The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-18
TRAINS COLLIDE IN A CUT.
one NAN KILLED AND TWENTY
OTHERS INJURED.

Two of the injured Certain to Die.
Failure Of the Engineer Of a Live
stock Train To Obey Orders the
Cause of the Crash-Engines and
ears TeIescoped in the Terrible
COmpact-The Engineer Responsi-
hIe for the Disaster Buried Under
the Wrecked Engines.
Guthrie, Q. T., Feb. 17.-14irough a mis-
understanding of orders the southbound
Galveston express ou the Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe, heavily loaded with
excursionists, and d northbound live
stock extra oollided at u;45 o'clock last
night while rounding a curve three miles
south OF Guthrie one man was instantly
killed, two fatally injured, and IS others
received serious wounds
The man killed was Charles Upperby Of
Topeka, the freight engineer.
The injured are:
Patrick Coldron Of Arkansas City, Kan,
The passenger fireman, scalded and terri
hiS injured; viii die.
A. Hahn, freight brakeman; legs
crushed, viii die.
James Mormon, freight conductor, arms
broken.
Edward Kitchen, passenger conductor,
hands mashed and body badly bruised.
r. ID. Beagle of Kansas City, express
messenger, badly crushed.
George Neville, baggageman, scalded.
Harry IrOWer Of the Kansas City stock
yards, cut about the head.
John English, bridgeman, body lace
rated
II. A. Sprow, bridgeman terribly cut.
Nrg rvn- IA
Supreme Court Justice II. W. Scott, bad
ly bruised.
senator Scott. badly injured about the
head
Representatives Brown, Willing and sut-
tin. severely bruised.
Three unknown trainmen, cut and
bruised.
Engineer Uppleby of the strocS train
had orders to stop at Seward, three miles
south of the wreck, to allow the passen-
ger train TO pass, but 1t probably will
never be known why the orders were not
obeyed.
The trains met on a sharp curve in a
deep cut in a bend Of the Cottonwood
river
Passenger Engineer Frey saw a shower
of sparks thrown into the air across the
blum near the end Of the curve. He real
lied in an instant that the sparks were
from another engine, and reversing his
engine ne leapeu INTO the darkness against
the side of the cut. calling to his fireman
10 jump also, but before the latter could
comply the extra came around the curve
at the rate of 10 miles an hour, and the
two engines came together in horrible
crash and were buried into each other
one-thtrd their lengths. A dozen freight
cars piled into a great heap and the bag
gage, express and mail cars of the pas
senger train were completely telescoped
and demolished, all in an instant. Added
10 the terrific noise was the escaping
steam, and the believing and plunging
of hundreds of cattle injured or maddened
BY the smell OF blood, completely drown
ing the groans of the injured and the
cries of the badly frightened passengers.
The passenger coaches remained on the
track, but many of the gigantic Texas
steers, breaking loose from the wreckage,
plunged into the darkness, making II
dangerous for amy one to venture out to
assist the injured.
Buried beneath the engines and crushed
TO death was Freight Engineer Charles
Uppleby.
Lying beside his engine, terribly burned
and scalded, was Passenger Fireman Pat
rick COldron, who was picked up for
dead, but after sevral hours revived and
now lies suffering terribly, but with no
chance to live.
Many passengers were badly bruised and
cut by broken glass, but none fatally.
The injured were brought to this city
and are receiving the best of treatment.
Seventy head of cattle were killed The
loss to the railroad company will exceed
$4,000.