The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-01-05
BAD WRECK.
Throo Mon Are Killed and Many
Others Injured.
on TIE UNION PACIFIC.
The Debris Takes Fire sad Three Men Per
ish Miserably-Their Cries Heard
but No Help Was
Possible.

KANSAS CITY, No., Jan. S-Three
men were killed. four seriously injured
and dozen more slightly hurt in q
wreck on the Union Pacific railway
near Lihwood, Kan, twenty.seven
miles west of Kansas City, at $50 O'Clock
yesterday morning The wreck was
cansei by freight train on the Rock
Island Railway, which uses the Union
Pacific track between Kansas City and
Topeka, running into the rear end OF q
e,ixed freight and passenger train OF
the t;ttop Pacific Both trains were
coming to Kansas City and were in
motion when the accident occurred
They were a few minutes late and the
Rock Island train was running fast to
make up time. The Union Pacific
train was near water tank west OF
Linwood and was slowing up when the
other train crashed into it
The Union Pacific train was No IL,
stock train due in Kansas City about
o'clock There were about twenty-five
passengers on board riding in COM
bination passenger and baggage car
Just in front of the caboose ana De-
tween 1t and stock car. The passen-
gers, 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 sleep
ing when the accident occurred. Con-
ductor Jay Atwood, who lived at l4Sl
Madison avenue, this city, saw that a
collision could not be avoided and start
ed from the caboose to the coach TO
warn the passengers, but he was caught
tetptsen the cars and crushed. His
rear brakeman and a young man who
was on the caboose saved their lives by
jumping.
Whan the Rock Island engine struck
the Union Pacific train it mashed the
caboose into spliuters 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 tie ehttle escaped.
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
| catieht from the stoves and before the
dead could be removed the four cars
I were enveloped 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 heard but the men
who had been saved were powerless to
aid the poor fellows and soon their
cries ceased. To have ventured into
the burning wreck would have been GER
tain death. The unfortunate men
whom the passengers heard but could
not help were Conductor Atwood and
Herman Smize, n stocSman of Clay
Cepter, Kan, and Stockman Martin,
of Wakefield, Kan. Conductor At
wood was frightfully burned and his
| BODY was not reached for several hours.
The Rock Island engineer and fire.
man saved themselves by jumping. The
front trucks of the engine were broken
off and the engine was dismant!ed-
The list of victims is as follows:
| Kil!cd-Jay Atwood, conductor Union Pacific
| train lives AT 1881 Madison avenue. Kansas
! CITY. Mo: Martin. stockman, OF Wakefield
| Kan Herman Smize stockman, OF Clay Cen
| ter Kan
| Ipiured-William Haskins, stockuan, OF Ran
| doluh Kan serious internal injuries Is F.
| Posten, stockmau OF Hill City. Kan. badly In
iured internally T. NJ McCrary stockman, o.
| Tesco,t Kan head and face cut and injured
| about the body: G. w. Fagerburg. stockman
| of O.dsburg Kan arm bruised and head cut:
| Casper D:tner, stockman, OF Id ana, Kan, arm
bruised and head cut Joseph Bertrand, stock
| man CT Concorda Kan nose broken and head
| badly cut and bruised: William Hardesty
| stockman, OF Delphos. Kan, head cut and arm
badly bruised; Daniel Taylor, stockman o
| Bellevue. Kan. arm badly bruis d ana neat
| and face cut: c. w Spencer stockman, Clyoe
Kan badly cut about the cad; W. II Oil
more stockinan, Idana, Kan. sprained shoul
der and contusions ] Wes:, stockman, Con
j. cordia Kan, rib broken c. w. Mason, stock
MN Concordia, Kan, rib broken