Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-01-10
TERRIBLE WRECK.
UNION PACIFIC AND ROCK
ISLAND COLLIDE.
Six Men Burned 10 death and One of
the Injured Eies-LinE Kansas,
the Scene of the Disastcr-ATful
Rear. End Collisions.

KANSAS Cry, Mo. Jan. Seven
persons are now known 20 have lost
their lives rs 4 result OF the wreck on
the Union Pacific railroad near Iiu-
wood Tuesday morning. I'l:c bodies
of six were wholly Or partially con-
sumed in the fire that followed the
wreck, and Yesterday William Has
kins, whose neck was broken and who
was taken out more dead than alive.
died at St Margarct's hos pital
The list of dead IS now believed to
be as follows:
J. W; ATWOOD OF ha7sas City, conductor
OF the Union Pacific train
HERMAN SMIZE, stocllman OF Clay Cen
| Ter. Kan
MIR MARTIN. \ s;o. kInaa o. Wakefield
v. a. GEER, sto:l;m II OF Russell Kan
NJ JOHNSON, Stockm IN OF Beverly, Kan
kaE.
A few charrcd o2ncs, SIX pocket
knives. three watches and pieces of
chains, conductors punch, several
keys and two teeti; are all that re-
main of them 20 tell the awful story
of death.
B F.. Posten. s:ockman o. Hill City, Kan,
badly injured ,nteruai:y.
l. NJ McCrary, stOckm1E or TeScott, Kan
head and face cut and injured abou. the
body.
C. w. Fagerburg stock1lan OF Oldsbury, Ran
arm bruised ard head cut.
Casper Ditmer, stockman Of Idana, kan. arm
bruised and head
Joseph Bertrand, ST ocknan OF Concordia Kan ,
nose broken and head bdt tly cut and bruised
| William Hardesty, stockman OF DelphoS Kan
head cut and arm badly bruised
Daniei Iay!or, Stockmln o. Bellevue, Kan
arm badly bruised and mead and face cut.
y. w spencer stociinlan, Clyde, Kan, bad
| lycut about the head
| w. X Gilmore, Stocknan. Idana Kan.
| spralned shoulder and con;usions.
D. l. west, stockman, Concordia, Kan, rib
G: w. Mason. stockman, Coacordia Kan
| rib broken.
The terrible wreck was caused by
a freight train on the Rock Island
railway, which uses the Union Pacific
track between Kansas City and To
pela, running into the rear end of a
mixed freight and passenger train of
the Union Pacific. Both trains were
coming to Kansas City and We're 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 81 water tank
west of Linwood and was slowing up
when the other train crashed into it.
The Union Pacific tram was No. II,
stock train due in Kansas City about
o'clock. There were about twenty
i've passengers on board riding in a
com binat:on passenger and baggage
car just in front Of the ca boose and be-
tween it and Il stock car The passen-
gers, or most of them, were stockmen
p, from stasions 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 1874
Madison avenue. this city, saw that
| collision could not be avoided and
started from the c:.1oose to the coach
to warn the passengers. but he was
caught between the ears and crushed
HIS rear brakeman and young man
who was on the aboosa 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 nogs
in front was wrecked and the next
ear icaded with cattle was broken
open and the cattle escaped.
FIRE BREAKS oUr.
Trainmen and passengers who were
not seriously injured began at once
to save those vino were more serious
| ly 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 four cars
were envcloped III flames. The flames
| spread SO rapidly that the men under
the debris of the caboosc and passen-
ger coach could not be reached. Faint
and piteous calls Cor help were heard
but the men who lad been saved were
| powerless TO aid the poor fellows and
soon their cries ceased. To have ven
tured into the burning wreck would
have been certain death. The unfor-
| tunate men whom the passengers
heard but coaid not help were Con-
| ductor Atwood and Herman Smize, n
| stockman of Clay ENTER. Kan, and
| Stockman Martin OF Wakefield, Kan.
Conductor Atwood was frightfuli;
burned and his body was not reached
| for several hours.
The Rock Island engineer ano Ere
man saved themselves by Jumping
| The front trucks of the engiue were
broken off and the engine was disna1.-
tied.