Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-28
DITCHED BY ROBBERS.
Santa FEE Train Derailed at OZage Station
Kas.-Four Killed, Many Injured.

Santa Fe Train Derailed at OZage Station,
Kas.-Four Killed, Many Injured.
TOPEKA, Kas., Sept. 21.-Passenge1
train No. s, of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe Railroad, WAS wrecked by
robbers three miles west of Usage City,
at o'clock this morning. The train,
consisting of a baggage, express and
mail car, two day coaches, two chair
cars and three slecpers, was thrown
over an embankment three feet nigh
and the first six cars telescoped. Fou
persons were killed outright al,
TWENTY-FIVE seriously Injured.
The wreck occurred at small bridge
which crosses a ravine. The is heavy
down grade and the train was running
fully forty miles an hour. 1t was i'm
possible for 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.
from Emporia. An examination OF the
| 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 IN
questionably the object. The train
carried 81 900, 900 in currency, en- 1oute
from the Mexican Central Railroad to
it's 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 not be re-
moved, were left at Usage City and the
others were taken to Chrisl'5 Hospital
here. Several of the passengers will
probably die, but the attending physi-
clans will make no. statement until the
extent OF their juries can be examined
into.
A. A. Robinson, general manager of
the Atchison, Topeka x Santa Fe road,
offers reward or 81 900 for the arrest
Of each oil 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 says the money was in an
iron-ribbed box, three feetlong, and was
buried SO deep in the wreck that the
robbers could not have found it.
His supposition is that the robbers
were SO frightened at the extent of tn Q
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 4
Co.'S express. The Wells-Fargo people
here would not be interviewed about it.