The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-10
MOTORMAN DOES IT
TERRIBLE STREET CAR ACCIDENT
INST. LOUIS, MO.

Instead of Waiting on the Siding for the
Outbound Car, Motorman Aiken Con-
cIudes tn Run on Toward the City,
Which He Does at the Rate of Thirty
Five Miles an Hour, When He Meets
Another Car and Three Fatalities and
Scores of Inju red is the ResuIt-Aiken
Himself Killed.
ST. Louis, Mo-, March e.-As the re-
suit OF disobediance of orders by j. A
Aiken, a motorman. a terrible head-end
collision occurred last night between
two cars on the newly completed Kirk
wood Electric railroad, which connects
the suburban town of Kirkwood with
this city. Both cars were badly smash
ed. four men were probably fatally in
jured, twenty-nine badly hurt and be-
tween twenty and thirty others less SER
iously injured. The fatally injured are:
J. A. Aiken. motorman.
Sam Smith, motorman.
]. L. Jones, claim agent of the Mis-
Richard Lanigan. insurance agent
The line is a single track system. The
east-bound car, with ]. S. Peaseley as
conductor and ]. A. Aiken as motorman,
stopped at siding about mile this
side of Kirkwood. The west-bound car
not appearing, the car men decided -
try 10 make the town in a flying trip.
They almost reached the end of their
journey when the other car came around
a curve and both crashed together.
The east-bound car was running at the
rate of thirty-five miles an hour and
the other had attained a speed of fifteen
miles an hour. The passengers were
thrown in a pile by the impact. which
was terrible. Twenty-Five passengers,
men, women and children. were taken
out, some with limbs broken and bod
les bruised. Between twenty and thirty
others received less serious injuries.
The injured were taken to hospitals, or
their homes in this city and surround
ing towns.
A LATER ACCOUNT.
St. Louis, Mo-, March 9.-Three men
are dead and one more is not expected
to live, as a result OF last nights coils
ion on the St. Louis and Kirkwood cleo
trio line. Fifty more are more or less
seriously injured.
THE DEAD.
RICHARD LANIGAN, insurance
agent, St. Louis.
JUNIUS A. JONES, claim agent Mis-
souri,. Kansas and Texas railway.
j. H. AIKEN, motorman car No. 8.
east bound.
THE INJURED.
Sam Smith. motorman car No. 2. west
bound. has both legs broker. head crush
ed and is internally injured He will
die
Among the more seriously injured are
the following:
Jacob Goss. st. Louis; spine injured.
Mrs. CT. Spencer, Selma; compound
fracture of both legs.
Herman Mueller, boy s years old, st.
Louis; arm broken and foot mashed.
Joseph Etaily, st. Louis. foot mashed.
Peter Ryan, st. Louis; hip crushed
and knee cut.
Henry Webster, ST. Louis; foot crush
James McGrath, Kirkwood; leg broken.
DR.. McMarshall, dentist, St. Louis;
leg broken.
Henry Lefork, ST. Louis; ankle bro
ken.
General Manager Houseman states
positively that the entire blame rests
with ]. II. Aiken. the motOrman of the
eastbound car, who was so seriously in
jured that he died.
Herman Brisco, boy of this city, is
an additional victim of the wreck. He
was found this evening at his home
where he has lain in an unconscious
condition ever since the accident. 1t is
thought that he cannot survive. He Is
injured internally. Mis- Belle Mackey
of st. Louis had both feet so badly
crushed that amputation, it is feared, is
necessary TO save her life.
Bangor, Me-, March I'D. Henry Irwin.
the collector of Presque Isle, AroStook
county is reported missing and an eX-
animation of his accounts has disclosed a
shortage of several thousand dollars. IT.
win had an appointment TO settle his col
lections with the town officers last week
but ne failed to put in an appearance. II
is claimed that Twins bondsmen will set
tie the shortage, the exact amount OF
which is not stated
Denver. March 9-The Florence and
Cripple Creek Railway company today let
a contract to Carlisle, Ditman 4 Weitbrec
10 raise its road-bed about twenty feet
through Eight Mile canyon, 10 get IL out OF
tn way Of the summer floods that have
forced suspension Of traffic for weeks
every summer since the road was built
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