Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-26
ERROR OF AN ENGINEER
Passenger Trains Collide Near St. Louis
with Awful Results. d.
EIGHT MEET DEATH AND MANY ARE HURT
Many Heavily Loaded Excursion
Coaches on the Frisco Run Into
by Rapidly Moving Loco
motive and Car.

| o'clock this morning two passenger trains
on the ST. Louis & san Francisco. going
in opposite directions, collided nearly OPP
posite Windsor station, about thirteen miles
| from this city, instantly killing eight per-
sons and injuring twenty-one. The dead are
all of St Louis. Their names are:
ADOLPH HOHL, engineer Of the accom-
mediation train.
CHARLES MOLINE.
CONRAD KUNTZ.
C. c. BLEVINs.
II. T. HALL.
BARNEY M'KENNA. in charge OF the re-
freshments
MISS MAUD M'KENNA. aged H. his
daughter.
JOHN CARTWRIGHT.
The injured are:
Ferdinand Lange, ST. Louis, internal in
! jures.
David Garretty. St. Louis head cut and
legs bruised
J. E. Roblet, st. Louis, hips and legs in
jurod.
Charles l. Mnentz. St Louis, scalp
wounds.
| Frank Hasler. St Louis late OF SPRING
field, Mo. fireman On excursion train, spinal
cord injured and hurt internally.
] Mrs. ]. b. Mcdaniel, ST. Louis, slightly
injured
George wuln of Kirkwood conductor on
{ suburban train, hips injured and badly
bruised
Robert Mulhollond Of Spring Park, brake
man on suburban train, slightly injured.
George Atwood 81. Louis conductor on
| excursion tain. slightly injured.
Joseph a. Dryden, Springfield, Mo, engi-
neer on excursion train skull fractured and
| badly scalded.
! Frederick Miller. Valley Park. fireman on
suburban train, legs injured and badly
bruised.
/ A. X. Smith. Valley Park. baggageman on
suburban tain, head cut and hand and arms
| injured
Mrs A. X Smith. Valley Park, injured
/ by shock.
Matt wapplehorst, Valley Park, slightly
/ injured
Peter HILL St. Louis, face cut and badly
| bruised.
Robert Langen. william Sulter, Henry
Larberg, Louis Hunt, Henry McMichael,
Mrs. Rose Hill. all Of ST. Louis, more or less
! injured
OVERSIGHT OF A VETERAN.
1t seems from the statements by men
! employed on the line that the accident was
! due to the oversight OF one Of the oldest
! engineers on this Vision OF the Frisco,
1 Joseph Dryden, who was in charge OF tie
| excursion train.
The collision occurred between the second
section of an excursion train bound west
snd the Frisco Valley Park accommoda-
! ton. The excursion crew should have re-
manned at Spring Park for orders and to
have let the accommodation train pass.
| The excursion train the second section
OF special bound for St. James. No. 100
miles west OF St Louis, where the Mis-
souri, Home for Aged Veterans was dedi-
Gated today under the auspices OF the Grand
Army OF the Republic and Woman's Relief
| corps.
The first section had gone through safely
and the second, which consisted of eleven
coaches heavily laden with Grand Army
men and their wives and children, left st.
Louis about o'clock
FAILS TO STOP FOR ORDERS.
According TO J. d. Dishman, the tele-
| graph operator and station agent at Spring
park. 1t should have stopped at that place
! for orders. Instead OF doing so, the Sec
| tion passed by the station and soon after
met the accommodation coming down grade
/ ct full speed. Engineer Hohl OF the ac-
] commodation was not aware that the sec
! ond section was on the road, and in trying
to make the switch at Kirkwood. crashed
! into the Inflated train in cut Just thir-
teen miles from the St. Louis Union sta
| ton. There was only one car, combina-
! tion baggage AND coach on Engineer Hollis
| train, but the coll n was terrific. both
| engines being demolished. an'-'' number OF
| the cars telescoped. The WI 4~hsge was
| piled high on the track, and above the
sound of escaping steam could be heard the
cries of the frightened and injured passen-
gers.
Next to the engine of the excursion train
was the ccmmissary car filled with refresh
ments. Barney McKenna was in charge OF
the edibles and with him was his 14-year-old
! daughter, Maud Both were instantly killed.
! being scalded and crushed. number OF
passengers, mostly young men, were grouped
around the temporary counter eating and
drinking. Almost all were either killed
or injured This and the next car, in
| which were seventy passengers, suffered
the worst damage and most OF the killed and
| injured were taken from them, Engineer
| Hohl of the accommodation. which was run
ming on time. was killed and his fireman.
| Frank Hasler, badly injured.
Il cannot see how it could have occurred"
| said an official Of the road tonight but
Engineer Dryden seems TO have entirely
forgotten about No. u, the accommoda-
! tion train. He Is one OF the best engineers
of the road, and the overlooking OF the
! train which was travelling toward him is
| all the more remarkable, for the reason that
he was for time its engineer, and was,
therefore, perfectly familiar with its
schedule. But the train seems to have
dropped completely out OF his recollection.
| He failed to take the siding, and his con-
| ductor, George Atwood, who was taking
ticketss failed TO notice the fact.
The accommodation train consisted OF an
engine. tender baggage car and two
| coaches, In which there were only five pas
sengers The engine and tender was
wrecked but the other three cars we're not
damaged. II is due TO the lightness OF this
train that the accident was not worse than
| IL was"
| RESCUING THE INJURED.
Immediately after the wreck occurred peo-
! pie began to come In from all directions on
wheels, In buggies wagons and on foot and
within an hour after the accident thousands
| could be seen grouped around the pile OF
| debris. No wrecking train was available,
| but everybody turned 10 and In a short time
had rescued the injured and taken out the
| dead
Doctors from surrounding towns hurried
| TO the scene and rendered what assistance
| they could TO the suffering, who were trans
| ported to places Of safety. All the medical
resources OF ST. Louis were placed at the
disposal OF the Frisco as soon as the news
Of the accident reached the city. DR.. Stark
! loft the city physician, Immediately set
out for the scene Of the wreck with corps
| OF assistants and ambulances but owing to
the delay experienced in getting to the
! wreck their services were not needed.
| j. ID. Dishman. the station agent at Spring
I park. stated TO q reporter that had the ex-
cursion train stopped at Spring park for or
ders. as II should have done the accident
| would have been averted. He said he got
a message from Valley park when the ac-
commOdation train left there and he added
that had the excursion train stopped he
/ would have had II pun into the switch until