Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-29
DITCHED BY ROBBERS.
Santa Fe Train Derailed at Ozage Station,
Kas.-Four Killed, Many Injured.

Santa Fe Train Derailed at Ozage Station,
Kas.-Fcur Killed, Many Injured.
TOPEKA, Kas., Sept. 2l.-Passengel
train No. S, Of the Atchison, Topeks
* Santa Fe Railroad, was wrecked by
robbers three miles west of Usage City,
at ) O'Clock this morning. The train,
consisting of baggage, express and
mail car, two day coaches, two chair
cars and three slecpers, was thrown
over an embankment three feet high
and the first six cars telescoped. -Four
persons were killed outright anu
TWENTY-FIVE seriously injured.
Iue wreck occurred at small bridge
which crosses ravine. The is a heavy
down grade and the train was running
fully forty miles an hour. 1t was i'm
possible Tor the engineer to see the mis-
placed rails in time to check the speed
of the train, and the coaches piled one
over .he other until the baggage and
cypress cars were completely hidden
from view. The three Pullman sleepers
remained on the track, but the other
cars were completely demolished.
Men, women and children were piled
over each other, caught in the broken
seats and thrown through the windows
of the cars.
Relief first reached the wrecked train
track was made, and it was found that
the fish plates had been carefully re-
moved, the bolts taken out and spikes
drawn from ten ties and the rail bent
over to the inside. Robbery was I'M
questionably the object. The train
carried 81 100000 in currency, en- loute
from the Mexican Central Railroad to
its headquarters in Boston.
In examining the ground about the
wreck, spot was found where three
men had lain on the grass, and tracks
we're found leading from this spot to
the track. The section house at Barclay
was broken into last night aid a crow
bar, wrench and sledge hammer stolen.
All Of these tools, except the crowbar,
were found, and the fish plates and
bolts, which had been removed, were
also discovered.
The passengers were brought to this
city at 10 O'Clock this morning. Some
of the wounded, who could mot be re-
moved, were left at Usage City and the
others were taken to Christ'S Hospital
here. Several of the passengers will
probably die, but the attending physi-
clans will make no statement until the
extent of their injuries can be examined
into.
A. A. Robinson, general manager of
the Atchison, Topeka d Santa Fe road,
offers reward OF 81 900 for the arrest
of each OF the men implicated in wreck
ing the train.
Maj. w. H. Llewellyn, live stock
agent of the road, was on board the
wrecked train, and claims to have taken
possession of the box in which the
Mexican Central currency was placed:
Llewellyn saye the money was in an
iron-ribbed box, three feet long, and was
buried so deep in the wreck that the
robbers could not have found it.
His suppostion is that the robbers
were so frightened at the extent of the
wreck that they at once took to their
heels. There are numerous rumors
about the money which was abo ard the
train. Llewellyn says he turned the
box over to the city marshal Of Usage
City and that the marshal gave it to
the Topeka agent Of Wells, Fargo &.
Co.'s express. The Wells-Fargo people
here would not be interviewed about it.