The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-28
SEVEN DIED IN THE STREAM.
ALL THE INJURED EXCEPT THE
CONDUCTOR SURE TO RECOVER.

The Physicians Have Strong Hopes
That His Life VIII he saved-FIvc
of the Dead Were Postal Clerks,
One n BaEGnEemRn and One n
BraISeman-AII Believed 90 Have
Been InsensibIe When Their Car
Reached the Water.
Kansas CITY, Mo-, June 27.-seven cof-
fms were forwarded to st. Louis to-day
from Missouri city They contained the
remains of victims of last nights wreck
on the Wabash road.
A correct list of the dead is as follows;
w. s. MILLS, postal clerk, st. Louis.
o. NJ, SMITH, postal clerk, st. Louis.
GUSTAV A. SMITH, postal clerk. St.
Louis.
CHARLES WINTERS. postal clerk. st.
Louis.
A. w. BRINK, postal clerk, st. Louis
EDWARD GRINROD, baggageman, St.
Louis.
CHARLES p. GREAsELY, brakeman.
st. Louis.
The conductor of the train. G. s. Cope
land of st. Louis, who was reported last
night among the dead. is still alive. He
was removed this morning to the railroad
hospital at Moberly, with a fractured
skull and several broken ribs. He lin
gers between life and death. but the sur
geons express a hope that he will recover.
Conductor Copeland was supposed TO be
dead when taken from the wreck and his
body, with handkerchief over the face,
was ranged in row with the seven dead.
A few minutes later some one observed
sign of life and he was quickly transferred
to a stretcher and given every possible at
tention.
OF nineteen others injured, not one is in
a critical condition. Among them all there
is not one broken limb, though many of
them were thrown three-quarters of the
length of the coaches in which they were
riding.
Mrs. w. II. Wilkinson of Kansas City
is the most seriously hurt. Two small
bones of her left hand are broken and she
suffered a severe laceration of the thigh,
as well as bruises about the face and neck.
The wounds of most of the others are triv-
ial.
All the indications are that death came
to at least four of the unfortunate mail
clerks almost instantly. Their car was
pitched end first through the break in the
trestle and they must have been drowned
in the raging stream while In am uncon-
sclous condition. The remains of
the four were carried from the wreck and
were recovered some distance down the
stream. There were signs of life In the
body of the difth mail clerk when rescuers
dragged him from the wreck, but he died
a few minutes later on the bank Of the
creek.
Last night It was feared there were
more bodies in the stream, but a careful
search to-day proved that the fatalities
were limited to those already named.
A small stream was flowing beneath the
trestle where the wreck occurred. In or
dinary weather Il Is almost dry, but the
heavy rain turned 1t into almost the pro-
portions of a torrent. wagon bridge
was wrecked a short distance above the
railroad. The wreck of this bridge was
hurled upon the railroad and carried away
a row Of wooden supporters In the center.
A neighboring farmer noticed the peril
Gus condition of the trestle and resolved
to flag the passenger train, which he knew
to be about due. For nearly an hour he
stood in the terrific downpour Of rain,
only to fail at last In his good intentions,
for when the Wabash New York Fast
mail came laundering on, the storm was
almost binding and the engineer evil
IDENTIFY could not see the signal which the
farmer so frantically waved across the
track.
The locomotive struck the trestie and
a moment later the disaster was presented
in all It's horrors. The engine passed over,
but the tender went through with the
bridge
fhe baggage car toppled of on It's side,
while the mail car, which had followed,
pitched into the stream end first. Every
life in this car was lost.
The smoker, next behind, followed. II
was In this car that Conductor Copeland
was riding. The other occupants escaped
serious injury.
The chair car, next behind. also plung-
ed IN upon the mass Of wreckage, end
first, and all it's passengers were thrown
to the forward end In a heap How they
escaped with no more serious injury Is
a mystery.
The front end Of the sleeper next In
the rear jammed into the prOtruding end
OF the chair car and was thus prevented
from following the others into the chasm.
The two Excelsior Spring coaches IN
the rear remained on the track.
The scene OF the wreck, which Is but
twenty-three miles northeast Of Kansas
city, near Missouri City station, was Wis
tied by many people. The wrecking train
worked there ali day, raising the shattered
cars and repairing the trestle, and to-
night trains arc moving over the road as
usual.
The postal authorities report that prob
ably nearly all OF the mail carried on the
train was lost or destroyed. When the
wreck occurred the five postal clerks are
supposed to have had all Of their pouches
opened, and to have been al work distrib-
uting the mail The car was 30 broken
and spnntered that most OF the mail
ioated on, probably into the Missouri
river. The wabash train each evening
carries all Of Kansas city's afternoon
man Tor the east, and II is always heavy
and valuable.
WHITES GOING SLOW AT KEY WEST