Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-05-13
The Missouri Pacific Railro~d Disas
tef-N1neteen Killed and Thfrty
W0unded-HOw the Collision wa
Ocea8tOned.

OceasiOned.
TsleorepAsd 1selSsively 10 ne 1seniso &sv.
ST. LOUIS, May 13.-Later advices give the
particulars of the Missouri Pacific railroad cas-
ualties, with corrections In the names of the
wounded. The whole number killed Is nineteen,
and the wounded thirty, Of whom fifteen are Sc
riously and eight dangerously injured. The re-
port that the engineer had not been seen since
the accident is nnfounded. j. p. jackson, the
engineer Of the passenger train, saws that his
train was over half An hour late at Eureka The
ira train, was told that it was twenty minutes
ahead OF tie express trains time, when the con-
ductor, Du BOis, who was on the engine, said:
CAN right; 60 ahead"
proceeded half mile, when an extra freight
train was seen dashing round bluff under full
headway and only four or five hundred miles of.
jackson whistled down the brakes and sprinkled
sand on the track from a box on the engine to
prevent the slipping of the engine weels and
told the conductor and fireman to jump of.
The trains came together almost instantly with
jackson, in jumping, was hurled over a pile
of wood, and found himself thirty feet on the
other side of fence. He did not lose conscious
ness and was not seriously hurt. The collision
occurred on an artificial embankment. The
blame of the collision seems to attach to VIM,
Odore, the conductor of the extra freight train,
who should have waited at Gravel Switch until
tie express train passed, but who either misap-
pretended his orders or thought he could react
Eureka ahead OF the passenger train.
hO hoAAC VI "A. IL ctiChutN SUOul0 DC Andrew
H. Stickney Of POtaka, Ind, and not of Mary
land.
ST. LOUIS, May 13.-A train bearing the bodies
of the killed in the collision at Eureka yester-
day arrived at O'Clock this morning. The fol-
lowing names complete the list OF killed-Jas
M. Smith, Seymour, Ind; Mr.. Ballentine, Sc
dalia, Mo-; A. 5. Flint, st. LOUIS G. w. Kiger,
COrnelia Station, Mo-; young man supposed
to be E. X. Spaulding, Boston; q. w. Tucker
Waterville, KS; Christian Rodenberg, Leaven-
worth; T.. X. Wilson, residence unknown; VIM
Taylor, of the firm of Resttenner, Smith Il Co
New York; and James d. Mckee, Anderson
Kansas. WOunded-Ira p. Warner, L. s, ex
press messenger; Maria Clark, colored
The Republican reporter gives the following
description Of the collision and wreck: The ex,
press train Of five passenger cars, one baggage
car, and one freight car, was long and heavy.
At the point of the collision is an embankment
fifteen feet high, where the road curves so
sharply that approaching trains cannot see each
other until close together. A boy standing be-
side engineer jackson was the first to descry the
smokestack of the approaching train entering
the curve at the east Just as the express train
entered the wes3 side of the curve. He directed
the attention Of jackson to the danger and the
brakes were Immediately whisfled down,
the engine reversed and the speed of
the train was somewhat checked. No an
plicatien of human power could stop the heavy
freight under half a mile. The two engines
met with a tremendous crash reared Yrom
the track and fell into helpless disjointed fright
ments. The baggage car and the forward pas
senger cars Of the express on one side, and the
tender ana several box cars OF freight on the
other, were reduced to ruins, and spatterel with
the blood OF forty human beings.