Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 22, 1881, Page 1

}LENS "'FALL'S Insurance Co. of Glens Falls, N. Y. 1t ANNUATS STATI JANUARY {, 188I. SUMMARY OF ASSIDTH, stntos Rociatorod I inls, nlted st Bnnik, Glen wek hiexk i B R Fiso. irah (npllnl und all Linbilities DMITINT, HENRY H. BROWN, Agent, 6 émd 158 LaSalle-st., S = = = = = =Chicago, llis. \IIH'I{N WY BID I.OUNC-E. “Toven Wire Bed Lounge, Upholstered in any style, Gives a perfect ‘Woven Wire Mattress Bed, “When closed has no appearance of a Bed Lounge. SMANUFACTURED ONLY BY MO Wll{l‘ Rll\k'l”l'lihb‘a C0., Chieago. ay, 133 East Madison-st. sest{tiition. $5 Gold, $10, Wiiling, 11 Old Kates. VITALIZED AIR N s piven {rco for poluloss cxtrcting, 1) East pifltd Inventor of Lower Suction Plate, which sever loosens while talking or eatings & =" netual test without a fallure. ./m. Dunne, Dentist 1ias romuved to 1330 Dearborti-u ’fl\e lmulnan preservation, and mllmf at teotha T (o $TO0 'z Loan at 6 Per Cent, _ Without Conmission, In Rented Real Estate in Chica- ‘0. Apply by letter only to GEO. C. CLARKE, 161 La Salle-st. HONEY 0. LOAN namounts to suit on Improved Chicago “operty, at 6 per cont Interest. Speclnl ates made for Large loans on Business Property. Apply 1o WM. V. .L\COIN, 100 Dearbornsst., hasement, ONEY TOLOAN hn lmprmcd City Property at Current ates, MEAD & COE, 149 L Nolle-st. Madison and 1’(,01'1:1-919. A CHANCE Rarely Offered To buy DRY GOODS so much be- low market prices that they are “[ncamparally Choap Our stock, full and complete in all departments, will be sold at fig- ures that we hesitate to advertisec. Asis now well known, we shall move to State and Madison-sts. Our present object is therefore to dispose of our And not to carry any with us. We assume that the public are famillar with our Toadorship - Priess” We add, that what we will now do, Distances allpast efforts ‘To people residing in the coun- try this sale offers advantages that should not be neglected. “AS USUAL,” LEADERS And Promoters of Popu- lar Prices, Madison & Peoria-sts. Jpright Pianos Ilecd’s Temple of Music, 1306 State-st. MIIEAL Tordaters &V\\\\\m §\\‘m\‘<u‘ov§.‘&«\ Ahevened buhoras Dl Wuad, and speaduading \N\“\\\ \\\ ™D Quks oK N A ?\‘,}& \m\{:\\x\. o s\n\\u ’:\tt‘b. \\ Akex Wk cudborn %\. § 20 PER GENT DISCOUNT Ou sl HEAV Y wiNy s ;.um.ll during January, = PER GENT DISGOUNT O ALL O13{E1 gouds durhig sumo wonth. EDWARD BLY & (0., Tilors. . FOLDING BEDS, The Bure Tateat Polding Parlor Bed MNuves Nent of One Moons, Best Bteel Wira Spring Mattress. 7 5 The handsomaest, mout sub. stantial & comfortabla e Mauutuctured only by A, H. Androws & Co. =<7 105 Wabash Avo., CITICAGO, Wood Mantels, etcs FIEED, LINDLRY & G0, Commission Nerchants, NEW YORK, CHICAGO, AND flhl:TlMORB. 88 & 90 La Salle-st,, Chicago. EDWAND M. Frin, L JONN P TRUFSDELL DANIEL LY, Enwaih B WANITIURS, PopE G, TRprT, Cyus W, FieLy, special McCORD &SPHILLIPS COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Only e, Margins on Wheat and He. on Corn vequired. l54 La Salle~st. -~ e T Ui ion Telegaph o ExECUTIVE OVVK‘L!N“\') A'(l) l:fl}llmfi?‘hA]\’t nn, 19 A spuctul imoating of v .u.m«.k\umu tho Amar- lewn Uniop Tulegraph Co, will bo bold af thu sbo aildrcas on Bundar, Fob. T, 1el n 13 wielogic hoon, Tor the purpose of Botlo; xh 0 the furme of con Idatlon ol he Amorican nhm 'l'ull'umull Compury, the Western Unl ‘wlekruph anxvnny. wnd the Ate Tuntio wnd Paciile urnlm Conpi v Lrunler bom 0( the L-nmmny wiil be elosod on paturday, Jun, ut 1 e ., 84 TOUpORLd Thursduy, Fob. Iy IINI at 10n. By order vt the lkuml or l)lwcln OMAH 1. CLARK, Beerotury. l‘ll lsl"l‘l '\I-q Huckins’ dheis o itoud, I!’lflu?‘:‘!;hh,']h o by i "7‘“‘-«0. Jun. 1, v, m \The Unilersiznog hy ol S o'l qumuy(ur & ul-: y. Sur ' siuhg, S5 wn u‘un lllu(. sod 5 (Il \x‘ 1) BLANKY, \_"“"'»Jln. L L MUCWILLIAME ‘Rinnut urnuas, Tine Bpectacios 3ultod to all sights on sclentifia princivivs. Opere und Fiely Glusau Toloscopes M1 Ciuscubes, Hurvmelors, vt 14 I*Il;\l'llfl‘. PICTURE FRAMES Jflld 18 wilt sutoly pay you to write for y "“llpllutl L& daligug (feun) uf Biyls Vi 8L s 6 30 wiid 204 W uluun wY Bk Wholesale Druggists, 78 and 77 .Randolph-&l 4 TURDAY, Tlye Tribwviee, -‘.h\ l‘UIlllAY. .l.\\U;\ll\ s Trink: ears and o sleeper of the night exe press-tradu on tho Chiengo, Rock Island & Pacliie Rallroad, due in this elty at 6320 terdiy morning, were thrown from the track by nbroken rall about two miles west of Tiskwa, Burean County, in this State, yes- terday morning at 1 o'cloek. "The st couelt ool fira froman exploded Imnpynud in @ short time was completely envelopal in fhnes, About twenty-live passengers wers in this conch, and uneof them, Mrs, Kirby, whs sobad- Iy burned that sho dled at 6 o, m, yesterday, Nearly all the othiers wero mora o less in- Jured, Those who sufered most seriously are Matt Phillips, of Grinuell, Ta. s Mrs, J. E, Orr, of Winlerset, Ing J, W, Hughett ana Mr. Seott, of Chiengo: mnl lluh:lun whoso nnime has not heen nseertalned, Comtuctor Wheeler und the other train hunds neted with great bravery and presence of mind in reseulng the unfortunate pissengers from the burning wrecek, Tir: St. Petershurg poliee made a rich haul yestorduy, They found at the retrent of two men and two women, whom they ar- rested some days ago on suspicion, o full program of the extreme Nihilist faction, which recominends murder and ineendiue- 1sm; afso a quantity of revolvers, duggers, other instruments of death, machinery for forglng pussports, 0 portion of a printing- press, and o larga quantity of revolullonary proclunations, Ono of the lntter referved to the intended murder of a wilitary ofiicer, who will doubtless be niore eareful now that he has warning. SexATonr BeN Hinn has been untiving and unrelenting in his attempts to persecute Sen- ator Kelloggz, Iitherto he has not met with wiieh suecess, I8 latest essay ls his at- tempt to fasten on Senator Kellogg the charge of having been tho enuso of the pre- mnture publieation of the recently-negotinl- wd Chinese treaties, 'I'here does not seem to b the lenst foundation for the chavge. It iy certain, however, that Demoeratle Senators huve not serapled (o do, on varlous ocen- stons, what the Loulslana Senator 13 charged with, Two TRAING stopped on & grade on the Iili- nols Centrat itowd near Cobden, i, yester- duy, In order that ons of the brakemen might run forward to examine o bridge re- ported to be unsafe. A thind train eame nlong at eonsiderable speed and dashed into the rear cars of the scecond train. 'Fhe en- #ine and some of the cars of the third train were badly smashed up, and a fireman numed Sanderson und - brakeman named Markham weroe kitled, and an englneer and two other brakemen were serfously hart. | S roit LouAN managed to get o favora- ble report on his bill to place Gen, Grant on the retired st yesterday, Two Democrats of the Muitary Commiitee, Maxey mnd Tinmpton, were absent, and Senator Logan wis supported by Plumb, Iurnside, dnd Cameron (’a.), 1Y lm thren Democrats, Cook- rell, Randolph, nnd ‘Grover, voted the other way, but did not Illlhuslur‘nguhm the re- port. Gen. Logan Intends to eall up the Dil} for uction at an eurly day. Trgne was considerable Irregularity In the price of Central Puellic Ratirond bonds In the New York stock market yesterday, owing to the rumor, and the denlal of the rumor, that the Government Auditor had -nothiled the Compnny that the 8 por-cent dividend re- cently deelared must bo canceled, as the not earnings of the rond barely covered the amount due the Government. The general market dponed brisk, but rallied towards the | close uf business, —— Tz dead body of Mr. Buackus, n young business-man of Independence, In, wus found yesterday on the grave of his recently- bured wifeln a cometery near that clty, Mr, Backus soll out his business lust week, with the Intentlon of leaving town. It ap- pears that ho clumged -bis mind, howover, bought o revolver last Friday, and nothing was lieard of him since untll he was found dead yesterday, shot by his own hund, ] Tur; Chillan sy inflicted two disastrous defoats on the Peruvians on the 17th and 18th of last month, at Chorillos and Mlrallores. ‘The Intter vietory guve the Chillans posses- slon of Lima, - Pleroln, the Peruvian Presl- dunt, has fled, and Gen, Pledras, brother of the Peruviun Minister of War, was taken pris- oner. ‘The loss on both sldes was very great, ‘I'ho Peruviang have sued for nu urmistice, s M. CrrAnrss L, Corny, an ex-member of the Wisconsin Legisluture, and DPresidont of the Wiscpnsin Central, Raltway Compuiy, was urrestod yesterduy ut Milwaukee 6n°u churgo af perjury, proferred agulust him: hy™| George Wa Reed. I'ha tronblo grows ont of the fuct that Reed lost his position as Direct- or 1 'the Wiseonsin Ruilvond cummmy lhrmu,h tho lufluence of Culby. A WinnaAs VAN Brimcust, o mrmar 53 yeurs old, and who has beon married tven- ty-elght years, yesterday shot his wifo Aurelia“dead ot his howso in Genon Town- ship, near Howell, 30N, and then shot bime self, Van Blarfeunt wis o man of intem- perate habits, and frequently quarreled with Nis wife, from whom e’ sepdrated soveral thmes, — Froy the repurt of Scerctary. Ieming: " way, of the Y, 3L G A, of this clty, itap- pears that there wera 814 noondny prayer- maoetings, at which the total numbver lu nt- tomdaned was 50,0835 that there were 7 prayer-meetings -tor vullrond wmen, at which 10,078 pevsons nttended; whilo 43,920 ncrmns uluzudul the rullway reading-rooms. . I’ma’mmous. ane of the Boer leadors, re- cenfly visited Mr, Brand, Prestdent of the Orauge Free State, to sollelt his medintion on the part of the Boers with Englawd; also to obtuln permlssion o procure avms and ammutition in the Freo State, Mr, Hrund refused to aceedg tothe requests. Thoy wore not made in thme. P Y Anout 100 of the wmost reputable ‘¢ com. misslon merehants, exporters, and deulors in dairy products” of thi city have sigued, a pledge promising never to buy, sell, or manunfacturo adulteruted putter of any kind whatever, ‘Fhoy further prowlse to disconn- tonunco tho sulo or purchuso of the'vilu stufr, y brovher to Archbishop Puareell, of Cinelnuati, aled | yesterduy atc the Ursuline ' Convent Iy Tirown County, Ohio, inhis Td year. 1o wag his brother's pusiuess mauager, and ¢ iy u\vmx to hiy hn.L of flnnuclul kna\vl\.dko unl JANUARY 22, hustnesy taet that the aifuir Wm natl Dineesa are iy sueh aomuddied condi- 1881 X' tiom. ‘The Arehblshop was nt his brother's bedside when he fre Freome Kesren was hanged at Dan- vitle, b this State, yesterday for the murder of 14 wife, near Duekley. Jroquols County, on the 24 of August last, Tlie murder wiis peenllurly revolting amd bantal. The exeentlon yesterday was witnessed by a darge and eurlons ero M. Roerwrr, of Cook, ntrodueed a bill In the Lower Housa yesterday providing that no person shall bo declared Insune ex- copt on propur judicial dnvestigation and upon wedieal andothier competent testhmony., 1L guarantees Lrial by jury to cvety person whleged to ho ingane, Mu, 13 1% Aven, of this city, nppenred be- fore the Hlonse Committes ot Publie Lunls yosterday, and made an argument against the passage of the Aldrieh Lake-Front bilk 1t1s not lmprobable that the Committes will recotmond the passage of the bill in o sifght- 1y nmended for: Bx-Gov, Baorey and Congressmen ITub- hell and herry ave Michizun's candidates for a place B Gen. Garfield’s Cabinet, Mr, Hubhell's elalng are being xmshml withonueh vigor, sud ex-Gov, Bagley ‘has nlready re- cefved the indorsemintof llle Mlehigan Leg- islature. Owixa to the disabled 31\«"1!';“ of the telegraph wives lending lmm New York to Chicngo—the result of - the 'sleet-storm thut has been prevailing over a )\llle extent of country—wo urd unable’ this mornhme to present our usunl volumejof telegraphle news, e —— Trow, HENwY 8, 1oubes, of the National Obseryatory at Washington, has aceepted the Directorship of the Washburn University at Madlson and the Professorship of Astronomy I the Wiseonsin State University, rendered viieant by the |lunlh of the lnte l’wl’. Wat- S0l ———— e Senate passed the Indinn Approprin- tlon bill yesterday; also thebillto place Oril on the vetived with the rank and pay of Major-General, The latter bl only ve- quires the signature of the Preshient now to become Juw, T London Dally graph eharaeter- Izes Booth's renditlon of fogo ws brifliant, and adds that * Lts lghiness and humor are in astonishinmg contrast to his overrated and ultra-aceentuanted Othello.” 4 [ — Mittag T, Wintrow, a white girl of Cum- berlud County, Vikglula, was exeluded from the distriet school beeause she resuded withn cotored family, She has sued the Distrlet Sehool Board for dannges. ) Suvenar inetfeetunt balloty were taken in tho 'Pemessee Legislature” y day for United States Senntor. -3y, A L got forty-seven votes, o eufire Republiean strength, on two ballot T ‘Xehhnlm Legislaturs balloted five times for Unite lm Ly,m\hu yesterday without result, oxistutors ummml to T'addoek propose to lold u caueus to nzree on some one candldatoe, ¢ Faxyvy Nerurn, of Brownville, Neb, nged 17, bought her weddimz-dress, Her lover re- fused to pay for it, aml also refused to marry her. Sho commltted sulelde by taking o dosoof strychnine. Crranars of bribery and corruption.in con- neetion with' the. Senuturinl contest In the Nebrasku Leglstature are being freely mnde, nnd it Is probable (hat thers will be aine vestigatlon. __.____ " Max NorAN, the Home-Rule whin, has withdrawn his resignation of that oflice on condition that the Purnellites do ot objeet to his sitting on the Liberal benehes In the Commons. T champlon seull cock and 1aninn, which was arranged to {uke pluce to-day, will have to be postponed ngaln In consgquence of the \mhuumhlu wenther, emr——— Axcearthquake shoek, lsting about ten seeonds, was foit in the vieluity of Bath, Me., Phursday nlght, The oscillitions were folt distinetly, A loud report preceded the shock, ' M. Co nixg, of Cook, Iutroducedq pill In the Lower Ilouse of tho State Legislature yesterday for the consollitation of townships by a voto of the peopls of towns concerned, - Mu. Bovyr, the edltor of the Irish-Cana- dian,. has colleetedd $5,5700 from his country- wen In the Duminion for the defense of l'nrnell and hls fullm\'—lr:x\'erscru. B A. Smul*ua. the cetebrated conwdlxm, Isdend: Heo wus bont In Liverpool, April 1, 1830, "A sketeh of his professional carcer will be found In another column, A vy snow-starm provatled in Nebras- kaand Colorado yosterluy mid the day be- fore, Ratlromd travel and tutlis were much Interrupted in consvquence, e e Fug-Mansian Swe thinks It willtake $060,854 Lo properly run his departmont dur- Ingz this year, Ilo will ask the City Council to appropriato that sui, A BusoLUrioN was Introduced Into tho Mussuchusetts Loglstuturo yesterday fuvor lug Congresstonal . control of llm tologruph lines ot the country, , while Aariink, nssaultod Gueorge lemu,u “m. a plstol at Delawnre Bend, Tex,, ‘Ihursday, Durnett %illed l!u\vlhu;. Fourv-x1xNg Land-Linguers bolonging to the Listowol (Kerry) branch sre to be proses cuted for unmrlm.' into » seditlous conwlh ney, O'NEing, & Cork l.uml‘l.muxum, arrested onthe ehitrgo'of sending threatening Jotters, hus been dischargud for want of uvltluuw Turobore D'Rowul n lvrlmcll vriest, who galned somo reputation ulkju.couut of his thwlaslcul wiltlngs, is deal, s s Unegcy continues to mako” uropumuuns for hostilitles with "Curlkey, 'Nm péople are uuthuulmienny for wu Fu\\m.n' MANN, & wealthy furmer ll\lnx west of Elgin, in this State, dlml yfiswnluy in his lmn yeur, Tie Buluuukm Unlou of thl: eny hias [} luumburump uf 400, s B = ace between lay- PAGES ACING DEATH. Horrifying Accident on the Chicago, Rock Island & Paclflc Road. A Train Dorniled Near the C,, B, & Q. Crossing, in Bu- reau County, IlL Three Tassenger Conches Rolled fito the Difeh and Set on Five. Terrible Experiences of the Twenty- five Persons Cooped in the First Cary The Heroic Conductor Seizes a Burn- ing Woman and Drags Her from the Fire. Her Death in Great Agony—Se- vere Injury Inflicted upon Seven Others. Experiences of Conductor Whealer, ‘Thomas Gorman, and Others. A> Whole Chapter from Anna, Ill,, Libertyville, IiL, Clayton, Mich., and La Crescent, Minn, THE ACCIDENT. AT L O'CLOCK Ad M, AN 21, Spectul Dispateh to The Chicugo Trivune, One of thenost ying aceidents that has veenrred on the Chica: Rock Island & Tacifie Lailway for took place two miles west of Tiskilwa, Burean County, at Lo'elock this mornine, The nicht express, woine cust, due in Chleago ut 6420 8, m., was approaching the above-numed station at o speed of twenty miles an_hour, belnyg behind thne nbout one hour, when the locomotive struck o broken rail. "The enging, bageuge- car, express-car, and smoker, all passed In sufety, but THE FIRST COACH Jumped the track androlled fnto the diteh, followed by two others and the sleeper, one endot the latter, however, remainlng upon the readbed. ‘The first coach mentioned took five from an exploded famp, and in less than two minutes was completely enveloped in tlames, which were communlented to the next ear In the rear. About twenty-five or thirty passengers were in the first, nemly all of whom were more or less injured by vithor the fire ov the concusston, Mrs. Kirby, of Nevaly, 0., who was returning home from lown, had hor clothing sot on fivo by the luuuhu. oil and wns almost instantly - veloped ndlames. Conduetor WheeRr, of the traln, threw an overcoat over her, carried her out, and endeavored to estinguish the flames; but,. before this was aceomplished, the woman was so badly burned that she divd before 8 o'clock this moerning at the villngo hotel, whither she, with the other in- jured passengers, had been earrled, i OND CcoACH was about half consumed before the fire coull be extinguished, . Fortunately the truin was not crowded, and thowe of the pussengers who were In the Iast conch and sleeper cseaped with comparatively few in- Juries. Those most seriously hurt were: Mutt 'hillips, of Grinnell, Ia,, an attorney, who re serlous If not utal internal in- Juries mul a distoented shoulder, Mrs. Holdon, of Patterson, 1a,; badly hurt. Mrs. J. E. Orr, of Wintersett, In, J. W, Tugkett, of Chicdizo. Mr: Seott, travellne agent for W, Blalr & “Cov, of Chicugo, and a Delgiun, name un- known. These were AL INJURED, and were Joft at 'l waunder the eare of the Company’s surieon. As soon us tho ue- cident was known n speelnl engine and enr weresent ont from Burenn Junctlon,took the remaining pussengers on bourd, and fore warted them to thelr destinations, vassing 1his station at 6 o’clock this mornlig, 'I'lie conducetor of the Bl-rated train, Charley Wheeler, one of the oldestand best ollleinls on the rowd, was severely burned about the hands in trying to suve the burning woman, ancd was also the lnst to leave tho ear, One man who suffered a_fracture of the collur-bone mude no complhiint for an hour and & half, waiting until all others had been trented, Then ho mwde known his Injurles. Theyo wers nbout o duzen children on Dourd, but not one was hurt, although s:mmln.hlltl of Mrs, Kirhy st i the lap of 1t mother, who was herself quite M.rlnnaly n- Jured, &3 “P'o el th the danier of tho passéngors A FHEIGIT-TIALN WAS APPROACHING the scene from the west, but was fortunately signnled ju thine to save u eqlliston, ‘I'he ennse of the aceldent cnnnot be fully detormbned more than was first statal, ex- copt that o freight-train had pussed over the trnek but o short thmu bofore, and it 1s sup- posedd the il wits broken by that teadn, ONE KILLED ARD NINE WOUNDED, Speclal Duapaleh to The Chicago Tyibune, < Davesrorr, Ia, Jan, 21~ Ing 15 u covrect, list of the killed und wounded I the aeeldunt on the Chiengo, Rock Islund & Daclfic Rulivond at o polnt on the romt twa wiles east of Poml Creek, 81ty willes from this city, early this morning, Those whese locatlon 15 not designated were brought to this city this evontug, andd nre being cured for by the Cone puny’s' physicluns nt the Kimball House; KILLED, Mrs, Mary A, Khvby, of Wynndotte, 0., Tite of Winterset, du, lorbody was lettut Tiskilwa, ¢ INJURED, Miss Bunmn Ory, 23 yeurs of apro; reskdes nt Winterset, Iy goneral contuslon; not dans gerqisly hurl, Miss Orr Is at Tlskilwa. Matthow Phelps, an uttorney of Grinnoll, Tu ¢ isloention of shoulder, with somo lu- ternul Injurles, My, Phelps’ wownds ure sorlous, but his chunces of recovery ure favoruble. John 1uggott, of No. 123 Townsend streot, Clilengn, had his vight collur-bone hroken. Mrs. Ellza Holton, of - Pattepson, In.; gen- eral contustons;. o bones were bruken, J, W. Browan, of Syracuse, N, Y,; con- fisfon of the chest wnd guu:ml norvous shack. Miss Matilo Akens, of Superior, Neb. sculp wound gn farohead gl light conusions, Peter Weston, of Rocel lsland; &.alp\\uuud and'contusion. SLIGUTLY INAIED AND - COXTINUED . o\ THEIE WAY, " Henry JEyors, ot Anumosu. w.. n!lgm tulso on right shoulder, g ‘The tollow- [t Byron Phelps, of Deeatnr, TL3 traveling agent for Deere & Ca,, of Moline; slight cuts on right hand and hip. BEXPERIENC CONDUCTOR WIIE Mr. Charles Wheeler, the also viglied, beine found at his resldence, No, 2125 Pratrle e, Mro Wheeler presented hlmself with his left hand and wrist heavily swathed In bundages as evidence of the fact that he hnd figured in the genernl catas- trophe, From the conductot’s story—nmd he, of course, woull be posted us to this pare ticular—it appenrs hat Mr. Thomns wag mistaken us to the munber of cars, e had nut noticed the two neilears - abead ot the baggnge-car, nor had - he notleed that there wis . empty co between the sleeper anud the twe conches shokenn of by hinn ‘There were elght in erlmlu. two mall, oue baggnge, one smoker, thies conchies, andone steeper. Conduetor Wheeler ity sittiong in the sumklng—cur. when he felt the train eome to almost s sudden standstitl, this being In accordanee with the actton of the automatle brake, which works a3 soon us thers Is n disconnection of the cars of the trafn. Rushing to. the rear platform of the smoker, R SAW T ductor, was THRLE COACHES Iylmgon their side at the foot of the em- bankntent, and about: 150 feet” distunt, while the sleeper wog standing at an acute nngle aeross the track, The empty conch had somehow beemse wncoupled at ench end, and was Iying further away from the track thian the other two, which were still coupled, Hurrylie to the nearest eoacl, Mr, Wheeler erawled In through the door, und the first thing to attract bis uttention wi I DURSENG WOMAN, She was completely enveloped in flame. e krabbed up - shawl und threw @t about her, ‘but this was not suflicient; then “Some noble-henrted fellow” pulted off his overcoat and wrapped it also about the unfortnnnte woman, Mr. Wheeler next eaught her ubout the walst and pulled her toward the door, and in doing this his foot broke throiigh one of the windows aeross which he was walking, Sowe. little defny was eaused [ eonsequence, and when the lire of the sufferer's clothing was tinally completely extingulshed with snow she had already become delirious and nearly un- consclous, She was at onee il to the smoker and given as comfortable a position us there was to be had there. Two uther other ludles were . UNABLE TO WALK, although they were not burned any, ad four of the men werealso suffeving from fructured bones and grouning with pain, After the wounded hid been carried to the smoker, the attention of the others was - directed to saving . the overturned couches from being bLurned; vod, by heapliug up a lot of snow be tween the two coupled conches, they mau- aged to. prevent the flames from extending beyond the oue where the five started, ‘Fhis one, though, was entirely rulned. ‘The thirteen passenzers who were fn the sleeper escaped without injury. They, with all the otliers, were taken on to T Iwa, where un ndditionu! coneh and sleeper v tho tralu belng then sta o1 TIHOSE R A only seven appeared to be seriously Injured, Theso W tho burned wonn, to othor ladies who wore badly bruised and possibly injured internnlly, and four men, two of whom had a dislocated or broken shoulder, Mr. Wheeler's left hond - was frighttully burned, the third and little Jingers botng fatr- Iy browned, mud the palm belng one hugo blister, 1lé recefved these burns while earry- ing the woman from the coach. e ulso ii- haled somo very ot aly, which affected his Iungs and volee. The traln was golng nt o specl of about twenty milesan lwnr. the ¢on- ductor states. THOMAS GORMAN'S STORY, Thomns Gorman nud wife, of Dallas, In, were in the ear which first left the ralls. Mr Gorman is a man of 50 years, but his nerves buve not been affeeted by age. He says the car bumped about a dozen times on tho sleepers of the track, siid o distanee of per- haps Gfty feet In the sand, aud toppled over on itsslde, ‘e passengers fell one upon another, nid the stoves seattered burning brands in every divectlon, The miseellaneons traps In the car wero ot onee set on fire, and the clothing of a Indy whon Mr, Gorman afterwards lenned was Mrs, Kirby, hnlted at the stme thne, The stampedo of the ter- rified passengers was heartrending. Tho doors had been sprung in the overturniug of tho cunch, and could ot be vpened, The only escape was through the windows, My, Gormnn clhimbed to the seats, which, of course, were ubove hlin, as the car lny on its shde, and made an opening with his flst, The pleces of glass cut his had to the bone, but he was not conseious of puin Uill after the exeltement wus over. He lfted his wife throtil the nperturg as best e could, amd was himself 1eseued by the comductor and party, who were on the outside, Several other passengers fullowed his example, and In twenty minntes they were ull safe, Over six. of the number wero burned uhout the 1imbs, aud’ especlally the huds, When ho left the scone theear was still burnlng, and it Is his unln\nu that it was completely de- stroyed, <1158 *wife lost her honnet, shawl, cloak, und-hiand-vag, . Mr, Gorman lost his avercont, sutehel, and hat. Heleft yesterday morhing for.his destination, Lapu! Ind, - WILLIAM € THOSIPSON'S STO! Wittt Co’Fhompson: of- es Muines, 1a., was in theswise enr with Mr, Gorman, but. he - remebers very little of the necldent. When the coach left thorails ho was asleep, Hoawoke to i himself wedged n under sent, ond when ho froed hlwself trom that pualtion, he s tell to the .. other sldo of the'enr and recelved w deep wid sovero eut on the left slilo of tho fuce by steiking his head ayminst the window, e was'pulled out by suinc- body, but wiho it was, orwhether it was thratigh w windew or through a door, M. Thowpson does not know. o thinks his full made hin nsensiblo, and conslders hls escapy from the flames as something remarke uble, for the ear was fn a binze,” Ml b ¥, THOMAS, of this elty, who was in the aeelident, but fortunato enough to cseape serlous Infury, 1 was visited yesterdny aftornoon ut bis place of busiess, No. 08 Madlsop, by o Trinusy reporter, to whomn he reluted ‘his oxperience, Jn.substunco us follows: “1 boarded the truin at Molne - shaitly before 11 o'cloclk, tuking o seat near the reurend of the fimst couehy, und on the vight-hund slde, “Phere were about twenty prople I ull In the ear, the fndies und gentlenion Lelg pretty evonly divided, In front of “us were the en- ulue, bograge-cir, and swmoking-enry while bellmd us were, n coach wnd sleepar, The trabit wad about an hour and o hab? behind thne, as it shonhl have left dlo- line ut 9315 and it 1s my hapression that when tho necldent ocenrsed we wore golng at un unusually lusl. rute of w«nl to muke up for lost thne, \ i THERE WAS A BUDDEN JAI, o heaving of the conch o the right, and then tho terrible shoek ocenstoned by the couch Tanding ylolently at the foot of the embuanke ‘ment, which was probably ten'feet in hight ‘I'he conch was 1ying on its vight slde, mud the pussengens wers all thmbled {ogotber, with the tloor un ung skl of them and 'the top of the car’on the other. Of connie -therv wps o tervitie . sereuming - set uwp by tho woluen, uml thu clothuu; 0f onu of thew v PRIC1 IPIVE was diseovered to be on - fire, one of the lamps must have broken and seat- tered burnin, and the shock se taneousty, The th 8t they stood right out straight above our heat and at the sume time passengers from tho other ear commenced entting openings for us -, with axes. minutes elapsed after the first shock beforo wa were all ont of the ‘ear. wonen—the one who was burned and tivo uthlars who were 8o wenk from Iujury and move—hit the men managed to help themselves, ;We were all more two or three of the men had bone: The burned woman's fuce presented n horris e sgzht, the flawes lnving appavently beest the worst ahout ter head and breast, duetor Wheeler, In his cfforts to extinguist the fire §in ber clothing, was hlingelf severely ward worked heroleally to prevent the funes from spreading to thy other ey, ceeded In dolng this by using snow, but the:* ear where the fire started was totatly de~ - car, that the front coupling had broken amd Teft the smoking-car, hagimge-car, and engine st on 44T track, also remuined on the traek, stand was not upset. some forty or more, Tiskitw “1t 15 one of those aceldents which no skill or- “two tralns'stopping on a grade {o emmlno, a ENTS. 1 think thet | over her dress, for thed fire il to have ocenred shinul- vood-work' nt elther,end: of =3 r was nlso binzing n little, nltlmngll 'tho " 3 hat not loosened from tho floor, o WE SCIAMILED TOWARD TIi2 DOOR Trobably not more than threo’ Threo of tho that he fright they carried could | nob to out, but r less injured, however, and hrokerr, Coti: burned, but he stood it ko a man, aud afters' Wo suc~ stroyed. We foumnl, upon getting out of our ‘The trucks of our car hnd Tho ear behind 5 wis In the same position as ours, but thos er had stmply been turned so ag to dingonndly acrogs the track, and S0 none of the passengers were hurt, exeent those who were in the two cunches, and our coach—the one burned— Il probably twice us many as the other. Within about three-quarters of an hour the well il wounded were CROWDED INTO THE SMOKING-CAM, all told, and taken to., some_ five nules turther on, whero those who'had been serlously injured wero ., - left. ‘There came near bemg n eollision fm- medintely after the disuster caused by tho broken rall, for there was a freight-train only nmileor two benind us, which was slgnated barely In time,” Alr. ‘Thomas fost souie very valunble papers Al his overcont, und fears that ho sustalned - Internnl injuries. Mit. ALLEN MANVEL, Assistant General Superintendent of "the Chieago, Rock Island & Pueific Raflrond . Cumpuny, gave the followlng account of tho ' necident. *'I'raln No. 4 left Councll Blutfs & At 730 n, my, the regiilar time, Near Pond * Creek Statlon, 125 miles west of Chicago, it enconntered n broken rall. The engine, matdly bageage, and smoking-car pussed over " | in safety, but the iwo followlng eoachies and * one trnek of the steeper were derafled, The- o coich Immedlntely following the smoking-' ear, vcenpled by about twenty pissengers,) - caught fire. Mrs. Kirby, of Nevada, 0., was burned so serfously that from thiy and other Injgries she died shortly after belng removed to the hotel at Tiskilwa. The others serfously Injured were Mat Phelps, of Grinnell, In, Sollcltor of the Chicago & Rack Island © Road, whu had Wiy shoulder dislocuted ;- Mrs. Hal- ton, of Putterson, In.y and J. D, Orr, of Win- terset, Ly and Mr, J. W, llughett, in the- ¢ employ of Sprugue,: Warner & Co. * This . comprises all who recelved In]urluol anore serlous nature, CUNE OTHERS eseaped with slight brulses. and -uts. 'I‘lm total number of wounded does not exceed ten, ‘The Company-did all In its power to ke the woundel ns comfortable ns possi- - bie at the hotel ot Tiskilwa, to which place they were removed, and they. ura under the care of the Company”s surgeons from ‘Uiskil- wit and Geneseo, atitl the Surgeon-ln-Clilef of the Compnny from Davensort, In.” 1t I8 Mr.- Manvel's upinton that the ratl snnmml mtwo while the truln was passing over it, md thot | furesight could have prevented. OTIIER 1IORRORS, TABERTYVILLE, 1LL, Lwewryvinne, UL, Jan, 21.—This. whols . * community Is greatly shocked at the fearful railvoad neeldent to our Libertyvilio passed wer trudn last Wednesday evening at Onk Glen, on the Chleago, Milwnukeo & St Paul; .- Raiwl, Mrs, Helen Cook, of Chleago, wite of the Hon. A, B, Cook, s former resident here, " dled yesterduy at noon, She wiil probably be . burfed here. Miss Nertha Seavy narrowly eseuped belng seahited to death, as Mrs; Cook wits, by dropping to tho ear floor to breathe, and helped another girl to ‘do/so, She I8 budly cut by glass, mud §s. in o efitical eondi- tion, but hopetul this morning. . Mrs, J. A, Singer had three eibs broken, . Mr.. Charles Bolluski and s father, A, Bolinsk], .wers also slightly Injured, bt alt are doiug well. Thullon, A, B.CookandJohn Pryo,Jr, wero out on the hind platforin and uuum(l by lll- ¢ stantly jwmping. ¥ A WHOLE CHAPTEI PROM ANNA, TLL. | peelal Diapatch ta The Cliicago Tribuna AxNa, UL, dan. 1 u smash-up this worning an the Winels Central, & few: miles north of Colulen, n fireman unmed Sanders som and @ brakeman numed Markhuan - were killed, snd un engineer serlonsly injure wo brakemen wero badly hurt, having bones broks ‘Fho aceldent was eansed by bridgge which had been reported as unsufe, when a third train dushed Inlo the rear-of the second tealn, cumpl(vlcb\ \\ruehlng eu- lne and cary, An unknown miin \mn run mvr nml kllled at Wotang lnst night by frelght-train, Conduetor Movse, of - freight-tratn, . fo betweeh two enrs leg broken, e i oxle and revolvime with &, ¢ T CHESCENT, MIXN, Bpeelal Dispateh to Tho Chicage Tribune. LA Crosse, Wis. Jan, 81,—A collislon 00+, enrred at La Crescent, 1 small town ou the Mimesota shle, nearly opposit this, pineg early this morsing, I which two lnwmo- thves wero badly wroeked, ‘They ‘were on frofxht tealns golng on the Dubuque’ &,'E Southern Mimnesotw Divistons of tho Mils wankes & St Panl Raliway, . Acclients uro.!, ogeurting hero uully, mud the Southern Al nesotn Ruad is sgnin blockaded with's und tains are ouly vun to Fountain, five mlles wests Tho wind has been blowin, hard west all day, " All traing ure dulny frous six to twelvo howrs. A DANCE OF DEATIL Speciad Disputch to The Chicago Tridure, . Ciantorre, N, G, Juin 21,—~This woring o light-hearted; ‘young man named: Jumes Freneh met-his death whilo daneiug o figh? 1t secms that ho was standiug on the tap of & frelgly traln, 1o saw some ladics of Iisac quaintancs standing near the. rond, s bes #an daneing u - Jig and striking his hand o} them, us the train was movig, 1o did ot ;. uotice a bridge ahead, aud it shruck -him, knocking him off, Ho foll undor the whee! and was mmglml to death, * CLAYTON," MICH, Special Dispatch to The Chicugo Tridune, Amuas, Mich,, Jan. 291,—Tho Coroner's: Jury ut Cluyton last evening rotuyned o v dlet that William Pettit, ot-Elkhart, tho Lal 2 Shore firemun killed - ut* the colilston there yesterday worning; mot Wis deuth by Jupips ing from pin engine, and thut the syl Tak Shore & Michigan Southyrn Rallway Co bany llru cliurgeably with gross nepllgencu. FATAL LEAL. ¢ i