Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-05-26
DISASTROUS WRECK.
Fuller Reports OF the One on the
Cotton Belt.
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 I'm Arkansas.

PINE BLUFF, Ark, May 2S.-The list |
of the victims of the terrible wreck |
which occurred on the Southwestern |
Friday night near Goldman has in
creased to nine dead so far recovered. |
The railway officials secured the
United States steamer Wichita to go
down the river to the bridge at Rob
roy and bring up the dead to this city,
as trains cannot come to this city on
account of high water. The boat has
arrived with seven victims of the wreck,
one of them having been found after
the train left the wreck. The names of
the dead. as officially given, are as fol-
lows:
Mrs. Octave Anderson, Amarillo,
Tex; William Christal, Denton. Tex:
j. T, Sanderson, Pierce City. Mo-; Mrs.
R. B. Clark. Winchester, Tenn; R. D.
Compton, Nashville;. Mrs. E. A. NJ.
Henson, Fisher, Ark; Mrs Hudgins, of
Ala bama. en- route to Fort Worth, Tex;
James Morgan. Memphis, Tenn; Frank
Nichols, fireman of the freight
The names of wounded so far as can
| be learned are: II. S. Jackman, Green
vile. Tex, slight; n. HI. Turner, Wolfe
City. Tex. slight; c. NJ. Swami, Kansas
| City, Mo-, hand mashed; j. B. Richard
son, Temple, Tex, slight; w. B. Diver,
Lockett, Tex, bruised; A. B. Brook,
Cisco, Tex, badly bruised; NJ. L. Davis,
| Waco. Tex, seriously bruised; j. H.
Runnell, telegraph operator, Texarkana,
| 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. 81. 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; B. Grossen, Pine Bluff, Ark.
badly bruised; II. 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 caskets and forwarded to
relatives as soon as possible There
was a passenger on the train by the
name of Paul Dobbins, 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 ct 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 CHURCH, KAN.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Nay ga head
end collision between the north bound
Beatrice express train and the south
bound Leavenworth rapid transit train
and the south bound Leavenworth
rapid transit train occurred at White
Church, Kan, on the Kansas City,
Wyandotte & Northwestern road,
at 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 uninjured. The passen-
gers were badly shaken up. Mrs. Sam
uel Mellow, who lives in the western
part of Wyandotte county, Kan, was
thrown forward against the back of a
seat, bruising her face badly.
NEAR GREENvILLE, ILL.
ST. LOUIS, May ga light eastbound
Observation-Disclosures engine, in
charge of Conductor Smith. collided
with a westbound passenger train on
the Vandalia road five miles west of
GreenVllle, ILL.,, early tnlS 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
were considerably bruised. Ed Finn. a
special guard of the express company,
was instantly killed and the regular OK
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 We're dernol-
ished.