The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-05-27
WRECK.
Fuller Reports Of the One on the
Cotton Belt. N
WORSE THAN STATED At FIRST.
Nine Persons Dead-A List of the Killed
and Wounded-Said TO Have Been the
Most Costly and Disastrous Railroad
Accident Ever In Arkansas.

PINE BLUFF, Ark. May 23.-The lis
of the victims of the terrible wrecl
which occurred on the Southwestern
Friday night near Goldman has in
creased to nine dead so far recovered
| The railway officials secured tht
United States steamer Wichita to gC
down the river to the bridge at Rob
roy and bring up the dead To this city
as trains cannot come to this city or
account of high water. The boat has
arrived with seven victims of the wreck
one of them having been found after
the dead, as officially given, are as fol
| lows:
Mrs. Octave Anderson. Amarillo
| Tex; William Christal, Denton. Tex
j. I, Sanderson, Pierce City, Mo; Mrs
r. b. Clark, Winchester, Tenn; L d
Crompton, Nashville; Mrs. E. A. NJ
! Henson, Fisher, Ark; Mrs. Hudgins, Of
Alabama. en- route to Fort Worth, Tex
James Morgan. Memphis, Tenn; Frank
! Nichols. fireman of the freight.
The names of wounded so far as car
be learned are: Ii. S. JacSman, Green
vile, Tex, slight; n. II. Turner. Wolfe
City, Tex. slight: c. NJ. Swami. Kansas
City, Mo. hand mashed; j. Il. Richard
son, Temple. Tex. slight; w. b. Diver,
Loclett. Tex, bruised; A. b. Brook,
Cisco, Tex, badly bruised; NJ. l.. Davis,
Waco, Tex, seriously bruised; j. Ii.
Runnell, telegra ph operator. Texarllana,
Tex, bruised; Miller Donaldson. Pine
Bluff, Ark, slight; George Harris, col
ored, Pine Bluff, Ark, hurt in chest; j.
NJ. Zachry, Pine Bluff, badly bruised;
L. II. Spelling, jefferson. Tex. slightly
bruised; William McCabe, Pacific ex-
press messenger, slightly bruised: Will
lam Graham, Cardena, Tex. slightly
bruised; viii Ray, Pullman conductor,
hand hurt; Ii. Grossen, Pine Bluff, Ark,
badly bruised: H. b. Fields, passenger
conductor. badly cut about the head;
James O. Peterson, passenger engineer,
badly bruised; j. ii. Osborne, general
foreman at car shops at this place, by
breaking window while trying to get
out of sleeper, badly cut; j. Jones, col
ored, porter on Pullman, slight
The dead will be embalmed and placed
in metallic baskets and forwarded to
relatives as soon as possible. There
was a passenger on the train Ivy the
name of Paul Dobbius. of jefferson,
Tex. His hat was found in the stream.
and it is not known whether he was
killed or not
The company had divers at work in
the i'll fated Pullman. and now think
that they have recovered all of the dead
from it, and that no more will be found.
AT WHITE CH1RCH. KAN.
KANSAS CRY, Mo-, May GA head
end collision between the north bound
Beatrice express train and the south
bound Leavenworth rapid transit train
and the south bound LeavcnwOrth
rapid transit train occurred at White
Church. Kan, on the Kansas City,
Wyandotte & Northwestern road.
at s o'clock Saturday morning Fire
man Al Meyers of the express
train jumped and fractured three
ribs in his fall Both engineers and the
fireman of the other train stayed in the
cab and were uniniurcd. The passen-
gers WERE DdttIy Snahen up MIS-. Naln-
uel Mellow, who lives in the western
part of Wyandotte county. Kan, was
thrown forward against the back of
seat, bruising her face badly.
NEAR GREENvILLE, ILL.
ST. Louis. May ga light eastbound
Jacksonville-Southea engine, in
charge of Conductor Smith, collided
with a westbound passenger train on
the Vandalia road five miles west of
Greenville. Ill, early this morning.
Both engines and the baggage car
of the passenger train were wrecked
and the first passenger coach considera-
bly, damaged. The crews of both en-
gines saved themselves by jumping. but
We're considerably bruised. Ed Finn,
special guard of the express company.
was instantly killed and the regular cs;-
press messenger, Sharp. seriously hurt
None of the passengers were injured.
, AT PRESTON, IOWA.
PREsToN, Ia. May 23.-In a collision
between freight trains yesterday, Lon
Owens was fatally and two other men
badly injured and both engines were
blown up. Fifteen cars were denol-
ished.