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dug their fingers down into the • „
which a long drought had beked almnet ae
hard as stone, and heaped, the preeious
handfuls thud hardly wen upon the en-
oreaehhig flame- •And with this earthwork,
Over 100 X011:1-niiirfilate Elgiell built handfUlby handfaV
LAO EternIty!
•POUR HUM= BADLY 14JURED.
•The Orowded Train Oraehee TIttotigb a
-41]ening 13riage'
' THRILLIlitt AIM BIOERlead IMMO.
. Inman Plunder. pa_ Rob, the Dead
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and DAM*. • •
• A Chicago speciial fro*. Forest, 1111 gives
. the following fuller particulars of the great,
railway catastrophe: All railway' horrors
in the history of this country Were Bur?
pegged three miles east of Chatsworth Wed:
• nesdoy night, when an excursion train on
theToledo, Peoria. 84 Warsaw Road dropped
•.-thrOugh •n•hurning „bridge- and over 100
;Y.. people Were, killed and , four times that
• number-weee-moete-vreless badly injured
, The train Was 00114OSOd of six sleeping
• • cars, six day cottehes and chair oars anthree baggago. It d
as crrying 960 pas.
• sengere, all excursionists, and. was 'bound
for Niagisra7•Tells.. The train- had been
enade up all along the line of the Toledo,
Peoria, de Warsaw, Reed, and the excursion-
ists hailed from various points in Central
. Blinois, the b*k of tbein however, eciming
. from Peoria. ' Some of thjpassengers Cal110
from Canton, Elpitio, Washington, and in
faot all the stations along the line, some as
far west SS Burlington and Keokuk, Iowa.
A:spatial and cheep rate hadbeen made for
the excursion, and:all sorts of people took
advantage grit. . . , : ; •
• START OF THE ILL-FATED TRAIN.
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When the train drew out Of •Peoria at 8
o'clockWednesdeleevening it was loaded to
' its utinost capacity. Every berth in the six
sleepers was taken, and the day cars car-
riedsixty people each. .The -train was so
heavy that two engines were hitehed to
and when it passed .this place it was an
t hour and shelf behind time. Chatsworth,
the next station east of here, is Eth miles
• Off,' and the run there was made in seven
•-,•,•-,...,e.enliziftegesnithe.terrible;_reerteente*nfetheee;-
,TeektilfteterZintaii3;4•Sied4u6144gialevistougg.,
mate or
• „, nte can be understood. The train did not
Mop at Chatsworth, and sped by the STORM
• itation with lightning iipeed. Three miles
• east of Chatsworth is a? little slough, and
• here the railroad crosses a- eryrun about
ten feet deep and. fifteen feet 'wide.- •Over
this was • stretched an ordinary wooden
trestle bridge, and as the eiourinon' train
•• inune.thunclering down on it what was the
horror Of thi3 engineer on the front engine
•
when he saw that , • .
THEY KEPT BACK TIE POE.
While this Was ,goingonoother brave men
crept -underneath wrecked oars beneath
thistle° and thetteooelen bare veht4h held AS
prisoners so many .preidous lives, and with
pieces of hoards, sometimes their hands;
heatbeck the flames when they flashed up
alongside. some unfortunate 'wretch, who,
pinned down by a heavy beam, looked on
hopelessly while it seemed as if . his death
by.fire was certain: And while :the fight
was thus going on with the workers the ears
weed filled with groans of dying men, the
anguished entreaties of those whose death
eeemed.vettain. unless. the, Otago _hlitze,
ccinkl be inttinguishetts.nd the criesof those
too badly hurt to care in What manner the
end were brought about so only it could be THE ENTIRE itAra# or THREE
gulch; so they dee up the earth with their was caught and held down by broken Wood
hanclele teoldeseof •the blood streaming out works Finally, when relief came,, the man
:rani 'under finger nails* ima heaping 121) turned to the friend and feeblyseid• Take
in tittle reminds, while all the While came my wife. first. I'm afraid the child is
heartrending ories• • ' dead 1 '4. S� they carried out the Maher,
"FOS. OOD'S SAKE DON'T 'LET LIS -BURN TO andas a broken seat was taken ,• off her
DEATH 1" • crushed breast the blood whit* welled from
But fina11y4thee-viotory----was-wonee-
the, herlipsdold.how.badly_she_waehurt.,,They_
fire was put out after four hours of
endeavor, and as its last sparks died away
n--light-'eanee-grin-the- east to ----taketheite
place, sio dawn came ;mon, 'a scone ot
horror: e e' • • •
While the fight had been going on men
had been dying, and there was not so many
woundedto take out of the wreck as there
had beereleur hours before. ' But in the
meantime the country had been aroused,
help had tones'. from Chatsworth, Forest
and Piper City, and as the dead were laid
reverently alongside of each other out in
the cinnitelel • there: ...were_ready. _hands" to •
take them to Chatineorth, While some of • -.WE' FOB NOW,"
the weitinded were oatried to Piper City. and taking.
. a &I'd nnt nf Immhet Pulled
•One hundred a•nd eitn was , • the triggerThe bullet went surely through
, gh•ee• •his brain, .and the • three dead bodies of
TIIE •AWFUL POLL' OF THE DEAD, that little familyare now lying side by
while the wounded number four thins that side in Chatsworth waiting to be identi-
many, . The full tale of tbe dead cannot, fled. ; There have been 'many gnaws as to
however, be told yet for days. the origin of the fire which weakened the
Chatsworth was tinned into a Morgue 'letie_ge and caused the accident,.but se far
to -day.. The town hall, . the engine -house, they are nothing but guesses. The most
the depot, were all full of dead bodies,while probable one is that a• spark ' from. the fur -
every house in, the little village has it nate of the engine of 4 train which passed
quota of the woimded. There were over two hears before caused the blaze; The
one hundred corpses lying in extern- season has been very .dry hereabouts for ei.„
ledzidedeievad elienseereen&nreeYeenatenxide deeigeatimesealraastemeadeten_<ber,vmegenk
eivieeeitneva.,,turma.upp„,,_vi4tIrettteeit Alta' andi41-so--Ather-:72i0:17,0fiv:vbutlie4ap-4goarse,
They went into the tars When the fire Wee
burning fiercely underneath, and .4When the
r wretohea who were pinned there
gged them
"ron GPO; SIM T9„.HELP THEM, era,"
°tripped them of their watches and jewellery
and searched their poeltete for money.
When the dead bodies were laid out in the
cornfield these hyenas turned theneover in
their search for valuablesi and. that the
plundering was done by an organized gang
was velvets by the fact that next morning
out in the cornfield several purees all
empty were found in one heap. • It was a
ghastly plundering; and had the plunderers
heel? Caught this. afternoon they Would have
been lynched., There 'as one inaident of
the accident which stood out more horrible
than all of those horrible scenes. In the
second coach was a man, his Wife and little,
chile. His nanie could not be •learned to-
day, but it he got en at Peoria:.
When the accident occurred •
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THE BRIDGE WAS ON FIRE!
Bight up before his oyes leaped the bright
tames, and the next instant he was among
them. There wateno chance to stop. Had
there been warning it would have taken
'half a mile to stop that on -rushing mass of
• .,wood, :iron and human lives, and the train
was within one hundred yards of .the red-
' tongued messengers of death before they
flashed their fatal signals into this engi-
neer's face. But he passed over in safety,
. the first engine keeping the mile. As it
• went over the bridge fell beneath it, and it
could' only have been the tereifief speed of
the train which saved the lives of the engi-
neer and his fireman. But the next engine
wont down, and instantly , •
THE DEED OF DEATH WAS DONE.,
Car crushed into oar, coaches piled one On
top of another, and in the twinkling of an eye
' nearly 100 people. found an instant death
• and' fifty more, were. sis hint that they
• could net live. As for the wounded they
, Were everywhere. Only the Sleeping
coaches. escaped, and as • theestaitted and
' half-dressed passengers came tumbling out
• . of them • they found such a scene Of death
: as is rarely witnessed, and tinch wink to do
' that it eeemed as •if 'human hands were
utterly incapable. It • lacked but five
, minutes of midnight,. Down in the ditoh
. ley the second engine, EngineerMcClinteck
dead and • •Fireitian Applegate badly in-
jiired. ' On top were piled the three baggage
• cars, one on top of another • like a child's
card house after he,. has swept it with his
• hand... Then ' mune the six day coaches.
They Were telescoped' as oars never were
• before,tsnd three of:thank-Were piessedinto•,
, just mice enough for one.. The 'second tar
had mounted" off the trucks, , crashed
through the car ahead, of it, crushing the
woodwork aside like tinder, and lay there
' testing on the tops -of -the-• car seats, while
eveey, passenger m the front carwas ' •
,
LYING DEAL ANL IllaNG IINDEBNEATIL '. •
• Out of that oar but fonr people came
' alive. On top of the iieeond car lay the
third and its bottom wag -smeared With the
bleed Of t evitestims. 'The other three cars
were not -badly crushed, but they. were
' broken an twisted in every conceivable
'Obispo, and every crushed tiinber and bowie
,' reprepented a ertished human frame and a
broken bone. Instantly the air Was filled
with the cries of the wounded.' and • the.
, iihriekt of those about to die. ' : The groans
of Mon and the screams of women aided to
. Make on appalling sound, and above all
could be heard the agonizing cries of little
children; as in some instances they lay
pinnekelongside their dead parents, And
• there Was another terrible danger yet to be
Met. The bridge wag still. burning, and
the wrecked care were lying on and around
the fiercely burning embers. Everywhere
•in the Weeek were wounded and unhurt
• men, weevil and children, 'whose lives
coulct be saved if they could be gotten out,
but Whose deeth and •• : ' •
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DEATH /N A MOST HORRIBLE FOBM.
was certain, if the twisted weed Of the
broken cars caught fire:, --And th.fight the
fire there -was not i drop of water, and
only some• fifty able-bodied. men who still
.s- rhaa presence of mind and nerve enough
• todo their duty. The•only light was the
light of the burning bridge, • and with so
• Winch of its aid the fifty nien went to Work
: 'to fight the thanes. For four loam they
• fought like fientlie.and-for-laottrie-thei•-vio.
tory hung in the *Slane°. e Earth, was the
* only weapon with which the Joe 'could be
blight, and so the atteinet was. made to
emother it out. There wan no pick or shovel
• ,to dig it up, no baskets or barrows to ear*.
it and so desperate were they that they
i
cerried the ohild, a fair-haired, blue -eyed -
gen of 3, and laid her in the cornfield,
dead,alongsideof-her-mother.-- Then they
went -back for the father and brought him
mit. 'Roth his legs were broken, but he
crawled through the corn to the side of his
vvife and feeling .her loved features in the
darkness, pressed some brandy to her lips
and asked her how she felt. A feeble groan
was the only answer; and the next instant
she died. The man felt the forms of his
dead wife and child and cried out
"inc OOD THERE IS NOTHISG.MORE FOR ME. TO
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' the, teiriese• teineicerAnie,
Charnel houses and nospitalp made up
to -night what has been the peaceful village
of Chatsworth. Of •800' merry excursion-
iets, journeying by rail to the Falls of
Niagarietwenty-four hours ago, fully half
that number have since passed through a
maelstreen more- fearful than all the whirl-
ing wateie that they were travelling far to
see. 4Eighty-four of their blackened and
enangled7corpses are !mattered in the depot,
schools engine houses here and at
Piper .City, or are being carried, on trains
in, all Tedious to their homes. One
hundred nd thirteen cripples ore stretched
on all see:liable mattresses, . beds, •chairs
and floors in this Vicinity struggling for a
little lease of life. The streets are filled
with crowds of anxious seekers for friends
and relations, and :with other crowds, of
bustling people hurrying medicines, slowly
bearing rude -pine, coffins to the trains - or
talking earnestly of the horror.
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- „pi Aix -wirings' 'exoux r ,.•''
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P. 4 Church, •commercial ' traveller
arrived ile cen Peoele., this • morning . arta
'related Many incidents of, the, digester.
" We'clichl't heae about It until, yesterday
moo:aeg,,,. :paid:bpi:4'6.nd the firsterepOit
was that several hundred had been killed.
There were 700, execirsioniets frons Peoria-
n loneyand-tespecial train was. at Once -Made
up to go over: to the scene of :the accident,
about. sixty: miles distant. When vi.,@
reeehed,1110--plaee•-where-the aceicienCoo
onrred the:first thing saw' was a pile of
niasbed;upecoacheene high - es's' 'telegraph
Pele;,. 'The top of the second °heir car shot
tipple top of thee, standing like a nionii•
Mont, at least'. fifteen feet higher. 'Vie
'arrived jest intinie to see Mr. Murphy, A
hotWkeeper •from-Gelesburg, climb., Out Of
a hole in the top. of the .first *chair . car,
which was just: in. vieve upon a. pile of
broken timbers at the top Of the beep.. He
pcilledont his wife and 'baby uninjured,
but almost exhausted from having been
penned up for nearly twelve beers. .1.t
was with great difficulty they Were aseiated
to the • ground.' , Mr. Murphy' 'there went
back •• into . the hole • and brought out
alive a little baby. He had torn • it
from the . ernes • of a .• dead, mother.
After that • he helped Out an ,aged woman,
whose back had been injured. These live,
together With two others, were all that
Were rescued froni the Car, , When Murphy
came down 1, asked him '.how, it happened
that he Was, not killed. • He. replied that
when. the: .crash tem° his wife was eit • g
dircesettedeV•elidilliniefelleitlideth 'le • iej
Oahe eineeldeiCheiltindeldid liner* ilia&
-,zealensnueste.,,:rEvandn4eleinebee•yord the, like :tinder,,?•:AialviiPteal edeepifea •ent: it,' ne: the eale.4. The baby weieleneeked. off The
noienef ,•hanneeve and, ' saws rung outon ••would tiro :it at once. and • the result, •ii*cci. 'seat andleetoOped to nick her up as they
the Sir; and busy eernentere Were making dont, soon follow., • Another and startling shot into the mese of ruins: ahead. just at
neigh. 'otiffins to carry to their. homes the theory • • • , • • ' 1 '.• ._ ' • .. that. moment ,- he said a timber penetrated
dead bodies of theexcursionists Who twelve ..: IS THE ONE vr TBAIN WRECKING. .'. the oar, shooting across the piece Where he
hang -Wore had left their beinee full of This is an eWful *ebbe contemplate, but it had-been-eitting:and--struek-ieyointg-ledy
.Pleesuf0.• With •expectations• :of theenjoy- has its adherents. They point to the •fact who sat opposite in the neck.' He was thus
Mont they were going ', to have duringt40 that there Weren lot of• thieves about and to pinned :dieWn , by ilk° • timber, Which also
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Vitiation Whitilihad pet: begun. ' .' • ••••• : the additional :feet' that. they seemed16 be protected him. front. being smeehed • and
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. • .• szie FOR •THE STIFFEREBS. • members of an • organization working. to- saved his life. • Ho. : looked eacrossthe aisle
When • the: newt; of •• the. 'digester: "•ilret gether• and - the ' diabolical . heartlessness and saw the young • lady's. head. had 'fallen
theihed over the, wires prompt "aid .wati at With which- they • Went about their work Over on the back of her seat and hung only
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Dr, Steele, ' dila . surgeon of. indicated devilishness which .would stop at
,orice *Bent. . by the :skin: , The sight of Of the dead and
theTeledO,Pecrelele Warsaw road, hadnothing. The. news Of ' the disaster was wounded .lying dyingin , the , fields was horrible.*
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. come on ' a • special train,' :' And with ' 'bine brought to Chatsworth by, One of the 1)164 A friend who was .with me Ocinnted ninety -
Were two ether' eurgeene. ' and their • aegis': .•eengers about • midnight. As feet as ' the seta' dead • bodies at noon yesterday, and
tants. From ..Peoria • also ': Osine 'DM. corpses were taken from the wreak they the ' "wreck was • not nearly cleared, aWitee
Merten,.Bakei, Fleuglei :and Johnson, and :were laid out on the side :of , the• . treat: They were tying in tittle heaps of a
from every city whence the unfortunate tefeee•dayligilt the 'Work of Tele:m(4ring the dozen, all halting been killed in. a different
excursionists :had • eremie their.:PhYsicians dead, and meenig them to Chatsworth . had manner. • The entire- 'side . of • one man's
and • friends 'i hurried. 'out' to help them. begun: ...The residents of the town threw face would he emaehedin, :while a,' hole as
2Frone Feigns had also 'eoine delegations of Open their 'bowies Or, the .• reception 'of . the logo .. as • yonr • fist. ,. in 'the. • forehead'
the Itedmen and the 'Ancient! Otder, of dead and wounded, but the fernier Were Of ..• another • would • • show where . ,the
United Workmen, • Woekneen; members • Of ;both' taken to imptoeigedreorgtiee.. The • . • timber had penetrated. • ,.Thieeffeerthe of
sooietiee being on the iledisted. train, and' • . : FLxcid . .
. . , . ., . the dead never knew What killed them. • It
06 . after 8 o'olock,. in •the morning there Where bodies lay Were heartrending. ,- The. 'Wars • a' sight • I never 'want '46'13°4 nIaln
.. • • soENEs N TRE DIFFERENT . , •
*eke plenty of people to do do, the work that
needed Buell, prompt ittention. •• .1n. the most
of bodiee. seine •Mangled in a again': There were yeneg.ladies 41 •Pieme
allele,' • with "their White, Skirts. saturated
most frightful Manner; many of thorn. :hay'.
with 'blood. and the front of their fades
town hall hall- was the. Main hospital, • and in
it anXicius relatives and sorrowing friends •ing their feces entirely torn away,.. leaving
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their . brains ' exposed, mashed recognition. OAyoung-
sat .faxining gentlY • the ,',iitiffererse. faces. fingetie and limbo had been torn off. About 5
arins, • when , a timber striking the child in
Down in the - deadhines,es.fathers, hnsbande;'
brothers, Biding,. wives. and, .chileren tear- o'clock One of the Chicago Timeistaff visited;
the' back impaled' both' victims . in instant
theicene. The sleeping oar Tunie was at the
death. • The mother's face did'. init bear.. a
fnilY 'inVected 'emh. fans' as it was un- :On" end Of the train. •It was jacked in the . air;
covered, and eighed as ehe. featieree were screech; but the expression on it will haunt
antipoktedby trestles. The front of the•
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unknown, Or Cried Out he •anguish.When tar was directly over the ple,Ce• where the iiititothegrave. I was sick when Ire 7 ,
the well-known facesometinies fearfullyturned from the•cistisetrephe last night: It
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. bridge stood.: To the right, lay a .ceneoh. WOnle, make any man eisek.'• ,The : depot.' at
mangled but . Yet reeSeineahaa' tee- broken into :kindling wood, and directly
, covered. : The -entire capacity Of 'the little Pec•ria was surrounded by 5.,000' .people, 411
On the. road was piled Up 'what was of.
for 'netve fronathe wreck."
drove in fro
i. n3 -miles to:siVe , their gentle : six Or seven neaohes, turned bottom up Wniting
Village was tried, and • kind-heerted women
and broken :beyond recognition.,. ,, Beyond ' ' , , keitne'eniin&CtIoniinscAPh.:
ministrations to the sufferers. . ' were two tenders and 'One. engine. They gr.• •Arch.. CrneWell and wife, et:Peoria,.
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Dr. ,Ifazen, of Fort Madison, Iowa,: pays ecamete. recognizable. . Along. the hedges . , ....
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STATEMENT OF OF .A ,PASSiNGER: . were .turned bottom.; side "up, and Were were ontheir way• tie visit their parents- in
Kankakee with their,. ebe. week's ' -old. •beby:
:thetrain was running • about thirty :mike there were -valises, sheep; bootie . hate, all Mrs: Ceciewell,:pecupied a iieat hi the frOrit
an hour when the accident occurred. . He manner of " articles' of ' -Wearing stelieeelo .end of.the.car,..next to -tile doer: .• lldr.''Otos-
felt a sudden' jar, and found himself and broken lanterns and 06110:7 from cars. ; • It n,. 'being . nnable ' tn • get a seat with his
wife:.ffisteriedliniter the scats. He :pulled was an , ai:vfnt sight, 'Hats of ' Men ''aiia wile . t9ok another* position a few yards
thebacks off of two seats before he gent& Women broken 'and:. smeared with bleed,' bao'lL When the, concusidon ceme the fit:int'
Pt his wife out. She was 'binned •on the coats reeking with gore, and iodide tinder' • end :..oL the • car Wisaerniihea.ini,and Mrs,
body;amIheth of her feet were e, -Vere- .titiehed. 'weak einearectivithlifiebleed. It • was titian Croswell killed: • . the baby was • :ftnind in
His shoulder was dislocated, and,be had it to be seen from thebeggegoth.at the travel-. the oentici ofthetar with b* st*ht iiijuries:
pulled intO,placeae• id* as he could get line 'were Well-tcedo, people... ' • • • : . tt was teken: to a faim house nein hy,, and
out a the *tech.': . Them, vide . nine per- 0•. cared •foe.: ' - • : • •• ' '...•
• sons in his party, and he can Only hear: of, , IT WAS 'SIMPLY 'HOLRIBLE,°! •
Sila Tar; E. A. ViniZendt,• ef. Peoria, to. a• ; ' • . einem/Pei, seZnes Or seirtiiiive4;
. thee° of them so far. ' He. seyithe• saw Ed. • .. , ,, • 4 •
:Stoeciard throw his boy ont to ladywhile reporter... • e •No words • .of •anine• can ae.... .A special 'from Forest to the Tietee•geyie:
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he crawled back to get hie, Wife, Who was antibi4'
• alb°. .(f- n.InnInn• f t49.6ne'•let4. • • •.
I was in f, Aa fast as the wounded werebrought into
. ' . • • - the rear sleeper and wae ,in 'AO: flange; eel Chatsworth fivinthe wreck they were taken
Diatenacee •DiPiAVITY. .
killed. •
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. • . no one in the fat, sleepers was niore then direetly :th the had •• been
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, . : 'shaken up, but but.. even • there Wil.":"got a bid turned into a temporary. hoppitel. Bede:
. • NcesOcinethed the wreck occurred than shake; I'' felt three distinct bumps. 'and' and tote ,Wete brought in from neighboring,
a ileetie . of robbery .c,ommenced. • Some
bends Of unspeakable Migoreatitie heartless, eo •the' Wreek,
then knelled Ott of the ear 'and ren fottvatd house's with necessary , bedding, ..eed the
and with Only - animal inetinets, veee
en' :Theenly light WitTeS,:itehes.fIcealiiiiees7OaP4H11‘16eretibrioe. Tornend bleeding Intrean behigs . in all
sufferers Were cored, foe by loving hands.,
hand, and like ,giierillite who • throng o ing. beieger•
battlefield' at• night lifter the.' conflict and ana Acne 'the ' day Coaelies stages of stiffeting.lay areiend the - tootle,.
were: piled en top•Cif.anoiher hete- moaning and : crying . With agony; 'While-
filch- from the dead the. money which they rogeneoris• neoeit: The teginee ,Weee . buried ..
dealers end mirees Were "binding up . their
received for theit Meagre pay, stealingeeen in the•ditOh, ,and the - • • • " • • ' ' , : Wolin cle.,'Oloo.de,ctothing,•torn and emered
the bronze medals, and • rolibing:. fiorii. the .; .
nertese: wee Oe*.eXeixeen seciineock • '' • With tn•ud,, lay around on the floorein heaps,
ohildren.,ef heroes the Otherwise weirthlese • • - . . " • .- .4 4. , - •
emblenee of•their fathee'e beaveree so last ;wae Medarnesth ptom. a,ks sleds ow, With • car cushions or mattresses: and
ii for did; do . We'• Went. to Work, and We blankets -on which they had been -: brought
'trent the *reek: Many patiento.
were tinder
night die thetiehninan hyena(' • plunder the cries
dead.feone the terrible accident, and take worked hard, too. 11 the *reek over caught
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Oen the shoes which • cetera their • feet: fire Boo:pool:de woola: have been burned to the infigenee of ether or chlorefOrne; While
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Who these wretches ate is net known. . death, . The:only thing We could do Wad to their fades, gestly White, .end •teeth tightly
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'Whether they Were a band of nickpOokele smother the 'fire With 'dirt. . it. was.bae`d Clenched, showedthesufferingwhich they
Who. accompaniedthe train, Who were lurk- and Edo* 'week and took 141.fotlrh1111to, but were Undergoing while partially obvious of
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•ing in the vicinity, cannot be , said: • The, We eiLl it, did when the fire' was out , and the fact. Blood was everywhere -Oe the
horrible suspicion , :hoivever„ .exist, and Other • help tame, we got:the'ileed and
'delete; walls, clothine', and hand's of • the
there are Many who eie it 'credence,' ,enet wounded •, out during, .' the , morning and wounded, as well esti:Mee who Were caking,
:• ,
. he neeident,wece, deliberately . carried them to Chatsworth. . •. fOr theta. As the day wore away eta the„
• was .an. indident in th11,
hermit:di shadows _lengthened' • into the
•' PLANNFL n.l.st• OF TRAIN weiceme, There e affair which , , .
that the briege. Was set ' ou .fire • by Miser°. was not orily •reinarkeele, in its WO but ?evening the donee changed' somewhat. The
inies,' who hoped t6”, Wilt 'lay the opportu- iihoWe how terribly those sixeoischee, were Wounded had been dressed and bendaed
g,
nity offered ; , and The fact that the bridge jammed and Mailed together. When the and rn,mit of ., them Meted quietly eneeigh,
hecident Occiirred,/AndyMOOney, of-Peoria,-.Overceine by mental and :phySiCal, suffer.•
*W30 far Conetiined '
carne alone, 0,tict hone and at the thne the' train
the .. added .faet that the and Conductor Stillwell,* whowas in Charge ,ings: .Letepti were placed ,eround tee. halle,
of *min, were three ears fiein • eech, their lights careinllyehaded and the ' scene
train. Wile an, 4 half .16,6, ere other. 'Mooney ,was, in the eeeond car eha ' was strongly :suggestive .,of : the intetieit of
p,ointed Out Ob evidenee 'of a eereftti ciiii,,- Stillwell • in. the fifth, -The tiext instant.en hoispital on the fieldof battle. ; In , the
spireey. it seems' •hardly
mitneonld be So leat t.,possible that, .they. foeed•••theetnielvee literally • in each depot at Chatsworth and in the unoccupied
o all the Ordinary
feeling' Which eider -Wee the breed . of the other's arm, the Car ;in which ti' . : eee-•••-litere used as a morgue the scene was Who Will I iitig-
I• • • '1a,elaughter house. Steetehed mit i.
ttilitith.itee.......,Bateitill -.mete 14013-
•-,-- Oyer the, ttve•iii front and citonpee • „ deteter. Was riding hating • been •
• •kor in different :directions were f
,
dead" men; who will steel •ftoill the A d
'eYme of the one in which Mooney ,
•
en, wOrnee ithadjoilareo, dressed, ;•
slid will plunder. the Woended, held ciciten. Stiange part • of it : was that 7', &A which they had met their
;
by the . btoken , beaftie Of e wrecked cer, ' 408- hurt. , : . , • '•
• • '1 empty atoreteint were.
whose death. by fire Fieemeciiiittti iiiidilt, dItii. The . meet horrible deist . • *ori -Collided at' One tithe:
is
ao.ehtioat anything which is, ballet 'and that of • Etlgene If eCtiriteek, '•
• : 'Oen StikaidiSti'.611Ra'aild •
'what the fiends• ' .• human' • .'.- ''
• . via. arm's, in the ina•
,. • ' second engine." -' • ,
• • 4 ••,
jor• ity of instances, were crossed over. their
breasts. The hes& of the dead were gener,:.
ally Mangled in the most frightful neanner
and were always Covered -by some article of
clothing. Tbe face of a youngwoman
who was tying on the floor of the '
depot had been so; beaten in by
the cruel 'oar timbers that recogni-
tion was out of the question, and her '
brains and, the flesh, of her face were a
pulpy mass, in whieh dabbled her long red
bib. She was not identified. A men with4
a heavy dark moustache, and who was ap-
parently 85 years of age, had been, struck
in the face by scene object that • had torn .
away the jaw and left the side of .hie face
exposed. A.5•yearold boy, with chuthy
face and curly hair, looked contented and
smiling. His legs were alone broken, but
the flesh was so mangled that it bore the
appearance of mw beef. His chest was
also -crushed in. - Nearly every corpse wad, __•"•!:
mangled or disfigured. The faces of genie- s
of the dead were, black; asAhough they had •
died from suffocation, while others were ie
‘4-
deadly
white•
Tpecuniary loss arising from this, acci-
gent is simply 'enormous. Underthe laws
of Illinois the relatives of those killed in the
dictator, will, if they have any claim at all,
deplete the treasury of the Toledo, Peoria
Western of something like 1,350,000," and
those injured Athastak-quaX,:
ter at a million more..
lati-EVES_AN.D.-f-LetHrO_CIIIETR.
itowstelankley_teinumilan'iliesughs,
De-
troit Steamer-Paesenders Beaten and
Robbed -Most of Gong Arreided.,
A Detroit despatch says: gang of
thirteen pickpockets and general thieves
went, to Put -en -Bay yesterday morning on
the steamer City of Cleveland. Their con-
duct on the way was such that the officers
of the boat PO them ashore and refused
to let:thenineturn_omboare.-Apea-result—,-
they took the steamer Alaska on her return
trip. During the voyage pandemonium
reigned, in some cafes pistols being drawn..
Peaceable men were robbed.; insulted and •
threatened with violence. The women
passengers were greatly alarmed, ' and -
although the officers of the boat did all in
their power to restore.order the riotous
conduct lasted' , during the 'whole trip.
When the &earner. readied Detroit she
stopped in midstream and tent two ye*l.
boats ashore. In , fifteen minutes two
petrel waggons filled with detectives cisme '
down to, the deck. The officers get into
8-43,0,2ea,mne3veedeeentretoe1,1ee 4-Alaieus.
•aleetterenghe-neisreheefeetheelAtetecirde-e.
iand•when Asheeationedongside thedock an '*" "-
hour later 'eleven persons were brought 'off
and taken to police headquarters. Among •
those arrested were: Martin • Forbes, of
Toronto, ; John Byers, Of London, Ont.;
Itobert..:13..__Bodgers,-01Hamilten, Ont.,
and Thos. Mullen; Windsor, Ont. Two of .
the gang,., on the approach of , the police,
jumped overboard. One, sftid to be the
ringleader,. - reached shore and .escaped.
%lhe other. Was taken 'off one of the blades
of the paddle- wheel. Eit-Deptity .Sheriff
Downs and George•Canipleele-Of
were badly beaten by ' thegang: A large
amounti
'
of cash was found n the pecket.ot
one of the gang. •
TICS ACTOR AND BIS WIPE,
De 13eneande Arrested for Ringing His
Wife'e beer Bell.
A London cable says: Mr. De.Beneitude
Was on Wednesday arrested.. for Violently, •
wilfully and persistently ringing the front
door bell of MistiViolet Cameron's villa in
that part of London known as St. John's
Weed. He was hauled up before a. magiettate
at the Marylebone Police Court, and much ,
of the ditty linen which Was SO copiously,
aired last fall at -the Tombs in • New. York „.•
was relaundried. The only new 'thing
which appeered during the course of the
proceedings was the remarkable statement • •
made by Miss Violet 'Cameron's lawyer to
the effect that she had already paid her un.
savory husband a sum of .$5,000 in the,.
hope of getting e little peace and quietness, •
and that the reason of „De Bensaudee con-
tinued:ringing of the front door, bell ' was •
With the object of extorting further, pay -
month. .T6 this De Bensaude retorted that
the $e,000 in qeeeitien had been paid 'him
in consideration of his eigning a statement.
to the effect that he saw nothing damaging
to Miss Cameron as a wife inthe purely
business relations 'which .she had main-
tained With the Earl of Lonedele: -De Ben -
sande added that he new "regrettee having
nuide the statement above mentioned. By
way ef compromise be offered' to undertakei
neverte ring tile:freed doer •bell.agaiii if be ,
were furnished with a page key. This was
indignantly, refused by Miss dCanieron's
counsel, and the case wasthen adjourned
for further hearing.• "
Poverty Among Plenty.
A New York despatch says: One year
ago Joseph 'Waldman, a Polhill' Jew, ar-
rived in this country with 1,3,is young and
pretty Wife Elizabeth. The einiple began *
housekeeping in Fifth street, and Joseph
secured, empleyment in a manufacturing••
house: ,He wee dissipated, however,and
lest his situation, and he make matters
worse his wife , was taken ill. They then
moved to Orchard street, • and lived On
charley for several menthe. • Joseph again •
'Obtained work, but spent hismoney and
i
abused his Wife and nfant. Three weeks •
age he dieeppetsred and ever , a 'week the
neethei has lived on ten ciente worth of dry, .
bread and Whet little else her poor neigh-
borseould spare. Yesterday, she gave up' , •
in despair. Last night the neighbors sent
notice to the police • headoarteratnit Mrs.
Waldman was starving and that ill some-
thing was not done immediately she would
die. Another poor family residing. in Or-
chard street shared half a loaf of bread and
twovents'Nwortla of rnilk with the starving
:WOMAB and her child that Drilling.
• - •
•
• At the village of Lige, in lialiepshire
England, an ox wns. boiled whole 'op .
Jubilee Day. A huge tank was plebe& in,
A hole in the ground, :and was bricked all
round. The whole carcase . was lowered
into the tank, 'With quantities of vegeta-;
bles, and, alter • boiling , seven hours, the
reediting SOG‘p and the. meat Were served
o the people of -the village. • "
This is the sort of stories that they pub-
lish for feet in Saratoga "A clergynten;
calling on a Wo.sbingtenetreet family, was
uslieree into the parlor, where •Miss tatty '
was seated itt the pianoforte. lie asked tbe
young lady, a member of hie Eible class, to
play one of her favorites.) I'm not play -
ng favorites any more,' ihemaid. ,
'he Add against there•,every time."
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