travoled and becamo moro widoly disseminated, the number incrensed, un- it tho room of tho Gonoral Suporintondont, the Prosident, and Attornoy woro fillod with in- quirord, About tho firat thing dono by tho ofiicials of thoe Company, as soon 48 tho killed and wounded woro brought in, was to .gathor from such sources na thoy could tho names and coudition of tho viotims, and several copies of this list were mado out for tho porusal of persons in- torosted, All tho sufforors having been sont oither to thoir homes, to the hospital on Eighteenth ‘streot, or to such hotols as they preforred, tho inquiries at tho office woro not difficult to answor by a roforence to tho place at which the person inquired about was lodged, Very little limo swas lost in bowail- ing tho disastor, or making & mysteryof it. All the information tho officors of tho Company had to give thoy gavo unhesitatingly, and the facts wore 8o mournfully simple and cloar that dotalls wore ununecensary. THE BTATEMENT OF THE COMPANY.! Mr., Blackatone, Prosident; Judgoe Bockwith, Attornoy; and Mr. MoMullen, Genoral Buporin- tondent, miko u atatoment of tho cataatrophe, ot which tho following i3 & summary; The regular night passengor oxpress for St. Louis loft tho Madison stroet depot at 9 o’clock, Baturday night, with oxpross-car, baggage-car, throo day-coaches, and threo slooping-coaches, snd ran on time to about threo miles north of Lomont, which is twenty-five miles south of Chieago, whon she was struck by the Wilming- ton conl-train, with thirty-five cars, that ought to have been on o siding at Lomont, waiting for the oxpross to pnss. Tho cosl-train was bohind time, boing due at Liomont at 7 o'clock. Theso trains had mot regularly, without any change of timo, or othor altoration, at tho nght placo,—the coal-train on the siding, sud eoxpress on tho main track,—for months, Thore bad boen no change in conductors or engineors, or in rato of spoed or in tino, and why the conductor and ongineor of the coal train should have vio: Iated tho rule, and left the siding and proceeded along the track at full speod ‘when they kuew, by daily oxporienco, thoy must {nevitably meol tho passenger train by o doing, {8 & mystery which tho officers named have yot to unravel "The rales of tho Company provido that the pas- ’| sengor train has the right of way—that is to uay, oll other trains must mako room for it, must stoy on & siding until tho pussonger train passes in eafoty, o jinsure them ' doing 80 a rule of the Company obliges them ta remain ai such station as have' telugraph opora- tors in attondance, and to delay tholr departura until a telogram Is hauded them, stating that tho rond to tho next station (s olgar, and aufhorizing thom to leave. .In this caso tho conductor ran his train straight past Lemont, and although the principal blamo rosts on his shoulders it must bo shared in by tho engineor, who, by a rulo of the road, is ohh%nd whenever tho conductor gives an order, which in his opinion oudengers the safoty of tho train, to § STOP THE TRATN TMMEDIATELY. “This rule was undorstood by the engineer and conductor, and overy employo on ‘the road. Tho cngitcor and conductor of onch train know - “'as- well 88 any onme that the mght oxpresa south from Chicago would pase Lemont evory night, burring accldent, at n cer- tain timo, and if thoy (the coal train) wero be- hind timo, they know it was hopoless to atlompt to make it-up anywhero north of Lomout with- out almost cortain destruction, Tho collison occurred at 10:20, in a dense fog, 7 ON A CURVE. Had tho traips beon rushing on towards each otlior on a straight track, still it was fogy enough to provent their officors ecoing each othor in time to prevent colhdmi. And if there bad beon no_fog to hida thoir hoad-lights, the curve would bhave done so just the same. The conductor of the cosl train had timed his departure from Lomont #o that tho collision was bound to take place just whoro tho most powerful air-brakes yot invented ‘would prové too feoble to prevent the crash, in tho intorval betweon the cuginemon sighting ench other and tha collision. Mr. MoMullon says that tho engino of the coal train throw the ongine of tho passenger train off the track to tho east, or tho outer, side of the curve, tho passenger ongine drawing after it the express car entirely off tho track, with a violouco that jorkod it up into tho s fully fiftoon feat, and now lies almost bodily on the baggage car, which was also drawn to the oast gldoof the track, Tho forco of the suddon wrench drew opart the links botweon the last-nomed car and tho emoking car, or Bonond-clasy car, which waa loft partly on aud oft tho track, with its front platform ox- partl ) Possd 40 tho full foroo of tho concusaion with tho coal engino, which now tore into it, and throwing it upward, rent the flooring aud framowork apart, and poured tho BOALDING BTEAM " into tho smoking-car. Tho car was crowded with people, tho passengera of the pooror class boing & full averago, and many of tho eccupants of tho slosping-coaches having looked in to have s quiot pmoka bofore turning in to sloep for tho night, which accounts for thoe large numbor of sufforers—thero being not a ~singlo person dangerously iujured in any other coach. The only passenger hurt in tho other cars was o gen« tloman who had his shoulder put out of joint. The engino now lics undor the swoking-car, Thore were no deaths among the passengers and but fow serious injurles from fracturos, or any othor causo but scalding, and if the stoam had not cacaped as it did, it 18 eup{:oaofl that not » single life would havo boen lost, The conductor of tho gumaungur train, who was in the roar and unhurt, ag soon as ho found the extont of tho disster, walked on to Lemort to givo information, after doing all ho could to cheor up thoe sufferors with hopes of SUEEDY RELIEF, and tolegraphed thenco to the offico in Ohlcgfu and tafir«: train-mestor at Bloomington. The Inttor at once ordored a train to be got ready at Jollet, the nearost availablo point outside Chi- cago, to conyey such modical mon a8 could be roourod to tho scone of tho accidont, and thiy rain loft almost immodiatoly, taking up physi- oiany at Joliot, Lookport and Lemont, but by a singulor mischance thoy omitted to bring with them any considorablo Bupply of medical appli- ancos. b Moauwhilo, tho baggago-master at Chicago had recolved tho news from Lomont, and_hired tho only hacks then availablo, and aout for My, Moblullon, Gonoral Suporintondont, Mr. Seavor, Asslstant Superintondont, and Mr. Richards, Divislon Buperintendent ; and in tho meautima ordered an engine to gat up stoamn as fost 8y possiblo, By the time’ tho oflcinls arrived, tha engine was 1curly ready, and the Buperintondent sent out tho hucka for medioal men. Each hack Drought ono physician, _ Acting on tho suppoui- tion that tho ontire train hiad beeu wreckod, Mr, MoMullon got a traln of threo sloeping-cars pro- parcd, and tho beds siready made, and providod a full supply of modical comforts und upplioncos, (Continued on the Iighth Page.)