, 1890-06-12
FATAL TRAIN WRECK.
Seven Men Killed and
Others Injured.
VALUABLE RACE HORSES LOST
Two Engines and Eighteen Cars
Wrecked by n Collision on
the Wabash.

ST. LoUIs, June "a very serious rail
Ioal wreck Is reported from Warronton,
Mo-, sixty.one miles west OF here on the
Wabash road. Two freight trains col
llded Just outside OF Warrenton this
morning. Both engines and eighteen
carsi weie wrecked. Seven men were
killed and several wounded.
OF feicht palace horse cars, laden with
race horses en- route for the Kansas city
races, two were wrecked, and the seven
men in charge of the horses are reported
to have been killed, but no names have
been received. Fifteen race horses we're
killed and number of train men in-
jured.
The horses in the wrecked train were
ell route from Latonia to Kansas City to
take part in the races.
NAMES Or rIfE KILLED,
Following are the names OF those
killed;
William II. Thomas, of Cynthia, Ky
Henry stone, trainer, OF Harrods-
burg, Ky.
James Kelly, of Chicago.
Frank Kelly, of Chicago.
H. NJ Simons, hostler Of Lexington
Morris Green tcolored) of Frankfort,
Ky.
samuel Davis, Jockey, OF Lexington,
Ky,
THE INJURED.
Following is the list of those injured;
William Taylor Icolored), trainer, Of
Lexington, KY. limb broken.
Louis Augustus (coloredl or HaTods-
burr u. left thiuh broken.
George Hurley (colored), of Cythniana,
ky.
Lee Brown, OF Louisville. arm broken.
Morris Johnston (Colorcdl st. Louis,
arm broken.
HORRIBLE sCEsEs At THE WRECK.
The scene at the wreck was terrible.
The cars and engines were intermingled
in one huge mass of debris, from under
which came the screams of the wounded
and dying, and some cursing and beg
ging to he killed, while Others were pray
ing for help. A negro boy was scalded
and literally cooked alive, and one col
Ored Jockey was buried under shelled
corn, from which position 1t took
several men three hours 10 eAtricate
him. A force of men worked from \.
NJ until T.. NJ. recovering the uniort-
unates, and mad IL not been for the
steady rain the loss OF life would have
been much greater, AS the Nreckagc
would have caught fire. There were In
all eight dead taken out-iour whites
and four negroes sand twenty-five
wounded, of whom one or two may die,
The eighth body is that of FrsaS Nor
ton, OF New York.
Both engines are complete wrecks, and
about six palace stock cars were
demolished, containing very fine
ulooded horses. IL is impossible
to md out how many horses
were killed, as there are "A great many
still under the wreck. IL mas been es-
timatcd that the loss to the company Is
$4,000. Nine horses have been found
so far that are dead, while great many
more are badly wounded. There were
seventy in all on the train.
THE HORSES KILLED.
The names OF the horses killed are;
Little Prince, and u 2-year-old in the
same car Ben Ridssly, Patue Park
Egypt, Lie, Spring Dave and Turner,
The mare Huntress was badly injured
and is expected to die.
Riley WAS Nor KILLED,
CHICAGO, June 0.-Tho report was cur.
rent here that the great race horse Riley,
the winner Of tho Kentucky Derby, died
in the Wabash railroad accident near st.
Louis to-day. Inquiry here shows that
the report is untrue. Riley was not on
the train. Huntress was badly cut and
iammed. Six of Murray kellar horses
In the same car were killed.