The morning call., 1890-06-10
SEVEN LIVES LOST.
A Telegraph Operators Terrible
Mistake.
Freight Trains Collide on The Wabash
Road in Missouri
The Killed and Injured Fully Identified.
4 Number Of Valuable Race
Horses Perish.
Special Dispatches to THE MORNING CALL.

ST. LOUIS, June "a very serious rail-
road wreck is reported from WarrentOwn,
No, sixty-one miles west from here, on the
Wabash road. Two freight trains collided
just outside Warrentown this morning
Both engines and eighteen cars were
wrecked. Seven men were killed and sew
eral wounded. OF eight palace hOrse-cars,
laden with race-horses, en- route for the
Kansas City races, two were wrecked, and
the seven men in charge of the horses are
reported to have been killed. together with
seventeen of the horses. The accident was
the result of an error of the operator of
Montgomery, who made the time read
forty-fve minutes more than it should have
read.
The two powerful engines came together
with terrific crash, rearing up and tearing
each other'to fragments, and leaving moth
ing but the solid parts of the great ma
chimes intact, and crushing them out Of all
resemblance. The escape from death of
the engineer and firemen Of the respective
trains was almost miraculous.
All the train men are said to have acted
bravely and with good judgment, doing all
they could to avert the disaster, and no
blame seems to attach to any one in charge,
save the unfortunate operator at Mont
gomery, who is said to have been driven
almost insane by his fatal error.
The scene at the wreck was terrible.
Cars and engines were intermingled in one
huge mass of debris, from under which
came screams of the wounded and dying,
some cursing and begging to be
killed and others praying for help.
negro boy was scalded and
literally cooked alive and one eolored
jockey was buried under shelled corn, from
which position il took several men three
hours to eXtricate him. A force of men
worked from . o'clock A. NJ. until o'clock
rescung unfortunates, and had it not been
for the steady rain the loss of life would
have been much greater as the wreckage
would have caught fire. There were In all
eight bodies taken out, four whites
and four negroes, and twenty-five wounded,
OF Which one or two may die. The eighth
body is that Of Frank Morton of New
York. Both the engines are complete
wrecks.
1t is impossible to find out how many
horses were killed. as there are a great
many still under the wreck. There were
seventy in all on the tram. The names of
the horses known to be killed are: Little
Prince and twO-year-0ld in the same Car,
Ben Ridgeley, Hattie Park, Egypt, Lige /,
Sgring Dave and Turner. The mare Hunt
TeSS Is expected to die.
Relief trains having surgeons on board
have been dispatched to the scene of the
accident. The accident is the most costly
in property that the Wabash ever had. 1t
is reported that Tom Kiley. the Chicago
Jockey, is among the killed. Huntress of
the Chicago stables was badly cut and
lammed, and six Of Murray kellar's horses,
IN the same car We're killed.
Following are the killed:
WILLIAM II. THOMAS, Cynthiana, Kv.
HENRY STONE, trainer, Harrodsburg, KY.
JAMES KELLEY, Chicago.
FRANK KELLEY. Chicago.
Z ED SIMMONS. h0stler Lexington.
MORRIS GREEN (cOlOred). Fra kfort, Ky.
SAMUEL DAVIS, jockey, Lexington, KY.
The following are among the injured;
Engineer Shiyelly, rib broken; William
Taylor, colOred trainer, Covington, KY,
arm broken; Lewis Thomson, colOred, Har-
rJdsburg, KY, bone Of one foot fractured,
Lee Parsons, Wabash locomotive fireman,
eOllaT-bone broken; J. E. Norton, brake
man, severely Bruised Louis Augustus,
coiored, Harrodsburg. KY, left thigh frac-
tured; George Hurley, cOlOred, Cynthiana,
KY. arm and leg broken; Lee Brown,
Louisville. arm cut and back bruised; Mer-
Titt Johnson, coloTed, st. Louis, arm broken
Several others received minor cuts and
bruises.
Riley, R0bespierre and other horses of al
most priceless value are reported killed.