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jmmm, DEATIINAHOLE, New Ulm Review, MINNESOTA NEWS. there were not so many wounded to take oat the car waefdirectly over the place where ter, Jr., BurlimjtottEowa,iboay 'Harold B. Lawrence, Burlington, Iowa, body. iHB. Lawrence, of the wreck as there had been four hours before. the bridge-stood. Xo the right lay. a coach Burlington, Iowa, body: John McMasters, Peoria, But in the meantime the country bad all body: Frank iBrown, Peoria, hand Mrs. been aroused help had come from Chatsworth, There is considerable excitement at A _BQ_EN INTO -KTNDUNO wooi BRANDT & WEDDENDOEF, Publishers. Kellogg, Tremont, body Mrs..K JV Welsh. Peoria, Forest and Piper City, and as the bert Lee, over the discovery, few railes-fer^, and 'directly on the road was piled up what body: Mrs. IsaaciBoty. Whiteside. HI..body I: All the Bailway Horrors In the History .northwest of this city, of natural gas. ^4*% dead were laid reverehly alongside of each was left of six or seven coaches, turned Catherine Lot,, Peoria, body: .Blanche Allen, NEW ULM, Several wells having already been found ins.lj' MINNESOTA. other, out in the corn field, there were ready Peoria, body./ l-tffl bottom side-.up, and broken beyond recognition. .of This Country Are over twenty places. It rushes forth withspMr, hands to take them into Chatsworth, while Across the track in front of the pile passed. Jll||tl| #&T THE STORY IN DETAIL. such force as to be heard ten or-fifteen^ some of the wounded were carried to Piper of debris was a '.coach lying crosswise, way The decrease the National debb rods, and when ignited burns to the heighfc*u, rvs'r-v *(5 _____ City. One hundred ana eighteen was the up at least ten feet in the air. Beyond were of from ten to thirty feet. One well burned in July was only about $5,000,000, Graphic Account of the Most Horrible RallI the two tenders and one- engine. One tender fA'tV"\,M three weeks, and other various lengths of ft** oatl Accident of Modern .Times. AWFUL POI_ OF THE DEAD, An Excursion Train Near Chattsworth, owing to large expentitures under con* was to the left of the track and the time. They were put out for fear of fire FOEBST, III, Aug. 11.-AH the railway horrors while the wounded number four tiaies" as Illinois, Drops lhrougha ||l|| jressional appropriations. nearby. being communicated to the buildings other to the right They were turne_ in the history .of this country were surpassed many. The full tale of the dead cannot, jf?| Burning-Bridge. |g||f|||i|| three-miles east of Chatsworth last however, be told yet for daya Chatsworth! wa_ scarcely recognizable. O the sid l,*e fifiarcfiW There are in the United State* eleven night, when an excursion train on the Toledo, ^om^ wa hio n The crops of the State of Missouri was turned into a morgue to-day. The town a "13.a of the cab was the ill-starred number archbishops with the prospects of another Peoria & Western road dropped it i hall, the engine house, the* depot were all tor 1887, so far as they have been Only-a big pane of glass marked "13." On ft in St. Paul. Each one has -more- or. less through aburning bridge and over one hundred Of the Excursionists One Hundred and full of dead bodies, while every house in the suffragan bishops. In this province- there the hedge were hats, shoes, and all manner harvested, are much larger than those people were killed, and four times that Eighteen Are Almost In-j|5p little village had its quota of the wounded. are fourSt. Paul, Sault Ste. Marie, Queen of wearing apparel, broken lanterns and number more or less badly injured. The of average years, while the prospects There were over 100 corpses lying in the Bay and La Crosse, and the vicariate- A stantly Killed, l'^r'^003 seats from the cars. It was an awful sight train was composed of six sleeping cars, six extemporized dead houses, and every man apostolic of Northren Minnesota and Dakota. tor such as have not yet matured are Hats of men and women, broken and seared day coaches and chair cars and three baggage This includes all of Wisconsin.Minnesota, or woman was turned into an amatuer but with blood, coats reeking with gore, and highly encouraging. cars. It was carrying 960 passengers, Dakota and North Michigan.- It is zealous nurse. Over in a lumber yard the ladies' underwear smeared with life-fluid. all excursionists, and was bound for Niagara While Over Four Times That Number proposed to leave Wisconsin and North $ noise of hammers and saws rang out in the It was plain to be seen from the looks of the Falls. The train had been made up all Michigan as they are at present, and divide Sustain Injuries More or Less air and in it busy carpenters were making Professor Elisha Gray's new discovery baggage that the travelers were well-to-do up Minnesota and Dakota^ adding along the. line of the Toledo, Peoria,& Western rough coffins to carry to their homes the Serious. $W $M:WM& people. There was ^5: is called auto-telegraphy, and it is xj two new dioceses. This will make the l*' road, and the excursionists hailed from dead bodies of the excursionists who, twelve new province of St. Paul to- include the various points in Central Illinois, the bulk of AN JEJCIBENT slaimed that it will be possible with hours previous, had left their homes full of present diocese, a new diocese in-Southern in the affair which was not only remarkable them, however, coming from Peoria. Some Its use to write upon a sheet of paper pleasurable expectations of the enjoyment Minnesota, and two dioceses in Dakota -1ST OF THE DEAD. in its way, but shews how terribly these six of the passengers came from Cantos*, from they were going to have during the vacation 'instead of one vicariate-apostolic. The and have an autographic fac-simile of coaches were jammed and mashed together. El Paso, Washington and, in fact, all stations which had begun. When the news of the new archdiocese will then include the same the writing reproduced by telegraph When the accident .occurred Andy Mooney along the line from as far west as Burlington territory as the original diocese of St. disaster was first flashed over the wires, and special1 of Peoria and Conductor Stillwell, who was and Keokuk, Iowa. A 800 miles away, and probably a much Paul, when the late Bishop Cretin' took ED McOLINTOCK of Peoria, engineer, prompt aid was at once sent Dr. Steele, in charge ct the train, were three cars from cheap rate had been made for the excursion, charge of it in 1852. chief surgeon of the Toledo, Peoria & Western leaves a wife and two children. greater distance. each other. Mooney was ,in the second car and all sorts of people took road, had come on at once in a special The city council advertises for-bids for and Stillwell in the fifth The next instant advantage of it. When the train the purchase of 15,000 park bonds, and train, and with him were two other surgeons MEEK, Eureka they found themselves literally in each drew out of Peoria at 8 o'clock last The total amount of invisible wheat $10,000 sewer bonds, both to be issued in and their assistants. From Peoria also came others arms, the car in which the conductor MARY LAWS, Eureka. evening, it was loaded to its utmost sums of 1,000, to run twenty years and iDoctors Martin, Baker, Flagloere and Johnson, on hand on both coasts on the 1st was riding having been carried over .the two capacity. Every berth in the six sleepers ARTHUE MCCARTHY, Eureka. draw 5 per cent interest. and from every city whence the %y inst., is found by Bradstreet's to be in front and dropped on top of was taken, and the day cars carried sixty JAMEB BLAIR, Eureka. Statistics compiled by th& auditor show unfortunate excursionists had come from the one whieh Mooney was in. The strange people each The train was so heavy that 82,500,000 bushels, or 3,200,000 less that in 1886, 12,88 acres of wheat were MRS. D. DUCAT, Forrest. itheir physicians and friends hurried on to part of it was neither man was hurt The two engines were hitched to it, and when it sown in Otter Tail countv, and the crop help them. From Peoria had also came delegations than was on hand July 1,1885. The GODEL, father and son. most horrible death of all was JDhatof Engineer was 2,403,785, bushels. The number of passed this place it was an _eur and a half of the Reduien and the Ancient BILL STEVENSON, and two visible supply amounts to enough to acres of oats were 27,202, bushels-1,005,- McClintock,engineer of the second engine behind time. Chatsworth. the next station Order of United Workmen, a number of both 225. This year there were 122,430 acrea daughters. of the double header. The' first engine east of here, is six miles off .and the run make a total of 72,000,000 bushels societies being on the ill-fated train, and so of wheat, and of oats 28,832. which Engineer Sutherland was driving CAPT. DAHLKE. there was made in seven minutes., so the terrible in the country. after-8 o'clock in the morning there were this:fa41 from- The state fair is to be held passed over the burning bridge in safety, momentum of those fifteen coaches MRS. JAMES DEAL. plenty of people to do the work that needed Sept. 9 to 17 inclusive. but it was under its weight that the halfconsumed and two heavy engines shooting through MRS. WILLIAM BALL. such prompt attention. In the town hall In a single year, Germany shipped bridge gave way, and the tender space at the rate of a mile a minute can be The state railroad commissioners fix a SUSIE BALL. was the main hospital, and in it anxious relatives general tariff of two and a half cents a gallon dropped back into the dry slough understood. No stop was made at Chatsworth, to the coast of Africa 7,136,236 gallons and sorrowing friends sat and, fanning WILLIAM REGAN. on milk over the Milwaukee road. Sutherland's engine kept the rails and and on and on the heavy train with gently the sufferers' faces, queried the of rum, and England sent 602,- PHENAFRAHM. ran on in safety, such was the its living freight sped through the darkness The Clark House property, corner Fourth attending surgeons as they bound up the 328, gallons, while the United States MRS. VALENTINE. and Hennepin Minneapolis, bold for $1,- awful speed of the unfortunate train. of the night Three miles east of Chatsworth wounds, aad insisted that there must be 626 per foot, said to be the highest price MRS. VALDEJO and daughter. McClintock's engine plunged down into the provided the heathen with 921,412 there is a little slough and where the hope. Down in paid for Flour City dirt. Strong drink black hole, and as the tender mounted on railroad track crosses a run about ten feet R, E. STOCKAN, Peoria. whisky.- gallons of Gen. W. D. Washburn has donated acostly top of the cab it took McClintock in the back deep and fifteen feet wide. Over this was THE DEAD HOUSES, MISS STEVENS and father. seems to be a potent civilizer in some and handsome cup as a prize in the of the neck and cut his head clean off hie stretched an ordinary wooden trestle bridge, fathers, husbands, brothers, sisters, wives MIKE REAGAN, Binghampton. interstate rifle matches at Fort Snelling countries, but in others the result is shouldera The trunk was foujid under the and as the excursion train came thundering and children tearfully inspected each face as WILLIAM CRAIG, Cuba, 111. each year. The enp was manufactured by engine, the head couldn't be discovered, and down on it what was the horror of the engineer it was uncovered, and sighed as the features different. Tiffany & Co. of New York and is of special HENRY HECKER, Pekin, _L the presumption is that it was ground to on the front engine when he saw that were unknown, or cried out in*anguish when design. It will be shot for the first time NOAH HAVERMORE, Canton, Dl atoms in the horrible millstones of the engine this bridge was afire! Right up before his the well remembered face, sometimes fearfully at the coming tournament of the Nntional United States Circuit Judge Lacombe, M. SMITH, Metamora, 111. and the tender. There have been many eyes leaped the bright flames, and the next mangled but yet recognizable, was uncovered. Guard Rifle association at Fort Snelling. guesses as to the origin of the fire which in October. instaut he was among them. There was of New York, has decided that The entire capacity of the little GEORGE A. SMITH, Peoria. weakened the bridge and caused the accident, village was taxed, and kind-hearted women NO CHANCE TO STOP. MRS. ZIMMERMAN, Peoria. in the matter ordering the return of The State Normal School Board elected Had there been warning, it would have but so far they are nothing but drove in from miles to give their gentle ministrations Wm.'S. Pattee of Northfield president for MRS. MURPHY, Peoria.. immigrants likely to become a public taken half a mile to stop that onrusning guesses. The to the sufferera No sooner had a term of thrse years. All three schools ROSA MURPHY. Peoria. mass of wood, iron and humanity, and the charge, the order of the emigration the wreck occurred than a scene of robbery were reported in a flourishing condition. NEWS OF THE DISASTER MAGGIE MURPHY, Peoria. train was within one hundred yards of the It was thought that the 60,000 appropriation began. A, band of miscreants, heartless commissioners in absolute, and the was brought to Chatsworth by one of the MAGGIE MALVOW, Peoria. of the legislature would not be sufficient red-tongued messengers of death before and with 'only criminal instincts was on passengers about midnight, and the inhabitants court has no jurisdiction. This upset to erect the Moorhead school in consequence they flashed their fatal signals into the engineer's MISS NEAL, Mossville, 111. hand, and like the guerrillas who throng a aroused, buggies, lumber wagons, and of the great advancement in raw a decision of an opposite charac. face. But he passed over in safety, battle field the night after a conflict and EMELINE CARRUTHERS, Evans, every kind of vehicles were used to reach material and labor. It was decided to rearrange the first engine keeping the rails. As it filch from the dead the money which they the fatal spot As fast as the corpses were ter by another New York Judge, and 111. the plans so that the sura would went over the bridge fell beneath it, and it received for their meager pay, stealing even taken from the wreck they were laid out on cover the expenditure, and for that reason JESS MEEK, Eureka, 111. is more satisfactory. could only have been the terrific speed of the side of the track. Before daylight the bronze medals, and robbing from the Vhe question was held in abeyance. S. HERMAN, Brimfield, 111. the work of recovering the dead and removing the train which saved the lives of the engineer children of the heroes, and other worthless At Rochester, a bill of 20 was presented ELIZABETH CRESS, Washington, them to Chatsworth was begun. and his fireman. But the next engine It is a fact of considerable signifi. emblems of. their father's bravery, so last to the council by Mrs. J. H. Easton, As soon as the corpses were received went down, and instantly the deed of night did the human hyenas plunder the cance that the receipts from the internal a spiritualist physician, for medical aid they weie placed in a lftrge, empty building, MRS. E. D. STODDARD, West k death was done. Car crashed into car dead from this terrible accident, and furnished Aleck White last Fourth of July. lately occupied as a store, also in the public revenue tax on distilled spirits for Point, Iowa. coaches piled one on top of the other, and in take even the shoes which covered their feet Mrs. Easton's diagnosis discovered no bodily school house and in the depot waiting room. the last fiscal year shows a decrease the twinkling of an eye nearly one hundred MRS. PEARL ADAMS, Peoria. Who these wretches are is not known. injury, while a regular physician found The residents of the town threw open their people found instant death and fifty more Whether they were a band of pickpockets a rib broken'and forced into the lung,|three PEARL FRENCH, Peoria. of nearly $5,000,000 from the amount houses for the reception of the dead and were so hurt they could not live. As for the other ribs being dislocated. who accompanied the train, or some wounded, but the former were all taken to W. H. POTTER, Bushnell, I1L for the year preceding. The statistics wounded, they were everywhere. Only the robber gang who were lurking in the vicinity the improvised morgues. Friends and D. H. McMillian, of St. Cloud, became MRS. S. J. McLAY, Eureka, IlL show that the falling off has occured sleeping coaches escaped, and as the startled relatives of the dead came to Chatsworth cannot be said. The horrible suspicion suddenly violently insane. J. D. RICHARDS, Peoria. with the remains and the scenes and half-dressed passengers came tumbling exists, and there are many who give it credence, chiefly in those States where stringent Louis C. Scherer, of New Ulm, has been MRS. BREEZE, Peoria. in the different places where the bodies lay out of them they found such a scene of that the accident was a deliberately appointed a cadet to West Toint. restrictions upon the liquor traffic, including was most heartrending and distressing. As W. GEORGE RETZEN, Peoria. death as is rarely witnessed, and such work planned case of train wrecking, that the Allen King fatally shot August Shultz the day passed bodies were continually local option, have beeu adopt to do that it seemed as if human hands were T. S. TROVILLO, Peoria. bridge was set on fire by miscreants who near Waverly. Shultz claimed the land brought in from the scene of the wreck. The utterly incapable. It lacked but five minutes ed. hoped to seize the opportunity offered, and and attempted to burn the house of King. E. F. ADAMS, Fairbury, HI. majority of them were mangled in the most of midnight. Down in the ditch lay the the fact that the bridge was so far consumed W. BL LOT, Ellwood, HI. Warden Stordock's penitentiary report frightful manner, many of them having their second engineer, McClintock, dead, and fireman, at the time the train came along, and the for the fical year ending July 31 states faces entirely torn away, leaving their ADDIE WEBSTER, Peoria. Thirty-five states have in force usury Applegate, badly injured. On top were added fact that the train wan an hour and a that the cost of supplies, salaries, etc., bones exposed, while" their jaws, MRS. WILLIAM ALLEN, Peoria. laws, in which the average rate is piled the three baggage cars, one on 'top of was $64,227,01. The aggregate is about half late, are pointed out as evidence of a fingers and legB had been torn off. MRS. H. B. McCLURE and daughter, the Barne us that of the preceeding year, another, like a child's toy block house after Indirectly the catastrophe was ascribed to 6 2-3 per cent. In twenty stat/s the careful conspiracy. It seems hardly possible Peoria. but during the present administration the fa'. the origin of so many other recent great he had swept it with his hand Then came that man could be so lost to all the ordinary conventional rate is 10 per cent. In MRS. MILLER, Peoria. salaries oi all guards and attendants have calamitiesthe unprecedented drouth The the six day coachea They were telescoped feelings which animates the basest of the been raised. MR. WRIGHT, Peoria. twenty-one states 8 per cent, is the tall grass under a little culvert on the Toledo. as cars never were before, and three of them to,'"* human race, but still men who will rob dead Peoria & Western, a few miles east of The twentieth annual fair of the Rice MRS. JAMES DALE, Peoria. were pressed into just space enough for one. maximum, beyond which no one can men who will Chatsworth had been rendered by the County Union Agricultural society will be The second car had mounted off its trucks, MRS. WILLIAM BALLAND and legally go in ten states 6 per cent, is sun as dry as tinder, and last night a locomotive held Sept. 6, and 7. crashed through the car ahead of it, and lay STEAL FBOM THE DYING daughter, Peoria. spark set it ablaze, the timbers the maximum. In New York.ifover 6 At Fridley, during a thunder storm and will plunder the wounded, held down there resting on the top of the seats, while B. F. HYNOTT, Peoria. of the culvert caught on fire and lightning struck a barn on Maj. Fridley's by the broken beams of a wrecked car, every passenger in the front car was laying per cent., the whole contract is null were smouldering unseen when it E C. ODELL and son. farm, and destroyed grain and farming whose death by fire seemed imminent, dead or dying underneath Out of that car train of sixteen coaches of excursionists 4:' and void, and usury is made a crimeFrom utensils valued at 1.500. PR. WILLIAM COLLINS, Galesburg. can do most anything which is base, but four people from Peoria and Bloomington and neighboring the foundation of the government At New Ulm, Adolph Zeiter, 3r., proprietor and that is what these fiends in human form citiea There was a terrific crash of the Dakota house and a well known CAME OUT ALIVE. and an accident almost unprecedent in did. They went into the cars when the fire states have prescribed the rates J. BODY. On top of the second car lay the third, and citizen, died aged sixty-one. Mr. Zeiter horrors had passed into history. That was was burning fiercely underneath, and, when S5V. J. S. KALER, Breed's Station. Hi". of interest. although the latter did not cover its bearer was one ol the first settlers of New Ulm, the brief story, quickly gleaned on the the poor wretches who were pinned there MRS. JOHN MURPHY, Peoria. and has been proprietor of the Dakota as completely as the one beneath, its bottom streets of Chatsworth this evening. begged them "For God's sake" to help them house since 1859. Hts was also a defender was smeared with the blood of its victims. HENRY S. C. GETZON, Keokuk, The international yacht race at this out, stripped them of their watches and jewelry of New Ulm in 1862. Iowa- The other cars were not so badly crushed, AN INQUEST. and searched their pockets for money. ONEY SPAITH, Green Valley, 111. season across the Atlantic promises but they were broken and twisted in every A representative meeting of the congregation When the dead bodies were laid out in JOHN A. MOORE, Jacksonville,. of Westminster Presbyterain church conceivable way, and every crushed timber A Coroner's Jury ImpanelledGen. Sopt to be the mo3C exciting of this kind the corn fields these hyenas turned them over St. Paul was held and. after a harmonious J. D. McFADDEN, Peoria. and beam represented a crushed human N. Armstrong, of the Road, TV stifles, A'so kind that has ever taken place. The in their search for valuables, and that the session, issued a unanimous csvll to Rev. frame and a broken bone Instantly the air CAPT. AHLKE, Bloomington. the IJridge Carpenter of the toad. W. D. Roberts, A. B., D. D. to occupy the new American yacht, "Volunteer," is plunder was done by an organized gang was was filled with the cries of the wounded A. MARTIN, Bloomington. FOEEEST, III., Special Telegram, Aug. 11. pastorate made vacant by the resignation proven by the fact that this morning out in and the shrieks of those about .to die. The said to be much faster than the Puri Coroner Long impaneled the following J. A. GREEN, Breed's Station, 111. of Rev. C. C. Herriot. the cornfield sixteen purses, all empty, were groans of men, the screams of women jurors from Chatsworth: W. A. Sears, John tan or Mayflower, and it is conceded And about twenty dead at Piper found in one heap. It was ghastly plundering, The twenty-fifth anniversary of the battle united to make an appalling sound, P. Bingham, Frank Osborne, H. Turner, City. that the English yacht Thistle, is a of New Ulm will be clebrated at New and had the plunderers been caught and above all could be heard the agonizing D. E. Shaw and H. L. Cook. After Ulm Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 23 and this afternoon they would surely have been cries of little children, as in some instances very much faster sailer than any ol viewing the dead bodies to be found, and 24. An attractive programme has boen lynched There was one incident of the accident they lay pinned alongside their parents. inspecting the scene of the wreck, the jury the English yachts that thus far have arranged. In addition to the above list of killed there which stood out more horrible than And there was another terrible clanger to be held a session in the Chatsworth town hall -_.._ are still between thirty and forty bodies t)een sent across the Atlantic. A good all of these horrible scenes. In the second at 8:30 to-night. The first witness called met The bridge was still burning and'the The Fishery Question. awaiting identification. Among them are was E. N. Armstroag, the general superintendent coach were a man, his wife and little child. wrecked cars were laying on and around deal of national pride enters into a of the road. He said: the fiercely burning embers. Everywhere His name could not be learned to-day, but eight or ten children, some only two or Washington, SpecialIf there are new contest of this character. American in the wreck were wounded and unhurt it is said he got on at Peoria When the accident developments to be expected in the matter three months old. Our train left Chatsworth at 11:45 Wednesday yachtsmen have held "the cup'' for of the fisheries the public will be compelled men, women and children, whose, lives occurred the entire family of three night. There were fifteen cars, containing to go elsewhere than the state department could he saved if they could be many years, and the whole country was caught and held dgwn by broken woodwork. THE INJUBED. from six to seven hundred people. At }1:55 I for information. Assistant Secretary of gotten out, but whose death and Finally when relief came the man The following are the names of the will regret to hear of its transfer to was awakened from sleep by a terrible shock. State Porter says that he has absolutely Death in a most terrible form was certain if turned to the friendly aid aid feebly said: wounded as far as taken: The first thing I saw was fire on the British. On the other hand, the nothing to communicateand that the public I the twisted Wood of the broken cars caught "Take out my wife first I'm afraid the child E. A. Parker and wife of Peoria, wounded in both sides of the track. As sosu as I will be compelled to await developments. fire. And to fight the fire there was not a old time "Mistress of the Seas" is is dead" So they carried out the mother, head and limbs: Mrs. Emma Regan and eon, recovered Hooked to see if my wife and the Porter does not hesitate to express drop of water, and only some fifty ablebodied Peoria, slightly injured John Frye, Peoria, leg and as a broken seat was taken off other members of our party were alive. I found equally interested In snatching it from himself freely as to the precipitancy men who had still presence of mind broken and back injured H. L. Ogden, Graydon, her crushed breast the blood which them alive and not seriously injured. As soon with which Admiral Luce appears the Yankee sailors. The result of the HI., i*ead and foot crushed Florence and nerve enough to do their duty. The as thev had got out of the car and I saw that welled from her lips told how badly to have discovered what the Boucher, Bi*yard, Iowa, arm hurt Pat Brady, race is a fruitful subject of conjecture only light was the light of the burning they were sate I hurried to assist in the rescue of she was hurt They carried the childa treaty means, and does not think Gilman. HI., foot and head hurt Sophia Pauline, bridge. For four hours they fought like other parties. The wounded were placed in the fair-haired, blue-eyed girl of threeand laid that that oflicar, after the rebuke he has Peoria, head injured E. W. Young, West fiends, and for four hours the victory hung sleepers. I did not notice any robbing going on, her in the corn field dead, along side of her received from the secretary of the navy, Jersey, hand C.W. Swank, West Jersey, foot Thomas Scott, of Chicago, one ol although I saw many parties handling the in the balance. Earth was the only weapon dying mother. Then they went back for the will volunteer any further interpretations and shoulder G. A. Scott, Toulin, HI., ankle corpses who said'they were looking for relatives. with which the fire could be fought, and so the oldest and most extensive cattle of treaties and international law. A fair father and brought him out Both his legs Thomas Trimmins, Parsridge, III., arms, hips I think the speed of the train was thirty the attempt was made to smother it out conclusion from the general undercurrent and leg Theodora Godet, Peoria, head and legs were broken, but he crawled through the dealers in the United States,says there or thirty-five miles an \hour. One of my There was ho pick or shovel to dig it up no Mrs. Edith Chellew, Gla^sford. IlL, leg broken at the state department is that negotiations corn to the side of his wife and, feeling her f^ section men told me that he had gone out at is no mistake about the depression o' baskets or barrows to carry it in, and so, and ankle bruised: Mr. Chellew, Hassford, leg are pending which it is hoped will loved features in the darkness, pressed some 5:30 o'clock in the evening to examine the road desperate, they dug their fingers down into dislocated Joe Neal, Mossville, HI., head and the cattle business, especially on the result in a better understanding if not a brandy to her lips and asked her how she and found everything in a good condition. limbs Mrs. Joe Neal, Mossville, arm and leg the earth, which a long drouth bad baked wras happy solution of the fisheries question. ranges, being unprecedented. He says felt, A feeble groad There were then no signs of fire. Prairie fires broken, baby killed Miss Julia Valdejo, Peoria, almost as hard as stone, and heaped the It js qidte possible, however, that the W THE ONLY ANSWER., ran over the part of the country ten days before. injured internally Abbie Edmonds. Driscoll that sufficient attention has not generally ,J-t4* precious handsful thus hardly won upon the conclusion, if any shall be reached, will H. F. Marclay, bridge carpenter of the ankle Dr. E. P. Hazen and wife. Fort Madison, and the next instant she died The man felt not be announced until the president encroaching flames, and with this earthwork, been paid'to the falling off in road, testified: Iowa, head hurt Miss Emma Alter, Westpoint, sends his message to congress. Minister the forms of his dead wife and child and built handful by handful The bridge was eighteen feet long and suspended the export trade as a,eau3e operating Iowa, head and limbs Mrs. G. Thome, Rusk, Phelps, it is known, ,is proceeding under cried out, "My God! there is nothing more somewhat over eieae feet above the Iowa, internally H. H. Bond, Colchester, III., to depress the cattle business. The ground. It was a pile basement bridge or trestle, specific instr uctions. for me to livefor now," and taking a pistol KEPT BACK THE FOE. internally Mrs. Thomas McAvoy, Peoria, internally built of oak and pine timber. It would have While this was going on, brave men crept but of his pocket, pulled the trigger. The enormous export of wheat at unprecedentedly Mrs. T. W. Grant, Peoria, internally Mary lasted two years more and take two hours to underneath the wrecked cars beneath the burn through. bullet went surely through bis brain, and the Morries. Peoria, bruised Robert Simmermah For some time past the Indian commissioner low prices for a series ol fire and the wooden bars which held prisoners Peoria, head and spine: E. F. French, Peoria, hips three dead bodies of that little family are has been dissatisfied with the manner years has almost entirely driven out r-Vi.*'.^ TWO MEN KILLED. and body Eaton Waters, Peoria, hips and body so many precious lives, and with pieces now lying side by side in Chatsworth waiting in which Jessie Lee Hail, the MABrNETTE, Wis., AUET.' 11Huzh McDonald Otto Johnson, Burlington, Iowa, legs Mrs. K. of board, and sometimes their hands, beat wheat growing in Great Britain and to be identified. About 5 o'clock the reporter and Ed McDuff of Peshtigo were instantly agent at the Kiowa, Comanche and H. Clark, Riotstown, Iowa, legs G. W". Cress, killed while crossing a railroad track in A back the flames when they flashed up alongside Wichita agency in Indian Territory, has *1 was driven out to the many European countries. The priceof Washington, HL, head and chest .J. E. Deschman, wagon. some unfortunate wretch -who, pinned been conducting the business of his agency. wreck, The drveway led along the fte vs^ailroa and to Peoria, ankle Madge T. Harris, Peoria, i American wheat has been far below and two special inspectors were ordered jggg KTT.T.ET IN A MINE. down by a heavy beam, looked on helplessly leflwt ankle Arthur McCafty, Eureka, HL, both eyes MILWAUKEE, Augr. 11.Shaft o. 1. of the there to make a thorough investigation*. the cost of production in those countries. while it seemed as if his death by fire was the||| south os|}r the road was gone: David Crawford, head, linb and hips A. Ashland mine, near Hurlev, Wia, caved in J. L. Blooming.lale of Princeton, Minn., certain and while the fight was thus going an bid-fashioned Osage orange hedge. The killingTim F. McGee. legs and spine Mrs. S. R. Borden, yesterday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock, As. a result the farmers have J. Bimsley of La Crosse, J. B. Reed of Oskaloosa, on, the ears of the workers were filled with Tonics, HI, feet William Forbes,. Elmwood, C. Dwyre, Steve Meyer, John Toll and road was very muddy and full of chuck holea gone into cattle raising. Mr. Scott Iowa, were admitted to practice Louis Augustine Joseph Urban had both HL, chest* and head Elizabeth the groans of dying men, the' anguished entreaties A stream of humanity was pouring in from before the interior department. legs broken. Dwyre leaves a wife and five Sellers, La Harpie, HL, limbs Mrs. Lydia Watters, says that Scotland is full of cattle, of those whose death seemed certain the wreck. Som had checks in their hats children at Hancock, Mich, but the others Peoria, nose, jaw and lesrs H. Abraham, Postmasters commissioned: Iowa Belmond,S. unless the terrible blaze could be extinguished, and carried valises." They were evidently and also north Germany. Mr. Scott are single men. illiP nose, jaw and head William Smith, Peoria, Adams Laurel, P. Smith. Fourthclass and the cries of those too badly passengers on the ill-fated train. Country anticipates that there will in the next head crushed Frank Taylor, McComb, HL, internally KILLED WHILE HEEDING CATTLE. BSSaSSs postmaster appointedWisconsin: hurt to care in what manner the end were boys and girls came along swinging hands John Steers, Rushville, 111., legs J.W. GBANITE FALLS, Special Telegram, Aug. 11. Caledonia, H. V. Funk Crandon. M. year be an immense withdrawal oi brought about, so only it would be quick. So During a heavy thunder storm yesterday and talking in low tones about the terrible Stearns, Green Valley, 111., leg: Adam S. Homberger, A. Fay 11ay ward, J. McCuskard Lost afternoon the ten-year-old daughter of Seige'r they dugtup the earth with their hands, reckless capital. The result in his opinion disaster. A photographer dragged his hip S. Lk Belsley, Deer Creek. HL, head Creek, F. 3. Rabarle. Bergerson, living fourteen miles north of of the blood streaming out from broken and ankle Paton Cress, Washington, HL, weary limbs alongMfithe track. He will be to pnt the business in the The applications received at the treasury here, was killed by lightning while, herding legs J. B. Kelly, Beeds, I1L. hip and finger nails, and heaped it upon littie mounds, was carrying a camera and a lot cattle. '"^j department to date for payment of interest hands of practical men who are on leg broken: Frank Snadecker, Abingdon. HL, while all the while came the heartrending of negativea The roadbed was almost on registered bonds are as follows:' head and leg broken Daniel Rock, Rosefield, THE DEADLY BOLT. the ground, and in the dissolution oi cry, "For God's sake don't let us burn to level, just a little grade running UD to the Four per cent, $2,408,250 4&J, $M.71.V CANON FALLS, Special, Aug. 1L Mrs. J. E. HL, head, leg and hands: AC. Jordon, Danville, death." But finally victory WWJ won, the fire 000, and Pacific railroad bonds, $89,000.- wreck at a raise of ten or fifteen feet to the Holm, about five miles east of this cltv, .hundreds of cattle companies which Iowa, leg: C.A. Grigg, Danville, Iowa Mrs. C. total, $3,269,250. was put oat after four hours of endeavor, was intantly killed by lightning Tuesday mile. About two or three miles from the Allen, Galesburg, II., head: W. E.Ellis, Peoria, have been organized all over the country, night/ and as its last spark died away alight came town on a little raiso was the debris of the head hurt Minnie Vanghsdale, Peoria, leg The wife of General X. M. Curtis died was at the and'which as a- rule, have beer up in the east to take their place, and dawn BBOKE HIS NECK. "Tunis9 broken Calvin Davis, Peoria,arm and leg: Conductor wreck. The sleeping car recently at Ogdensburg, New York. LA CEOSSE, Wis., Special Telesrram, Aug. came upon a scene of horor. While the fight StUlweU, head, arm and leg 5 H.' Car- She was formerly Miss Emily badly mismanaged. end of the train. It was jacked in the air. 11.John Sheridan fell from a wagon thh and resided at SpringavUJe, lJluois. had been going on men had been dying, ant* supported byJibe .trestles. The front end of afternoon and broke Ms neck.