A Villainous Deed

DESTKUATE WBECKEBS. Mor.Rirt, IU., Oct. 29. - A most di iboiical plot was laitt near this oity early yesterday morning to wreek the Kansas City passenger train on the Rock Island road. The wreckers sneceeded partially, but the fated train was a freight, and not the heavily-loaded pas.senger train. The villains placed a telegraph pole with the butt-end toward the approaching train on the track, and the ;engine and a dozen cars were piled in a heap, making a mound of broken timbera, car wheels and freight. The saddestpart, however, was that Eniriueer John Mills and Fireman William Orth were both killed outright John Kane, head brakeman, who was in the cal) when the crash caine, saved himself by jumping out, spraining his left ankle badly and rcejving a score of cuta and bruises from flying pieces of timber. The men killed iJBth lived in Chicago, where they each have a family. On striking the obstruction the englneer whistled for brakes, when a flying missile struck him on the head and lald him prostrate, and the escaping steam hurried his awful death, The fireman was unable to jump soon enough, and when he did so the ftrsti car was puehed against him and he waa horribly mangled. His reinatnes wera found under the fire-box of the loeomotive by the side of the car, and were so completely covered with debris that the body was not found for nearly on hour after the accident. The coroner's Jury is at work on the case. The train expected to have been wrecked was thirty minutes late. Had it been on time. the fate of the passeng-ers would have been as horrible as that of the victims of the Chatsworth disaster, judging from the manner in which the tirso ñve freight-cars, loaded with brick, surap-iron, paper-car wheels and grain, were reduced to splinters. Excitement here over the wreek continúes to grow since it has been deflnitely ascertained that the obstruotion was placed on the track with the delibérate purpose of wrecking the passenger train. The excitement is augmented by the growing belief that the Suhwartz-Watts express car murderers and robbers, and their friends planned the crime. A reward of $2,000 has already been offered by the Koek Island Company. and detectives are on the ground.