Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-10-30
ANOTHER BAD WRECK.

A Had Wreck 10 santa Fe assengel
Train Many Passengers injured Hui
None Killed One May Possibly Die.
TOPEKA. Kan, Oct 25.-The Denver
vostibule express on the Atchison, To.
pela 4 Santa Fe road which left Kan,
sas c. ty at i0:s5 o'clock yesterday morn.
ing, Jumped the track ON the reverse
curve at Wakarusa at 1880 In the after
noon while the train was running fifty
miles an hour and the most disastrous
wreck which the Santa Fe has had for
years was the result
Twenty-Five passengers were severely
injured and one OF them, Mrs. Kate
o'Connell, OF Chicago, will probably
die.
For distance Of more than 400 feet
the track was entirely torn up The
three rear coaches were turned on their
sides The engine and tender broke
loose from the baggage car. and the lat
ter turned diagonally across the track.
The express car was thrown at right
angles from the track and did not
touch the roadbed at any point 1t was
turned bottom do up The smoker
and second class car we're left standing
straight but twisted themselves at a
complete right angle to the track The
day coach was thrown TO the opposite
side OF the track from the smoker and
laid on its SIDE The char car Pull
man and tourists cars remained coupled
together. From tho engine, which
alone remained on the track, 10 the
mail car II was a distance Of 1870 feet
The passengers were thrown together
into a confused mass OF humanity
which makes 1t all the more remarkable
that no immediate deaths resulted.
As soon as the passengers who we're
uninjured could scramble from the
windows of the cars the wounded we're
taken out and cared for.
The list Of tue more SO yerely injured
is as follows:
Ham Lindsay. Topeka, broken jaw
and badly bruised.
Kate C. 0'Connell, Z Forty-seventh
street Chicago, head cut and back in.
jured.
Mrs. W. C Peaslee, Telluride, Col,
teeth knocked out and slight bodily in
juries
Mrs E. NJ. Peaslee, Telluride, Col,
severe scalp wounds.
Mrs. George Toroy, Fresno, Cal, back
bruised and badly shaken up
Mrs Jane MacFarland, Carroll Hill,
o., bruised about the body
S Sylvester Milton, Col, knee badly
bruised.
C f. harrington, Lisbon, Ill, slo-
Gated collar bone.
j. J. Buckley, rear brakeman, severely
bruised.
w Il, Jones, mail agent Kansas City,
injured internally but will recover
j. W. Fadely mail agent Kansas
City, bruised.
Harry Stone, mail agent, Kansas City,
bruises about the head.
f. l. Terry, express messenger Kan
sas City, injured in the spine.
i j. johnson, Kansas City, baggage
agent legs slightly mashed.
Miss Mcfarland, severely shocked,
producing nervous prostration.
Miss Elizabeth Stitch, Switzerland,
head badly cut
MIA IdbcLJe Dlleult NWALLtFlanu,
shoulder badly spraincd
Mrs. w. ]. Mcclure, Kansas City, arm
bruised
Mrs. l.. L. White, Oakland, Cal, arm
cut and severe bodily confusion.
There were probably a dozen more
passengers who received severe shocks
and slight bruises but none OF them
were seriously enough injured to re-
quire particular attention from the ply
5 clans
Tho people from tho little town OF
WakarSsa turned out en- masse to assist
the wounded, Coffee and lunches wero
prepared and every thing possible done
TO relieve the suffering.
Railroad men declare that had the
train not been yestibuled at least half
OF the l50 passengers would have been
killed, as the cars would have telescoped
beyond doubt