The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-09-23
Twenty-Four Persons Injured Ac.
cOrdiDg to Late Reports.
Detailed Account of the Wreck
Disposition of the Wounded
Scenes and Incidents
About Glencoe Station
Yesterday.

hundred or more citizens of GleEcoe
Mo spent al! day yesterday at III,
scene of the disastrous wreck of Satur
day night on the Missouri Pacif,
Railway at Glencoe Switch. Non,
had recovered from the excitement O.
the night before, when another horror
was added to the list of casualties
which have marked this point as 6
place to be dreaded by railroadmen
The nnmha- nf wnn ndad is almns,
limited to the passenger list Of the
Pullman sleeper Dosage" Every one
of the tweniy-four occupants of thi.
coach received more or less injuries.
Of this number Mrs. DAILY, of Leban
on, Ind, aud an old, stout gentleman,
who left for Kansas City, ARE the most
ser ously hurt. Several of The psssen.
gers in tie sleeper "Havana" were
roughly used. A cash on the head
received by one Of the passengers is
the most slrious of the number.
The ili-fated train was No. ). the
Kansas City through express, which
left the St. Louis Union Depot shout
8 o'clock. Conductor King and Eu-
gineer jackson had charge of the
train, which consisted of ten coaches.
including one baggage car, one NAL
Car, five passenger coaches, two sleep
ers and a chair car.
THE WRECK.
As the train rounded the curve
lea ding t. Giencle, Few frog which
had been laid 1t the JUNCTION with the
switch leadiI g to the Glencoe lime and
cement works caused the cerailment
of the Iear truck of the "Havana."
The CIR swerved to the west after
crashing into the chair car Nemsha,
and after running over the ties for a
hundred feet, broke Its coup ings and
bounded into an 1S-f0t cut, landing
In sOuthe,s ern To northwestern pO-
sition. The 'Os re" was tie third car
from the Fear. 1t troke It's couplings
and fell into the ravine, making three
complete sOmersaults in the descent.
The coach struck a trestle which con-
in return sust,ined a shattered root
end-piece. The Usage" crashed TO
The earth. Its vestibnle platforms
extending southwest and northeast.
The "Nemaha" kept to the rails and
finally stopped opposite Glencoe sta
ton, about 100 yards to the southwest.
The first section of seven cars contiu-
ued onward fer several hundred yards,
the engineers attention only being at
tracted by the swapping of the bell
cord. The darkness was intense ami
the screams of dozens of frighteni
women aud the smOthere1 moaus OF
others made the affair a sickenirg
one.
THE WORK OF RESCUE.
The heavy pla'e-glass windows of
the sleepers were with difficulty bro
ken by those endeavoriug to free
themselves, and the few who were
able to extricate themselves from the
debris Immediately set to work liberia.
ting the less fortunate. One bystand.
er tried to break, window with a
plank but was unsuccessful. The
Dosage" had five windows ON the
south side broken, which were the
only means of egress for the impris-
oned ones.
Postmaster Lappert was the first
citizen of Glencoe to arrive on the
scene, and he brought with him q
lantern which at first furnished the
only light about the place of ruin.
i1IIah Fry auu Oiner UieucUe pvC'
pie followed quickly. Reinforce
ments also came from the first section
of the train. Comforts, pillows and
quilts were thrown out of the windows
to serve as cushion from the ground
to the height of the windows. As the
doors were damned tightly it wa
necessary to lift the victims out one
by one through the narrow window
opening. No soonnr had a human
being been brought forth to the oper
air than he was laid tenderly on the
underbrush.
PINIoNED AND IMPRISONED.
i Quite a number of the passenger
were pinned down by the upper berth
| whose supporting chains had beer
/ rent asunder. The heavy weight o.
, these panels and the partitions which
1 had been loosened pinioned numbe
E of unfortunates until they were almos
lifeless. Mrs. DAILY, ofLebanon, Ind.
B was held fast by beams and rods
1 which pressed against her waist an'
: inflicted internal injuries. A stou
!, gentleman about seventy years oil
{ was bruised and gashed, and from