The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-06-17
HORSES AND MEN KILLED.
A Disastrous Wreck on the Wa
bash Railway Near Warren
ton, Mo-,
Eight Persons Killed and Twenty
Six Iniured-Eight Herses
Killed and Seven Injured.

Warrenton, Mo, June ga speciaI
train OF p lice horse cars loaded with rae.
ing stock bound IRON Latonia to Kansa,
City, and freight train moving east col.
lided on the Wabash railroad, one mile
east Of warrenton, at 1:25 this morning
The wreck was a complete one, as both
trains were moving at full speed. Eight
men were killed, and twenty-five badly In.
jared. The list of casualties is as follows
KILLED.
VIM. ii. Thomas, colored boy, Cynthi-
ana, Ky.
Henry Stone. trainer, Harrodsburg, KY
James Kelley, Chicago, LII.
Frank Kelley. Chicago, Ill.
Ed Simmons, hostler, Lexington, Ky.
Morris Green, colored, Frankfort, Ky.
Samuel Davis, rider, Lexington, KY.
Frank Morton, tramp, 52S North Forty
fifth street, New York.
William Teller, colored, Covington, Ky =,
trainer for Kelly; severely scslded and
right arm broken.
Lewis Thompson, colored, Harrodsburg,
KY, fractured 10 foot.
George Woods, colored, New Orleans,
rider bruised.
Lee Parsons, WABASH locomotive fire.
man; collar-bone broken and hip bruised.
p. III. SheuelI, Wabash engineer; con.
fusion to right side and shoulder.
j. E. Norton, brakeman side, arm and
stomach bruised.
VIM. Thomas, colored, La Grande, KY,
face and leg bruised.
p. III. Shaw, Harrodsburg, KY. cut and
bruised.
Arthur Allen, Tabia Neb.; cut and bruised
in leg and back.
Thos. McMulligan,' Chicago, trainer {:
head cut.
VIM. Adams, Memphis, Tenn. bruised.
VIM. Campbell, Chicago bruised.
Lewis Augustus, colored, Harro dsburg,
KY. left thigh fractured.
Lloyd Baxter, colored, Frankfort, KY. !;
back bruised.
Frank Givenson, colored, Covington,
BY. head and neck cut.
John Fl. Washington colored, Spring
Station, KY. back bruised.
NJ. Smith, colored, Cynihiana, KY. arm
and Leg broken and head bruised.
Michael Jenkins, Harrodsburgh, KY. !;
FACE, leg and nose bruised.
r. Collision, colorsd head cut and
bruised.
L. A. Brown. Louisville, KY; cheek,
arm and back cut.
Merritt johnson, colored, st. Louis, EN-.
ploye Of s. Morgas (; left arm broken.
Four others were slightly injured.
OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION.
The official notification telegraphed to
the Wabash com psny from their agent at
Moberly stated that at about lbs O'Clock
this morning train No. 81, engine No. 3SS,
Holland, conductor, collided ene-half mile
west of Warrenton with the train being
r1n as the second section of No. 5, Cope
land, conductor, and Schalley, engineer.
One of the trains had on eight palace
horse cars loaded with race horses fsr
Kansas City. The accident was caused by
errors in train orders. The second section
of train No. had orders to run two hours
and FIVE minutes late, and the order de-
livered to No. % by the operator at Mont
gomery cad two hours and fifty minutes
late, in rror. Seven men in charge of the
race hor.es were killed, and possibly more,
and several injured. &
Eight of the horses in the palace cars
were killed and seven were seriously in
jured. 1t vas reported that Huntress and
Hindoocraft were killed. The losses on
the freight train included the killing of
l4l hogs, and two cars of dressed beef are a
total loss. Eight cars of corn on the east
bound train were also wrecked, and their
cargo scattered so widely that but little Of
the grain can be saved.
Among the vell-known turfmen who
had horses on the west-bound train are
Ed Corrigan, of Kansas City, and Hsnkins
Bros, of Chicago.
Wise Act.