Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-25
WENT OVER THE BANK
Wreck on the Kansas City, For:
Scott & Memphis.
= Dae Coach Went Into Spring River and
Two Others Were Burned - One
Person Fatally and Twenty-Five
More Less Hurt.


No on the Kansas City. Fort Scott &
Memphis railroad, which left Birming-
ham. Ala, Wednesday evening for
Kansas City. was derailed just west of
Rillif0rd, Ark, at a. m. The COM
5iuatiOn coach, chair car and sleeper
went over the bank, the combination
ear going into Spring river. The chair
car and sleeper were both consumed
One passenger was fatally injured
and - others more or less seriously
hHr& The list of the injured are as
=EolIoyRs:
FATALLY INJURED.
y L. Hoover, Pleasant Hill, Mo.
MORE Or LESS SERIOUSLY INJURED.
Leo Pollock, Little Rock, Ark.
Clarence Murphy, Atwood, Ind.
j. e. Morris, Bakersfield, Mo.
C. A Ravenstine, wife and baby, At
wood, Ind
c. [. Meriwether, Sulphur Rock,
Ark
Ed Webb. Fern Nook, Mo.
J. j. AItscheel, Little Rock. Ark.
w. j. Grant Salem, Ark; bruised
and cut about head
III. I. Price, Beall. Ark; injured
about head.
w. FL. StahaI, Corinth, Miss; injured
about head and hand.
w. H. Boatner, Lection, Mo-; injured
about head
NC Hogan, Oakland, Ark; injured
about head.
Wesley WINS, Atwood, Ind; injured
about head.
Mrs 4. D. Perkins, Hiram Ark; ex.
cent OF injuries not known.
f. & Guy, Monterey, Ind; arms
mart
Mrs. Prince, going to Fort Smith; ex-
test of injuries not known; her son, .
boy, hurt about face and arms
NJ Bailey, Fair Play, Mo-; foot in
Iured-
w. J. Shesabel, vidette, Ark; head
mi Ured
Mrs Annette, Mammoth Springs,
Ark back sprained.
No is fast through train from the
south Between Williford and Hardy,
che Memphis tracks parallel the Spring
river, little stream running out of
Mammoth Springs. The train was
composed of engine, mail and express
car, baggage car, combination coach,
chair car and sleeper. The com bination
car has partition in the middle, one
aud being used as a SID oker, and the
other end for colored passengers.
When near Williford the engineer
felt the train leap forward, and found
chat it had parted between the two day
coaches The last three cars bumped
over the ties, the chair car and sleeper
earning over on their side, and the COM
EsiR4tion car finally going into the
river. The most intense confusion pre-
vailed The engineer backed up the
&ront part Of the train, and the work
nj rescue was Immediately begun.
The terror of the passengers who had
zone down into the stream with the
combination car were soon heightened
by cries of alarm from the chair car
and sleeper, both of which soon took
Gre. The intense darkness added to
the confusion, and it was some time
before an organized effort at rescue
Sxns put into effect by the train crew
and those of the passengers who had
been able to extricste them
selves without aid. The passen-
Eers in the burning cars were luckily
rescued before the fire had reached its
height, and but few in those cars were
Injured
1t soon became apparent that the
chair ear and sleeper could not be
saved, and all efforts were put forth to
aid the unfortunate passengers of the
combination car in the stream. Screams
aud cries for help were heard on all
sides. and because of the darkness res
e cue was difficult.
As the flames from the two burning
-EarS became brighter the rescuers were
enabled to work to better advantage.
Luckily not a person was drowned,
and IL was not long before all had been
accounted for, and were being cared for
rs well as possible.
A telegram to Thayer, Mo-, 90 miles
distant brought a relief train in an
Esour or so. and the injured were taken
ia that city and placed in a hospital.
The cause of the accident has not
been ascertained, but it is thought
some portion of the forward truck OF
the smoker gave way. This will not be
Known positively till the truck, which
ia in the river, has been recovered