The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-05-10
STRUCK DEAD.
The Fate of Two Young Girls
at KnObnOster.
Whirled to Death at an Instant's
Warning by q Missouri
Pacific Train.

As the number 2 through mail and
express train. on the Missouri Pacific
railroad, whirled through the little
town OF knobnos:er to-day about noon,
the whole community wa alarmed by
the loud and terrified screams of hall
dozen little girls, followed by two Of
their number being mangled beneath
the pOnderous weight of the locomo-
tive. Knobnoster is situated about
25 miles west Of this city and the train
was due at Sedalia 1T 1885 noon.
The ill-fstel children who were un.
doubtedly taken unawares and while
off of their guard. were returning from
school to their homes, it being the
hour when they were dismissed for
dinner. En- route lay the railroad
tracks which it was necessary for them
to cross.
ALL IN AN INSTANT.
They tripped along in high glee,
merrily converting and laughing,
naught reminded of the danger
ahead. On the track which Law near
est to their route wss a
freight train which was slowly moving
towards them. The train was a long
one. and is said to have concealed
from view the mail and express train
which wss approaching with consider
able speed on the opposite
track from the same direction.
This train, according to those
who survived the children did net sea
but started in a run to cross the track
before the freight train came upon
them. They crossed the fret track in
safety, when they were startled by the
quick shrill alarm of the engineers'
whistle and in an instant there was
death among them.
MISS MITCHELL KILLED.
As certain death stared one or more
of their number 10 the face consterna-
ton spread among The young girls,
oh Of whom made an aimless dash
for safety. Little Miss Mitchell the
10 year old daughter of Mr.. William
Mitchell, an old and respected
citizen Of Knobnoster, uttered one
scream which was her last. She Was
struck by The Locomotive and fell
PROSTATE On the track, the iron wheels
mangling her form into a mass Of
bleeding flesh. She never spoke.
Miss Sylvia Quinn, daughter Of Mr.
John Quinn, also of Knobnoster, re-
ceived injuries after the s,me manner,
which it is said will necessarily prove
fatal. Sne was still alive at 2 o'clock.
TWO BARELY ESCAPED.
The escape of two others of the
party was so narrow that the ir gar
ments were whisked by the machinery
Of the engine.
News Of the sad accident spread
rapidly. and he scenes over the bod
les of the two young girls who had
been so suddenly and ruthlessly struck
down, are said to have been hear:-
rending in the extreme.
Passengers on the train describe
the scenes which followed as sgoniz-
ing. The companions of the child
that was dead and the child that was
dying bent over them and wept, while
parents and relatives sought to en-
brace their limp and bleeding forms.
THE ENGINEERS STATEMENT.
Engineer John Mcclure, who had
charge of the train states that when
the children came into view, that he
blew his whistle at once and re-
versed his engine, but that
it was then too late to avoid the acci-
dent.
1t is not known the exact rate Of
speed at which the engine was going,
but the fact of the engineer not being
able to check it, would indicate that
it was going very fast.
The BAz0J's knobnoster informant
states that the train was gciug at AT
unusually fast rate Of speed. 1t Is
also stated that this train at times
passes through the town at
the rate of from 10 to 20 miles
per hour.
Mr.. VIM. Mitchell, the father of
the dead girl, is a railroad engineer,
and stays a portion of the time in Sc
dslia.
Like a Good COnundrum.
is life, because everybody must give