The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-02-21
TRAINS WRECKED.
A Fast Stock Train and a Passen-
 ger Express Collides.
TWO MEN KILLED AND SEVEN HURT
Six Castle Cars Knocked on the Track and Almost Every Head of Stock in Them Killed or In-
 jured.

GUTHRIE, Ok, Feb. 1S - Saturday nigat at midnight the most disastrous ra llroad wreck known on this division in many years occurred on the Santa "Fe at the curve known as "Deadman's Cut" miles south of Guthrie and 11 mile north of Seward. It was caused by terrific collision between the southbound Santa Fe passenger train and the northbound stock express, and was due, it is said, to the engineer of the freight placing wrong con struction on his orders. Two men were killed and seven seriously injured. Seventy head of cattle were killed and $50, 900 worth of rolling stock was de- ,stroyed.
 The dead-Charles Upleby, engineer freight train, of Arkansas City; Pat rick Coldron, fireman on passenger train, of Arkansas City.
 The injured -- James Moorman, freight conductor, left arm broken; Edward Kitchen, passenger conductor, hand mashed and body badly bruised; Messenger k. B. Deagle, body badly bruised; Baggageman George Neville, .scalded; Mail Clerk Hutchins, head cut; Roadmaster Mckinney, bruised; Bridgeman John J. English; H. A.. Sprow, body lacerated; Harry Tower, of Kansas City stock yards cut in the neck and face; A. Hahn, fireman on freight train, leg crushed; A. Graves, freight brakeman, sprained arm; L. B. Weidenheimer, cuts on face and body; Mrs. Agatha Hardy, of St. Louis, face cut by flying glass; Judge Scott, Okla homa City, slightly bruised; R. l.. Col lins, Enid,- legs bruised; Representa- tives Brown, Walling and Sutton and Senator Scott, badly shaken up; John Hook, Ardmore, cut by broken window glass.
 The stock train had been made up at Purcell and Engineer Upleby had re- ceived orders to side-track at Seward and wait for the south bound pas senger According to the stories told by his brakemen, the orders were mis- interpreted and the train of eighteen cars loaded with Texas cattle owned by Harry Trower passed Seward at a flying rate.
 As soon as the passenger engineer sighted the freight rounding the curve at Deadman's Cut he immediately re. versed his engine but he was too late. The crash was a terrific one. Both engines struck head on and were com. pletely demolished. Both the en- gineer and fireman of the passenger jumped-the former escaped, but the latter, Pat Coldron, was caught in the flying debris and scalded. His death agonies were awful. The mail and baggage cars of the passenger left the track and were smashed, but luckily the coaches kept the track and the pas sengers were but slightly hurt. The messenger and baggageman, however were severely hurt.
 Six cattle cars left the track and al most every head of stock in them were either killed or injured. It is estimated that seventy head of cattle were killed. Immediately after the wreck trainmen walked to Guthrie and took yard en- zine to the scene of the wreck. The killed and injured were placed on board the coaches and the train was brought back to Guthrie at 2:50 o'clock yesterday morning. Freight Engineer Upleby remained with his engine and was horribly mangled, while his fire man, A. Hahn, jumped and escaped with a broken arm.
 The scene at the wreck is terrible. Engines, cars, rails, ties and dead cat tie are jumbled together in an un- recognizable mass, with the bellows of dying cattle adding distress to the scene. Both engines were totally de- molished and altogether the loss of rolling stock will reach S4O,OOO. Two wrecking crews have been sent to the wreck but the roadmaster wires that the track cannot be cleared within