The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-06

FORT MADISON, a., May 5.-WlUnOuC
word OF warning, in the midst of fright.
full storm, the east-bound transcontinental
express on the Atchison, filled with human
beings wrapped in slumber, plunged
through trestle weakened by rain to
death, at about Las o'clock this morning,
between Revere and Medillon, Mo-, about
265 miles from Chicago. The express had
come through from San Francisco, Los
| Angeles and Mexico to Kansas City. at
4:40 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, orders
were received to hold it until $40 o'clock
p. m. and run to Chicago on the time of
| the Denver limited, which was late.
At $40 O'Clock the train, composed of a
postal car, baggage car, a smoker a
chair car, tourist sleeper and two Pull
man coaches commenced its run TO Chica-
| 90. All went well until pile and tres
| tie bridge over the Fox river near Revere
was reached. This bridge was about 175
feet long aud thirty feet high. Two hours
| before the Transcontinental express struck
| the bridge a heavy freight train passed
over it in safety; but the heavy rains had
! swollen the torrent which ragged beneath
the rails TO a mIniture Niagara, which had
carried the bridge out Of line. yet left it
standing, and, so far as the engineer on
the locomotive could see, all right
With wheels turning slowly for safety's
sake for the storm was terriic-the train
crawled slowly on the bridge. The engine
crossed in safety, but not the balance of
the train; for the bridge went down with
it's load only the engine and the rear
sIeeper remaining on either end of the
aoutments. The other part Of the train
was precipitated into the swiftly flowing
waters which coursed through the ravine
below. Five cars, with their load OF human
freight, wearied with the long trip, and
the remains of the bridge, sank together in
one conglcmeration of crushed tim mberS,
torn and twisted iron work and mangled
humanity.
Then arose wild shrek from the
wounded and dying, rising above the roar
of the steam. The engineer and fireman
from one side of the stream and the unin-
jured occupants of the rear sleeper on the
opposite bank, hurried to give what aid
was possible to the unfortunates who were
battling for life in the ravine below. Men
sprang from the windows of the wrecked
cars, and, fighting their way through the
whirling waters flied with debris, reached
the banks and fell to the ground
exhausted. Seven sank in the wreck to
die and thirty-tive are known to have been
injured
TOPEKA, Kan, May 5.-An official state
ment made from the Santa Fe general
offices here, shows the following list of
killed and injured in the wreck this morn
ing one mile east of Revere, Mo-, and TWEEN
ty-tive miles west of Fort Madison, Ia:
Killed-Lon Markee, Kansas City, Mo-;
Luther Cornelius, KIrksville, Mo: S. E.
Berkley, Westport, Mo-; John c. Graves,
Macon, Mo-; VIM Hines, Oklahoma City;
one lady and two children, names not
known.
Injured-P. C. Cowling, Chicago; J. C.
Winslow, Chicago; n. l.. Lancaster, Chi
cago; Mrs. Jane Hisey. Riverside, Ills; w.
A. Isham, Riverside, Ills; Martin Regal,
brakeman; J. +. Ha-gen, Reading, Pa; w.
Allen, Athens, Pa; Mr.. f. II. Allen,
Athens, Pa, William Adams, Dewsberry,
Yorkshire, England; II. NJ Cutler, Chi
cago; A. Ruban, express messenger;
Robert Shultz, Lexington Junction. Mo.
A. D. Mead, Saltwater, Mimi; Joseph
Guusher, Chicago; o. l.. Boise. Kansas
City; w. B. Barnes. Oklahoma City, 0. T:
j. H. Snyder Lecompton, Kan; S. A.
Longh, Chetopa, Kan; James Marion,
Sedley, Ind; Frank Graves, Sedley, Ind;
w. G. Smith, New Haven, Conn; f. w,
Moore, Winnebago, Ill., c. L. Milton, Kan
sas City; Conductor Tucker. c. Beal,
postal clerk, Beaumont, Ill; r. E. butcher,
postal clerk, Chicago; one Italian woman
and child, name not known.
The train was the through California
express, which left Topeka at 2:4O O'Clock
yesterday afternoon. Near Revere the
train struck a pile of trestle bridge
washed out of line. just as the locomotive
reached. the opposite bank and the rear
Pullman stood over the other end of the
bridge, the rest of the train went through
to the water, thirty-six feet below. The
wrecked cars were the baggage car coach,
chair car, tourist sleeper and one Pullman,
and the engine. The dead and injured
have been taken TO Fort Madison.