The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-10-31
WERE RIDING TO DEATH
RAILWAY COLLISION OCCURRED
NEAR ST. LOUIS.
Caused by Djsobedience of Orders
on the Part of Excursion
Train Crew.

on the st. Louis * san francisco rail-
road, going In opposite directions, col
lided nearly opposite Windsor Station,
about Is miles from this city. instantly
killing eight persons and injuring more
than 20, three Of whom will probably die.
The killed are all OF st. Louis. Their
names are
ADOLPH HOLE, engineer OF the ac-
commodation train.
CHARLES MOLINE.
CONRAD KUNTZ.
c. c. BLEV1NS.
II. THALL
BARNEY MKENNA, in charge Of the
refreshments.
MISS MAUD MKENNA, aged Il. his
daughter.
JOHN CARTWRIGHT.
Twenty-one persons were more or less
| injured, but az a late hour 1t is thought |
no one will die.
| The injured are: Ferd LANCE OF ST.
| Louis, internal injuries: David Garrett
of st. Louis, head cut and legs bruised
]. e. Robla of st. Louis. hips and legs
| injured; Charles Milrnez OF st. Louis.
| scalp wounds; Frank Hasler of St. Louis,
| late of Springfield. MO, fireman on the
| excursion train, spinal cord injured and
hurt internally; Mrs. ]. B. Mcdaniel of
st. Louis, slightly injured; George Wolff
| of Kirkwood, conductor on the suburban
train. hip injured and body bruised; Rob
ert Mulholland OF Spring Park, brakeman
| on the suburban train, slightly injured;
George Atwood, st. Louis, conductor on
the suburban train, slightly injured; JOS
eph Drisden of Springfield. Mo- engineer
on the excursion train, skull fractured
and badly scalded Frederick Miller OF
Valley Park fireman on the suburban
train, legs injured and body bruised A.
X. Smith of Valley Park, baggageman on
the suburban, head cut and arms injured;
Mrs. A. K. Smith of Valley Park injured
by shock; Matt Wapplehorst Of Valley
Park slightly injured Peter Hill of st.
Louis, face cut and badly bruised; Rob
ert Langen, William Suffer. Henry 7.
Larborg Louis Hunt. Henry McMichael,
Mrs Rosehill, all of st. Louis, more or
less injured.
| How 1t Occurred.
! The collision occurred between the sec
ond section of an excursion train bound
west and the Frisco Valley Park accom-
mediation train. From what can be
, learned the accident was the result Of
disobedience OF neglect of orders on the
part of the excursion train crew, who
should have remained at Spring Park for
orders and to have let the accommoda-
ton train through. The excursion train
was the second section of a special bound
: for st. James, NO. 100 miles west of st.
Louis, where the Missouri home for aged
| veterans was dedicated today, under the
= | auspices of the G.. A. r. and Women S
- Relief corps.
The first section had gone through safe
Z ly and the second. which consisted of II
coaches, was heavily laden with C. A. r
men, their wives and children. left St
Louis about O'clock
According to ]. D. Dishman, the tele
grapher and station agent at Spring
Park, it should have stopped at that place
for orders. Instead of doing so the sec
ond section passed by the station, anC
soon after met the accommodation com
= ing down grade at full speed. Enginee
Hole of the accommodation was no
q aware the second section was on the roa'
and in trying to make the switch at Kirk
l. wood, crashed into the Inflated train il
J. cut just 10 miles from the st. Loui
is union station.
q The accommodation consisted of an en-
10 CINE. tender. baggage car and two coach
es. in which there were only five passen
\. gers The engine and tender were wreck
ed. but the other three cars were no
damaged. 1t is due to the lightness o
e" this train that the accident was not wors
I'd than it was.
Id one Car Train.
There was only one car, combinatio
baggage and coach on Engineer Hole
7 train, but the collision was terrific, bot
engines being demolished and a numbd
he of cars telescoped. The wreckage wa
piled high on the track and above tn
a. sound Of escaping steam could be hear
ed the cries of the frightened and injure
hit passengers. Next to the engine of I'll
vi excursion train was the commissary ca
as filed with refreshments. Barney McKeI
tie ma was in charge of the edibles and wit
he him was his 14-year-old daughter. Maui
To- Both were instantly killed, being scale
M ed and crushed.
IN A number of passengers. mostly your
m men, were grouped around the temp
Ia rary counter, eating and drinking TIL
ger and the next car, in which were 20 pa
1t sengers. suffered the worst damage al
HI most of the killed and injured were tax,
from them. Engineer Hole of the a
IS. commodation, which was running
time. was killed, and his fireman. Fral
n Halser, was badly injured.
1t seems from statements be men ell
the ployed on the line that the accident W
due to the oversight of one Of the olde
GO engineers on this division of the "Friscc
md Joseph Dryden, who was in charge
ing the excursion train.
ar II cannot see how that could have {
Cured" said an official of the road
srs, night. "But Engineer Dryden seems
to have entirely forgotten about No. u, I
bly, accommodation train. He Is one of I