The New York herald., 1870-05-14
TIE MISSOURI RAILROAD SLAUGHTER
Additional List Of the Victims Nineteen Persons
Killed and Thirty Wounded-Particuiars Of
tho Qisaster-Frightfal Scenes st the
Wrsck-Engines and Cars To-
tally Demolished.


The train bearing the bodies OF the killed by tho
collision near Eureka yesterday arrived here at two
O'Clock this morning. The following names CON-
plete the list OF killed.
James M. Smith, Seymour, ILL.,. Mr.. Baentlne
Sedalta No.; A. 8. Flint, St. Louis George w. Kiger
Cornella station, NO.; young man supposed to be
e. r. Spauding, OF Boston, @. W. Tucker, Watervie,
Kan; Christian Rodenburg, Leavenworth; G. II.
Wilson. residence unknown; William Taylor, OF the
firm of Rcstenner, Smith & Co., OF New York; James
ID. Mckee, Anderson, Kan.
the following are additional names OF the wounded
by the disaster on the Missouri Pacific Railroad,
with some corrections OF names incorrectly given IN
the nrst despatches:-Ira P. Warner, United
States Express messenger; Maria Clark, col
ored; Martin A. Mowers, Of Highland Park.
Lake county, H., was previously reported
as Norcross William II. Rye, OF same place,
was reported as Kay; Adam Marens from Jersey
county, ILL.,, reported from Kansas, has right leg
dlsocated ami Is bruised; Henry Neihoif, OF Sioux
CITY, reported as MuhoY. ribs broken ana otherwise
injured; Henry Ohmke, Of Randolph county. ILL.,;
Peter Murray, OF Carondelct NO.: II. @. Sharke of
Hyde Park, Mass, arm broken; Perry Kinkleman,
st. Louis foot crushed, since amputated; Wilson
Style, OF Reading, Mich, previously reported as
Little, scalp wound and severe bruises. The whole
number Of killed is now reported at nineteen and
WOuOcu tnrIy Oh WnOm uIteen are seriously ana
eight dangerously injured.
The report that the engineer OF the freight train
had not been since the accident Is unfounded.
j. p Jackson, the engineer of the passenger train,
says that his train was over half an hour late at
Eureka. The next regular freight train at that
place, upon "1aggng" extra tram, was told
that 1t was twenty minutes ahead OF the express
trains time, when Conductor Dubois, who was on
the engine, said, "All right, so ahead" The train
left Eureka slowly, and had proceeded only about
half mile when the extra freight train was seen
dashing round buH under full head.
way and only 400 or 500 yards of. jack
son whistied down brakes and "gave her slnd'
(sprinked sand on the track from box on the en-
gine to prevent slipping OF the locomotive wheels)
and told the conductor and fireman to jump or
The trains came together almost instantly with
frghtfu force and with the appalling result already
described. Jackson in jumping, was hurled over
wood pile and found himself thirty feet on the other
side of the fence. He did not lose consciousness
and was not seriously hurt The collision occurred
on q "lll" (arlifcal embankmcnt about fifteen feet
high.
The blame of the collision seems TO attach to Will
liam Odor conductor Of the extra freight train, who
should have waited at the gravel switch until the
express train passed. but who either misapprehended
his orders or thought he could reach Eureka ahead
OF the passenger train. The name OF A. II. Stickney
III the list should be Andrew H. Stlckney OF PatoSa
Ind, and not Of Maryland.
The Republican reporter gives the following de-
scription OF the collision and wreck:-The express
train consisted OF five passenger cars and one bag.
gage carr the freight train was long AMI heavy. At
the point where the collision occurred is an en-
bankment fifteen feet high, and the road curves so
sharply that approaching trains cannot see each
other until close together. boy standing beside
engineer Jackson was the first to descry the smoke
stack Of the approaching freight train entering the
curve at the east just as the express train entered
at the west. He directed the attention OF the en-
gineer to the danger. The brakes were imme
The speed OF the train was somewhat checked
but no application OF human power conld
| two engines met with heavy crash reared from
| the track and fell into dis0inted fragments The
aa sae and s eer d o
era box Of the freight train the other were
reduced to ruins and spashed with the blood OF
forty human beings. The two engines wcre driven
with such force into each other that it was almost
impossible after the collision to distinguish parts OF
The crushed cars were jammed together, tine cars
being shivered into long svers, While the truck
irons blended into indescribable heaps that rolled
down the embanknent The rear cars of the express
train shared the conclusion, but escaped the fall
over the embankment. TheSenglnes are both on the
same side OF the embankment and are a heap or
fragments, while all around Is confusion and ruin.
The baggage car and the one next to 1t were shiv-
cred as II by an Internal explosion. The mass Of
broken timberc. iron rods, wheels and portions
OF the cars look like the frantic work OF some infer
nal agency.
The coroner's Jury has been taking evidence in
the cases most OF the day. but nothing new has been
elected. The body OF Andrew w. Stratton, of New
Brighton, Pa, was claimed this morning and VIII be
sent home for interment. All the bodies not claimed
will be buried in BelefOntalne Cemetery, to-
morrow. Frank Holt who, with his little daughter,
was en- route from some point in Kansas to West
ield Ohio. to see his Wife, who Is Sick, in response
to telegraphic summons.