Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-14

Many valuable Race Horses-Two Othsr
Wrecks.
ST. Louis. June 1O.-At les yester-
day morning q palace horse car train,
composed of eight cars loaded with val
liable race horses bound for Kansas City.
came in collision with freight train No.
10 on the Wabash, Mt point one-hAlf Of
mile west Of Warrenton, Mo. Tho
trains were running ut full speed and
came together with an awful crash with
fearful result. The accident was the
result Of telegraph operators error in
train orders, made by the operator at
Montgomery. The special horse train
had orders to run two hours and five
minutes late and the order delivered to
Conductor Holland and Engineer Shivel
Of train No. 9, held by the operator at
Montgomery, read that the special was
to run two hours and fifty minutes late.
The fatal error was that the operator
mistook five for fifty and handed the
death warrant Of at least seven men to
the tra!nmen in charge of the freight
train, which dashed into and demol-
ished the special horse train at point
near Warrenton. The two powerful
freight engines came together with \
terrific crash, rearing up and tearing
each other to fragments, leaving moth
ing but the solid part Of the great ma
chimes intact and crushing them out Of
all resemblance of locomotives, both en-
gines being pronounced almost total
wrecks.
In addition to the demolished engines
two palace horse cars and sixteen freight
cars we're badly wrecked and the money
loss will be very heavy. Following Is
an official list Of the killed and injured:
Killed-William H. Thomas, colored
boy. Cynthiana, KY; Henry Stone,
trainer, Harrodsburg, KY; James Kel-
ley, Chicago, H.; Ed. Simmons, hostler,
Lexington, KY; Morris Green, colored.
Frankfort, KY; Sam Davis rider, Lex
ington, KY.
Seventeen valuable race horses were
killed.
In one of the cars next to the engine
was most pitiable sight. The sides
had been crushed and the roof was rest
ing in an inclined position across the
bed of James Kellar and his SON, Frank
Kellar. They were lying on their
pillows just as they retired, and never
knew what hurt them, although they
were horribly crushed. About two feet
from them was al imprisoned negro,
who was alive, but had leg and arm
fast under the wreckage. In the same
car two other dead negroes were found,
while little farther on were found
little negro boy, who had been scalded
and literally cooked alive, and one
colored jockey buried under car Of
shelled corn, from which position it took
several workmen three hours to extricate
him.
There were in all eight dead taken
out, four whites and four negroes, and
twenty-five wounded.
The stable most affected by the wreck
was that of F. ]. Kellar, of Cynthiana,
KY. 1t occupied the car next to the en-
CINE and Kellar and his young SON, who
were sleeping in the front end, were
killed instantly. After the debris had
been cleared away their bodies were
found within few feet Of each other.
the heads of father and son lying on the
same pillow. They had five horses and
every one Of them was killed outright.
The stable Of Jack Chinn was almost
wiped out Of existence. Itoccupied the
second car that was demolished, and il
is wonder that every one of the horses
was not killed outright. As it was
Ganges, Little Prince, st. Bridget Ok
lahoma and Leo never walked after the
Car they were in left the track. The
stablemen were able to take Mary Nc
Gowan and the fast flly Josie NJ. to .
livery stable at Warrenton, but they
were so seriously injured that they
will never race again.
FATAL WRECK NEAR HANNIBAL
HANNIBAL. NO., June 10.-An error
Of train Dispatcher Davidson. of the
St Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern rail-
road, resulted in bringing construc-
ton ira n in collision with freight on
curve twelve miles south of this city
yesterday morning about four o'clock.
Twelve cars were wrecked.
Fireman Arthur Thayer was almost
instantly killed. He was found dead
between the boiler head Of his engine
and the tender, having been burned and
scalded by escaping steam.
/ Fireman Berry Nelson was found
wedged between the boiler and cab Of
his engine with boiling water pouring
over him from q hole in the boiler. The
special train, which left here as soon as
the news of the collision was received.
conveyed him to this city, where he died
about nine o'clock.
WRECK IN KANSAS.
ScOrr CITY, Kan, juno 10.-AbOut
1880 o'clock yesterday morning. As the
Denver Missouri Pacific passenger train
stopped ct the tank for water. an engine
and caboose came laundering along at \