Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-18
ROLLED DOWN.
A Coach on the Missouri Pacific
Goes Down an Embankment.
SERIOUS INJURY OF PASSENGERS
a Falling Tree Kills and Wounds People On
Black Hills Railroad-Aged Couple
Killed ut . Railway
Crossing.


Kansas City express on the Missouri
Pacific railway which left St Louis At
eight o'clock Saturday night was par
TALLY wrecked at Glencoe switch, about
| twenty-seven miles west of St Louia
Eleven passengers were injured, four
probably fatally. The St Joseph sleeper
left the track, while the Wichita sleeper
almost cleared it The locomotive kept
to the rails
A relief train left here about mid.
night for the scene of the wreck. At
2:40 o'clock yesterday morning an en-
CINE and baggage car arrived at Twenty
second street. where carriages and an
ambulance were in waiting to convey
the wounded to the hospital The
feeble light of the lanterns in the bag
gage car, which had been improvised
into a hospital, cast dull light over
| the pallid faces of the victims of the
| wreck.
The names of those injured, SO far
as could be learned, are:
Mrs. Mary Lott Kansas City, proba-
! bly, fatal abdominal confusion
A. C. Daily, Lebanon, Ind, bruises on
the head and chest
Mrs. A C. Daily, bruises on the face.
E l. Norton, 1923 Stoddard street
Mrs. e. L. Norton, dangerous internal
injuries and cuts on face and neck.
Mr.. and Mrs Norton were conveyed
home in carriages and the rest were
taken in ambulances to the Missouri
Poetic Hospital.
Those not seriously injured, of whom
there were six, were taken in special
| train to Kansas City. Their names
could not be ascer tanned.
Only one of the sleepers, the Usage,
left the track. ALI of those hurt were
in that coach, which rolled down an en-
bankment and was badly wrecked
EXCURSION TRAIN ACCIDENT.
RAPID CITY, S. D., Sept. 15.-The
| Masons to show their appreciation of
the new Black Hills & Fort Pierre mar
row gauge railroad gave an excursion
Saturday. The train was made up of
two coaches and a number of fat cars
| with seats arranged to accommodate
passengers and departed from Lead City
at 9:45 in the morning. About 200 Ma
sons and their families went to make up
the excursion party.
AS the train was passing a point near
| Elk creek, twenty-five miles from Dead
| wood, a large pine tree which had caught
fire from a passing engine, fell. strik
ing the last car, which was packed with
human beings, killing two people and
wounding seven. When the massive
piece of timber struck the car panic
| took place.
Following is the list of the killed and
wounded: NJ j. BiIding, engineer of
| the Golden Star mill at Deadwood, in
stantly killed; Mrs. J. K. Snyder. of
Lead City, killed; Mrs. J. K. Snyder,
leg broken and badly bruised: George
Deemer, jeweler of Lead City, finger
broken; Mrs J. E. Brooks, of Lead City,
severely injured; Mrs. Klingler. of Lead
City, slight injuries; j. V. Lillig, in
jured in the head; Sam Gilbert, badly
bruised about the body; son of Andy
Gray, of Lead, severely injured
This is the third accident within ten
days, due in each instance to the imper-
feet construction of the road
RAN INTO A WAGON.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Sept 15.-The south
bound St Paul express on the Chicago,
St. Paul e Kansas City railroad. due
here at 1:SO o'clock Saturday afternoon,
ran into a wagon occupied by L. Pen
dleton and wife at a crossing three and
a half miles north of here on the Savan-
nah highway. The train was running
about thirty-five miles per hour and
| struck the wagon at the front end.
| The horses were thr own on one side
and the man and woman on the other
and all were instantly killed Pendle-
ton was seventy-siX and his wife fifty
six years old. They were coming from
their home in Savannah to St Joseph to
visit their son. Alderman Stephen H.
| Pendleton- The bodies were somewhat
bru sed, but were not mutilated.
| TRIANMASTER KILLED.
KANSAS CITY, No, Sept 15.-Thomas
| Mcdonald, the roadmaster of the Kan
sas City & Independence Rapid Transit
Railway, was run over and instantly
killed by train on that road near
Washington Park about $50 o'clock last
night The body was badly mangled.
The deceased, who resided at Bristol
Station, on the line, boarded an east
bound train to ride to a neighboring
point In alighting from the train
he stepped upon the other track just as
a west-bound ira n was approaching al
high rate of speed. Mr.. Mcdonald
was a man about thirty-fve years OF
age and leaves a wife and three chill
dren. He had been in the employ of
the railway company for long time
and was highly esteemed.
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