Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-30
WRECK ON THE FRISCO.

| A West-Bound Train on the Frisco Road
Derailed Near Sullivan. Mo.-A Large
| Number of Passengers Injured but None
Kiiled-The Wreck Thought to be the
Result of Train Wreckers' Work-List
| of the Injured.
ST. LOUIS, May 24.-The west-bound st.
Louis 6 San Francisco train which
left Union depot at quarter past
eight O'Clock last night met with
most disastrous accident three
| miles west of Sullivan, Mo-, station
sixty EIGHT miles from here. Nearly
| every coach in the train was smashed and
scarcely passenger, except those in the
sleeping-cars, escaped injury. No one
was killed, though at least one and prob
ably more will die. Some of the passen-
gers continued west on their journey,
| four of them returned to ST. Louis, and
many are still at Sullivan badly in
| jured that they can not be moved. They
are under the care of DR.. Mcintyre, Of
this city, the chief surgeon of the road.
1t was 11:25 p. m. when the accident oc-
| Cured. The train was travelling at high
rate of speed, and most Of the passengers
had already gone to sleep, while the few
remaining awake were about to do so.
| There is a curve in the road about three
| miles west of Sullivan, aud when this
| point was reached sudden jolt and jar
was felt all over the train. Everybody
felt it, and the people in the rear cars
could hear the forward coaches rafting
and rumbling over the ties and the crush
ing noises of cars being demolished. A
creek is crossed by the road at that point
and there is steep embankment thirty
feet high. Most of the passengers
thought the train was going through
bridge, and a feeling of horror chilled
their blood. In an instant all the coaches
except the two sleeping cars had been
thrown from the rails. People were
thrown about in the cars in all directions,
and some of them were thrown from the
coaches and down the enbankment.
Fortunately there were no fires in any
of the cars, at the time, and the jolt ex-
tinguished the lights Immediately. 9th
erwise a conf1agration would have been
caused. and there is no telling how many
lives might have been lost. AS it was,
most of the forward cars were smashed
into smithereens and the debris thrown
on both sides Of the track. 1t was the
worst wreck that has occurred in this Sec
ton for long time.
The explanation given of it by the
trainmen to the passengers was that the
spikes and fish plates had been removed
from the rail at the curve, thus leaving
the rail loose the ties. The forward
portion of the locomotive passed the
place all right, but the tender jumped the
track and was thrown part of the way
down the embankment. 1t would prob
ably have gone the entire distance had
not the forward end held it up. Who re-
moved the spikes and plates is not known,
but the supposition is the work was done
by train robbers who wanted to hold up
the train. Still no robbers put in an ap-
pearance, and if the accident was caused
by them they must have weakened in
their purpose or have thrown the wrong
train and were not prepared to do their
work at that time. Possibly they were in
wait for the east bound train, which did
not arrive until some hours later. 1t
seems improbable, however, that they
should not have posted themselves better
in regard to the running time of the road.
The road officials claim it is a clear
case of train wrecking. DR.. John H. Nc
Intyre, the chief surgeon of the Frisco
road, was coming up on the east-bound
Frisco train with his wife, and renamed
at Sullivan to attend the injured who had
been removed there. On the same train
with him was large body of physicians
returning from Springfield where the
State Medical Convention IS being held,
and they also rendered valuable assist
ance in caring for the injured.
The following is the official list of the
injured:
D. S. Weikert, WentzvilIe, Mo-. both legs
broken four inches above the ankle; may lose
one of them
George S. Simpson. Hancock County, ILL.,;
shock and cut on left side of face
Patrick O'Day, aged seven years, fracture of
skull; will probably die.
Mrs. Kate O'Day, bruised about head, neck
and SIDE, and injured internally.
Martin O'Day cut and bruised on the face;
also cut in ght foot and bruised about the
chest
VIM. Doherty. left hand cut and bruised.
Mrs. Mary Griffith. Fair Creek, H., injured
on forehead and right elbow broken.
John o. Oatley, Rola, Mo-, right shoulder
I'M Ned and thumb dslocated.
john e. Hollow. Cuba. Mo-, lower portion Of
right side bruised and cut in forehead.
Mrs. Mary Hash, Bloomington, Ind, bruised
on left side and severely shocked.
c. w. Phillips, Springdale, Ark, fracture Of
arm and cut on shoulder.
DR.. Ed S. Russell, Tuscarawas. O., severe
flesh wound, ear torn off and cut in the head:
severe shock, but rallying nicely. His wife
also cut in the head.
B. Fl. Newman Cuba, Mo-, cut in the mouth.
D. Ralley, New York arm and leg broken.
D. w. Graves, Marshtield, Mo-, arm leg and
back bruised
John Kendriclz, Fort Smith, Ark, slightly
bruised on forehead.
Joe E. Harlin, Cuba No. cut OH head bruised
on chest, cut on arm and shoulder bruised.
Walter Davidson, ST. Louis, Mo-. cut on head
and slightly cut on finger: hip bruised.
j. B. Sally. Rolla. Mo-, bruised on right leg
and arm.
d. B. Mcintosh, ST. Louis, Mo-, bruised on
shoulder and side.
J. o. Morrison, Richland, Mo-, cut on head
slightly.
Emma Patterson. Decatur ILL.,, face bruised.
Mrs. w. j. Wright, Decatur, ILL.,, cheek
bruised.
NJ. Lipo, ST. Louis, Mo-, bruishd on shoulder,
side and back.
Mary O. Day, wrist cut slightly.
E. j. Shaw, Durango, Col, bruised on Shout
der and slight cut on forehead.
Anton Marx, ST. Louis. Mo-. slight cut and
bruised on side.
j. j. Brinton, Sparta, Mo-, cut on head, right
hand and left leg.
j. c. Hovele, Litchfie'd, ILL.,; cut and bruised
on head, bruised on shoulder and hip.
Croel Chester, Galveston, Ind. bruised on
foot and arm.
T. L. Cone. Brest, Mo-; cut on head and
bruised on back and shoulder.
Hattie Shank, ST. Louis, Mo-; a light cut on |
head
c. j. Wright, baggageman. bruised on knee
and right side: cut face.
Paul Horn Mount Pulavi, ILL.,, cut on head
bruised on shoulder
Mrs. ". J. Wayne, Decatur, ILL.,, slightly |
bruised; little girl. unhurt
Immense Steel Plates.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 25.-Carnegie,
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