The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-10-29
PASSENGER TRAINS COLLIDE
EIGHT PEOPLE WERE INSTANT
LY KILLED AND TWENTY
ONE INJURED.
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TRAINS CRUSHED TOGETHER N N GUT
Going at Terrific Speed-Ncglcct to
Obey Orders Said to BE the
Cause-Both Engines Were
Totally Demolished.

81. LOUIS, oCt. -D,-NllOTllN utlDTt ~
o'clock this forenoon two passenger
trains on the st. Louis and San Fran
cisco road collded nearly opposite Wind
sor station, thirteen miles from this city,
instantly killing eight persons and in
juring twenty-onc. The dead are all of
st. Louis. Their names are:
Adolph IIohl, engineer of accommodate
ton train.
Charles Mobine.
Conrad Kuitz.
C. G. Blevens.
Ii. Thai.
Barney McKenna, in charge of the re-
freshments.
Maud McKenna, aged H. his daughter.
John Cartwright.
IWenty-one persons were more or less
injured, but at Il late hour it is thought
no one will die.
The injured are: Ferdinand Lang, ST.
Louis, internal injuries; David BARRETT
st. Louis; internal injuries, head cut and
legs bruised; j. e. Riblet, St. Louis, hips
and legs injured; Charles X. Milentz, ST.
Louis, scalp wounds; Frank Haslcr, St.
Louis, fireman on excursion train, spinal
cord injured and hurt internally; Mrs.
j. b. Mcdaniel, st. LOWS, slightly in
jured; George Wullf, Kirkwood. con-
ductor on suburban, hips injured and
body bruised; Robert Mulholl9nd, Spring
Park, brakeman on suburban train
slightly injured; George Adrian Spring
field, Mo-, engineer on excursion train
badly scalded; George Atwood St.
Louis conductor on suburban train,
slightly injured Frederick Miller, Val
ley Park, fireman ON suburban train,
legs injured and body bruised; A. X
Smith, Valley Park, baggage master on
suburban train. head cut and hand and
arms injured; Mrs. A. X. Smith, Valley
Park, injured by shock; Matt Wapple-
horst, Valley Park, slightly injured;
Harry Hill st. Louis, face cut and badly
Henry Larborg, Louis Hunt, Henry Nc
Michael, Mrs. Rose Hin, all of st.
Louis, more or less injured.
The collision occurred between the
second section of an excursion train
bound west and the east bound Frisco
Valley Park accommodation train.
From what can be learned Mt this
hour the accident was the result of dis
obedience or neglect of orders on the
part of the excursion train crew. who
should have remained at Spring Park for
orders and let the accommodation train
through. The excursion was the second
section of a special bound for st. james,
No., 1C0 miles west of st. Louis, where
the Missouri home for aged veterans was
dedicated today under the auspices of the
Grand Army of the Republic and the
Woman's Relief Corps. The first sec
ton had gone through safely and the
second, which consisted of eleven
coaches, heavily laden with members of
the Grand Army of the Republic and
their wives and children, left st. Louis
about Q o'clock.
According to J. D. Bishman, the tele-
graph operator and station agent at
Spring Park, it should have stopped at
second section passed by the station and
soon after met the accommodation
coming down grade at full speed.
Engineer Hohl Of the accommodation
was not aware that the second section
was on the road, and in trying to make
the switch at Kirkwood crashed into the
Inflated train in a cut just thirteen miles
from the st. Louis union station. The
accommodation train consisted of an en-
CINE, tender, baggage car and two
in which there was only five
passengers. The engine and tender was
wrecked, but the other three cars were
not damaged. 1t is due to the lightness
Of the train that the accident was not
worse than it was. The collision was
terrific, both engines being demolished
and a number of cars telescoped. Wreck
age was piled high on the bank, and
above the sound Of escaping steam could
be heard the cries of frightened and in
jured passengers. Next to the engine
Of the excursion train was the commits
sary car, filled with refreshments.
Barney McKenna was in charge of
The edibles.and with him was his 14-year-
Did daughter, Maud
Both were instantly killed, being scald-
I'd and crushed. A number of passen-
gers, mostly young men, were grouped
around the temporary counter, eating
md drinking. Almost all were either
killed or injured. This and the next car,
N which were seventy passengers, suffer
ID the worst damage, and the. list of the
killed and injured are taken from them.
Engineer Hohl of the accommodation,
which was running on time, was killed,
md his fireman, Frank Harter, badly
wounded.
Immediately after the wreck occurred