The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-10

KANSAS CITY, Jan. 2-Three men
were killed. four seriously injured and a
dozen more slightly hurt in a wreck on
the Union Pacific railway near Linwood,
Kas., twenty-seven miles west of Kan
sas City, at $50 o'clock this morning.
The wreck was caused by a freight
train on the Rock Island railway, which
uses the Union Pacific track between
Kansas City and Topeka, running into
the rear end of a mixed freight and
passenger train of the Union Pacific.
Both trains We're coming to Kansas
City and were in motion when the acct
dent occurred. They were a few min
utes late and the Rock Island train was
running fast to make up time. The
Union Pacific train was near a water
tank west of Linwood and was slowing
up when the other train crashed into it.
The Killed and Injured.
Following is a list of the killed and
injured:
Killed:
JOHN ATWOOD, conductor Union Pa
cifc train. Kansas City.
- MARTIN, stockman, of Wakefield,
Kas.
HERMANN sN1IzE, stockman. Clay
Center. Kas.
Injured:
George w. Harkins. stockman. of RAN
dolph. Kas.. back broken below neck,
viii die.
&. F. Poster. stoclman. of Hill City,
Kas.. badly injured internally.
T. NJ. McCrary. stockman, of Testcott,
Kas.. back broken at waist will proba-
bly, die.
c. w. Fagerburg. stockman, Oldsburg
Kas.. arm broken and head cut.
Casper Ditmer. stockman, Idana, Kas.,
arm bruised and head cut
Joseph Bertrand. stockman, Concordia,
.Kas.. nose broken and head badly cut
and bruised.
William Hardestin, stockman, Delphos,
Kas.. head cut and arm badly broken.
Daniel Taylor, stOckman, Belleview.
Kas.. arm badly bruised and face and
head cut
G.. W. Spencer, stockman. of Clyde,
Kas., badly cut about the head.
w r. Gilmore, stOckman, Idana, Kas,
sprained shoulder and Commissions.
J. 1. West, stockman, Concordia, Kas,
rib broken.
G. w. Mason, stockman, Concordia,
Kas., rib broken.
Twenty-Five Passengers.
The Union Pacific train was No. u. a
stock train, due in Kansas City about
Z o'clock. There were about twenty-five
passengers on board. The passengers,
or most of them. were stockmen from
stations in Kansas, who were coming
to Kansas City with cattle and hogs.
Nearly all of them were sleeping when
the accident occurred. Conductor Jay
Atwood, who lived at 1431 Madson-ave,
this city, saw that collision could not
be avoided and started from the caboose
TO the coach to warn the passengers,
but he was caught between the cars
and crushed. His rear brakeman and a
young man who was in the caboose
saved their lives by jumping.
When the Rock Island engine struck
the Union Pacific train it mashed the
caboose into splinters and crashed into
the passenger coach, splitting it in the
middle A car loaded with hogs in front
was wrecked and the next car loaded
with cattle was broken open and the
cattle escaped.
Wreck Catches Fire.
Trainmen and passengers who were
not seriously injured began at once to
save those who were more seriously
hurt Four men were dragged from the
wreck more dead than alive. Fire
caught from the stoves and before the
dead could be removed the cars were en-
veloped in flames. The flames spread so
rapidly that the men under the debris
of the caboose and passenger coach
could not be reached. Faint and piteous
calls for help were he,ri, but the men
who had been saved we're powerless to
aid the poor fellows, and soon their cries
ceased. To have ventured into the
burning wreck would have been certain
death. The unfortunate men whom the
passengers heard but could not help
were Conductor Atwood and Hermann
Smize, a stockman Of Clay center and
Stockman Martin Of Wakefield, Kas
Conductor Atwood was frightfully
burned and his body was not reached
for several hours. The bodies of the
others were burned to a crisp.
The Rock Island engineer ana fireman
saved themselves by jumping. The
front trucks of the engine were broken
off and the wheels dismantled The
Rock Island conductor notified the
Union Pacific officials here at once and
General Superintendent Palmer took a
special train with surgeons and a wreck
ing crew TO the wreck. The relief train
returned to Kansas City. Kas., this
afternoon with the injured and they
were taken to st. Mary's hospital.
FATAL FIRE AT BUFFALO.