Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-27
THEY MET HEAD ON.
THE COLLISION ON THE BEL
KNAPP STREET CROSSING.
The Katy in the Hole to the Extent of
Three Thousand Dollars-Seven Steers
kiIed-How it Occurred.

About o'clock yesterday afternoon
a head-end collision occurred on
the joint track at the Beknap
street crossing between two Missouri,
Kansas and Texas trains. The north-bound
regular freight was pulling out down the
hin drawn by engine No. 1872, Rogers mo-
gul. A water train drawn by engine 10
of the standard type, eight wheeler, was
coming north. The reg ular train was run
ming for Hodge, having no
orders or any knowledge of
the water train being on the road.
The engines came together with consid
cradle force. smashing the pilots, breast
plates and headlights. Engine 1872 had
tendency to climb into the air,
her leading drivers riding her truck
wheels. Her pilot beam knocked the steam
chest off the left side of engine 10. leaving
the slide valve exposed. Neither sad
die on either engine was injured
and the cylinders were unhurt, except on
the right side Of engine 1872, where the cyl
inder head was fractured. Her tender was
not derailed, though the tank was knocked
partially off, and the rear end stove in by
the cars crashing into it. Neither engine
lost the track, though engine 10 exhibited
splitting her jacket on each side of the sand
box and knocking the tagging loose. The
end of her tender was in the air
and the trucks punched underneath.
In the hind end of the tank a large
hole, the size Of water bucket, was
punched through the plates. The
gearing of neither machine was seriously
injured, the links and eccentrics
being uninjured, though one of the feed
pipes on engine 10 was broken. The force of
the collision was not sufficient to tear up the
track, though they struck with considerable
force. Both engines We're equipped with
air and driver brakes, and it was apparent
both engineers turned on the air brake be-
fore leaping.
Engine 10 was pulling water train and
the tanks on the two cars following the en-
CINE were full of water, the tank next to
the engine having sprung leak
from the force of the collision.
The drawhead in the rear of the second car
pulled out and the remainder of the train
ran back down the hill into the Trinity bot
tom and stopped by the old race track.
Engine 1873 was pulling the regular freight
and had two empty coal flats next the en-
CINE. The forward one of these was thrown
to the east on the outside of the
curve, turned bottom upward and one end
crashed through the wall Of small
house near the track. The other fat
track. Next the fiat cars was
q stable car loaded with cattle, five of
which were killed and two so badly injured
it was necessary to kill them.
Superintendent PoIhemus OF the joint
track got out the Texas and Pacific
derrick car and had the wreck
cleared by 9 o'clock last night.
The incoming and outgoing trains used
the Denver track between this city and
Hodge. The damage will be about $1,000.
The responsibility for the wreck is not
known, though it is said the water train
crew had no rights and were endeavoring
to make the Fort Worth yards against the
regular. The engineers Of both engines
escaped by jumping.