Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 13, 1887, Page 1

. TeHE OwmaHA Dany Bee . e————————— S e ————————————————————err | o ——— 'y SEVENTEENTH YEAR. OMAHA. SATURDAY ‘MORNING, AUGUST 13. 1887.. NUMBER 54 ¢ than that. [ hurled with great | been learned. Th 11l about ten bod- | and they tendered Ibt:uuot thelr wrecking | the bridge having caught fromit. He had A PITTSBURG BLAZE, NOT EHGGERATED :'lme-?:w:homn;:‘ln ‘:hlch'tno stove m:n:::elndnmm:;o. Dur‘;ng Thurs- | outfit and as well offered 1o be of any service | observed many thieves at work, and [ ppoe Cyey Visited By a Million Dol AN UPRIS]NC OF TBE UTES’ % | stood, while the stove was thrown forward, | day afternoon several dead were conveyed | possible. The lllinols; Central also offerod | had stopped them while despoiling lar Fire. pressing my leg to the ground. In an instant | westward by friends and they cannot be in- | any required assistance, but Warren sald he | the victims of property and many all was darkness, while the most melancholy crles and moans rang out around me in all directions, 1soon became aware that two cluded in the names given here, The officers of the Toledo, Peoria & Western rallway thought his present equipinent would enable instances of robbing the dead were be- him to clear the track. President Leonard, Ing brought to his attention. The excursion bl e R i bR g PITTenURG, August 12.—Midnight—The Two of Them Are Killed and Sev o~ now raging In the heart of the city and the Others Wonnded. , Additional News Confirms the Extent of have endeavored to keep a record of the dead | Superintendent Armstrong and other | had been extensively advertised and the time he millions. The 4 the Obataworth Horror. men who had been sitting behind me had | bodies removed trom the wreck and the presi- | Toledo, Peorlsa & Western® offi- | It would passover the bridge was well known. 2;’“:4‘:&'&5"33&%“..'2.”( intherearof | A MASSACRE THREATENED, :- — been thrown forward, while the seats on | dentthinks thatin three or four days they | clals were neen this morning. | Citizenssay that a gang of suspicious fellows the Masonic temple and spread with incon- ED; . € SEEN, | Whieh they sat had been torn up and hurled | will be able to render an accurate account ot | They have ziven devoted attention to the re- | have been loitering around Chatsworth for | oo/ yie rapldity to an adjolning bullding. PO, [} % SBICKENING SIGHTS TO B * | along with them into the corner where I 1ay. | the fatalities. The report that there were | lief of the injured and care of the dead. Both | somedays. Mauy of these were found early By 7 o'clock the flames reached such propor- | The Settlers Will Wipe Out the nad‘ — 1 was found in there in some inconceivable | eight dead at Piper station proves to have | show signsof the teftible shock which the | at the wreck paying more attention to reliev- | 4 o " 4h ot “the entire fire department was If the Government Does Not 4 way and I felt the hot blood pouring from | been incorrect. Only two persons accident had been to them. President Leon- | ing bodies of their valuables than to earing 5 and Platforms Literally Strewn With the Dead and Dying PEORIA THE WORST SUFFERE The Faces of the Viotims Horribly Distorted and Many Unrecoguisable. SCENES TIME CANNOT EFFACE. 1 B The Belief Growing That the Bridge Was Fired By Bobbers. GANGS OF TRAMPS SUSPECTED. their wounds and streaming over my face. 1 cried out for help aud I thought, althoueh I may have been mistaken, that I was there an hour and a half before I was cut out. A heavy sprain s all I suffered.” P, L. Cook, who isone of the coroner’s jury, said: ‘It was about 2 o’clock when the peo- ple of Chatsworth were called together by the tolling of the fire bell. 1 went there with other citizens, and when we learned the truth ‘we at once repaired to the wreck. A horrible sight presented itself to us. Hundreds of human beings were strug:ling to tear them- selves from an infernal heap. From their crles one could think he stood on a bloody battle ground. Blood was every- where, and the moans of the wounded and dying made the might hideous. 1 seized an axand broke Into one of the cars. The first object which met my sight was a large woman with her head comn- called out. At this hour four magnificent Interfere At Once—Oause business blocks aro a roaring furnace and of the Outbreak, 3 there are no indications of the fire beinggot under control. [t 1s feared that half the 13 square, which is among the most valuable Colorow Damns the Law. property in the city, is doomed. GLENWOOD SpriNGs, Colo, August 19-F # LATER—A 2:30 a. m, the fire is under con- | |Speckl Telegram to the Brk.|—Advices trol, but the center of the square bounded by | have just been recelved from Meoker by Fifth, Wood, Smith and Field straets and | courier of an outbreak among the White Virginia alley is & smouldering ruin, The | river Utes which if not promptly suppressed Hamilton building, Masonic temple and a | promises to be as serious to the white settlers number of tenements on Virgin alley are | upon and nedr the reservation as was the fa, totally destroyed and adjacent blocks badly | mous Mecker massacre of 'i0. Since the damaged. The firemen had a tremendous | abandonment of this reservation immediately struggle and consider themselves fortunate | after the murder of Meeker and the removal in subduing the flames when they did. It is | of the Utes to Nintah agency In Utah, there impossible to give close figures on the loss | has been much dissatisfaction among some of to-night, but a conservative estimate places | the old bucks. The leaders of the rebelllous tue aggregate at not less than $1,000,000, party were Old Colorow, one of the S a—— leaders of the Mecker outbreak, &3 WASHINGTON NEWS, and the renegade chief Auguse died there up to noon to-day—Mrs Poter Valentine and C. P. Vanller of Galesburg, 11l Three or four persons who were reported as dead were tu-day learned to be among the wounded at Piper City. Em- ployes of the road were sent to Plper City early this morning to secure the names of all the dead and wounded there. It was found that there were forty-four wounded and two dead at Piper City. The following isa list of those who had died upto 2 o'clock this pfternoon as far as their names could be learned from Coroner Long and their friends and relatives: Mnus, NANcie Avrter, West Point, Ia Miss MINNIE ALTER, West Point, la., aged sixteen. - Miss Eva Arter, West Point, Ia., azed twenty. E. F. AvAws, Blackston, IlL Mgs. M. H. ALLEN, Peoria. ard said that so far &s the railroad officials could estmate there were oighty killed and 100 serlously wounded. There are many who were slightly injured, of whom no record has been obiained. The list is being compiled in the Peoris oftices of the company. Leonard sald that as near #8 he could ascertain the train was making about thirty miles an hour at the time the accident, notan excessiverateof speed, as the track was in good condition. The bridge was an or- dinary fifteen-foot wooden structure, was all right at 5 o’clock in the afiernoon when a train passed over it and half an hour later a section man inspected it, under orders, in advance of the excursion train. It was all right then. As to the liability of the com- pany or the future of the road, all that President Leonard could say was that the officials will devote their atteution to the care of the unfortunate vic- for them otherwise. Train men and passen- gers had frequent contentions with the van- dals. Inoneinstance Buperintendent Arm- strong tound a well-known thief in the depot room, where the property taken from the wreck was stored, and ordered him out. The white people of the town have done all In their power for the sufferers. There is a horde of tramps and thieves in this vicinity who do nothing but carry off anything they can get their hands on. A press dispatch from Bloomington states that George Harrls, a traveling man of that city, was on theill-fated Toledo, Peoria & Western traln and 18 among the missing. Harris was in Springfield to-day and was not a passenger on the excursion train as sup- posed. EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST. At the morning session of tye coroner's jury some decidedly significant testimony 5 by Y Nebraska lowa Pensions. tine. Some weeks since Augusttne pletely torn from he body. 1 was sickened Miss Susie BALL, Peoria. tims, It wasa blow which would of course | Was given. Timothy Coughlin, section fore- 75 ele- | while l The Victima Btripped of Valuables By The | and horrified. Many ot the men became un- | J, Bopy. be most serious to the road, but that was as | man here, testified that he had tour men w"‘"'";:“'"l', A"‘“,'[?h 15 P {F‘:’:‘ f:":’n :,;m: b;l:;lic:;f:.nwu‘:m”m;“:;m:m::fl::n:yl‘: Inhuman Fiends. nerved and could do nothing, but 1 struggled | s, C. Brexze, Wyoming, [IL nothing compared with the death and injury | helping him on his six and a half miles. He | gram to the Brr.)—The following g jus and worked the best I could. One man, whose wite was killed but whose baby was saved, told me an old woman who appar- ently belonged to the neighborhood, had took possession of the same and he had a tough struggle to recover it. He sald that his wife ‘was lying at the far end of the car, while the infant was safe about inidway in the center of the aisle. A GRAPHIC ACCOUNT. CHICAGO, August 12.—|Special Telegram to the BEk.|—P. C. Church, a commercial traveler for a New York hardware house, ar- rived from Peoria this morning and related many incidents of the disaster to a group of excited listeners at the Sherman house. “We didn’t bear about it until Wednesday morning,” sald he, ‘‘and the first report was pensions were granted to-day: Lucretla, a | reservation and into whose cabin he was ate widow ot Mathew Charlton, Centerville; | tempting to enter tor the purpose of avenge Meloma, mother of John E. Hannass, Ab- | ing himself upon the occupants for some 1me ington; Ann E., widow of James K. Smith, | aginary wrong. This, together with the In. Unfon Mills; Dina E., mother of John D. | dictment by thel¢ tgrand jury of this eounty Batcheldar, Marshalitown; Mathew Charlton | of two renegade Utes for horse stealing, in= (deceased) Centerville; Stephen Abernoth, | cénsed Colorow and his followers. So they Murray; Frank P. Dunham, Monticello; | assembled together, about seventy-five in James Bess, Davton; D. B. Bright, Leon. | number, weil armed with Winchester re- Increase, John Neal, Dexter; Krnst' Kryse, Eliotty Austin ailowall, Keokuk; L. L. | Reating rifles and deried the authorities. . 1. Do h: 1l Palmer, Mangon: Sheriff Kendall, of this county, learning tha$ Daawell, Decors .,3‘,,?‘{5 Marrays Williane | the two indicted Indians were with Coloraw, Whipple, l)lwl}: . New, Orawfords- | who is camped about thirty miles from ville: M, 8. n Clinton: J. L. Green, | Meeker, took a posse yesterday and started 3 ‘Logan; Joh , m{:}:ifih 03; 1 \90%1:&‘:1‘{:1; i ‘jf,“'_‘ to make the arrest. On arriving at the camp Buaes B g Weat, Birmingham: ~ Pavl | 1ast night he called old Colorow out and de- b Seybold, Council Bluffs; J. J. Brown, Fort | manded the men and advised the old rascal Madison; Martin Kaufman, Avery. to give them u aceably and avols Nebraska pensions William Kent, Elgin; m,‘f,m,. Lo i Y received orders on Wednesday to go over his section and see that the bridges and track were all right. Coughlin then went to the east end of the section and burned the grass along the track for half a mile.. He burned a pleca a little over half a mile from the wreck and put the fire out. He examined the bridge about 5 o’clock and found no smoke about it and it was otherwise all richt. About three weeks ago the grass unner the bridge had been cut away for ten feet from the bridge timbers and he had no idea how the bridge could have caught fire. Christopher Ennis, road master for the line from the state line to Peoria, said he went over the road on Wednesday from Fairbury to Gilmore. He went over the fatal bridge just before 4 o'clock in of human beings. Leonard said he could in all consclence say that he believed the road had provided every reasonable and eustom- ary sateguard, and could only ascribe the ac- cident toone vhose Inscrutableacts of Prov- idence which it seems impossible to always guard azainst. With the consent of the coroner, President Leonard has arranged that all unclaimed bodies will be cared for, washed, and placed in coffinsand conveyed to Peoria, where, with all effects, they will awalt identification. The bodies will be kept there as long as possible, and then, if not identified, will be interred. President Leonard and Superintendent Arm- strong will go to Piper City this morning to care for the wounded there, The railroad and warehouse commission- X o, ' A GATHERING OF GHOULS. Mrs. W, BeLy, Peoria. Mrs. Josie BLANDIYN, Parkers Corner, Il CHOWDER FARMKR, Chenoa. Mgs, THOMAS CoOPER, Pekin. Mgzs. ’AToN M. Cress, Washington, IiL Mns. Arciie CrosswEeLL, Peoria. Mgs. J. M. CLAY, Eureka, 11l Miss EviLIN CARITHERS, Evahs, Ill WiLLiAM CRAIG, Cuba Il Rev. Wu. CoLriNs, Cuba, IIl. MATTiK CASSELL, Washington, 111 CarraIN R. T. DARKE, Peoria. Mrs. EMrLy Ducketr, Forrest, 111 MRs. JAMES DEAL, Peoria. R. EsTROBAUM, Peoria. MiLLARD FiLLMORE, Pontiac, PrArL FreNcig Peoria. J. A, Gr , Breeds Station. The Bodies of Eighty-Six Persons Al- | ready Taken Out—The List of the J Wounded as Yet Incomplete— The Running of Trains to Be Resumed To-Day. { 1 The Chatsworth Calamity. . OuATswonrtH, Ill, August 12.—|Special | ! s ‘Telegram to the Bee. |—It was a sad sight that the early dawn disclosed to the pedes- trians that passed down the silent andjde- . N ¢ a The old scalp lifter straightened that several hundred had been killed. There g 5 ers are expected here about 10 o’clock to in- | the afternoon. He wason the rear end of | T, Swinger, Gibbon: B, F. Chambers, Nio- x serted streets of tho little village of Chats- | yerg'750 excursionists from Peoria aloneand | 2, W: GARRELTSON, Peorla. vestigate the accident, A several witnesses | & car and saw that the bridge was all right. | brara; A. Brown, Stanton. m“’:\‘l‘:-"t:::z“:;::;llmm;o:;vn all country. Me worth this morning. ‘Thirty-five human be- | o special train was at once made up 0 K0 | (1 g ytansiey Bushnell, Til. have not yet arrived, 1t s not expected the | ‘Lhere was no fire or smoke about the bridge. Star Route Ohanges. heap big Tnjun. Mo tight and_ Kill white ings lay writhing in agony, some of them, | oer ¢ the scene of the nceldent, about sixty i Pt 1 coroner will complete his hearing till late | Ennlis said: “My opinion is that the bridge 0 indeed, approaching dissolution. All through Mgs. E. HiLr, Berwick, . WASHINGTON, August 12.—|Special Tele- | chief.! No uive up little chiefs. Damn sheriff, gram to the Bek.|—The following changes | damn law, damn white man no arrest in the lowa star schedule were made to-day: | Injun.” Cresco to Elma: Leave Cresco Tuesdays, With these remarks he turned and went to ‘Thursdays and Saturdays at 8 a. m; arrive at | the camp fire, when he and his renegade l\":\!“:l. bi\l' 2 n.dn; h}‘m“mt lz;:hnu. M"n{““i followers took rifles and walked behind ednesdays and Fridays at 8 a. m., arrive a v Cresco by 3 p. m. From August 15, 1847, mcksdnnd trees from behind :\Illcn they Belmond to Renwick: Leave Belmond | opened fire upon the officers. ‘Lhe volley Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 10 | was promptly returned and two Indians !11 m. nrrlylgln lzruce by 1|p.sn;.;‘l‘euvu I:‘;“‘;B killed and it 1s thought that several were uesdays, Thursdays and Saturdaysat 6:30 | wounded. The Indians retreated to the & m.; arrive at Belmond by 9:30 . m. Leave : Bruce Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at | Mountains and Kendall not having a sufti- o clent torce to successfully follow the band :30 @, rrive at Renwick by 2:30 p. Leave Renwick Mondays, Wednesdays went into camp. Colorow immediately sent couriers back to the agency calling upon all Fridays at 3:30 p. m. ; ,rnvfi at Bruce by £18, 1857, his followers to immediately come to his p. m. From Aug Army tters. assistance and a large reinforcement s ex- WASHINGTON, August 12.—[Special Tele- | pected to-morrow. The settlers bhave been gram to the BEE.]—Major Edward B. War- | warned and are moving their families into ner, First artillery, has been placed on the | settlements and forming into companies for retired list and this promotes Oaptain Will | the protection of the towns. Word has been iam L. Haskell, First artillery; to be major, | sent to Governor Adams who has notified the First Lieutenant F. C. Nichols to be captain | war department at Washington and also or- and Second Lieutenant William C. Rafferty | dered the company of militia statloned at to be First Lieutenant Firat artillery. Aspen to be ready for marching or- Army orders: Second Lieutenant W. L. 1, L Simpson, Twenty-fourth infantry is detalled ders at a moment's notice. The Indians are as profestor of military science at tho Michi- [ Atmed ~with the most improved riftey gan Agricultural college, Lansing, Mich. | and have an abundance of ammunition and .\l: n(ll']('l'wmillluflt. WII’HQ;I. l"l'rs! art illllel'v, is | their subjection will not bean easy task. The retired after thirty years' service on his own | gettlers, however, are determined in the mats fhnlications, . fa%jenant ooloncl (ieorke | ter. They have been outraged by those Ute: commanding general ot the Division of the | until it is no longer bearable and if the gov- Atlantic for temporary duty as chief of sub- | ernment does not show a disposition to take sistence for that division. Captain Andrew | caro ot its murdering wards they declarethey miles distant. A friend and myself thought we would take a run over, but we never ex- pected to see what we afterward did. At Chatsworth there was a row of dead bodies lying side by side on the depot plattorm. A piece of paper pinned to the breast gave the name of each one. When we reached the place where the accident occurred the first thing we saw was a pile of mashed up coaches a8 high a8 a telegraph pole. The top of the second chalr car shot up on top of this, standing like a monument, at least fifteen feet high. We arrived just in time to see Mr. Murphy, a hotel keeper from Galesburg, climb out of a hole in the top of the first chair car, which was just in view, upon a pile of broken timber at the top of the heap. He pulled out his wife and babe uninjured, but almost exhausten from having been penned up for nearly twelve houts. It was with great difficulty they were assisted to the ground. Mr. Murphy then went back. into the hole and brought out alive a litile baby. He had torn it from the arms of a dead mother. After that he helped out an aged woman whose back had been hurt. These, together with two others, were all that were taken frum that car alive. When the hotel keeper came down 1 asked him how it happened that he was not killed. Hereplied that when the crash came his wife was sitting In one seat and hiinself and the baby were in the one just behind, near the frontof the car. The baby was knocked this afternoon, Estimates of the dead this morning are about the same as the figures sent last night. The coroner’s list revised up to the time the inquest wae resumed to-day foots up to 76. Notwithstanding contrary opinions ex- pressed by railroad offieials, a survey of the wreck early to-day confirmed the belief that several bodies are still under the debris of smashed engines and cars. The report yes- terday that twenty dead bodies were at Piper City is denied this morning by Frank Leonard, president of the rond. Three or four of the wounded carried to Piper City yesterday died there, however, so that with seventy-six on the corener’s list here, and those supposed to be yet under the wreck, the estimate of eighty-four deaths appears to be very close to the actual number. Infor- mation of the Piper City victims can best be obtained of the company’s officials, who have gone to Peorla. THE HORRORS OF THE CHATSWORTH WRECK seemed deepening early this morning in- stead of lessening. Added to the pitiable spectacle of the dead and the miseries of the dying, a stench sickening and foul was issuing from.all the nuwmerous places where the corpses of the victims yet remained. No picture of the horrible occur- rences immediately succeeding the accident could equal In revolting details the scenes at the ‘foledo, Peoria & Western depot here to- was set on fire by somebody. My train was the last train over before the special and if there was a fire there the men would have discovered it. The bridge could not have been burned in two or three hours, About three years ago two attempts were made to ditch the 10 o’clock passenger train at that bridge and we kept a watchman there for six weeks, Obstructions were placed on the track, It1sa very lonesome place, far from any house.” HOW DID THE FIRE START? CHICAGO, August 12.—The Inter Ocean’s Chatsworth, [ll., special says: The members of the state board of railroad and warchouse commissioners arrlved here this afternoon from Suringfield. On their arrival at the fatal bridge they found the wreckage had been entirely cleared from the track and new ratls laid across the break. The com- missioners remained there for an hour and a half and then drove to Piper City to see the wounded. 1n the evening they returned to Chatsworth and read over the evidence tdlke: by thecoraner® People who have carefully examined the scene of the disaster take little or no stock in the theory of the railroad peo- ple that the bridge was set afire by vandals who desired to rob the killed and injured. None of the survivors who escaped early from the wreck saw any strancers at the scene inside of an hour. Some of the resi- dents near Chatsworth think there were thieves on the train who took advautage of F. R. HiLy, Berwick. F. R. HLur's jnfant child. NoAH HaverMiLL, Canton, IIL Mus. Hicks, Chilicotne. Jonn P. KeLLy, Breed’s Station Mgs. RELLY, Peoria. W. R. LaTT, Elmwood. McDoNALD. ENGINEER ED McCLINTOCK. J. B. McFADUEN, Peoria. Jrss MEEK, Eureka, 111 Miss MAY McEVERY, Peoria. Miss AaNEs Murpay, Peoria, age eigteen, Rose Murruy, Peoria, age three. Mgs. H. A, McCLURE, Keithsburg. Infant of Mrs. McClure. Mgs. JouN Murrny, Peoria. N. A. Mooxk, Jacksonvllle, Ill A. MARTIN, Bloomington. Infant of Mrs. Neal, of Peoria. Miss NEAL, Mossville, 1. Miss JERNIE O'SHAUGHNESSY, Peorla, Mns. MAGGIE POWERS, Peoria. W. H. PoTTER, Bushnell. MiLLARD PATTERSON, Wyoming, Il GroraFE ress, Washington, 11l James D. RicnArps, Franklin, Neb, MicHAEL W. REGAN, Binghampton, N. Y. PAUL SACKENREUTER, Pekin, Mgs. (. D. SNEDECKER, Abington, 1L R. E. STRACH Peoria. uENS, Peoria. TEPHENS, Peoria. 3 the dreary midnight hour they had lain upon rudely improvised beds which the good peo- ple of Chatsworth had charitably placed at the dispusal of the sufferers. Bands of vol- unteers, men and women from the neighbor- hood, had waited by blood-stained bedsteads and attended to the wants of the sufferers. | ‘Too much praise cannot be given-to the peo- il ple of this locality for their selt-sacritice and | devotion, and beyond all question but for them there would have beea many more names to swell the already frightful cata- logue of the dead. All through the night the mourntul process of identification went on, butup to 6 o'clock this morning there had been but three additionol identifications. ‘These were John Zeitter, of Pekin, 1ll, a R moulder, aged thirty-six; Mrs. Bladin, of Harpers’ Corners, near Peoria, I, 1 and Mrs. H. C. McClure, of Keithsburg, 111, It was nearly midnight when poor Zeiter was identitied. A row of anxious, sad-faced people—men and women—stood in & line in i the freight house of the Toledo, Peoria & ! ‘Western railway while a man passed by a row of mangled corpses, and lifting the face , . of eachas he passed along held a lantern i ¥ { close to the face of each of the corpses. 1t ) was a series of frightfully mutilated faces, N / in most cases battered beyond recognition, ¥ that the rays of the lantern aisclosed to view. “That looks like him, but it is hard to be cer- tain, the features are so much battered,”” he day. The west end of the little structure isa H. Young, A. Q. M., is ordered to Johnson’ muttered. “I wonder if that could be poor | from the seat and he stooped to plek her up | Miss ELLA STEPRENS, Peoria. coal house and lumber room, where, pro. | the Wreck to ply thelr trade, Tho grass along | siand, Ofio, ox publle bustacss.” 20" [ will take - the matter into their own hands Will,” murmered another, *'Oh, there 18 my | 44" they shot into the mass of ruins ahead, | MELVILLE SMiTi, Metamora. miscuously stretehed on the floor and rub | the north side of the track at the bridge is and will make ‘good” Indians out -of poor father,” cried & young girl's anguished | ot at that moment, he said, & timber pene- | MRS M. SyiTs, Metamora. bish, were scven unidentified bodies, | lon& and someof it is dry, but there was no Deny'tho Opaksgar sho eatice band FColorowaniioliAMIg voice. These and such as these were the re- marks that were now and then dropped by : the searchers. No body was identified until tho white cloth was raised from the torm of a N man, disclosing a face most frightfully muti- Iated. The cheek bones on the side were crushed in untilthey actually laid together, \ side by side. A stout man stepped forward ~ and stooping down until one elbow rested upon his knee looked longand earnestly into the dead man’s face. Then he put his hand into the ragzed and bloody vest pocket and took -from it a wateh, which was GEORGE A. SMITH, Peoria. HENRY SWEGELSON, Keokuk, la. ONEY 8pA1Ts, Green Valley. Mzs. E. D, StopparD, West Point, In, JESSE SHERMAN, Brinfield, Il W. V. TrovILLE, Abingdon, 11l C. P, VANLIEU, Galesburg. Mgs. PETER VALENTINE, New York, Mgs. MARY VALDEJO, Peoria, Mgs. IpA WEBSTER, Peoria. R. R. Wrigur, Peoria, Frep D. WEINETTE, Peoria. JOHN ZEITLER, Pekin, IlL, aged 24. WASHINGTON, August 12.—The civil ser- | that he will have to deal this time with the vice commission has rendered an opinion in | cowboys and rancheros hassent his squaws the matter of the charges of the Civil Service | and papooses to Utah, and If the government Reformn association of Philadelphia against | Willshow alittle delay in sending troops into the board of civil service examiners of the | the reservation there may be no necessity for Philadelphia vostofice and againss Post- | their assistance, as the settlers will finally master Harrity. The charzed alleged traud | and forever settle the question, in the conduct of the examinations and that e illegal partiality was shown certain appli- The Drough cants. It was further charged that I Cu1cAGO, August 12,—Dispatehes received master Harrity violated the rules in_making | py the Assoclated press from various points appointments, ete. The finding of the com- prose; iy » nfinnhm. which Is very lengthy, states in | IP 1llinois,Jowa, Wisconsin and Nebraska to- substance there Is no fruth In any of the | night regarding the drought situation are trated the car, shooting across the place where he had been sitting, and struck a oyoung lady who sat opposite in the neck. He was thus pinned down by the timber, which also protected him from belng smashed and saved his life. He looked across the aisle and saw the young lady’s head had fallen over on the back of her seat and hung only by the skins, Thesightof the dead and wounded lying in the adjacent fields was horrible. My friend counted ninety-seven dead bodies at noon yesterday and the wreck sign of fire having burned it. The grass along the south side had not all been burned a week ago, asclaimed by the section boss. ‘There was dry grass and weeds very close to the bridge, but the wreck had so torn up the earth in the immediate vicinity of the bridge that it s impossible to learn whether the grass burned along the south side of the bridge. The country here had been without any rain fornearly eight weeks and the grass and dead timber was as dry as tinder. A spark might have started a blaze Blood-stained sheets and blankets were thrown loosely over each, but afforded little protection from the swarms of flies continu- ously hovering over them. The awful odor emanatine from the bodles effectually kept the room clear of gll but the hardiest of the still lingering curious crowds. Two of the victims were women and the sight of their faces was one never to be forgotten. Distorted features, wide staring eyes and putrifying wounds were gazed at but an in-e stant, even by those looking for a missing was not mearly cleared away. They were k mother or daughter. One of them, a young | ARd it I8 possible that the, firo might have | cnarges, smmmarized as follows: Nebraska reports ; still ticking. He mnext thrust his hand lying in little heaps of abouta dozen, all MRS, ZIMMERMAN, Peorla. woman with light reddish hair, would be | been set agoing by a spark dropped from the . there has been no droughtof any conse- ; Into the breast pocket and drew from it & | haying beon killed ih a different manner, | Inaddition to the elghty-six or elghty- | absolutely unrecognizable from the effects of | fire box of an engine drawing the road- | Xrying To Effoct a Compromise. seveu known to be dead there were three of the wounded at Chatsworth whom the physicians pronounced to be beyond re- covery. They lay in the town hall and were being cared for by relatives or kind sympa- thisers in every way possible. 'These three were Mrs. C. H. Clark, of Rootstown, O.; Miss Mary Valdejo, of Peoria, and Harry B, Lawrence, of Burlington, 1a. The lists of the wounded are necessarily incomplete and the full extent of the injuries will probably never be known., The women of Chatsworth have done everything possible for the wounded people, thirty of whom still lie in the town hall. Several are at private houses, at the depot and other places. Where the dead lay there were were many sad scenes to-day. Anxious relatives arrived from towns along the line west, and hegan the search for their friends among the mangled and ghastly corpses. Husbands were looking for wives, parents for children and sons for parents. Among the seekers was J. M. helly, of . " d hight rains are falling to-night; DENVER, August 11.—[Special Telegram to | !¢1Ce A i the BEE.]—A meeting was held to-day at the indications tor-corn crop good. In Wisconsin ~ | rain has fallen in generous quantities in the cific with reference to the Paclfic coast busi- by o of tanieh serviee exsaby 0 SAll pasturage and plowing; it nelped corn ness, Among those participating in the | slightly crops in northern Wisconsin are meeting were Vice President Potter, of the | very good, but sonthward almost everythin, Union Pacifo: B. Cawpbell, of tne Oregon | 188 failuré, In'nortiiorn and central flltnols Railway & Navigation company, of Port. | the rains of this week have bocn of little ben- cept In spots here and there; corn it is land: J. M. Hanaford, of Swint Paul, | beliaved is cut short more. them one. representing the Northern Pacific; George | half and the pastures are literally Ady, general passenger agentof the Colorado | burned up; the question of how live division of the Union Pacific; P. P. Shelby, | stock is “to = be ' provided —for ~is assistant general traffic manager of the Union mfig""fiofil,‘;fgzt(,fi,"°g:,{ "z" }:w:m“:;;' Pacific, stationed at Salt Lake City: E. 0. | generally seem to be in good condition ande Clark, superintendent of the coal department | the yield of corn promises to oe large. In of the Union Pacific; J. J. Hagerman, pres- | the central and southern parts of the state ident ot the Colorado Midland; | reports are not encouraging, the protracted Thomas T. ~ Kimball, general traffic | drought having retarded crops and the recent manager and J. A, Monroe, geueral freight | rains coming too late to be of much benetit, agent of the Union Pacifle, and Assistant | Life stock in the country is suffering for lacié General Freight Agent Fulton, of the North- | of water and pasturage. ern Pacific. After considerable discussion it —-— wasagreed to 'let rates on Pacific coast busi- Wife Murderer Hanged, ness remain the same as at present. Local N 9,—. rates for Oregon, Montana and Utah were | | DETERSBURGH, Va., August 12.—tlolmes The entire side of one man’s face would be mashed in, while a hole as large as your fist In the forehead of another would show where the timber had penetrated. Three-fourths of the dead never knew what killed them. 1t was & sight 1 never want to look upon again. There were young ladles in their new dresses with their white skirts saturated with blood and the front of their faces mashed beyoud recognition. One young looking mother had held her baby in her arms, when the timber, striking the child in the pack, impaled both yictims in instant death. The mother's face dido’t bear a scratch, but the expression upon it will haunt me to the grave. I was sick when 1 returned from the catastrophe last night. 1t would nake any man sick. ‘The depot at Peoria was surrounded by 5,000 ‘people, all ing for news from the wreck. ‘The switch yards had been cleared of cars and along between the rails stood rows of cots to receive the dead and wounded as they were brought in. Near these cots were master’s inspection train, which passed over at4 o'clock in the afternoon. A tire was burning brightly at in the evening, but when the train approached was very faint, according to the story of Engineer Souther- land. It is claimed by some of the residents near the place that they saw smoke in the direction of the bridge as early as 5 o’clock in the afternoon. PREPARING TO RESUME BUSINESS, Forrest, 1ll., August 12.—The Toledo, Peoria & Western will resume the regular running of its trains to-day and has ar- ranged with the Panhandle and Grand Trunk roads to honor the Niagara excursion tickets, so that many of the injured excur- sionists who are desiring to do 8o may con, tinue on. Inround fizures Superintendent Armstrong estimates the damage tothe stock at $50,000. THE DEATII LIST SWELLING. BLOOMINGTON, Lk, August 12,—A special from Pekin, Ill., says that among thedead of the Chatsworth wreck are A.Sackenreu- ter andJ. Z at Pekin: Ony Spaitz and Rev. , of Green Valley, IIl. A shipper of Pekin is also believed to be among ! number of cards. “It is poor Jim,” he 3 murmured, and he dropped upon his knees and drew his hand hastily across his eyes, ) then he tenderly covered the dead man’s body and disappeared to make arrangements for the removal of his friend’s remains. One of the most nerrible features of this & most frightful calamity Is the fact that there 13 & possibility of its being the result of foul play and not accident. All last night and this morning the rumor galned prevalence that the whole thing was the work of train 1 robbers. Your correspondent, who visited the place of the wreck late last night, heard " many hints to this etfect from farmers and other people residing in the locality. When . masked for a statement of the affair in their W possession, however, they appeared to get frightened and unwilling to say anything be- fore a nowspaper man. The fact was well H established, however, that a very short time before the disaster occurred a train had pasied the culvert and the bridge was then 1n sound condition. 1tis alse sald that a the heat. Close by, raised above the other seven corpses in the room, was the dead body of a portly man, sunported on a couple of old boxes. He was in his stocking feet and coatless, and wasarapidly decaying. The other dead men on the floor were in nearly as bad acondition. Outside, on the platform of the depot, were several coffins filled with the identified during the night and now awaiting shipment. The east end of the depot was In_ even worse condition than the west, ‘The floor contjnues to be strewn with unclaimed baggage in an inextricable mix. Little knots of people were pawing bver the broken satch- els and masses of soiled, torn underwear, bringing to light here little infant’s gar- ments and there the crnmpled remains of a widow’s bonnet. A little way down the road is a large vacant furniture store in which thirteen corpses were festering, Only six of them were men and the others were women and children, Most of the thirteen had not been recognized by friends and their ! 9 4 e R. Puryear, convicted of murdering his wife man offered his watch ana valuables 0 & | jaoyad up perhaps 100 covered wagons, and | Breed’s Station, a young man looking for his | countenances wero so mutilated and clothing }"“:’“‘"‘lfi‘?‘gu“\"f'l"‘l"“‘,‘;f,l,‘oftfii' ‘,‘,",nfi" h"n‘s“:v‘rlt]'fv&{ estabilshed, but not made publle, by poison two years ago, was hanged a$ ! person who a moment after the aceident oc- | povetty B REEEER o0 COVOYED TEROR R | father and uncle. He looked in vain among the | so drabbled with blood that it is doubtful 1 | 1 b Aurk Gacell ot Fa already listed with the dead, He was formerly postmaster at El Paso. He woton the train at Peoria to go to Eureka, fell asleep and was so taken to his death. Went Through a Culvert. Terre HAUTE, Ind., August A com- bination train on the Evansville & Indianap- olis road went through a wooden culvert at Saline City, twenty miles from here, this morning. Six passengers were injured, but only one, Thomas Brouthers, seriously. ——— HE ASKED TO BE HUNG. The Unique Request of a Louls Negro Quickly Complied With, FRANKLIN, La., August 12,—The body of a colored irl, horribly wounded, was found in the woods near here on Wednesday. Her step-father. Dan Haskins, who was suspected of tha crime, was captured. He confessed and asked to be hanged, which was imme- diately done. . 5 Prince George Court House this afternoon. Dispogition of she funds Last night he endeavored to wmduce the Barrivore, August 12.—The Sun will | jeath watch to let him escape, and failing in publish to-morrow a letter from its special | this, cut the arteries in his throat and wrists correspondent in Dublin, in which he speaks | With a sharpened shoe shani. The sureeons, of the disposition of the money colleoted In [ Bowever stopped tho bleeding before muchh this country for Ireland. He'saysin part: | P00 Was lost. o The testimonial to Parnell amounted to The Prince Cheered. £40,000, Before this his circumstances were | Siarova, August 12.—All the helghts sur- much embarrassed. but with this he paid off | younding the town and the quays on the the mortgages on his property and his | river front were crowded to-day when the finances ar now in a most comfortable con- | steamer bearing Kerdinand passod on ita aition. Most ot the other Irish national :v‘fi“ll']"llnatg:l‘\lui lll.«!l“nrvlvln'lu mmr:‘nuf-::* leaders have been given - testimonials | §ioh i orrow and ‘review the troops ranging in amounts from £1,000 to | here, and then proceed to Tirnova, where the £6,000, Mr. Cochran, the head of the largest | prefect will rea nanifesto to the troops and firin in Dublin, says 'there has been little or | 'ssembled inhabit® nts no money contributed for the Irish or use of 4 Ireland. It was the money which came Riddleberger R pant. from America which kept up all the agita: 3 Rur Sampt fon, ‘he peope i Atuarich, he aaid. Thad |, BALTIMOLE, August 13—-A Sun spoclal littlé idea how many idle men were living on | from Woodstock, Va., says: United States their money. The letter states that there are | Senator Riddleberger was to-day committed a great number of of United States pension- | to jail and fined 825 by Judge Newman for ers in Ireland who are paid quarterly by | oontempt of court. A placard was paraded United States consuls. Only s small pro- 1 o, the street reflecting on the judge in a portion of these were ever citizens 0f tho | oaso in which: Itiddleberger s interesteds Tnited Ststes, some being substitutes, Dartisg 1 ol v paid during tie war. ‘The United States i3 e the only government in the world which An Arizonn Stretch, By, Denalons 1o persons who do not reside | 54x Fraxcisco, August 12.—irank Wile o We leexiigsy, son was hanged at Prescott, Ariz., to-day for purder of Samuel Clevenger and wife in 1%, 10 the Buckskin mountains, Wil tner, John A. Jolinson, has been ted by a confession of Wilson, and curred stood looking on unmoved by the suf- ferings of his Yellow creatures. It is claimed the wretch snatched the watch from the ' dying man’s hands and rushed away. An other man is said to have aporoached one who was lying In & dying condition on a Lunk near the wreck and snatehed a dlamond ring from his finger. Heyond all doubt, whether the wraln was wrecked for the pur- 9 pose of plunder or not, robbery was carried on at the wreck on an extensive scale betore the people of Chatsworth were summoned to ) the rescue. The place where the disaster oc- " . -¢urred is peeuliarly fitted for the deeds of wraln wreckers or ghouls, The hour at which 1t was visitea by your correspondent was at the time when the last ray of twilight made the ruins and their surroundings barely dis- cernible. It was a lovely little corner on a disused country byway. Fields of corn waved on every side close up to the culvert, and a few trees added their shade to the fast thick- ening gloom. It was a very lovely, peaceful scene but for the frightful bloteh that distg- ured it. The ruins of the train were simply -.!\_ appalling, ‘There were nothin g more than a . * mess of shattered metal works. Whole slacks of torn garments, blood-stalned linen, shattered satchels, dismantled trunks, efc., were scattered around In the green hedge rows. Blood splashes dyed the «rass wherever It was sodden and tramped b ] under foot. The place was peeuliarly adapted for such adeed. Among the wounded yeur correspondent discovered during the night John McMeister, of Peoria. He was but slightly injured, although he sat in the third car, which was perhaps the most ba tly dam- aged on the train, 1lie talked cheerfully, e\ W sittiug on the frontseat,” he said, ‘‘when ™ - theshock occurred. I thought ‘at first the Mdgaly was desaiied, but I soou fouud. it was dead bodies for his relatives, but when he ap- pealed to the coroner he was shown the dead body of his father, Job P. Kelly. The son could not recognize the mutilated features. Later in the day he found his uncle, John B. Kelly, badly weunded, lying in the town hall. The body ot Paul Sackenreuter, of Pekin, has not been certainly identified. One of his workmen, John Zeidler, is among the killed. His head was crushed from both sides so that the features were entirely un- recognizable. The body of Mrs, H. A. Mc- Clure and her infant, from Keithsburg, have been identified among the dead lying in the school house last night. The last body was removed from there to-day. 1t was that of Mrs, Stoddard, of Fort Madison. Ia Another body identified during the night was that of Mrs. Josie Blandin, nee Florence, of Parker's Corners, Ill. Her husband arrived on a late train, found her body and shipped it home. Mrs. Blandin bad with her her two little daughters, Ida and Bertie, The formerhas ona ot her hips crushed, but Bertie is but slightly injured. Side by side in the depot this morning lay the dead bodies of T. R. Hill and his wife and baby, from Berwick, 1ll. The babe was placed on its mother’s bosom in a rough pine box, and the family sent on its return trip home. Among the unclaimed and un- uawed is the body of a Peorla bootblack. CLEARING UP THE WRECK. Crarswonrs, Ill, August 13.—At 7 o'clock this morning Master Mechanle War- ren, vith & wrecking train and a large foreq of men, were at the scene of the disaster at work. Warren was confident that the track ‘would be cleared tor trains by noon, and that all bodies had been removed from the wreek. A special car with officials of the Wabash road reachied the wreck early in the morning the crowd back. A committee of 100 cit- izens, wearing crape, are stationed at the cots to take care of the ~ vietims, All Peoria is in tears, There were scorss of her best citizens on that train, among them being several young ladies. Everybody says it was the jolliest party that ever started on an excursion. They were as merry as school children. Hundreds had been to the train to see thelr friends depart, but thousands were there to take their dead bodles away on their return.” Mr. Church said that the action ot of the rallroad ofticers after the accident was condemned by almost everyone. Hundreds of people got as far as Forest on their way to the wreck, but had to walk the rest of the distanea, six wmiles. The officials rode up and down the tracks and a few slow trains brought . In the dead, but the wounded and dying were left on the ground, with no relief except that which their partners in grief covld give them, ‘They lay In the muddy fields all night, with the rain beating down, while their groans and cries went up in vain, As fast as the baggage could be taken from the cars, no matter whose it was, it was torn open and dresses and shirts appropriated for bandages to dress the wounds of the suffering. After the physiclans and nurses had finished with the trunks, thieves ritled them and ‘carmed off what wasYaluable. *'I, myself.” said Mr. Church, “saw the head, shoulders and arms of a young woman hanging from a car win- dow, and a man wentup and began stripping the rings from her dead fingers. Some of the passengers interfered and made him desist.” ., o THE VICTIMS, CiicAGo, August n.—’l‘t- luter-Ocean’s Forvest, 111, special says: ‘The names of the dead vietims ot the Chatsworth disaster have they ever can be idenufied. One poor little woman, terribly mangled, lay motionless be- side a babe, toward which she was partly turned. Across the room was a stalwart man, prone on his back, dead, but with his right arm still raiged in agony and a fist tightly |« clenched. Over In the big school house two more corpses were s@ill uncoffined waiting claimants. The wounded, to the number of forty people, filled the fire enxine house, up- stairs and down, and the same faithful ladies and girls, who had scarcely slept since the wreck, were at the bedsides, as on yesterday. In addition to these there were at leasta score of injured distribused among the pri- vate residences of the town, too badly hurt to be removed, A few hours had scarcely elapsed, however, when the aspect of the depot and other mergwes was completely transformed. A large force of men were set to work, boxing up the dead, forwarding them to Peoria, and clearing out generally. They succeeded admirably, and long beforg noon ap pearances had so changed thata chance visitor in Chatsworth could scarcely have believed it the city of horrors It was last night. SENSATIONAL FEATURES were developed this morning as to the cause of the Chatsworth wreck. Ruuiors were afloat last night thas it was due to robbers, who fired the bridge. But little credence was given them, Tuls morning new facts ap- parently showing the catastrophe to be the ‘work of an organized band came tolight, and the company find them worthy of serious in- vestigation. Superintendent Armstrong said to the Assoclated press reporter that the more he investigated the more it appeared to him that the bridze had been st on tire. ‘1he burned grass in the inubediate 1ocality was QoL of & Datuge that seemed likely to adumit of ———— Steamship Arrivals. NEw YoRrk, August 12.—[Special Tele- gram to the BEE.|Arrived—The City of Chester from Liverpool; the Celtic from Liverpool; the Denmark from London: the Eider from Bremen; the Polynesia, from Hamburg: the Newport from Aspinwall; the Vietorla from Kio de Janiero. . QUEENSTOWN, August 12.—Arrived—The Umbria from New York for Liverpool; the Adriatic from New York for Liverpool. —— Canon Salvoes Ferdinand. SoF1A, August 12.—All the garrisons here have fired saluteés to announce the presence of Prince Ferditmnd in Bulgaria. i i The Place of Grant's Death. SARATOGA, N, August 12.-Joseph W, a letter from General ~In-chief of the and Army, regarding the proposed gift of Mount McGreor cottage, where General Grant died, General Fairchila thanks Drexel sincerely and heartily, and will advise him definitely regarding the acceptance whea the executive committee passes upon the matter. i B The Water Famine at Manchester. Mancuesren, N.o WL, Auvzust 12 -Tbe water famine uere 18 increasing. Mgl Bought Out Their Interest, Sr. Joskrn, Mo., August 12,—|Special Tel- egram to the Bre |—R. T. Davis to- bought out the other partners in the R. Davis Mill company of this ¢ity, the larges| wills on the Missourl river, the consideration heini $205000. Mr. Davls will reorcanizd the company iu o few days, e Discussing the Land League. LONDON, August 12.—The cabinet met to- day and diseussed at considerable length the advisability of “procisiming the Lrish Na- tional league, "