Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-10-25
A DAY OF WRECKS.
Three Serious Railroad Acct.
dents Reported.
A FATAL ONE IN ALABAMA.
Terrible Collislon In q Tunnel on tho Gin
cinnnu Southern : Collision ON tho
Union Pacific Near Kansas
City.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Oct 23-There
was very serious wreck on tho Kansas
City, Memphis G. birmingham railway
at Thomas furnace. throe miles west OF
this city, at $3.50 o'clock last night
1t is thought that four or five dead
persons are buried under the wreckage
The wrecked passenger train left here
ut nine o'clock last night, west bound,
leaving the sleeper and tho conductor
in the station. Discover. that fact
six miles out OF town, the engineer be-
gan backing into Birmingham. At
Thomas furnace the backing train met
an outgoing freight and there was o
terrible collision
Several passengers in the rear coach
were killed and q number wounded.
Those wounded have been brought to
Birmingham and are at various hotelR
COLLISION IN A TUNNEL
CINCINNATI, Oct GA fearful col
lision occurred at 4:40 o'clock this morn
ing on the Cincinnati Southern railway,
in tunnel, near Sloan's Valley station.
The killed are: Fireman Gould, Fire
man WEIGH, brakeman John T. Mont
gomery, Messenger Edward Ruffner
and o mail agent, name unknown. J.
+. Gayle and c. F. Doegan were run
ming as mail agents on this train and
one of them is killed.
Ed Ruffner. messenger OF the United
States Express Company, who was killed.
is married man, living at Bon Hill,
near this city.
The burning of the trains in the tun-
mel renders it impossible to clear the
track as readily as it could be done in
open ground, the smoke and heat pre-
venting men from entering. Transfers
will be made until the tunnel can be
cleared.
The trains were freight No 90, north
bound, and passenger No. 5, southbound.
No. leaves Cincinnati at $50 p m.
Another passenger train leaves Cincin-
natl an hour earlier. Both Of these
were held at Somerset KY, two hours
or more, on account OF q freight wreck
which occurred south Of that place last
night When the track was clear the
foremost Cincinnati train started ont
from Somerset first and met and passed
safely northb bound train. When at q
safe distance behind it the fated No
started out
Freight train No 90, north-bound,
was side-tracked at Sloan's valley.
When the first Cincinnati train passed
south the crew Of the freight appear to
have overlooked the fact that No. 8 was
TO follow, and they pulled out and
started northward.
Less than quarter OF mile away
they encountered tunnel which is one
sixth Of mile long. In the most hope
less place that trainmen ever met death,
the engines Of the two trains dashed
into each other and the cars following
damned into each other in q mass
Then came the added horror of con-
fagration. No description Of the scenes
has yet been made; only the bare re-
suits have been telegraphed to the Of
ficials of the road hero.
Young Mr.. Payne, commercial
traveller for the firm of Pierson & Clark,
Lexington, KY, had both legs crushed
and has since died
WRECK NEAR KANSAS CITY.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Oct GA disas-
trous wreck occurred this morning at
7:2O o'clock on the Union Pacific rail-
road, 100 yards west Of the Rock Island
junction, and mile and half west of
tho Armourdale station, in Kansas.
A dozen passengers and railroad men
were more or less badly injured and one
or two fatally. The loss of property 10
estimated at $50, 900.
The Union Pacific train was twenty
minutes late and was closely followed
by Rock Island passenger train No. 224
from Caldwell, Kan, which was also
few minutes late. This train is due at
the junction at seven o'clock, just ten
minutes later than the time Of the
Union Pacific.
The engineer OF the latter train when
he struck the torpedoes Immediately
slowed down to a speed OF four miles an
hour. The fog was so dense that he
could see only few feet ahead OF his
engine. Conductor Spencer Humphrey,
as soon as his train slackened its speed,
Immediately ordered the porter back to
flag the Rock Island, but the porter had
hardly reached the ground before the
Rock Island ran into the rear OF the
Union Pacific, completely wrecking the
Pullman car "Wathena" and the two
chair cars ahead.
The Rock Island train suffered even
worse. for the engine, as it plowed
through the Pullman, was completely
stripped OF every thing, nothing but the
boiler and wheels being together
These. slngularly enough, remained on
the track. while the cab, parts of the
whistle and sand box we're thrown sew
eral hundred feet in the dir and landed