St. Paul daily globe., 1890-06-10
AN ERROR IN ORDERS.
1t Causes a Terribly Fatal
Collision on the Wa
bash.
Eight Persons Killed Out
right, and Twenty-Five
Others Injured.
Valuable Race Horses Ground
to a Pulp Under the
Wheels.
Columbus City Officials in
Cahoots With Striking
Railway Men.

WARRENTON, MO-, June SAT ABOUT
1:25 o'clock this morning Train No. 26,
Engine No. 3SS, on the Wabash. collided
half mile west of Warrenton with a
train being run as second section of No.
5. One of the trains had eight palace
horse Gals loaded with race horses en-
route from Cincinnati to Kansas City.
The accident was caused by an error in
train orders. The second section of
Train No. had orders to run two hours
and five minutes late, and the order
delivered to No. 26 by the oper-
atOr at Montgomery read two hours and
fifty minutes late. Eight men in charge
of the race horses were killed. and sew
eral others were injured. Engineer
Shovelle had, a rib broken. Fireman
Lee Parson had a collar bone broken.
Fireman Brown was seriously injured
about the legs. Brakeman Norton was
slightly injured. No other trainmen
were injured. Engine No. 341 and two
palace horse cars of the second section
of Train No. 5, and Engine No. 3SS and
sixteen cars of Train No. 26 were badly
wrecked. Fifteen race horses were
killed. The company's surgeons at
MoberIy, Montgomery and Warrenton
went to the scene of the accident. The
following are the casualties:
KILLED.
WILLIAM Fl. THOMAS, Cynthiana, Ky.
HENRY STONE, trainer Harrodsburg, KY.
JAMES KELLEY, Chicago.
FRANK KELLEY, Chicago.
ED SIMMONS, hostler, Lexington.
MORRIS GREEN, colored, Frankfort, Ky.
SAMUEL DAVIS, jockey, Lexington, KY.
FRANK MORTON, 529 North Eighth
street, New York.
WILLIAM TAYLOR, colored, trainer, Gov
ington, KY, arm broken.
LOUIS AUGUSTUS, colored, Harrodsburg,
KY, left thigh broken.
GEORGE HURLEY, colored, Cynthiana, Ky.
LEE Brown, Louisville, arm broken.
MERRITT JOHNSON, colored, st. Louis, arm
broken.
Engineer SHovELLE, rib broken.
LEE PARSONS, fireman, collar bone broken.
Foreman BROWN, legs mangled.
Brakeman HORTON. chest injured.
WILLIAM TELLER, colored, Covington, KY,
trainer for Kelly, severely scalded and right
arm broken.
LEWIS THOMPSON, colored, Harrodsb urg,
KY, fractured bone in foot.
GEORGE WOODS, colored, New Orleans,
rider, bruised.
WILLIAM THOMAS, colored, Lagrange, KY,
face and leg bruised.
P. H. SHAW, Harrodsburg, KY. cut and
bruised.
ARTHUR ALLEN Tabia, Neb., cut and
bruised, leg and back.
THOMAS M. MULLIGAN, Chicago, trainer,
head cut.
WILLIAM ADAMS, Memphis, bruised.
WILLIYM CAMPBELL, Chicago, bruised.
LLOYD BAKER, colored, Frankfort, Ky., back
bruised.
FRANK G1vENsoN, colored, Covington, KY,
head and neck cut
JOHN H. WASHINGTON, colored, Spring
Station. KY, back bruised.
Additional particulars of the wreck
received here late tonight are as fol-
lows: The scene at the wreck was
terrible one. Cars and engines were
intermingled in one huge mass of debris,
from under which came screams of
wounded and dying, some curSing and
begging to be killed, while others were
praying for help. In one of the cars
next to the engine was most pitiable
sight The sides had been crushed.
and the roof was resting in an inclining
position across the bed of James
Keller and his son Frank. They were
lying on their pillows just as they re-
tired. and never knew what hurt them,
although they were horrible crushed.
About two feet from them was an
imprisoned negro who was alive, bnt
had a leg and arm fast under the
wreckage. In the same car two other
negroes were found, while a little
farther OH we're found one negro boy,
having been scalded and literally cooked
alive, and a colored jockey buried un-
der car of shelled corn from which
position it took several men three
hours to extricate him. A force of men
worked from 2 a. m. until z resculng
the unfortunates from just such posi-
tions as the above. and had it not been
for steady rain the loss Of life would
have been much greater, as the wreck
age would have caught on fire.
There were in all eight dead
taken out, four whites and four
negroes. and twenty-five wounded.
The eighth body is that of Frank Nor
ton, 52S North FOrty-fifth street, New
York. 1t is impossible to find out how
many horses are Killed. as there are
great many still under the wreck. 1t
has been estimated that the loss to the
company will be 100000. Nine horses
have been found so far that are killed,
while a great many more are badly
wounded. There were seventy on board.
The names of the horses killed are:
Little Prince and two-year-Old in the
same car (no name), Ben Ridgeley, Matt
Park, Egypt. Lige P. Springdaye and
Turner. The mare Huntress is badly
injured internally and is expected to
die. Several horses that sustained
severe bruises and cuts have been sent
to Kansas City with the rest of the
horses that were not injured.
BORDERED ON A RIOT.
Columbus Street Car Employees