Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-11-22
SERIOUS WRECKS.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Nov. H. Freight
train No 104 OF the Kansas City. Wyan-
dotte & Northwestern railway. due here
mt 0:e5 o'clock this morning. lies ut the
ACTION of the Kaw river.
At 0:l5 this morning the train arrived
ct the Garrett street station, Kansas
City, Kan, and pulled out for the Wood
street station on this side OF the river.
In crossing the bridge ut the mouth Of
the Kaw. the iron beams under the
track OF the middle span suddenly gave
way and the engine and Ave cars went
down into the river.
The train was moving at tho rate of
i've miles an hour and the engine
had almost reached the south end OF
the middle span when the accident oc-
Cured.
Aboard the engine were Engineer
Christian Patch, Fireman Fred Allen
and Head Brakeman Thomas Muligan.
water. thirty-one feet below the bridge.
and on top OF 1t piled q carload OF hogs,
q car OF milling machinery and the ca
boose
The depth OF the water is fifteen feet
with at least FIVE feet OF soft mud at tho
bottom.
In the caboose we're Conductor Pick
ney Herod, Brakeman D. I. Whit!atch
and s v. Smith; stockman of Latham.
Kan. and owner of the carload OF hogs
and the car Of mill machinery.
The only portion of the train that is
visible above the surface Of the water
ls part OF one OF the driving wheels Of
che engine and little of the boiler;
one end OF tho car Of corn and the great
or part OF the caboose, which stands on
end, resting on the carload OF hogs.
The carload Of machinery and the
car Of hogs were buried under the sur
face OF the water ut least three feet
There were sixty hogs in the car. all OF
which were drowned but two
II. Coleman. L. Latimore and dozen
ether colored men, employed in Ar
mour's packing house, were aboard the
box cars talking free ride across the
river to GO to work. Latimore, few
minutes after the accident, was rescued.
Moore's dead body was taken from the
bottom of the river four hours later
Engineer Patch, Fireman Allen and
Brakeman Mulligan went to the bottom
OF the river with the engine. The first
and last had an almost miraculous es-
cape from death. while the body Of AL
Den yet lies beneath the wreck. Patch
and Mulligan crawled out of the engine
cab and we're standing on the engine in
water waist deep when picked up by
John Taylor and Daniel Young, en-
ployes of the Kansas City Waterworks
Company. who FASTENED from the water
works plant near by and reached the
wreck with boat
There is difference Of opinion as to
how the acc dent occurred. The train
men claim that the bridge suddenly
gave way. General Manager Summer
deld and Trainmaster johnson give it
as their opinion that the engine or
some Of the cars first left the track and
that some of the ties were showed of |
the beams.
The injured are:
Christian Patch. engineer, 2O4O North
Third street. Kansas City, Kan, cuts
and bruises on left leg. jaw fractured
and cut across forehead.
Thomas Mulligan, head brakeman,
Lawrence, Kan, bruises about body
and legs; cut across forehead.
s. v. Smith, Latham, Kan, stock
man, badly bruised about the body and
legs.
L. baltimore, colored, Kansas City,
Kan, three ribs broken.
Pinckney Herod. conductor, Kansas
City, Kan. slightly bruised.
d. T. Whitlatch, brakeman, Kansas
City, Kan, slightly bruised.
TEXAS WRECK.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Nov 1S-0wing
TO Misunderstanding OF train dis
patchers' orders disastrous wreck oc-
CURED on the International & Great
Northern railroad thirty miles north Of
6his city. The engine of the pay car.
which was running at the rate of fifty
miles an hour, dashed into the rear Of
the south bound passenger train as the
latter was in the act of taking the side
GrAck az hyle. Inc Two rear coacheS
were completely demolished and thrown
upside down In the ditch.
There were thirty-two passengers Sc.
riously injured, the following named
probably fatally:
George Warner real estate agent
Austin. skull fractured.
Judge W. ID. Wood, San Marcos, Tex,
head badly cut and internal injuries
w. z LewiA commercial traveller,
Chicago. head cut and internal injuries.
z. F. johnson, merchant San An
tonic cut in head and badly bruised
Mrs Murdy, actress New York, fatal
u injured internally.
Norman Hopkins San Marcos arms
broken. badly bruised
w r Seincask, Austin, seriously cut